* 1907 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor ( d. 2003 )

* 1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator ( d. 1979 )

* 1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.

* 1907 – László Heller, Hungarian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1907 – Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed the Coventry Cathedral ( d. 1976 )

Monty Noble led Australia to victory in both 1907 – 08 and 1909.

* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.

* 1907 – Eric Shipton, English mountaineer ( d. 1977 )

* 1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $ 29. 4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers ; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

* 1907 – Lawrence Brown, American trombonist and composer ( d. 1988 )

* 1907 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil ( d. 1996 )

* 1979 – Angelos Terzakis, Greek writer ( b. 1907 )

* 1907 – Albert Kotin, American painter ( d. 1980 )

* 1907 – Benny Carter, American musician, composer, and bandleader ( d. 2003 )

* 1907 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, invented the snowmobile ( d. 1964 )

* 1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal ( d. 1947 )

* 1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr.

* 1907 – Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, Washington, opened.

* 1860 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1907 )

* 1866 – Henrik Sillem, Dutch sports shooter ( d. 1907 )

* 1907 – Joe Besser, American actor and comedian ( d. 1988 )

* 1907 – Benjamin Henry Sheares, Singaporean politician, 2nd President of Singapore ( d. 1981 )

* 1907 – Archie League, American air traffic controller ( d. 1986 )

The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

Alpha particles were first described in the investigations of radioactivity by Ernest Rutherford in 1899, and by 1907 they were identified as He < sup > 2 +</ sup > ions.

1 ( 1907 – 1908 ); it is one of the most formidable " first " works ever written.

The first synthetic β-lactam was prepared by Hermann Staudinger in 1907 by reaction of the Schiff base of aniline and benzaldehyde with diphenylketene in a cycloaddition:

At first the predictions of Einstein's formula were seemingly refuted by a series of experiments by Svedberg in 1906 and 1907, which gave displacements of the particles as 4 to 6 times the predicted value, and by Henri in 1908 who found displacements 3 times greater than Einstein's formula predicted.

Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.

Austro-Asiatic, which also includes Mon, Vietnamese and Munda, has been studied since 1856 and was first proposed as a language family in 1907.

Likewise, their back-to-back World Series victories in 1907 and 1908 made them the first club to win two World Series.

The club's first ground was Siemens Meadow ( 1905 – 1907 ), a patch of rough ground by the River Thames.

To enlist diplomatic support, Italy joined Germany and Austria-Hungary to form the Triple Alliance in 1882, which was the first formal war-camp in Europe, the second being the Triple Entente formed in 1907.

In 1907, after the first season of the forward pass, one football writer noted that, " with the single exception of Cochems, football teachers were groping in the dark.

* 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women ’ s Suffrage Societies ( NUWSS ).

The club's first league game, playing in the Second Division's 1907 – 8 season, saw them lose 1 – 0 at home to Hull City in September 1907.

During Hoover's 1907 visit to Australia, Jim Lyster relocated from Gwalia to Broken Hill and began experiments which resulted in the " Lyster Process ", which enabled the Zinc Corporation to operate the world's first selective or differential flotation plant, from September 1912.

In an effort to isolate Germany, France went to great pains to woo Russia and the United Kingdom to its side, first by means of the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, then the 1904 Entente Cordiale with the U. K, and finally the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907 which became the Triple Entente and eventually led Russia and the UK to enter World War I as Allies.

In the years that followed, other states subscribed to limitations of their conduct, and numerous other treaties and bodies were created to regulate the conduct of states towards one another in terms of these treaties, including, but not limited to, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1899 ; the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the first of which was passed in 1907 ; the International Court of Justice in 1921 ; the Genocide Convention ; and the International Criminal Court, in the late 1990s.

* 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U. S. Senator.

* 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

* 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.

The first coal mines were established in 1907, later a chemical plant was established in 1916.

This period also saw the development of international law, with the first Geneva Conventions establishing laws dealing with humanitarian relief during wartime, and the international Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 governing rules of war and the peaceful settlement of international disputes.

In 1907, as Picasso was painting Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon, Oskar Kokoschka was writing Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ( Murderer, Hope of Women ), the first Expressionist play ( produced with scandal in 1909 ), and Arnold Schoenberg was composing his String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, his first composition " without a tonal center ".