Robin William Askin was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 4 April 1907 at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, the eldest of three sons of Ellen Laura Halliday ( née Rowe ) and William James Askin, an Adelaide-born sailor and worker for New South Wales Railways.

* September 9 – Sir Robert ( Bob ) Askin, Premier of New South Wales ( b. 1907 )

His birth was registered in the March Quarter of 1907 in Neath, Wales, and he was the son of Elizabeth Annie ( née Truscott ) and Alfred Jones, though some sources still state 1905 as his birth year.

The last baby farmer to be executed in Britain was Rhoda Willis, who was hanged in Wales in 1907.

By 1907, Goodman had offices in Cardiff, Wales to serve the British market.

Thompson lived as an unbalanced invalid in Wales and at Storrington, but wrote three books of poetry, with other works and essays, before dying of tuberculosis in 1907.

It was the only pre-grouping railway to own or share lines in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, becoming the third largest railway undertaking in the British Isles ( after the Great Western and the London & North Western ), the largest coal haulier, the largest British railway to have its headquarters outside London, and ( after the Great Central railway moved its HQ to London in 1907 ) the only railway serving London not to have its headquarters there and the only Midlands-based railway directly serving Southern England and South Wales.

In 1907 Stanley Shaw Bond, Editor at Butterworths, began a project to produce a complete statement of the law of England and Wales that was authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date.

Sportsmen born in the town have included Surrey and Middlesex cricketer Ted Pooley ( 1842 – 1907 ); Eddie Parris ( 1911 – 1971 ), the first black player to play international football for Wales ; Olympic gold medal winning show jumper Richard Meade ( born 1936 ); and two more Wales international footballers, Ollie Burton ( born 1941 ) and Paul Parry ( born 1980 ).

* Charles Wade ( 1863 – 1922 ), Premier of New South Wales ( 1907 – 10 )

Unsuccessful competition entries for which Holden produced designs include Strathclyde Royal Infirmary ( 1901 ), Manchester Royal Infirmary ( 1904 ), County Hall ( 1907 ), the National Library of Wales ( 1909 ), Coventry Town Hall ( 1911 ) and the Board of Trade building ( 1915 ).

In 1907, the New South Wales Government awarded McCormick £ 100 for his patriotic composition which he registered for copyright in 1915.

Responsibility for Welsh education was given to the Welsh Department of the Board of Education in 1907, and the following year the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire was established.

Initially widely popular, the code would later assume secondary popularity in Sydney, when in 1907, the New South Wales Rugby League was established and would grow to be the favourite football code of the city.

* statue of the Prince of Wales who later became King George V. Donated by John Bell-Irving, a director of Hongkong Electric Company and unveiled in 1907 by the Duke of Connaught.

The South Wales Miners ' Federation was founded in 1898, joining the MFGB in 1899, while the Northumberland Miners ' Federation joined in 1907, followed by the Durham Miners ' Federation in 1908.

It was formed in Sydney on 8 August 1907 and was known as the New South Wales Rugby Football League ( NSWRFL ) until 1984 when forward thinking marketing managers decided to remove the itinerant " F " from the organisation's title.

* Bertie Williams ( 1907 – 1968 ), Bristol City, Sheffield United and Wales international footballer

In 1904 he secured a scholarship to enter the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, where he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, gaining a first class honours degree in mathematics in 1907.

He became " Captain ( Acting Major ) William " Bill " Martin, Royal Marines ", born 1907, in Cardiff, Wales, and assigned to Headquarters, Combined Operations.

In 1907, several of the New South Wales rugby union team's players defected to play for the New South Wales rugby league team against a visiting rebel New Zealand rugby team.

Mary finally landed a supporting role in a 1907 Broadway play, The Warrens of Virginia.

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 ".

A papyrus bearing a long fragment of a satyr play by Sophocles, given the title ' Tracking Satyrs ' ( Ichneutae ), was found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, 1907.

The Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan came into play in 1907, banning all school segregation of Japanese, yet controlling Japanese immigration in California.

Cilea's last opera, premièred at La Scala in Milan on 15 April 1907 under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, was the 3-act tragedy Gloria, again with a libretto by Colautti, based on a play by Victorien Sardou.

Ferrara's local football team, Società Polisportiva Ars Et Labor 1907 is going to play in Lega Pro Prima Divisione ( former Serie C1 ), which is the third highest football league in Italy.

The modern version of the game was created in 1907 at the town of La Ciotat by a former champion of jeu provençal named Jules Hugues, who was unable to play because of his rheumatism.

This became the one-act " Summersoft ", which he later rewrote into a short story, " Covering End ", and then expanded into a full-length play, The High Bid, which had a brief run in London in 1907, when James made another concerted effort to write for the stage.

Blake got his first big break in the music business when world champion boxer Joe Gans hired him to play the piano at Gans ' Goldfield Hotel, the first " black and tan club " in Baltimore in 1907.

* In 1907, August Strindberg destroyed a play, The Bleeding Hand, immediately after writing it.

The Tory Hill Meeting House in the adjacent town of Buxton inspired her book ( and later play ), The Old Peabody Pew ( 1907 ).

The play is referred to in Hilaire Belloc's cautionary verse ( 1907 ) Matilda:

Similarly, the first European feature was the 90-minute film L ' Enfant prodigue ( France, 1907 ), although that was an unmodified record of a stage play ; Europe's first feature adapted directly for the screen, Les Misérables, came from France in 1909.

The team began play in the 115-pound weight class, and by 1907 had moved up to the 145-pound weight class.

* She figured in Victorien Sardou's play L ' Affaire des poisons ( 1907 ).

The club played its first fixture against overseas opposition in 1907, as Racing Club de Bordelais crossed the Channel to play at the Rec.

* A one-act play was performed in 1907 at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.

" Both Wendell and Kittredge continued to play an important advisory role in Lomax's career long after he returned to Texas in June 1907, Master of Arts degree in hand, to resume his teaching position at A & M.

In 1907, South Africa became the 2nd visiting Test team to play a Test match at this venue.

Although both halves of the empire had parliamentary systems, in the Austrian half a series of franchise reforms, culminating in universal manhood suffrage in 1907, allowed the Czechs to play an increasingly active role in the political life of Austria.

In January 1907, he moved back to Scotland to play for Hearts alongside Richard Wombwell and William Yates for a joint fee of £ 600.

Alta Weiss started her career near Cleveland in 1907, but found it extremely hard to play baseball in her skirt, which she wore over bloomers.

Major Barbara is a three act play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907.

* The Truth ( play ), a play in four acts by Clyde Fitch, first performed in 1906 ( some sources say 1907 )