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

Due to the state's weak fiscal condition and corrupt politics, little progress was made until 1907, when the Legislature replaced the Department of Highways with the Department of Engineering, within which there was a Division of Highways.

In 1907, Puccini made his final revisions to the opera in a fifth version, which has become known as the " standard version ".

This delegation made a formal request to the International Association of Academies in Vienna to select and endorse an international language ; the request was rejected in May 1907.

An international agreement to create it, the Convention Relative to the Creation of an International Prize Court, was made at the Hague on October 18, 1907.

While on route to exile in Obdorsk, Siberia, in January 1907, Trotsky escaped at Berezov and once again made his way to London, where he attended the 5th Congress of the RSDLP.

Stein's greatest discovery was made at the Mogao Caves also known as " Caves of the Thousand Buddhas ", near Dunhuang in 1907.

In 1907 Dr Duncan MacDougall made weight measurements of patients as they died.

A Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 peasants ' revolt and the World War I Romanian Campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with the far right and fascist National Christian and Iron Guard groups for much of the interwar period.

Its most famous aria " Vesti la giubba " (" Put on the costume " or, in the better-known older translation, " On with the motley ") was recorded by Enrico Caruso and laid claim to being the world's first record to sell a million copies ( although this is probably a total of Caruso's various versions of it made in 1902, 1904 and 1907 ).

The last Curved Dash Oldsmobile was made in 1907.

UEA founder Hector Hodler took it over in 1907 and made it the official UEA magazine in 1908.

* Apollo ( 1906 automobile ), an American car made from 1906 to 1907

John William Mauchly ( August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980 ) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.

Wackernagel had produced an Indian etymology in 1907 ; in 1925 A. H. Sayce had suggested a connection to Hittite habiri (" looters ", " outlaws "), but subsequent discoveries have made this implausible on phonological grounds.

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.

On 30 November 1907, the short branch from Holborn to the Strand ( later renamed ) opened, which had been planned as the last section of the GN & SR before the amalgamation with the B & PCR was made.

The Cornville post office was established May 11, 1887 and Samuel Dickinson was postmaster until 1907 and it is therefore likely was the one who made application for the name " Cornville " for whatever reason.

In 1877 an adjacent area became " Amity Township ", and in 1880 the town made a move to become incorporated, but it did not come to pass until 1907.

It started as a resort town, based around the once renowned automobile race course at Lindo Lake that Barney Oldfield made famous in 1907.

This new court house, known as the Grand Old Lady, was built in the center of town and would become the dominant feature of Crown Point ( further additions to this courthouse would be made from 1907 – 1928 ).

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ) made his last public appearance on June 9, 1909, at the commencement ceremony of St. Timothy's School for Girls in Catonsville, to fulfill a promise he made to a young girl he had met on the steamer Minnehaha in 1907.

The first official, regular Columbus Day holiday was proclaimed by Colorado governor Jesse F. McDonald in 1905 and made a statutory holiday in 1907.

Spruce Pine was founded in 1907 when the Clinchfield Railroad made its way up the North Toe River from Erwin, Tennessee.

The Nordisk company was set up there in 1906 by Ole Olsen, a fairground showman, and after a brief period imitating the successes of French and British film-makers, in 1907 he produced 67 films, most directed by Viggo Larsen, with sensational subjects like Den hvide Slavinde ( The White Slave ), Isbjørnenjagt ( Polar Bear Hunt ) and Løvejagten ( The Lion Hunt ).

In 1907, however, Wass opened with something even more sensational: taking 6 wickets for 3 runs against the MCC after two blank days.

In the early 20th century, revivals of the opera were associated particularly with the famous Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin: he sang the title role on the occasion of his first appearance outside Russia ( La Scala, Milan, 16 March 1901 ) and also on his North American debut ( Metropolitan Opera, New York, 20 November 1907 ).

In March 1907 he had resigned his conductorship of the Vienna State Opera, as the musical community in Vienna turned against him ( which was why he chose Prague for the work's debut ); on 12 July his first daughter died of scarlet fever ; and, even as she lay on her deathbed, Mahler learnt that he was suffering from an incurable heart condition.

Her debut came in 1907 when she played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting.

In 1907, the role served as Mary Garden's American debut in New York in the U. S. premiere performance.

The singer's Metropolitan Opera debut in the 1907 season was disappointing due to the unprecedented frankness of his stage acting ; but he returned to the Met in 1921 and sang there with immense success for eight seasons, New York's audiences having grown more broad-minded since 1907.

In May 1906, while still serving his ban, he moved to Manchester United, made his debut on 1 January 1907 in a 1 – 0 win against Aston Villa, and quickly became a firm favourite amongst the fans there.

Turner made her debut in Cast Up by the Sea ( 1907 ).

Her London West End debut was at the Apollo Theatre in the comic opera Tom Jones ( 1907 ), which had a libretto co-written by her father.

Interested in acting since his youth ( he made his first stage appearance at the age of 12 as Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice ), Arnold made his professional stage debut in 1907.

Radabaugh re-entered the market in 1907 with the debut of the Tacoma Tribune.

Pease was given university songbooks from 1907 upon his arrival, and at the 2004 debut featured such University fight songs as " The Orange and the Blue " and " The Virginia Yell Song.

In 1907 Nijinsky made his solo debut in the last act of La source at the Mariinsky.

Hendren joined the Lord's groundstaff at the age of 16, and made his first-class debut for Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1907, though the game was abandoned after the first day when spectators caused damage to the pitch and he did not get to bat.

Her professional debut took place at the Opera House in Monte Carlo on 1 February 1907, where she performed Tyrcis in Myriame et Daphné ( André Bloch's arrangement of Jacques Offenbach's Daphnis et Chloé ), with Paderewski.

In the Liberté class ( completed 1907 ), French pre-dreadnought design finally caught up with U. S. and British standards ; but 1907 also saw the debut of HMS Dreadnought, which made all the world's capital ships obsolete overnight.

He made his England debut in February 1907 against Ireland.

He made his Test debut in 1907, primarily as a left arm orthodox spinner who was considered to be a useful lower-middle order right-hand batsman.

He made his debut against Preston North End on September 28, 1907, and had soon become a regular in the Arsenal side ; he was first-choice left back for the next seven seasons.

Her film debut for Zukor's Famous Players studio was the starring role in the now lost feature film The Morals of Marcus in 1915 based on the 1907 Broadway play she had starred in.