After three years of searching, on December 30, 1907, Spalding received a letter that ( erroneously ) declared baseball to be the invention of Abner Doubleday.

In 1903 he received his BA degree in mathematics at Cambridge, converted by payment to MA in 1907.

Landis received national attention in 1907 when he fined Standard Oil of Indiana more than $ 29 million for violating federal laws forbidding rebates on railroad freight tariffs.

The territory, which was declared a state on November 16, 1907, had received many settlers from the South who had been slaveholders before the American Civil War.

Whilst attending a congress of neurologists in Amsterdam in 1907, Jones met Carl Jung from whom he received a first-hand account of the work of Freud and his circle in Vienna.

Mise received a 1907 patent for this grafting needle.

In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Roby received its first railroad in 1907 ( The Texas Central ) and in 1915 the Roby and Northern laid 4. 4-miles of track to connect Roby proper with North Roby.

In 1907 the town received a depot and was named Donna in honor of Donna Fletcher, who was postmistress when the Donna post office opened in 1908.

The city received a Carnegie Library in 1907, the only one in Adams County.

He invented a fluorescent lamp in 1896 that used a coating of calcium tungstate as the fluorescing substance, excited by X-rays, but although it received a patent in 1907, it was not put into production.

In the presence of his family, the Diplomatic corps, numerous bishops and cardinals, and his friend Rampolla, on 18 December 1907, he received the episcopal consecration from Pope Pius X himself.

Yamagata was elevated to the peerage, and received the title of koshaku ( prince ) under the kazoku system in 1907.

After the elections of 1907, the colony received self-government on 27 November 1907.

Partly in consequence of the serious economic situation, the renewed movement for the closer union of the various South African colonies, formally initiated by Dr Jameson in 1907, received the support of the Cape parliament.

In 1907 Florent Schmitt received a commission from Jacques Rouché to compose a ballet, La tragédie de Salomé, for Loie Fuller to perform at the Théâtre des Arts.

Along with the Class of 1907, she received her degree from U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt, commencement speaker for the Semi-Centennial celebration.

He received his bachelor's degree in 1942, the thesis being about the application of group theory to molecular spectra, under the supervision of Wu Ta-you ( 吴大猷 ) ( 1907 – 2000 ).

He conducted the last of the Russian Historical Concerts in Paris on 17 May 1907 and received honorary Doctor of Music degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Orders were good and the company received backing to move to larger premises from bicycle importers Hammond et Monnier who soon afterwards sold the firm to the Duc d ' Uzes and from 1907 the family crest appeared on the radiator surround.

The younger Dos Passos received a first-class education, enrolling at The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1907 under the name John Roderigo Madison, then traveling with a private tutor on a six-month tour of France, England, Italy, Greece, and the Middle East to study the masters of classical art, architecture, and literature.

Wallace resumed his gubernatorial duties and easily won the 1974 primary and then the general election, when he defeated Republican State Senator Elvin McCary ( 1907 – 1981 ), a real estate developer, who received less than 15 percent of the ballots cast.

In 1907, it was renamed Washington Foreign Mission Seminary, in 1914, Washington Missionary College, in 1961, Columbia Union College, and in 2009 received its current name.

* 1988 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1907 )

* 1907: Twelve members of the British parliament nominate Zamenhof for the Nobel Peace Prize.

* 1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1907 )

* 1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1907 )

* 1839 – René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer and Nobel laureate ( d. 1907 )

* 1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

It was founded in 1907 by Henri La Fontaine, the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

** Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1907 )

* April 8 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1907 )

** Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1907 )

* September 7 – Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1907 )

* February 11 – Hans D Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1907 )

* September 8 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1907 )

* March 16 – Sully Prudhomme, French author, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1907 )

** Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1907 )

* July 27 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1907 )

In 1907, Michelson had the honor of being the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics " for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid ".

In a voice-over at the end of the episode, Greene mentions Michelson's 1907 Nobel Prize.

* Nobel Prize for Physics ( 1907 )

In 1907, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Rudyard Kipling.

Edwin Mattison McMillan ( September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991 ) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate credited with being the first ever to produce a transuranium element.

The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling (( 1865-1936 ), a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature ( 1907 ).

* March 16-Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature ( died 1907 )