Even though cadmium and its compounds may be toxic in certain forms and concentrations, the British Pharmaceutical Codex from 1907 states that cadmium iodide was used as a medication to treat " enlarged joints, scrofulous glands, and chilblains ".

* 1995 – Colin Tapley, British actor ( b. 1907 )

* 1907 – Mary Howard aka Josephine Edgar, British writer ( d. 1991 )

The 1907 Anglo-Russian Entente ( the Convention of St. Petersburg ) not only divided the region into separate areas of Russian and British influence but also established foundations for Afghan neutrality.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

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

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 ).

The British, however, kept well ahead in the naval race by the introduction of the highly advanced new Dreadnought battleship in 1907.

He had his second majorly successful venture with the British firm Burma Corporation, again producing silver, lead and Zinc in large quantities at the Namtu Bawdwin Mine, where he caught malaria in 1907.

* 1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.

* 1997 – Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer ( b. 1907 )

Electroluminescence as a phenomenon was discovered in 1907 by the British experimenter H. J.

In 1907, a union of smaller groups with the Methodist New Connexion and Bible Christian Church brought about the British " United Methodist Church ", then the three major streams of British Methodism united in 1932 to form the current Methodist Church of Great Britain.

* 1907 – John Zachary Young, British biologist ( d. 1997 )

* 1973 – Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy ( b. 1907 )

* 1976 – Sir Basil Spence, British architect ( b. 1907 )

* 1907 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator ( d. 1938 )

* 1998 – Rumer Godden, British writer ( b. 1907 )

Newfoundland was a British colony until 1907 when it became an independent Dominion within the British Empire.

* 1907 – Quintin Hogg, British politician ( d. 2001 )

Scouting began in 1907 when Robert Baden-Powell, a lieutenant general in the British Army, held the first Scouting encampment on Brownsea Island in England.

In 1907 the British Pharmacopoeia was supplemented by the British Pharmaceutical Codex, which gave information on drugs and other pharmaceutical substances not included in the BP, and provided standards for these.

In 1907 the Minister for Lands gave instructions to the Land and Survey Department that the name Middle Island was not to be used in future.

In 1907 Northcote and Deakin had a falling out when the Governor-General, on instructions from London, declined to give his assent to a bill restricting appeals from the Australian courts to the Privy Council in London.

The ' Passover letter ' of 419 BCE ( discovered in 1907 ), which gives detailed instructions for properly keeping Passover is in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.

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.

* 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.

In 1907 the Australian Government awarded McCormick £ 100 for his composition.

* 1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.

Beginning in June 1907, Peter Behrens ' pioneering industrial design work for the German electrical company AEG successfully integrated art and mass production on a large scale.

Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic movement that had been going on at least since 1907 when van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial prototypes.

In some published editions of the Bible, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah have been presented together as a single book, for example, in The Modern Reader's Bible ( 1907 ) and The Books of the Bible ( 2007 ).

Their 1901 – 1907 jerseys, both home and road, simply read " Boston ", except for 1902 when they sported large letters " B " and " A " denoting " Boston " and " American.

The groundwork for the modern bikini began to be laid in 1907, when Australian swimmer and performer Annette Kellerman was arrested on a Boston beach for wearing a form-fitting one-piece swimsuit, which became an accepted beach attire for women by 1910.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

In 1907 78. 3 % of the Bolsheviks were Russian and 10 % were Jewish ( 34 and 20 % for the Mensheviks ).

Total membership was 8, 400 in 1905, 13, 000 in 1906 and 46, 100 by 1907 ( 8, 400, 18, 000, 38, 200 respectively for the Mensheviks ).

Most important, each year from 1907 until James's death in 1910, James wrote to his friends in the Boston intelligentsia to request financial aid for Peirce ; the fund continued even after James died.

He then left for the Tokyo Shinbu Gakko ( 東京振武學校 ), an Imperial Japanese Army Academy Preparatory School for Chinese students, in 1907.

To counter political corruption, he secured campaign laws in 1906 and 1907 that limited political contributions by corporations and forced candidates to account for their receipts and expenses, legislation that was quickly copied in fifteen other states.

He endorsed the Page-Prentice Act of 1907, which set an eight-hour day and forty-eight-hour week for factory workers — but only for those under the age of sixteen.

Jeron Criswell King ( August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982 ), born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell (), was an American psychic known for wildly inaccurate predictions.

By 1907 Einstein had framed the fundamentals of the theory of gravity, but then struggled for nearly 8 years with a confounding problem of putting the theory into final form.

* 1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1, 000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.