1907

Events from the year 1907 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY)
* Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R-IN)
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-IL)
* Congress: 59th (until March 4), 60th (starting March 4)
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 1 – Daniel J. Tobin becomes president of the Teamsters, beginning a 45-year presidency.
* January 23 – Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
* February 6 – Nantahala National Forest is established.
* February 12 – The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.
* February 26 – President Theodore Roosevelt appoints Col. George Washington Goethals as chief engineer of the Panama Canal.
* March 1 – Colville National Forest is established.
* March 2 – Umpqua and Custer National Forest are established.
* March 9 – Reclamation Service within the Department of the Interior.
===April - June===
* April – This month's issue of Good Housekeeping magazine displays the cover price One Dollar a Year (under the title).
* April 7 – Hersheypark opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
* April 15 – Triangle Fraternity, for engineering and related majors, is founded at Pennsylvania State University.
* April 17 – Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration through Ellis Island; this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.
* April 18 – The USS Kansas (BB-21), a Connecticut-class battleship, is commissioned.
* May 25 – Inyo National Forest is established.
===July - September===
* July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, resulting in 88 deaths.
* July 23 – Chugach National Forest is established.
* August 1 – Aeronautical Division established within the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
* August 15 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Eastern Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
* August 17 – Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business.
* August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
* September 7 – The new passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
* September 10 – The first Neiman Marcus luxury department store opens in Dallas, Texas.
* September 29 – A foundation stone is laid for the Washington National Cathedral; construction will not be fully completed until 1990.
===October - December===
* October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice.
* October 22 – Panic of 1907: A bank run forces New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations.
* October 24 – A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907, a move which ultimately leads to establishment of the Federal Reserve System.
* November 3 – President Roosevelt approves the takeover of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company by J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel company in the wake of the panic of 1907.
* November 7 – Delta Sigma Pi (a co-ed professional business fraternity) is founded at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University in New York City.
* November 16
** Oklahoma admitted becomes the 46th U.S. state, after Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined.
** Passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool (England) to New York.
* November 19 – The Osage Nation retains mineral rights in reservation lands.
* November 28 – Johnny Hayes wins the inaugural Yonkers Marathon.
* December 6 – Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
* December 16 – The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads, Virginia on a 14-month circumnavigation of the globe.
* December 18 – Ouachita National Forest is established.
* December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
* December 31 – The first electric ball drops in Times Square.
==Sport==
* November 23 - Yale Bulldogs win their first IAAUS (later NCAA) College Football National Championship.
==Memoriam==
* January 2 – Henry R. Pease, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 (aged 71; Watertown, SD, USA)
* January 24 – Russell A. Alger, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1902 to 1907 (aged 70; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 17 – Henry Steel Olcott, military officer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society (aged 74; Adyar, India)
* March 9 – James L. Pugh, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1880 to 1897 (aged 86; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 31 – Galusha A. Grow, politician, lawyer, writer and businessman (aged 83; Scranton, PA, USA)
* April 14 – Frank Manly Thorn, lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor and 6th Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (aged 70; Orchard Park, NY, USA)
* April 23 – Alferd Packer, cannibal (aged 65; Jefferson County, CO, USA)
* May 1 – Melissa Elizabeth Banta, poet (aged 73; Chicago, IL, USA)
* May 4 – John Watts de Peyster, author, philanthropist and soldier (aged 86; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 8 – Edmund G. Ross, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1866 to 1871 (aged 80; Albuquerque, NM Territory, USA)
* May 24 – John Patton Jr., U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1894 to 1895 (aged 56; Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
* May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States as wife of William McKinley (aged 59; Canton, OH, USA)
* May 31 – Sarah Gibson Humphreys, author and suffragist (aged 77; Lexington, KY, USA)
* June 11 – John Tyler Morgan, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1877 to 1907 (aged 82; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 12 – Ellen Russell Emerson, ethnologist (aged 70; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* June 14 – William Le Baron Jenney, architect and civil engineer (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 21 – Lucien Baker, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1895 to 1901 (aged 61; Leavenworth, KS, USA)
* July 11 – Robert Watt, miner (aged 75; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* July 25 – Peter Anderson, Union Army Medal of Honor recipient (aged 60; Newell, IA, USA)
* July 27 – Edmund Pettus, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907 (aged 86; Hot Springs, NC, USA)
* August 1 – Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown, physician and writer (aged 63; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Beaux-Arts sculptor (aged 59; Cornish, NH, USA)
* August 14 – William Birney, Union Army general, abolitionist, attorney and writer (aged 88; Forest Glen, MD, USA)
* October 3 – Jacob Nash Victor, railroad builder (aged 72; San Bernardino, CA, USA)
* October 8 – Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge, Second Lady of the United States as wife of John C. Breckinridge (aged 81; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe, author (aged 83; Portland, ME, USA)
* November 22 – Asaph Hall, astronomer (aged 78; Annapolis, MD, USA)
* December 7 – Carrie Clark, model, notably of Muriel's Babies cigar box fame (aged 59; VA, USA)
* December 23 – Stephen Mallory II, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1897 to 1907 (aged 59; Pensacola, FL, USA)
==External links==
* 1907 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 13