What Happened In January 1907 - Historical Events 1907 January

Historical Events for January, 1907

6th » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome called Rome, Italy.
14th » An 1907 Kingston earthquake known as earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
26th » The Lee-Enfield called Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
29th » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American United States Senate or U.S. Senator.

3rd » Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (d. 1986)
6th » David Fleay, Australian ornithologist and zoologist (d. 1993)
7th » Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harp player (d. 1993)
9th » Eldred G. Smith, American patriarch (d. 2013)
11th » Pierre Mendès France, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)
11th » Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher (d. 1972)
12th » Sergei Korolev, Russian engineer (d. 1966)
14th » Georges-Émile Lapalme, Canadian politician (d. 1985)
16th » Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995)
16th » Paul Nitze, American banker and politician (d. 2004)
17th » Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
20th » Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
21st » Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (d. 1980)
22nd » Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
22nd » Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
22nd » Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
23rd » Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
23rd » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
24th » Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999)
24th » Tuts Washington, American pianist (d. 1984)
26th » Dimitrios Holevas, Greek priest (d. 2001)

13th » Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (b. 1839)
14th » Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, Scottish politician, 6th Governor of New Zealand (b. 1832)
16th » Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, French noblewoman and reputed child of Napoleon (b. 1816)
25th » René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)