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| 1907 |
| | | US inventor Lee De Forest patents the Audion, a sensitive vacuum-tube radio receiver | |
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| 1907 |
| | | J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Frederick Delius's Walk to the Paradise Garden is added to his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet to cover a scene change during the Berlin premiere | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Michel Fokine creates the ballet Les Sylphides (originally called Chopiniana) to music by Chopin | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Maria Montessori establishes her first Casa dei Bambini in the deprived San Lorenzo district of Rome | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Russian author Maxim Gorky completes his novel Mat ("The Mother"), written mainly during a visit to the USA | |
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| 1907 |
| | | President Roosevelt sends marines to protect US property during political unrest in Honduras | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Dutch and British companies (Royal Dutch Oil, Shell Transport and Trading) merge to form Royal Dutch Shell Oil | |
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| 1907 |
| | | An Entente signed between Britain and Russia follows on from the 1904 Entente Cordiale with France to establish a new Triple Entente | |
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| 1907 |
| | | US philosopher William James publishes Pragmatism: a New Name for Old Ways of Thinking | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce build their most famous car, the Silver Ghost, in the factory they have set up in Derby | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev presents five concerts of Russian music in Paris | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Gertrude Stein meets Alice B. Toklas, who becomes her secretary and lifelong companion | |
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| 1907 |
| | | A separatist party in Spain, Solidaridad Catalana, makes electoral gains in Catalonia | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a violent transition into cubism, is a turning point in western art | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Henkel & Cie launches in Düsseldorf the first domestic washing powder, Persil | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Austrian scientist Clemens von Pirquet discovers a diagnostic test to identify tuberculosis in a patient | |
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| 1907 |
| | | James Joyce completes the eight short stories eventually published in 1914 as Dubliners | |
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| 1907 |
| | | A fossilized human jaw, probably at least 500,000 years old, is found near Heidelberg in Germany | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Collapse of trust companies causes panic and financial crisis in USA | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The world's first custom-built motor-racing track opens at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The Transvaal government presents to Edward VII the Cullinan diamond, now part of the British crown jewels | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The Deutscher Werkbund is founded in Munich as an association of architects, designers and industrialists | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Frederick Delius completes Brigg Fair, an 'English Rhapsody' for orchestra, first performed in Liverpool in 1908 | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Samuel Simon, working in Manchester, takes out a patent for the use of silk to support a stencil | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The first International Horse Show takes place in London's Olympia stadium | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The Harvester Judgement establishes a minimum wage in Australia | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Swedish playwright August Strindberg publishes The Ghost Sonata, which has its first performance in Stockholm the following year | |
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| 1907 |
| | | New Zealand becomes independent as a self-governing dominion | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The British liner Lusitania sets a new record for the Atlantic crossing, on the first of four such occasions | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Harry Lauder has a hit in the USA with his recording of I Love a Lassie | |
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| 1907 |
| | | US cartoonist Bud Fisher creates Mutt and Jeff for the San Francisco Chronicle, in the world's first daily comic strip | |
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| 1907 |
| | | A midwest region, including what remains of the reserved Indian Territory, is included in Oklahoma when it joins the Union as the 46th state | |
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| 1907 |
| | | 20-year-old Le Corbusier builds his first house at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in his native Switzerland | |
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