WORLD LEADERS.  Pius X was Pope.  Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States.  Albert E. Mead was Governor of the State of Washington, and Washington’s U.S. Senators were Samuel H. Piles and Levi Ankeny.  Edward VII was on the throne of England and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was his Prime Minister.  Vittorio Emmanuele III was King of Italy.  Franz Joseph I was Emperor of Austria and Hungary.
 
EVENTS.  It was a year of earthquakes and disasters at sea.  The month of December was marked by two terrible mining disasters, in West Virginia and in Pennsylvania.  Maria Montessori opened her first school and daycare center in Rome.  The first Hoover vacuum cleaner was invented.  Albert Einstein introduced the principle of equivalence of gravitation and inertia, while Pavlov demonstrated conditioned responses with salivating dogs.
 
IN SEATTLE.  United Parcel Service was founded by Jim Casey, and the Pike Place Market opened for business.  Anna Herr Clise established the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, and the will of Carolyn Rosenberg Kline Galland established the Kline Galland Home.
 
ARTS.  Pablo Picasso painted The Demoiselles d’Avignon.  This was also the year of Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss and Claude Monet’s Water Lilies.  The bestselling novel of the year was Frances Little’s The Lady of the Decoration.  Other top titles included Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives and Half a Rogue by Harold McGrath.  Popular songs of 1907 included “Be My Little Teddy Bear,” “All She Gets from the Iceman Is Ice,” “The Peach That Tastes the Sweetest Hangs the Highest on the Tree,” and “Won’t You Be My Honey.”  In the world of classical music, Elgar, Holst, Rachmaninoff, Reger, and Rimsky-Korsakoff were all at work.  New shows on Broadway included Follies of 1907 and Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow.  Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 
BIRTHS.  Notable people born in the year 1907 include Jean Langlais, composer and organist; W. H. Auden, poet; Katharine Hepburn, actress; Daphne du Maurier, novelist; Laurence Olivier, actor; Rachel Carson, environmentalist; Frida Kahlo, painter.

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