January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of death December 19, 1907
The temperature on December 19, 1907 was between 5.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
September 30 » The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
December 10 » 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 that have been vivisected.
December 31 » The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.
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