The temperature on July 25, 1907 was between 7.6 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
Day of death March 16, 1908
The temperature on March 16, 1908 was between -0.9 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
June 18 » Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
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