February 1907 calendar

Events

• 07 Feb 1907 The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
• 11 Feb 1907 Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
• 13 Feb 1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested.
• 21 Feb 1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead).
• 25 Feb 1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic.
• 26 Feb 1907 Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP).

Famous Birthday

• Swami Paramananda Saraswati
• W H Auden

  English poet (d. 1973).

• Cesar Romero

  Cuban-American actor (Joker - Batman, Falcon Crest), dies at age 86 from bronchitis and pneumonia (born 1907).

• Robert Young

  American film and TV actor, best known for his role as the patient, wise and kind father on the TV series "Father Knows Best.

• Otto Ohlendorf

  German law enforcement executive, the head of the Nazi Reich Main Security Service (AMT III) during WW II.

• Jean Langlais

  French blind organist, composer and musician.

• Hans Bender

  German psychologist, parapsychologist and physiologist who wrote on ESP, psychokinesis, poltergeists, mediumship, spontaneous phenomena and...

• Hans Bender

  German psychologist, parapsychologist and physiologist who wrote on ESP, psychokinesis, poltergeists, mediumship, spontaneous phenomena and...

• Milton Caniff

  American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (Born 1907).

• Pierre Pflimlin

  French politician, Prime Minister at the time of the collapse of the Fourth French Republic in 1958, and as the first Catholic mayor of...

• James Michener

  American author and philanthropist (d. 1997).

• James McIntosh Patrick
• André Cauvin

  Belgian documentary film director.

• Pierre E

  J Pflimlin premier France.

• James A Michener New York City

  New York, writer (Tales of the South Pacific, Centennial, Chesapeake, Hawaii, Space).

• Shimen Rushkin

  Poland -- Actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time).

• Mozart Camargo

  Guarnieri composer.

• John Canaday

  art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios).

• Wystan Hugh Auden

  United States -- Poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948).

• Charles B Timmer

  Dutch translator / writer (Russia Black on White).

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Famous Deaths

• Henry Olcott

  Co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras).

• Dmitri I Mendelejev Russian chemist (Periodic Table)

  dies at age 72.

• Ludwig Thuille composer

  dies at age 45.

• Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom chemist (fasenleer)

  dies at age 52.

• Peter J Savelberg Dutch Limbourg monastery founder

  dies at age 80.

• Marcel Bertrand French mine engineer

  dies at age 59.

• Henry Steel Olcott US co-founder (Theosophist Society-Madras)

  dies at age 74.

• [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan chemist (Nobel Prize 1906)

  dies at age 54.

• Otto Goldschmidt composer

  dies at age 77.

• Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom

  Dutch chemist (Born 1854).

• Giosue Carducci

  Italian writer, critic, poet and teacher at the University of Bologna for 44 years.

• Dmitri Mendeleev

  Russian chemist and inventor.

• Henri Moissan

  French chemist who received the 1906 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the isolation of the element fluorine and the development of the Moissan...

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Billy Murray - On San Francisco Bay
2. Billy Murray - Rose Bud (Call and I'll Come to You)
3. Byron G. Harlan - My Gal Sal
4. Corrine Morgan - Oh Promise Me
5. Len Spencer & Ada Jones - Down on the Farm