September 1907 calendar

Events

• 07 Sep 1907 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• 08 Sep 1907 Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)
• 12 Sep 1907 Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)
• 13 Sep 1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball
• 19 Sep 1907 Frank A. Leach becomes US Mint director.
• 23 Sep 1907 Proclamation sets fineness and weight of silver and bronze coins of Canada
• 26 Sep 1907 New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
• 29 Sep 1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral.
• 30 Sep 1907 Cards Ed Konetchy steals home twice and Joe Delahanty also steals home for record 3 steals of home (vs. Boston)

Famous Birthday

• French First Republic
• Maurice Blanchot

  French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist.

• Pauline Réage
• Francis Ambrière

  French author who was selected for the Prix Goncourt in 1940, for his book Les Grandes Vacances which chronicles the lives of French...

• Jarmila Novotná
• Robert Ambelain

  French astrologer, occultist and author of over 40 books.

• Jean Aerts
• Fay Wray

  American actress, most noted for her role as the female lead in "King Kong.

• Louis MacNeice

  Irish poet and playwright (d. 1963).

• Gene Autry

  American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in...

• Anthony Blunt

  British art expert who was exposed as a Soviet spy.

• Jacques-Charles Derrey
• Shepperd Strudwick

  Actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75.

• Walter Reuther

  American labor union official, President of the United Auto Workers.

• Giuseppe Santomaso

  Italian artist, painter.

• Albert Ammons

  American pianist (d. 1949).

• Alfred Delp

  German Jesuit priest, member of the German resistance (Born 1907).

• Edwin McMillan

  American physicist and chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991).

• Henri Storck

  Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist.

• Ahmed Adnan Saygun
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Famous Deaths

• Edvard Hagerup Grieg

  Norwegian Composer (Peer Gynt Suite), dies at 64.

• R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme

  French Poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901).

• Ignaz Brull

  Austrian pianist (Born 1846).

• Frederich I W L

  Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), dies at 81.

• Ernest Roland Wilberforce

  English bishop (Born 1840).

• Edvard Grieg

  Norwegian composer and pianist.

• Sully Prudhomme

  French writer, the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature on 12/10/1901.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Haydn Quartet - Stein Song
2. Bob Roberts - You'll Have to Wait Till My Ship Comes In
3. Cal Stewart - Uncle Josh at the Dentist's
4. Byron G. Harlan - It's Great to be a Soldier Man
5. Peerless Quartet (Columbia Male Quartet) - Honey Boy