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1907
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1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1907th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 907th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1907, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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From top to bottom, left to right: The Panic of 1907 triggers a major financial crisis in the United States, leading to bank runs and eventually spurring the creation of the Federal Reserve System; the Santa María School massacre in Chile sees government troops fire on striking nitrate workers and their families, leaving hundreds dead in one of the deadliest labor conflicts in history; the daring 1907 Tiflis bank robbery carried out by Bolsheviks in Georgia to fund revolutionary activities shocks the Russian Empire; the 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt erupts as hundreds of thousands rise against harsh landowning practices, leading to brutal crackdowns and thousands of deaths; the 1907 Kingston earthquake devastates Jamaica’s capital, destroying much of the city and causing significant casualties; the experimental Cornu helicopter achieves its first free flight in France, marking an early milestone in vertical flight history.
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January 14: Earthquake in Jamaica

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Ray Milland
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Pierre Mendès France

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Cesar Romero
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Robert Young
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Milton Caniff

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Konstantinos Karamanlis

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Germán Suárez Flamerich
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Fred Zinnemann

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Ayub Khan
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John Wayne

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Rosalind Russell
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Frida Kahlo
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Yang Shangkun
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Lurene Tuttle

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Fay Wray
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Gene Autry

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Víctor Paz Estenssoro

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Astrid Lindgren

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James Roosevelt
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Cab Calloway
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Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
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Ida Saxton McKinley
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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Henri Moissan

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Sully Prudhomme
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King Oscar II of Sweden
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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