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* [[October 28]]: Temperance voters carried the [[1907 prohibition election]], meaning that [[Prohibition]] would be enacted county-wide beginning [[January 1]], [[1908]].
* [[October 28]]: Temperance voters carried the [[1907 prohibition election]], meaning that [[Prohibition]] would be enacted county-wide beginning [[January 1]], [[1908]].
* The [[Elyton|City of Elyton]] was reincorporated.
* The [[Elyton|City of Elyton]] was reincorporated.
* [[August 5]]: [[Governor of Alabama|Governor]] [[B. B. Comer]] was lobbied to sign the Smyer and King "[[Greater Birmingham]]" bills during a meeting of the [[Commercial Club of Birmingham]] at the [[Hippodrome Theater]].
* [[August 7]]: A state law authorizing a referendum for the "[[Greater Birmingham]]" merger proposal was signed by [[Governor of Alabama|Governor]] [[B. B. Comer]].
* [[August 7]]: A state law authorizing a referendum for the "[[Greater Birmingham]]" merger proposal was signed by [[Governor of Alabama|Governor]] [[B. B. Comer]].
* [[Robert Thach]] began serving as [[Birmingham City Attorney]].
* [[Robert Thach]] began serving as [[Birmingham City Attorney]].
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* The [[Birmingham Municipal Ownership League]] formed and campaigned in favor of public ownership of the [[Birmingham Water Works]].
* The [[Birmingham Municipal Ownership League]] formed and campaigned in favor of public ownership of the [[Birmingham Water Works]].
* The [[Mobile Basin and Tennessee River Association]] formed and lobbied for improvements to water transport in Alabama.
* The [[Mobile Basin and Tennessee River Association]] formed and lobbied for improvements to water transport in Alabama.
* The [[Jefferson County Legislative Delegation]] was comprised of [[John Glover]], [[James Littleberry Jr]], [[Samuel John]], [[Jere King]], [[Robert Lovelady]], [[Milton Ragsdale]], and [[Walter Urquhart]].


===Business===
===Business===
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* [[William Jelks]] founded the [[Protective Life Corporation|Protective Life Insurance Co.]]
* [[William Jelks]] founded the [[Protective Life Corporation|Protective Life Insurance Co.]]
* The [[Peek Beverage Company]] changed its name to the [[Rye-Ola|Rye-Ola Company]].
* The [[Peek Beverage Company]] changed its name to the [[Rye-Ola|Rye-Ola Company]].
* The architectural partnership of [[Warren & Welton]] was formed.
* Architects [[William Warren]] and [[William Welton]] formed the partnership of [[Warren & Welton]].
* [[Dewberry Drug Co.|Dewberry & Sons]] acquired the business of [[H. H. Copeland]].
* [[July 26]]: The [[South Birmingham Heights Land Company]] was formed.
* [[July 26]]: The [[South Birmingham Heights Land Company]] was formed.
* [[October 26]]: The [[Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company]] idled the [[Oxmoor Furnaces]].
* [[October 26]]: The [[Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company]] idled the [[Oxmoor Furnaces]].
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* [[Odenville First Baptist Church|Missionary Baptist Church]] was organized in [[Odenville]].
* [[Odenville First Baptist Church|Missionary Baptist Church]] was organized in [[Odenville]].
* [[Hoyt Dobbs]] succeeded [[James McCoy]] as pastor of [[Highlands United Methodist Church|Five Points Methodist Episcopal Church, South]].
* [[Hoyt Dobbs]] succeeded [[James McCoy]] as pastor of [[Highlands United Methodist Church|Five Points Methodist Episcopal Church, South]].
* [[William Sellers]] began holding a Sunday School which grew to become [[Shades Mountain Baptist Church|White's Chapel Baptist Church]].
* The Triumph Methodist Church merged with the Church of God in Christ, forming what became the [[Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ]].


===Sports===
===Sports===
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* [[Robert Warner residence]] at 2733 [[Highland Avenue]]
* [[Robert Warner residence]] at 2733 [[Highland Avenue]]
* [[Weather Forecast Office Birmingham|Weather Bureau Building]] 1221 [[13th Street North]]
* [[Weather Forecast Office Birmingham|Weather Bureau Building]] 1221 [[13th Street North]]
* The cut through [[Brock's Gap]] for the [[Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad]] was completed.
* [[Crestview Memorial Gardens]] in [[Adamsville]] was founded.


====Demolitions====
====Demolitions====
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==Publications==
==Publications==
* ''[[The Arc Light]]'' weekly was launched.
* ''[[The Arc Light]]'' weekly was launched.
* ''[[The Birmingham Blade]]'' weekly began publishing.
* [[L. H. Harrison]] began publishing the weekly ''[[The Birmingham Blade]]''.
* The [[Birmingham Chamber of Commerce]] commissioned [[Ethel Armes]] to compile, ''[[The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama]].''
* "[[The Ransom of Red Chief]]" short story by O. Henry, set in [[Summit]].


== Individuals ==
== Individuals ==
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* Merchant [[Raymond Rochell]] relocated to Birmingham from Pulaski, Tennessee.
* Merchant [[Raymond Rochell]] relocated to Birmingham from Pulaski, Tennessee.
* Sculptor [[Giuseppe Moretti]] hired [[Geneva Mercer]] as an apprentice.
* Sculptor [[Giuseppe Moretti]] hired [[Geneva Mercer]] as an apprentice.
* [[Oscar Hundley]] was appointed to the [[U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama]].
* [[John Hearst Miller]] was appointed to the [[Jefferson County Circuit Court]].
* [[John Hearst Miller]] was appointed to the [[Jefferson County Circuit Court]].


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* [[Edward Barrett]] married [[Lewis Barrett|Lewis Robertson Butt]].
* [[Edward Barrett]] married [[Lewis Barrett|Lewis Robertson Butt]].
* [[Jimmie Jones]] married the former [[Cynthia Jones|Cynthia Bryan]].
* [[Jimmie Jones]] married the former [[Cynthia Jones|Cynthia Bryan]].
* [[Eugene Knight]] married the former [[Nellie Ray Knight|Nellie Ray Reeder]].
* [[Lloyd Noland]] married the former [[Margaret Noland|Margaret Gillick]].
* [[Lloyd Noland]] married the former [[Margaret Noland|Margaret Gillick]].


===Deaths===
===Deaths===
* [[May 12]]: [[Samuel Hamilton]], [[Birmingham Police Department|Birmingham Police officer]]
* [[June 11]]: [[John Tyler Morgan]], former U.S. Senator and Klan leader
* [[June 11]]: [[John Tyler Morgan]], former U.S. Senator and Klan leader
* [[J. B. Cunningham]]
* [[James Lane]]
* [[James Lane]]
* [[December 16]]: [[1907 Yolande Mine explosion]]
* [[December 16]]: [[1907 Yolande Mine explosion]]

Revision as of 09:34, 15 January 2020

Tom Bonduras at the Bright Star restaurant in 1907

1907 was the 36th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

Government

Business

Disestablishments

Education

Religion

Sports

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Terrace Court apartments
Bessemer Public Library

Buildings

Demolitions

Publications

Individuals

Births

Graduations

Marriages

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Context

In 1907 an earthquake killed nearly 1,000 in Jamaica. Romanian peasant rose in revolt. Robert Baden-Powell led his first Boy Scout camp. Oklahoma became the 46th state. Gustav V succeeded Oscar II as King of Sweden. New York began the New Year's Eve tradition of a ball drop in Times Square. Rudyard Kipling won the Nobel prize for literature.

Notable people born in 1907 include actors Gene Autry, Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne and Fay Wray; architect Oscar Niemeyer; artist Frida Kahlo; authors Rachel Carson, Robert Heinlein and Daphne du Maurier; businessman Orville Redenbacher; cartoonists Hergé and William Steig; Haitian dictator François Duvalier; Justices Warren Burger and Lewis Powell Jr; poet W. H. Auden; and singers Cab Calloway and Tino Rossi.

Notable deaths in 1907 included author Sully Prudhomme; chemist Dmitri Mendeleev; composer Edvard Grieg; engineer William Le Baron Jenney; and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

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