1907
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| File:1907 Cartoon of J. P. Morgan seizing control of banks.png A Cartoon of J. P. Morgan seizing control of banks, through the 1907 Panic. | |
| The Bank Panic of 1907 helped the money trust to sure up control of Wall St by bankrupting Frederick Heinze. |
Bank Panic
- Full article: 1907 Panic
- Full article: 1907 Panic
The 1907 Panic helped J. P. Morgan and The Money Trust to solidify operational control over Wall St by bankrupting Frederick Heinze.
Events
- March 5 – At the opening of the new State Duma in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 40,000 demonstrators are dispersed by Russian troops.
- March 11 – The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia.
- April 7 – Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
- April 17–Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration to the United States through Ellis Island;[1] this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.[2]
- August 24–31 – The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands.
- August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Anglo-Russian Entente in Saint Petersburg, bringing a pause in The Great Game in Central Asia, and establishing the Triple Entente.
- September 26 – New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions.
- October 18 – The Hague Convention is revised by the (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January, 1910).
- December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
- December 21 – Santa María School massacre: In Chile, soldiers fire at striking mineworkers gathered in the Santa María School in Iquique; over 2,000 are killed.
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- Indiana, in the United States, becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book.