1907

Literary Facts - 1907

• Ivan Pavlov conducts experiments focusing upon conditioned responses
• Louis Lumière develops the technology for color photography
• The first exhibition of Cubist paintings is mounted in Paris
• Lord Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scouts in England
• Henri Bergson publishes L’Evolution creatrice (Creative Evolution)
• Gunnar Ekeloef is born
• Thomas Mofolo publishes Moetti oa bochabela (The Traveller of the East)
• J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World is produced
• Henry Adams publishes The Education of Henry Adams
• Ferenc Molnar publishes Pal utcai fiuk
• Maxim Gorky publishes Mat’ (Mother)
• Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• James A. Michener is born (February 3)
• Giosuè Carducci dies (February 16)
• W. H. Auden is born (February 21)
• Mary Chase is born (February 25)
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich dies (March 19)
• Hugh MacLennan is born (March 20)
• Daphne Du Maurier is born (May 13)
• Rachel Carson is born (May 27)
• Jacques Roumain is born (June 4)
• René Char is born (June 14)
• Robert A. Heinlein is born (July 7)
• Joseph Kramm is born (September 3)
• Sully Prudhomme dies (September 7)
• Louis MacNeice is born (September 12)
• Helen MacInnes is born (October 7)
• Alfred Jarry dies (November 1)
• Alberto Pincherle is born (November 28)
• Christopher Fry is born (December 18)