yesterwire.comBack to search

On the date

Sunday, December 1, 1907

From the day

Memories from that day

No memories yet. Add yours if you remember this day.

The Headlines

FRENCH ALGERIA IN DIRE PERIL; Moor Hordes Threaten the Chief Centres for the First Time in Sixty Years. WHOLE Of FRANCE ALARMED Invasion Came Like a Thunderclap and Found Government Unprepared. MERE HANDFUL OF TROOPS Fierce Tribesmen Loot and Burn and Then Begin Siege of Bab-el-Rassa -- French Press Awakes to Peril.

Read in The New York Times →

Best-selling Sheet Music

School Days

Will Cobb & Gus Edwards

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1907

  • Ziegfeld Follies

Tech Check

Electric Washing Machine, Color Photography (Autochrome) & Bakelite (Plastic).

Cost of Living (1900)

Loaf of Bread

$0.05

Gallon of Gas

$0.10

Average Home

$3,200

New Car

$1,000

Time Elapsed

43,286 days ago

(118 years, 216 days)