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December 1907
Extracted from the Wikipedia article 1907.
December
- December 6 – Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
- December 14 – The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted U.S.-owned Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly.
- December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
- December 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes the first Druk Gyalpo (king of Bhutan).
- December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
- 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.