page_title: 1907 in the United States
section_title: October–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1907 in the United States / Events / October–December
context_page_description: Events from the year 1907 in the United States.
context_section_description: October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice.
  October 22 – Panic of 1907: A bank run forces New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations.
  October 24 – A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907, a move which ultimately leads to establishment of the Federal Reserve System.
  November 3 – President Roosevelt approves the takeover of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company by J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel company in the wake of the panic of 1907.
  November 7 – Delta Sigma Pi (a co-ed professional business fraternity) is founded at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University in New York City.
  November 16
  Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state (see History of Oklahoma).
  Passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool (England) to New York.
  November 28 – Johnny Hayes wins the inaugural Yonkers Marathon.
  December 6 – Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
  December 16 – The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads, Virginia on a 14-month circumnavigation of the globe.
  December 18 – Ouachita National Forest is established.
  December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
  December 31 – The first electric ball drops in Times Square.
caption: November 16: Oklahoma