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1908

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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s  1880s  1890s  - 1900s -  1910s  1920s  1930s

Years: 1905 1906 1907 - 1908 - 1909 1910 1911
1908 by topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature
Music (Country ) - Television
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation
Meteorology - Rail transport - Science
By country
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Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Singapore - South Africa - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe
Other topics
Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Sovereign states - Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
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Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
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1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar).

Contents

  • 1 Events
    • 1.1 January
    • 1.2 February
    • 1.3 March
    • 1.4 April
    • 1.5 May
    • 1.6 June
    • 1.7 July
    • 1.8 August
    • 1.9 September
    • 1.10 October
    • 1.11 November
    • 1.12 December
    • 1.13 Undated
  • 2 Births
    • 2.1 January-February
    • 2.2 March-April
    • 2.3 May-June
    • 2.4 July-August
    • 2.5 September-October
    • 2.6 November-December
    • 2.7 Unknown dates
  • 3 Deaths
    • 3.1 January - June
    • 3.2 July - December
  • 4 Nobel prizes

Events

January

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January 11: Grand Canyon designated as a monument.
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January 24: Boy Scout movement.
  • January 1 - British Harry Bensley leaves for his would-be trip around the world pushing a pram and wearing an iron mask, beginning from the Trafalgar Square
  • January 1 - A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time.
  • January 8 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
  • January 11 - Grand Canyon National Monument is designated (becomes a National Park in February 1919).
  • January 12 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
  • January 15 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for black college women is established.
  • January 21 - New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for aliens to smoke in public, only to be vetoed by the mayor.
  • January 24 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.

February

  • February 1 - King Carlos I of Portugal and Crown Prince Luis shot in Lisbon
  • February 11 - Australia regain The Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
  • February 12 - Start of the first around-the-world car race, from New York to Paris.
  • February 18 - Japanese immigration to USA forbidden
  • February 25 - Los Angeles. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University) founded.

March

  • March 4 - The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • March 25 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Clube Atlético Mineiro founded in Minas Gerais, today one of biggest clubs in Brazil

April

  • April 19 - The Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, designed by Jens Jensen (landscape architect), opens to the public for the first time.
  • April 21 - Friedrich A Cook's claimed date to have reached North Pole

May

  • May 8 - Zeta Chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi at The Ohio State University was founded.
  • May 13 - Writer Ian Fleming is born.
  • May 10 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia).
  • May 26 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.

June

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Evidence of the Tunguska event that occurred on June 30. This photo was taken years later.
  • June 30 - The Tunguska impact event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs in Siberia.

July

  • July 6 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic North Pole.
  • July 11-12 night - Explosion of a ship Amalthea in the Malmö harbor in Sweden, housing 80 British strikebreakers. 1 dead, 20 injured.
  • July 13 - Women compete in modern Olympic Games for the first time.
  • July 19 - Feyenoord Rotterdam was founded.
  • July 22 - Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and automobile bodies.
  • July 24 - Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon in London in one of the most dramatic arrivals of the Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards.
  • July 26 - United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

August

  • August 15 - Winston Churchill is ordained as a Druid in England.
  • August 24 - After an intense power struggle, Abd al-Aziz IV, sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafiz. (Date of proclamation)

September

  • September 8 - Danish minister of Justice, Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzler
  • September 23 - The University of Alberta is founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • September 27 - Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.

October

  • October - The Bosnian Crisis begins after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • October 5 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar
  • October 14 - The Chicago Cubs win the World Series by defeating the Detroit Tigers 2-0 in the fifth game, their second World Championship win in a row.

November

  • November 3 - William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election
  • November 6 - Western bandits Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia, after being surrounded by a large group of Mexican soldiers. There are many rumours to the contrary however, and the grave sites are unmarked.
  • November 13 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia.
  • November 14 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected mayor (of Aldeburgh)

December

  • December 5 - Sunderland F.C. set a record for an away victory when they humiliate local rivals Newcastle United 9-1 at St. James Park.
  • December 28 - A 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys Messina, Sicily and rocks Calabria killing over 75,000.

Undated

  • First Zionist colony in Palestine (in fact, the very first zionist colony, Petah Tikkvah, was founded 1878).
  • British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage.
  • Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Léopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony.
  • The Children's Encyclopedia is first published.
  • Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, is founded.
  • Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks.
  • Isak Saba, becomes the first Sami in the Norwegian parliament.
  • Henri Matisse opens his own art academy.
  • Serial killer Belle Guinness disappears in Laporte.
  • Young Turks start revolution in the Ottoman Empire.
  • Change of Emperor of Qing Dynasty from Guangxu Emperor of China (1875-1908) to Henry Puyi (1909-1911).
  • A 40,000-year-old Neandertal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.
  • The Child Labour Act of Ontario is passed.
  • The Irish Universities Act, 1908 is passed and creates the National University of Ireland at Dublin and the Queen's University of Belfast.
  • First Ideal Home Exhibition held.
  • De Meester's Dutch government resigns.
  • Discovery of oil deposits near the Persian city of Abadan.
  • The Young Turks rebel and force sultan Abd al-Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876.
  • The University of the Philippines is founded at Manila.
  • First year of rugby league in Australia.
  • American Temperance University closes.
  • Panathinaikos, the Athenian sports club, is founded.
  • Club Union becomes Chivas Guadalajara.
  • Michael Smith completes Discourses.

Births

1908 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1908
MCMVIII
Ab urbe condita 2661
Armenian calendar 1357
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԷ
Bahá'í calendar 64 – 65
Buddhist calendar 2452
Chinese calendar 4544/4604-11-28
(丁未年十一月廿八日)
— to —
4545/4605-12-9
(戊申年十二月初九日)
Ethiopian calendar 1900 – 1901
Hebrew calendar 5668 – 5669
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1963 – 1964
 - Shaka Samvat 1830 – 1831
 - Kali Yuga 5009 – 5010
Holocene calendar 11908
Iranian calendar 1286 – 1287
Islamic calendar 1325 – 1326
Japanese calendar Meiji 41

(明治41年)

 - Imperial Year Kōki 2568
(皇紀2568年)
 - Jōmon Era 11908
Julian calendar 1953
Korean calendar 4241
Thai solar calendar 2451
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January-February

  • January 8 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
  • January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (d. 1986)
  • January 12 - Jean Delannoy, French film director
  • January 14 - Russ Columbo, singer, bandleader, and composer (d. 1934)
  • January 15 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)
  • January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
  • January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (d. 1997)
  • January 27 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American jazz musician (d. 1954)
  • February 1 - George Pál, Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980)
  • February 5 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969)
  • February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (d. 1999)
  • February 12 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist (d. 1982)
  • February 17 - Red Barber, American baseball announcer and sports journalist (d. 1992)
  • February 17 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician and one of the Eight Immortals of the Communist Party of China (d. 2007)
  • February 22 - John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
  • February 23 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
  • February 26 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
  • February 26 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
  • February 29 - Balthus, French painter (d. 2001)
  • February 29 - Dee Brown, American writer and historian (d. 2002)

March-April

  • March 2 - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
  • March 4 - T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader & surgeon (d. 1976)
  • March 5 - Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
  • March 7 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
  • March 12 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
  • March 13 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002)
  • March 17 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
  • March 20 - Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (d. 1985)
  • March 20 - Frank Stanton, American businessman (d. 2006)
  • March 22 - Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
  • March 25 - Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d. 1980)
  • March 25 - David Lean, English film director (d. 1991)
  • March 26 - Angel Acciaresi, Argentinan film director
  • March 29 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
  • April 1 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
  • April 2 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
  • April 4 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (d. 2006)
  • April 5 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
  • April 5 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
  • April 5 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986)
  • April 6 - John P. Davies, American diplomat (d. 1999)
  • April 7 - Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976)
  • April 8 - Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and film actor (d. 1999)
  • April 15 - Eden Ahbez, American musician (d. 1995)
  • April 20 - Lionel Hampton, American musician and bandleader (d. 2002)
  • April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
  • April 28 - Oskar Schindler, Austria-Hungary industrialist (d. 1974)
  • April 29 - Jack Williamson, American science fiction author (d. 2006)
  • April 30 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970)

May-June

  • May 5 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)
  • May 7 - Max Grundig, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1989)
  • May 8 - Cristian Vasile, Romanian singer (d. 1974)
  • May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
  • May 20 - James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
  • May 23 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
  • May 23 - Max Abramovitz, Architect of the New York City firm Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe (d. 2004)
  • May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
  • May 28 - Ian Fleming, English writer (d. 1964)
  • May 30 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
  • May 30 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
  • May 31 - Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
  • June 12 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
  • June 18 - Bud Collyer, American voice actor and game show host (d. 1969)
  • June 20 - Billy Werber, American baseball player
  • June 21 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (d. 1932)
  • June 24 - Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942)
  • June 27 - Bill Kennedy, American actor (d. 1997)
  • June 29 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
  • June 30 - Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003)

July-August

  • July 12 - Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)
  • July 25 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
  • July 27 - Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
  • August 2 - Al Alquist, California politician (d. 2006)
  • August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
  • August 5 - Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
  • August 9 - A. I. Bezzerides, American screenwriter (d. 2007)
  • August 16 - William Maxwell, American novelist and editor (d. 2000)
  • August 20 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
  • August 21 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
  • August 22 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
  • August 23 - Hannah Frank, Scottish artist and sculptor
  • August 27 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
  • August 27 - Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States (d. 1973)
  • August 28 - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, artist, and educator (d. 1996)
  • August 28 - Robert Merle, French writer (d. 2004)
  • August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (d. 1996)

September-October

  • September 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
  • September 6 - Louis Essen, English physicist (d. 1997)
  • September 6 - Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982)
  • September 7 - Paul Brown, American football coach (d. 1991)
  • September 7 - Michael E. DeBakey, American physician
  • September 13 - Mae Questel, American actress (d. 1998)
  • September 15 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
  • September 19 - Paul Bénichou, French intellectual (d. 2001)
  • September 21 - Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier (d. 1994)
  • September 29 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
  • September 30 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1974)
  • October 6 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d.1942)
  • October 14 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)
  • October 14 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
  • October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (d. 2006)
  • October 16 - Enver Hoxha, dictator of Albania (d. 1985)
  • October 19 - Sydney MacEwan, Scottish singer (d. 1990)
  • October 19 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
  • October 22 - John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
  • October 23 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
  • October 25 - Tauno Palo, Finnish actor (d. 1982)
  • October 25 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)
  • October 28 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (d. 1995)

November-December

  • November 2 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
  • November 4 - Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2005)
  • November 12 - Harry Blackmun, American judge (d. 1999)
  • November 16 - Sœur Emmanuelle, French nun
  • November 18 - Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001)
  • November 20 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (d. 2004)
  • November 23 -