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'''1908''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMVIII''') was a
leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
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January-February
*
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 Park Grand Canyon National Monument is created
*
January 12 - A long-distance
radio message is sent from the
Eiffel Tower for the first time.
*
January 15 -
Alpha Kappa Alpha 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
Scouting Boy Scout movement
*
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 18 -
Japanese immigration to USA forbidden
*
February 25 -
Los Angeles. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now
Biola University) founded.
April-June
*
April 21 -
Friedrich A Cook's claimed date to have reached
North Pole
*
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
Iran 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 30 - The
Tunguska impact event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs in
Siberia.
July-December
*
July 6 -
Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic
Geographic North Pole North Pole.
*
July 11-
July 12 12 night - Explosion of a ship ''
Amalthea bombing Amalthea'' in the
Malmö harbor in
Sweden, housing 80 British
strikebreakers. 1 dead, 20 injured.
*
July 13 - Women compete in modern
Olympics 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 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 15 -
Winston Churchill is ordained as a
Druid in
England.
*
August 24 - After an intense power struggle,
Abdelaziz of Morocco Abd al-Aziz IV, sultan of
Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother
Abdelhafid of Morocco Abd al-Hafiz. (Date of proclamation)
*
September 8 -
Denmark Danish minister of Justice,
Alberti, is revealed to be an
embezzling embezzler
*
September 23 - The
University of Alberta is founded in
Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada.
*
September 27 -
Henry Ford produces his first
Ford Model T Model T automobile.
*
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. They haven't won the World Series since.
*
November 3 -
William Howard Taft defeats
William Jennings Bryan in the
U.S. presidential election, 1908 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 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 - An 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys
Messina, Italy Messina,
Sicily and rocks
Calabria killing over 75,000.
unknown dates
* First
Zionism Zionist colony in
Palestine (region) Palestine
* 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 Free State Congo, which is his personal colony
*
The Children's Encyclopedia first published
* Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of
Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, founded
* Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks
*
Isak Saba, the first
Sami people Sami in the
Norway Norwegian parliament
*
Henri Matisse open his own art academy
* Serial killer
Belle Guinness disappears in Laporte
*
Young Turks 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
Petroleum oil deposits near the
Iran 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.
Births
January
*
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 Page Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American jazz musician (d.
1954)
February
*
February 1 -
George Pál, Hungarian-born animator (d.
1980)
*
February 5 -
Hilton twins 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 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 (novelist) Dee Brown, American writer and historian (d.
2002)
March
*
March 2 -
Walter Bruch, German engineer (d.
1990)
*
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 22 -
Louis L'Amour, American author (d.
1988)
*
March 25 -
Helmut Kautner Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d.
1980)
*
March 25 -
David Lean, English film director (d.
1991)
*
March 29 -
Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d.
1981)
April
*
April 1 -
Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d.
1970)
*
April 2 -
Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d.
2003)
*
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 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 30 -
Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d.
1970)
May
*
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 (actor) Jimmy Stewart, American actor (d.
1997)
*
May 23 -
John Bardeen, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1991)
*
May 25 -
Theodore Roethke, American poet (d.
1963)
*
May 28 -
Ian Fleming, English writer (d.
1964)
*
May 30 -
Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1995)
*
May 30 -
Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d.
1989)
*
May 31 -
Don Ameche, American actor (d.
1993)
June-July
*
June 18 -
Bud Collyer, American voice actor and game show host (d.
1969)
*
June 21 -
Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (d.
1932)
*
June 24 -
Hugo Distler, German composer (d.
1942)
*
June 29 -
Leroy Anderson, American composer (d.
1975)
*
June 30 -
Winston Graham, English writer (d.
2003)
*
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-September
*
August 4 -
Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d.
1994)
*
August 5 -
Harold Holt,
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1967)
*
August 5 - Mary Louise Miner, American Journalist (d.
1999)
*
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 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 30 -
Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (d.
1996)
*
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 Benichou Paul Bénichou, French intellectual (d.
2001)
*
September 29 -
Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d.
1967)
*
September 30 -
David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-born violinist (d.
1974)
October-December
*
October 6 -
Carole Lombard, American Actress (d.
1942)
*
October 14 -
Ruth Hale (playwright and actress) 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
*
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 23 -
Ilya Frank, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1990)
*
October 25 -
Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d.
2004)
*
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 18 -
Imogene Coca, American actress (d.
2001)
*
November 20 -
Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (d.
2004)
*
November 28 -
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born anthropologist
*
December 4 -
Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1997)
*
December 6 -
Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d.
2003)
*
December 10 -
Olivier Messiaen, French composer (d.
1992)
*
December 11 -
Elliot Carter, American composer
*
December 17 -
Willard Libby, American chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1980)
*
December 31 -
Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter (d.
2005)
Unknown date
*
George Rodger, British photojournalist (d.
1995)
*
Carl Stuart Hamblen, American musician and Presidential candidate
*
Frances Ford Seymour, American socialite
Deaths
*
January 25 -
Ouida, English writer (b.
1839)
*
February 1 - King
Charles of Portugal (b.
1863)
*
April 20 -
Henry Chadwick, English-born baseball writer and historian (b.
1824)
*
April 22 -
Henry Campbell-Bannerman,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1836)
*
May 26 -
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the
Ahmadi sect (b.
1835)
*
June 21 -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b.
1844)
*
June 24 -
Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th
President of the United States (b.
1837)
*
July 5 -
Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b.
1833)
*
July 10 -
Phoebe Knapp, American hymn composer (b.
1839)
*
July 20 -
Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b.
1835)
*
July 22 -
William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1828)
*
August 25 -
Henri Becquerel, French physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1852)
*
August 26 -
Tony Pastor, American vaudeville and theater impresario (b.
1837)
*
September 20 -
Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b.
1844)
*
October 30 -
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor Caroline Astor, American socialite (b.
1830)
*
November 14 - The
Guangxu Emperor of China (b.
1871)
*
November 15 -
Empress Dowager Cixi, de facto ruler of China (b.
1835)
Marriages
*
February 14 -
Lee De Forest &
Nora Stanton Blatch
*
February 28 -
King Ferdinand &
Eleanor Reuss
*
April 7 -
Knud Kristensen &
Else Christensen
*
June 13 -
Carl Sandburg &
Lilian Steichen
*
July 19 -
Shoeless Joe Jackson &
Katherine Wynn
*
August 6 -
Roscoe Arbuckle &
Minta Durfee
*
August 8 -
Ty Cobb &
Charlotte Lombard
*
August 30 -
Harry Solter &
Florence Lawrence
*
September 12 -
Winston Churchill &
Clementine Churchill
*
November 20 -
Vilhelm Buhl &
Thyra Schmidt
*
November 25 -
Will Rogers &
Betty Blake
*
December 22 -
Sybil Thorndike &
Lewis Casson
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
Gabriel Lippmann
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry -
Ernest Rutherford
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Medicine -
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov,
Paul Ehrlich
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace -
Klas Pontus Arnoldson,
Fredrik Bajer
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