Events
DateEvent
1908 Eden Ahbez Was Born
1908 Necil Kazım Akses Was Born
1908 Francesc Alió Died
1908 Sven Arefeldt Was Born
1908 Vicente Asencio Was Born
1908 Richard Barth Died
1908 Joseph Beer Was Born
1908 Roberta Bitgood Was Born
1908 Elliott Carter Was Born
1908 Russ Columbo Was Born
November 20 1908 Albert Dietrich Died
1908 Hugo Distler Was Born
1908 Gustav Ernesaks Was Born
1908 Howard Ferguson Was Born
1908 Stéphane Grappelli Was Born
1908 Kurt Hessenberg Was Born
1908 Miloslav Kabeláč Was Born
1908 Eugen Kapp Was Born
1908 Herman David Koppel Was Born
1908 Hans Lang Austrian composer Was Born
1908 Lars-Erik Larsson Was Born
1908 George Linstead Was Born
1908 Edward MacDowell Died
1908 Franco Margola Was Born
1908 William Mason Died
1908 Olivier Messiaen Was Born
1908 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Died
1908 Pablo de Sarasate Died
1908 Eugen Suchoň Was Born
1908 Paul Taffanel Died
1908 Geirr Tveitt Was Born
1908 Louis Varney Died
January 01 1908 Ball Is Dropped In Times Square
1908 Leroy Anderson Was Born
January 11 1908 Grand Canyon National Monument Is Created
January 12 1908 First Long-distance Radio Message Sent From Eiffel Tower
January 13 1908 Pennsylvania's Rhoads Opera House Fire: 171 Dead
January 15 1908 Sorority First Founded By African American Women
January 21 1908 New York Passes Sullivan Ordinance
January 24 1908 Baden-Powell Begins Boy Scouts In England
January 28 1908 Portuguese Fail In Coup Against Franco
January 30 1908 Gandhi Released From Prison
February 01 1908 Portugal King Carlos I, Son Killed In Lisbon
February 03 1908 The Panathinaikos Athletic Club Is Created
March 04 1908 Collinwood School Fire Kills 174 In Ohio
March 09 1908 Inter Milan Founded In Milan Football Split
March 23 1908 American Diplomat Assassinated In Korea
April 01 1908 The Territorial Force Is Formed In 1920
April 07 1908 Asquith Is Elected MP Of The UK
April 08 1908 Harvard Votes To Establish Business School
April 11 1908 Germany Launches SMS Blucher Armored Cruiser
April 16 1908 Natural Bridges Monument Declared In Utah
April 20 1908 The Rugby League Had Its Opening
May 10 1908 W. Virginia: Mother's Day Observed For 1st Time
May 20 1908 Budi Utomo Founded In Dutch East Indies
May 26 1908 Persian Oil Strike Occures
May 27 1908 Khilafat Day Established In Islam Ahmadiyya
June 18 1908 Santos Arrivals Begin Japanese Brazil Immigration
June 18 1908 University Of Philippines Established
June 30 1908 The Tunguska Event Occurs In Remote Siberia
July 01 1908 International Distress Signal Is SOS
July 23 1908 Ottomans Accept Second Constitution
July 25 1908 Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) Discovered In Tokyo
July 26 1908 Office Of The Chief Examiner Is Staffed
August 08 1908 Wilbur Wright's First Flight
August 17 1908 First Cartoon Debuts In Paris
September 16 1908 General Motors Corporation Founded
September 17 1908 Thomas Selfridge Becomes First Airplane Fatality
September 22 1908 Bulgaria Proclaims Independence
September 23 1908 University Of Alberta, Canada Found
September 26 1908 Norwegian Football Club SK Founded
September 27 1908 First Ford Model T Built In Detroit
October 01 1908 Ford Model T Goes On Sale
October 06 1908 Austria-Hungary Annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina
October 14 1908 The Chicago Cubs Defeat Detroit Tigers
November 07 1908 Butch Cassidy And Sundance Kid Reportedly Killed
November 22 1908 Albanian Alphabet Established
November 30 1908 Pennsylvania Mine Explosion Kills 154
December 02 1908 Puyi Becomes Emperor Of China
December 28 1908 Over 75,000 Killed In Sicily, Italy Earthquake