1908 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1908?
- January 11, 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
- January 12, 1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- January 15, 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women.
- January 21, 1908 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
- February 1, 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
- February 2, 1908 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- March 4, 1908 – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
- March 23, 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
- April 7, 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- April 8, 1908 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
- April 16, 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
- June 18, 1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
- July 1, 1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
- July 26, 1908 – 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 8, 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
- September 22, 1908 – The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
- September 27, 1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
- October 3, 1908 – The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
- October 14, 1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
- December 2, 1908 – Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
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