1908 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1908?
- January 1, 1908 – For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York, New York’s Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
- January 11, 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
- 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 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.
- 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 11, 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
- May 10, 1908 – Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
- May 26, 1908 – At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) 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 Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
- July 19, 1908 – Dutch football club Feyenoord was founded
- July 25, 1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- 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.
- October 1, 1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
- October 3, 1908 – The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
- October 6, 1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- November 7, 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
- December 28, 1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000.
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