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.
- February 2, 1908 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- May 10, 1908 – Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
- May 20, 1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
- June 18, 1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
- July 1, 1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
- July 23, 1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
- 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 17, 1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
- 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 6, 1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- October 14, 1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
- November 7, 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
- November 22, 1908 – The Congress of Monastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
- November 30, 1908 – A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
- December 28, 1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000.
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