
1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1905 1906 1907 - 1908 - 1909 1910 1911 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} == Events == ===January-February=== * 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 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, 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 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 ===April-June=== * April 7 - Herbert Henry Asquith takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman * April 14 - In Denmark, suffrage of every tax-paying citizen * April 21 - Friedrich A Cook's claimed date to have reached North Pole * April 27 - The 1908 Summer Olympics open in London. * May 10 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virgina). * May 26 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Iran, 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 event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs in Siberia. 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1905 1906 1907 - 1908 - 1909 1910 1911 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} == Events == ===January-February=== * 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 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, 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 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 ===April-June=== * April 7 - Herbert Henry Asquith takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman * April 14 - In Denmark, suffrage of every tax-paying citizen * April 21 - Friedrich A Cook's claimed date to have reached North Pole * April 27 - The 1908 Summer Olympics open in London. * May 10 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virgina). * May 26 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Iran, 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 event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs in Siberia. ===July-December=== * July 6 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic Geographic North Pole. * July 11-July 12 night - Explosion of a ship ''Amalthea bombing'' in the Malmö harbor in Sweden, housing 80 British strikebreakers. 1 dead, 20 injured. * 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). * October 5 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar * December 28 - An 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys Messina, Italy, Sicily and rocks Calabria killing over 75,000. * November - William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election, 1908 * November 13 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia. ===unknown dates=== * First Zionism colony in Palestine (region) * British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage * Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected mayor (of Aldeburgh) * Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Leopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony * Denmark minister of Justice, Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzling * The Children's Encyclopedia * Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of Federal Bureau of Investigation, founded * Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks * Isak Saba, the first Sami people in the Norway 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) *Henry Ford produces its first Ford Model T automobile. *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 oil deposits near the Iran city of Abadan. *Abdelaziz of Morocco, sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abdelhafid of Morocco. * The Young Turks rebel and force sultan Abd al-Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876. * The University of the Philippines was founded at Manila. * The University of Alberta was founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. == Births == ===January=== * January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (d. 1986) * January 12 - Jean Delannoy, French film director * January 14 - Rus Columbo, singer, bandleader, and composer * January 15 - Edward Teller, American physicist (d. 2003) * January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist (d. 1968) * January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (d. 1997) * January 27 - Oran Page, American jazz musician (d. 1954) ===February=== * February 1 - George Pál, Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980) * February 5 - Hilton twins, English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969) * February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987) * February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer * February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (d. 1999) * February 11 - Josh White, musician * February 15 - HAP Grieshaber, artist (d. 1981) * 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, Polish-French painter (d. 2001) * February 29 - 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 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 23 - Joan Crawford, American actor (d. 1977) * March 25 - Helmut Kautner, German actor and film 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 7 - Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976) * April 15 - Eden Ahbez, American hippie musician (d. 1995) * April 20 - Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 2002) * April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965) ===May=== * May 5 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989) * May 7 - Max Grundig, industrialist (d. 1989) * May 8 - Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer (d. 1974) * May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982) * May 20 - James Stewart (actor), American actor (d. 1997) * May 23 - John Bardeen, American physicist (d. 1991) * May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963) * May 28 - Ian Fleming, English writer (d. 1964) * 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 24 - Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942) * June 29 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975) * 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, Australian Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967) * August 20 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager * August 27 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001) **Lyndon Johnson, American 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, Soviet mathematician (d. 1988) * September 6 - Louis Essen, English physicist (d. 1997) **Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982) * September 7 - Paul Brown, American football coach (d. 1991) **Michael E. DeBakey, American physician * September 13 - Mae Questel, American actress (d. 1998) * September 29 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967) * September 30 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinst (d. 1974) ===October-December=== * October 14 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992) * October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist * October 16 - Enver Hoxha, dictator of Albania (d. 1985) * October 19 - Sydney MacEwan, Scottish singer (d. 1990) **Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981) * November 2 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983) *November 12 - Harry Blackmun, American Judge (d. 1999) *November 18 - Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001) * November 20 - Alistair Cooke, English journalist and broadcaster (d. 2004) * November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born anthropologist * December 6 - Pierre Graber, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2003) * December 10 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (d. 1992) * December 11 - Elliot Carter, American composer * December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter == 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) *July 5 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833) *July 20 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835) *August 25 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist (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, American socialite (b. 1830) *November 14 - Guangxu Emperor of China of China (b. 1871) *November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835) == Nobel Prize == * Nobel Prize/Physics - Gabriel Lippmann * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich * Nobel Prize in literature - Rudolf Christoph Eucken * Nobel Prize/Peace - Klas Pontus Arnoldson Fredrik Bajer 1908 ===unknown dates=== * First Zionism colony in Palestine (region) * British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage * Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected mayor (of Aldeburgh) * Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Leopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony * Denmark minister of Justice, Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzling * The Children's Encyclopedia * Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of Federal Bureau of Investigation, founded * Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks * Isak Saba, the first Sami people in the Norway 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) *Henry Ford produces its first Ford Model T automobile. *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 oil deposits near the Iran city of Abadan. *Abdelaziz of Morocco, sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abdelhafid of Morocco. * The Young Turks rebel and force sultan Abd al-Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876. * The University of the Philippines was founded at Manila. * The University of Alberta was founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. == Births == ===January=== * January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (d. 1986) * January 12 - Jean Delannoy, French film director * January 14 - Rus Columbo, singer, bandleader, and composer * January 15 - Edward Teller, American physicist (d. 2003) * January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist (d. 1968) * January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (d. 1997) * January 27 - Oran Page, American jazz musician (d. 1954) ===February=== * February 1 - George Pál, Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980) * February 5 - Hilton twins, English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969) * February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987) * February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer * February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (d. 1999) * February 11 - Josh White, musician * February 15 - HAP Grieshaber, artist (d. 1981) * 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, Polish-French painter (d. 2001) * February 29 - 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 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 23 - Joan Crawford, American actor (d. 1977) * March 25 - Helmut Kautner, German actor and film 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 7 - Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976) * April 15 - Eden Ahbez, American hippie musician (d. 1995) * April 20 - Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 2002) * April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965) ===May=== * May 5 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989) * May 7 - Max Grundig, industrialist (d. 1989) * May 8 - Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer (d. 1974) * May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982) * May 20 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor (d. 1997) * May 23 - John Bardeen, American physicist (d. 1991) * May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963) * May 28 - Ian Fleming, English writer (d. 1964) * 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 24 - Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942) * June 29 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975) * July 12 - Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002) * July 25 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987) ===August-September=== * August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994) * August 5 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967) * August 20 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager * August 27 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001) **Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973) * August 28 - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, artist, and educator (d. 1996) * August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine-Italian artist (d. 1996) * September 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1988) * September 6 - Louis Essen, English physicist (d. 1997) **Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982) * September 7 - Paul Brown, American football coach (d. 1991) **Michael E. DeBakey, American physician * September 29 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967) * September 30 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinst (d. 1974) ===October-December=== * October 14 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992) * October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist * October 16 - Enver Hoxha, dictator of Albania (d. 1985) * October 19 - Sydney MacEwan, Scottish singer (d. 1990) **Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981) * November 2 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983) *November 12 - Harry Blackmun, American Judge (d. 1999) *November 18 - Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001) * November 20 - Alistair Cooke, English journalist and broadcaster (d. 2004) * November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born anthropologist * December 6 - Pierre Graber, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2003) * December 10 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (d. 1992) * December 11 - Elliot Carter, American composer * December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter == 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) *July 5 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833) *July 20 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835) *August 25 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist (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, American socialite (b. 1830) *November 14 - Guangxu Emperor of China of China (b. 1871) *November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835) == Nobel Prize == * Nobel Prize/Physics - Gabriel Lippmann * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich * Nobel Prize in literature - Rudolf Christoph Eucken * Nobel Prize/Peace - Klas Pontus Arnoldson Fredrik Bajer 1908 la:1908 os:1908 se:1908 sq:1908 scn:1908 simple:1908
The year in topic layout on this page is one of three versions. I seek opinions before making them all the same; see comment on my talk page User:BozMoUser Talk:BozMo Hey, I don't know anything about it, but the Jan 21st entry (Sullivan Ordinance) struck interest with me-- casual Googling brought up an ordinance (dated the 20th or 21st, depending on source) that has to do with restricting women, not aliens, smoking in public. Not sure if they were together in the ordinance or if one of us is wrong; does anyone know more about this?
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1908
1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1905 1906 1907 - 1908 - 1909 1910 1911 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} == Events == ===January-February=== * 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 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, 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 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 ===April-June=== * April 7 - Herbert Henry Asquith takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman * April 14 - In Denmark, suffrage of every tax-paying citizen * April 21 - Friedrich A Cook's claimed date to have reached North Pole * April 27 - The 1908 Summer Olympics open in London. * May 10 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virgina). * May 26 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Iran, 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 event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs in Siberia. 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1905 1906 1907 - 1908 - 1909 1910 1911 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} == Events == ===January-February=== * 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 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, 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 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 ===April-June=== * April 7 - Herbert Henry Asquith takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman * April 14 - In Denmark, suffrage of every tax-paying citizen * April 21 - Friedrich A Cook's claimed date to have reached North Pole * April 27 - The 1908 Summer Olympics open in London. * May 10 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virgina). * May 26 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Iran, 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 event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs in Siberia. ===July-December=== * July 6 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic Geographic North Pole. * July 11-July 12 night - Explosion of a ship ''Amalthea bombing'' in the Malmö harbor in Sweden, housing 80 British strikebreakers. 1 dead, 20 injured. * 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). * October 5 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar * December 28 - An 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys Messina, Italy, Sicily and rocks Calabria killing over 75,000. * November - William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election, 1908 * November 13 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia. ===unknown dates=== * First Zionism colony in Palestine (region) * British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage * Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected mayor (of Aldeburgh) * Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Leopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony * Denmark minister of Justice, Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzling * The Children's Encyclopedia * Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of Federal Bureau of Investigation, founded * Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks * Isak Saba, the first Sami people in the Norway 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) *Henry Ford produces its first Ford Model T automobile. *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 oil deposits near the Iran city of Abadan. *Abdelaziz of Morocco, sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abdelhafid of Morocco. * The Young Turks rebel and force sultan Abd al-Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876. * The University of the Philippines was founded at Manila. * The University of Alberta was founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. == Births == ===January=== * January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (d. 1986) * January 12 - Jean Delannoy, French film director * January 14 - Rus Columbo, singer, bandleader, and composer * January 15 - Edward Teller, American physicist (d. 2003) * January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist (d. 1968) * January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (d. 1997) * January 27 - Oran Page, American jazz musician (d. 1954) ===February=== * February 1 - George Pál, Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980) * February 5 - Hilton twins, English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969) * February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987) * February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer * February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (d. 1999) * February 11 - Josh White, musician * February 15 - HAP Grieshaber, artist (d. 1981) * 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, Polish-French painter (d. 2001) * February 29 - 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 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 23 - Joan Crawford, American actor (d. 1977) * March 25 - Helmut Kautner, German actor and film 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 7 - Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976) * April 15 - Eden Ahbez, American hippie musician (d. 1995) * April 20 - Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 2002) * April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965) ===May=== * May 5 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989) * May 7 - Max Grundig, industrialist (d. 1989) * May 8 - Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer (d. 1974) * May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982) * May 20 - James Stewart (actor), American actor (d. 1997) * May 23 - John Bardeen, American physicist (d. 1991) * May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963) * May 28 - Ian Fleming, English writer (d. 1964) * 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 24 - Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942) * June 29 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975) * 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, Australian Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967) * August 20 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager * August 27 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001) **Lyndon Johnson, American 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, Soviet mathematician (d. 1988) * September 6 - Louis Essen, English physicist (d. 1997) **Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982) * September 7 - Paul Brown, American football coach (d. 1991) **Michael E. DeBakey, American physician * September 13 - Mae Questel, American actress (d. 1998) * September 29 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967) * September 30 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinst (d. 1974) ===October-December=== * October 14 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992) * October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist * October 16 - Enver Hoxha, dictator of Albania (d. 1985) * October 19 - Sydney MacEwan, Scottish singer (d. 1990) **Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981) * November 2 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983) *November 12 - Harry Blackmun, American Judge (d. 1999) *November 18 - Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001) * November 20 - Alistair Cooke, English journalist and broadcaster (d. 2004) * November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born anthropologist * December 6 - Pierre Graber, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2003) * December 10 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (d. 1992) * December 11 - Elliot Carter, American composer * December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter == 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) *July 5 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833) *July 20 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835) *August 25 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist (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, American socialite (b. 1830) *November 14 - Guangxu Emperor of China of China (b. 1871) *November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835) == Nobel Prize == * Nobel Prize/Physics - Gabriel Lippmann * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich * Nobel Prize in literature - Rudolf Christoph Eucken * Nobel Prize/Peace - Klas Pontus Arnoldson Fredrik Bajer 1908 ===unknown dates=== * First Zionism colony in Palestine (region) * British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage * Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected mayor (of Aldeburgh) * Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Leopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony * Denmark minister of Justice, Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzling * The Children's Encyclopedia * Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of Federal Bureau of Investigation, founded * Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks * Isak Saba, the first Sami people in the Norway 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) *Henry Ford produces its first Ford Model T automobile. *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 oil deposits near the Iran city of Abadan. *Abdelaziz of Morocco, sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abdelhafid of Morocco. * The Young Turks rebel and force sultan Abd al-Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876. * The University of the Philippines was founded at Manila. * The University of Alberta was founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. == Births == ===January=== * January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (d. 1986) * January 12 - Jean Delannoy, French film director * January 14 - Rus Columbo, singer, bandleader, and composer * January 15 - Edward Teller, American physicist (d. 2003) * January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist (d. 1968) * January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (d. 1997) * January 27 - Oran Page, American jazz musician (d. 1954) ===February=== * February 1 - George Pál, Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980) * February 5 - Hilton twins, English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969) * February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987) * February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer * February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (d. 1999) * February 11 - Josh White, musician * February 15 - HAP Grieshaber, artist (d. 1981) * 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, Polish-French painter (d. 2001) * February 29 - 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 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 23 - Joan Crawford, American actor (d. 1977) * March 25 - Helmut Kautner, German actor and film 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 7 - Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976) * April 15 - Eden Ahbez, American hippie musician (d. 1995) * April 20 - Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 2002) * April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965) ===May=== * May 5 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989) * May 7 - Max Grundig, industrialist (d. 1989) * May 8 - Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer (d. 1974) * May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982) * May 20 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor (d. 1997) * May 23 - John Bardeen, American physicist (d. 1991) * May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963) * May 28 - Ian Fleming, English writer (d. 1964) * 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 24 - Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942) * June 29 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975) * July 12 - Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002) * July 25 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987) ===August-September=== * August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994) * August 5 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967) * August 20 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager * August 27 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001) **Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973) * August 28 - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, artist, and educator (d. 1996) * August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine-Italian artist (d. 1996) * September 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1988) * September 6 - Louis Essen, English physicist (d. 1997) **Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982) * September 7 - Paul Brown, American football coach (d. 1991) **Michael E. DeBakey, American physician * September 29 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967) * September 30 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinst (d. 1974) ===October-December=== * October 14 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992) * October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist * October 16 - Enver Hoxha, dictator of Albania (d. 1985) * October 19 - Sydney MacEwan, Scottish singer (d. 1990) **Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981) * November 2 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983) *November 12 - Harry Blackmun, American Judge (d. 1999) *November 18 - Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001) * November 20 - Alistair Cooke, English journalist and broadcaster (d. 2004) * November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born anthropologist * December 6 - Pierre Graber, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2003) * December 10 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (d. 1992) * December 11 - Elliot Carter, American composer * December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter == 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) *July 5 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833) *July 20 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835) *August 25 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist (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, American socialite (b. 1830) *November 14 - Guangxu Emperor of China of China (b. 1871) *November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835) == Nobel Prize == * Nobel Prize/Physics - Gabriel Lippmann * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich * Nobel Prize in literature - Rudolf Christoph Eucken * Nobel Prize/Peace - Klas Pontus Arnoldson Fredrik Bajer 1908 la:1908 os:1908 se:1908 sq:1908 scn:1908 simple:1908
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The year in topic layout on this page is one of three versions. I seek opinions before making them all the same; see comment on my talk page User:BozMoUser Talk:BozMo Hey, I don't know anything about it, but the Jan 21st entry (Sullivan Ordinance) struck interest with me-- casual Googling brought up an ordinance (dated the 20th or 21st, depending on source) that has to do with restricting women, not aliens, smoking in public. Not sure if they were together in the ordinance or if one of us is wrong; does anyone know more about this?
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