1908 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1908?
- January 12, 1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- January 13, 1908 – The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- January 15, 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women.
- January 28, 1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
- 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.
- April 1, 1908 – The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
- 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.
- April 20, 1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- May 20, 1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
- June 18, 1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
- June 30, 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
- 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.
- August 17, 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris.
- September 26, 1908 – Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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