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.
- February 2, 1908 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- April 1, 1908 – The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- June 18, 1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
- July 19, 1908 – Dutch football club Feyenoord was founded
- July 23, 1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
- 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 8, 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
- September 26, 1908 – Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 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.
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