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.
- 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.
- April 16, 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
- 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.
- June 18, 1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
- 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 16, 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
- September 23, 1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
- September 27, 1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
- 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.
- 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.
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