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 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 21, 1908 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
- 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 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 7, 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- April 11, 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
- July 1, 1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
- 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.
- July 26, 1908 – 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).
- August 17, 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris.
- September 23, 1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
- 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 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 30, 1908 – A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
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