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Events on the year of 1908 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1908 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
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01 Jan 1908 Jack Hobbs makes his Test debut at the MCG (83 & 28)
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01 Jan 1908 For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
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02 Jan 1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
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07 Jan 1908 England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
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09 Jan 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as Premier of Belgium
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09 Jan 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
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11 Jan 1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
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12 Jan 1908 A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
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13 Jan 1908 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games
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13 Jan 1908 The Rhoads Opera House Fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
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13 Jan 1908 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip
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13 Jan 1908 Montr
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14 Jan 1908 Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut vs England Adelaide (116)
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15 Jan 1908 The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
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15 Jan 1908 C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wicket partnership 243 for Australia
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16 Jan 1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established
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18 Jan 1908 Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair" premieres
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21 Jan 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.
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21 Jan 1908 New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
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21 Jan 1908 August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten" premieres in Stockholm
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23 Jan 1908 US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
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24 Jan 1908 The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
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24 Jan 1908 General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
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25 Jan 1908 John Blocks' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
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27 Jan 1908 Pasipha
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28 Jan 1908 Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
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29 Jan 1908 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
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30 Jan 1908 Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
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01 Feb 1908 King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon.
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03 Feb 1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
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03 Feb 1908 The Panathinaikos athletic club is created
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07 Feb 1908 Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St. Louis Browns for $5,000
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10 Feb 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
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11 Feb 1908 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
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11 Feb 1908 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
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12 Feb 1908 Anna Jeanes bequeathes $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
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12 Feb 1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
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18 Feb 1908 1st US postage stamps in coils issued
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25 Feb 1908 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
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27 Feb 1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
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27 Feb 1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
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28 Feb 1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
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29 Feb 1908 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
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04 Mar 1908 Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die
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04 Mar 1908 The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
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05 Mar 1908 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
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07 Mar 1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
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08 Mar 1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers
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08 Mar 1908 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York
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09 Mar 1908 Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
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12 Mar 1908 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
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14 Mar 1908 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4
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14 Mar 1908 Stanley Cup: Montr
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15 Mar 1908 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
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17 Mar 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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17 Mar 1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds)
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23 Mar 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.
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01 Apr 1908 The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
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02 Apr 1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
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03 Apr 1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hours
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05 Apr 1908 British Premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
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07 Apr 1908 H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
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08 Apr 1908 Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British Premier
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08 Apr 1908 Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
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11 Apr 1908 SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches.
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12 Apr 1908 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
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13 Apr 1908 Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's & Phillies)
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16 Apr 1908 Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
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16 Apr 1908 Natural Bridges National Monument established (Lake Powell UT)
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18 Apr 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 Apr 1908 Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
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20 Apr 1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of New York in 2:25:43.2
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21 Apr 1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
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22 Apr 1908 Queensland beat New South Wales by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba
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23 Apr 1908 Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands & Sweden signs North Sea accord
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24 Apr 1908 Mr and Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard and arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
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24 Apr 1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become the 1st to travel across the US by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32 days-5 hours-25 minutes
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27 Apr 1908 4th modern Olympic games open in London
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05 May 1908 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2
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05 May 1908 Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco
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09 May 1908 Dirk Fock becomes Governor of Suriname
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10 May 1908 Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
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10 May 1908 1st Mother's Day observed (Philadelphia)
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12 May 1908 George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married" premieres in London
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12 May 1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
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14 May 1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
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20 May 1908 Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
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21 May 1908 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
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21 May 1908 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
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23 May 1908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington
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23 May 1908 Dirigible explodes over San Fransisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
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24 May 1908 John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan, " premieres in London
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24 May 1908 Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
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26 May 1908 At Masjed Soleyman 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.
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27 May 1908 Khilafat Day – the day of establishment of Khilafat in Islam Ahmadiyya.
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30 May 1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
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30 May 1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
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30 May 1908 42nd Belmont Stakes: Joe Notter aboard Colin wins
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30 May 1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
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30 May 1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
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31 May 1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
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01 Jun 1908 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
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02 Jun 1908 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
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10 Jun 1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
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12 Jun 1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
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13 Jun 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
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18 Jun 1908 Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
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18 Jun 1908 The University of the Philippines is established.
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24 Jun 1908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)
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24 Jun 1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #663 Gerlinde & #664 Judith
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24 Jun 1908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is
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30 Jun 1908 The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
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30 Jun 1908 Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0
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30 Jun 1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
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01 Jul 1908 SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
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04 Jul 1908 New York Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
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07 Jul 1908 Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
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09 Jul 1908 CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
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13 Jul 1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
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19 Jul 1908 Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
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22 Jul 1908 W Lorenz discovers asteroid #665 Sabine
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23 Jul 1908 The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
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23 Jul 1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #666 Desdemona & #667 Denise
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24 Jul 1908 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
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25 Jul 1908 Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
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26 Jul 1908 Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice
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26 Jul 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).
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26 Jul 1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established
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27 Jul 1908 A Kopff discovers asteroid #668 Dora
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29 Jul 1908 St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics
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30 Jul 1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris
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08 Aug 1908 Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
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13 Aug 1908 Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
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14 Aug 1908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
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17 Aug 1908 Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
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20 Aug 1908 Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
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22 Aug 1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, France, photographer (Decisive Moment)
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24 Aug 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
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25 Aug 1908 National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
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25 Aug 1908 Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race
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27 Aug 1908 Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
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28 Aug 1908 14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club, Massachusetts
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29 Aug 1908 New York gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
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02 Sep 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
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03 Sep 1908 James Barries "What Every Woman Knows, " premieres in London
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04 Sep 1908 Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship
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05 Sep 1908 Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
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09 Sep 1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Virginia
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09 Sep 1908 Russia takes part of Poland
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12 Sep 1908 Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
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16 Sep 1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
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16 Sep 1908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc
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16 Sep 1908 The General Motors Corporation is founded.
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16 Sep 1908 General Motors founded by William C Durant
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17 Sep 1908 The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
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17 Sep 1908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
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18 Sep 1908 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
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18 Sep 1908 Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
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20 Sep 1908 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Philadelphia 1-0
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22 Sep 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
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22 Sep 1908 The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
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23 Sep 1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th & disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant)
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23 Sep 1908 University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
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23 Sep 1908 University of Alberta opens
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24 Sep 1908 Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
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25 Sep 1908 Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw Doubleheader shutout
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26 Sep 1908 the Norwegian football club SK Brann was founded.
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26 Sep 1908 Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader
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27 Sep 1908 The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
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29 Sep 1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
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01 Oct 1908 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)
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01 Oct 1908 Henry Ford introduces Model T car (costs $825)
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01 Oct 1908 Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
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02 Oct 1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
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05 Oct 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
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05 Oct 1908 White Sox Ed Walsh tops Detroit 6-1 for his 40th victory
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06 Oct 1908 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
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06 Oct 1908 Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
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06 Oct 1908 Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
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06 Oct 1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking a crisis.
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07 Oct 1908 Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece
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07 Oct 1908 Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
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08 Oct 1908 New York Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
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10 Oct 1908 Baseball Writers Association, formed
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14 Oct 1908 Baseball Writers Association of America, forms
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14 Oct 1908 Smallest crowd at World Series, 6,210 fans see Cubs beat Tigers
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14 Oct 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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14 Oct 1908 Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 1st 5th World Series rematch
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16 Oct 1908 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux
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18 Oct 1908 Belgium annexes Congo Free State
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20 Oct 1908 King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
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24 Oct 1908 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"
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31 Oct 1908 4th Olympic games end in London
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03 Nov 1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
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04 Nov 1908 Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in New York City
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06 Nov 1908 Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni, " premieres in St. Petersburg
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07 Nov 1908 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
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10 Nov 1908 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
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14 Nov 1908 Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light
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16 Nov 1908 Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
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22 Nov 1908 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda University, 5-0
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25 Nov 1908 Dorando Pietri (It) beats Johnny Hayes (US) in Madison Square Garden marathon by 60 yards
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28 Nov 1908 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pennsylvania
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30 Nov 1908 A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154.
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02 Dec 1908 Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
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05 Dec 1908 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
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11 Dec 1908 Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden" premieres
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16 Dec 1908 1st credit union in US forms (Manchester NH)
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25 Dec 1908 Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns & becomes 1st black heavyweight champion
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26 Dec 1908 Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
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26 Dec 1908 Jackson Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 at Sydney, Australia for heavyweight boxing title
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28 Dec 1908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
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28 Dec 1908 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily, Italy killing over 75,000.
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28 Dec 1908 Messina, Italy struck by an earthquake (nearly 80,000 died)
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29 Dec 1908 Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc
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30 Dec 1908 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers outscore Edmonton, 13-10 in 2 game set
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30 Dec 1908 Stanley Cup: Montr
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