1908

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1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Marriages
5 Nobel prizes

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Events

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January-February

January 1 - British Harry Bensley leaves for his would-be trip around the world pushing a pram and wearing an iron mask, beginning from the Trafalgar Square
January 1 - A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time
January 8 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
January 11 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created
January 12 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
January 15 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for Black college women is established.
January 21 - New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for aliens to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
January 24 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement
February 1 - King Carlos I of Portugal and Crown Prince Luis shot in Lisbon
February 11 - Australia regain The Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
February 18 - Japanese immigration to USA forbidden
February 25 - Los Angeles. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University) founded.

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April-June

April 21 - Friedrich A Cook's claimed date to have reached North Pole
May 10 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia).
May 26 - At Masjid-al-Salaman 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 United Kingdom.
June 30 - The Tunguska impact event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs in Siberia.

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July-December

July 6 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic North Pole.
July 11-12 night - Explosion of a ship Amalthea in the Malmö harbor in Sweden, housing 80 British strikebreakers. 1 dead, 20 injured.
July 13 - Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.
July 19 - Feyenoord Rotterdam was founded.
July 22 - Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and automobile bodies.
July 26 - 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 15 - Winston Churchill is ordained as a Druid in England.
August 24 - After an intense power struggle, Abd al-Aziz IV, sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafiz. (Date of proclamation)
September 8 - Danish minister of Justice, Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzler
September 23 - The University of Alberta is founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
September 27 - Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.
October 5 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar
October 14 - The Chicago Cubs win the World Series by defeating the Detroit Tigers 2-0 in the fifth game. They haven't won the World Series since.
November 3 - William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election
November 6 - Western bandits Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia, after being surrounded by a large group of Mexican soldiers. There are many rumours to the contrary however, and the grave sites are unmarked.
November 13 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia.
November 14 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected mayor (of Aldeburgh)
December 5 - Sunderland F.C. set a record for an away victory when they humiliate local rivals Newcastle United 9:1 at St. James Park.
December 28 - An 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys Messina, Sicily and rocks Calabria killing over 75,000.

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unknown dates

First Zionist colony in Palestine
British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage
Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Léopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony
The Children's Encyclopedia first published
Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of FBI, founded
Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks
Isak Saba, the first Sami in the Norwegian parliament
Henri Matisse open his own art academy
Serial killer Belle Guinness disappears in Laporte
Young Turks revolution in the Ottoman Empire
Change of Emperor of Qing Dynasty from Guangxu Emperor of China (1875-1908) to Henry Puyi (1909-1911)
A 40,000-year-old Neandertal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.
The Child Labour Act of Ontario is passed.
The Irish Universities Act, 1908 is passed and creates the National University of Ireland at Dublin and the Queen's University of Belfast.
First Ideal Home Exhibition held.
De Meester's Dutch government resigns.
Discovery of oil deposits near the Persian city of Abadan.
The Young Turks rebel and force sultan Abd al-Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876.
The University of the Philippines is founded at Manila.
First year of Rugby League in Australia
American Temperance University closes.
Panathinaikos, the Athenian sports club, is founded.