Today in History for Year 1908

Months in Year 1908: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 191

Jan 1st - 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
Jan 1st - Jack Hobbs makes his Test debut at the MCG (83 & 28)
Jan 2nd - Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
Jan 7th - England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
Jan 9th - Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
Jan 9th - Muir Woods National Monument, California established
Jan 12th - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
Jan 13th - French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip
Jan 13th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games
Jan 13th - Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people.
Jan 14th - Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut v Eng Adelaide (116)
Jan 15th - C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust
Jan 16th - Pinnacles National Monument, California established
Jan 18th - Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres
Jan 21st - August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm
Jan 21st - NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
Jan 23rd - US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
Jan 24th - Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
Jan 25th - John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
Jan 27th - Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte
Jan 29th - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
Feb 1st - King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
Feb 3rd - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
Feb 3rd - Foundation of Panathinaikos in Athens, Greece.
Baseball Legend Connie Mack Feb 7th - Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
Feb 8th - Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth
Feb 10th - Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
Feb 11th - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
Feb 11th - Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
Feb 12th - Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
Feb 12th - NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
Feb 18th - 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
Feb 25th - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
Feb 27th - Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
Feb 27th - Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
Feb 28th - Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
Feb 29th - Dutch scientists produce solid helium
Mar 4th - Collingwood Ohio, US primary school catches fire (180 killed)
Mar 5th - 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
Mar 7th - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
Mar 8th - Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY
Mar 9th - Inter Milan is founded.
Mar 12th - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
Mar 12th - The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
Mar 14th - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4
Mar 15th - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
Mar 17th - Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds)
Mar 17th - Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 23rd - 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.
Mar 25th - Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Apr 2nd - Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
Apr 3rd - Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs
Apr 5th - British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
Apr 8th - Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier
Apr 12th - Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
Apr 13th - Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's & Phillies)
Apr 16th - Natural Bridges National Monument forms (Lake Powell Utah)
Apr 18th - Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
Apr 20th - 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of NY in 2:25:43.2
Apr 20th - Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.
Apr 21st - Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
Apr 22nd - Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba
Apr 23rd - Denmark, Germany, Engld, France, Neth & Sweden signs North Sea accord
Apr 24th - Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
Apr 27th - 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
May 1st - World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama
May 2nd - 1908 "Take me out to the Ball Game registered for copyright.
May 5th - 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2
May 5th - Great White Fleet arrives in SF
May 9th - Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname
May 10th - 1st Mother's Day observed (Phila)
Playwright George Bernard Shaw May 12th - George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married," premieres in London
May 12th - Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
May 14th - 1st passenger flight in an airplane
May 21st - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
May 21st - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
May 23rd - Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
May 23rd - Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash
May 24th - Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
May 24th - John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan," premieres in London
May 26th - 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 United Kingdom.
May 27th - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
May 30th - 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
May 30th - 42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win
May 30th - Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
May 30th - Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
May 30th - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
May 31st - Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
Jun 1st - John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
Jun 2nd - 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
Jun 10th - 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
Jun 12th - Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
Jun 13th - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
Jun 14th - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
Jun 15th - World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam
Jun 18th - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship
Jun 24th - 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)
Jun 30th - Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0
Jun 30th - Giant fireball most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet impacts in Siberia (Tunguska Event)
Jul 4th - NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 513

Jan 1st - Kinue Hitoma, Japan, 800m runner (Oly-silver-1928)
Jan 2nd - Ben Grauer, NYC, newscaster (Big Story)
Jan 2nd - Janis Kepitis, composer
Jan 4th - Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal, Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
Jan 4th - Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian
Jan 5th - George Dolenz, Trieste Italy, actor (Count of Monte Cristo)
Jan 6th - Menahem Avidom, composer
Jan 7th - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
Jan 8th - (Fearless) Mary Nadia Wadia, actress
Jan 8th - William Hartnell, London England, actor (Agitator, Jackpot)
Jan 9th - Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
Jan 10th - Bernard Lee, London, English actor (M in James Bond movies)
Jan 10th - Paul Henreid, Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
Jan 11th - Lionel Stander, NYC, actor (Max-Hart to Hart, Unfaithfully Yours)
Jan 12th - Ben Seijes, Dutch historian (WW II)
Jan 12th - Jose Limon, Mexican/US dancer (I, Odysseus)
Jan 12th - Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
Jan 14th - Carl Esmond, Vienna Austria, actor (Address Unknown, Hitler)
Jan 14th - Ruggiero de Rudolpho Columbo, US singer/actor (Miracle of Women)
Father of the H-bomb Edward Teller (Jan 15th) Jan 15th - Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project), (d. 2003)
Jan 15th - Roberta Bitgood, composer
Jan 16th - Ethel Merman, stage & screen actress (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam)
Jan 16th - Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)
Jan 17th - Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, producer
Jan 17th - Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
Jan 18th - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59)
Jan 18th - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian
Jan 18th - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
Jan 19th - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
Jan 20th - Ian Peebles, cricketer (Scottish leg-spinner, England 1927-31)
Jan 20th - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress/producer (Masquerade)
Jan 20th - Wilfred Conwell Bain, composer
Jan 23rd - Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist
Jan 23rd - Pak Saleman Siswowitono, Javan/Surinamese writer
Actor Paul Henreid (Jan 10th) Jan 25th - Lord Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar)
Jan 25th - W H V "Hopper" Levett, cricket keeper (England in 1 Test in Calcutta)
Jan 26th - Stephane Grappelli, French jazz/violinist
Jan 26th - Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
Jan 27th - William Randolph Hearst Jr, newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing)
Jan 27th - Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
Jan 28th - Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor/director/writer (Fear)
Jan 28th - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
Jan 29th - Adam Clayton Powell, (Rep-D-NY, 1945-70)
Jan 31st - René Simone Mathieu, France, doubles tennis star (Wimbledon 1934)
Feb 1st - Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
Feb 1st - Edward Staempfli, composer
Feb 1st - George Pal, Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons)
Feb 2nd - Anita Garvin, actress (Swiss Miss, Blotto, Charlatan, Hats Off)
Feb 2nd - Cal Tinney, Oklahoma, comedian (Stop Me If You Heard This One)
Feb 2nd - Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, California, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)/actor
Feb 2nd - Pavel Sivic, composer
Feb 2nd - Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer
Feb 2nd - Wes Ferrell, All-Star MLB pitcher (d. 1976)
Feb 3rd - Oddbjorn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
Feb 4th - Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, trumpeter
Feb 4th - Gordon Fraser, Lawrence Mass, newscaster (All Star News)
Feb 5th - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969)
Feb 6th - Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy
Feb 6th - Edward Lansdale, general/model (Quiet American, Ugly American)
Feb 6th - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden
Feb 8th - Grigor Eghiazaryan, composer
Feb 8th - Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, Lord O'Brien of Lothbury, missionary
Feb 8th - Myron McCormick, Albany, actor (Hustler, Jolson Sings Again)
Feb 9th - Jackie Fields, US, featherweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
Feb 10th - Jean Coulthard, composer
Feb 11th - Josh White, rocker
Feb 11th - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist
Feb 11th - Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer (British Antarctic Survey)
Feb 12th - Jacques Herbrand, French logician and mathematician (d. 1931)
Feb 12th - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (d. 1982)
Feb 12th - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1982)
Feb 13th - Gerald Strang, Claresholm Canada, composer
Feb 13th - Pauline Frederick, journalist/correspondent (UN, NBC TV)
Feb 13th - Sulo Nurmela, Finland, 4 X 100K relay skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
Feb 15th - Sidney Gilliat, producer
Feb 15th - Ypk fan der Fear, Frisian writer (Reade Runen)
Feb 15th - Sarto Fournier, Quebec politician (d. 1980)
Feb 17th - Staats Cotsworth, Oak Park IL, actor (Peyton Place)
Feb 17th - Walter L "Red" Barber, Miss, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
Feb 20th - Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)
Feb 20th - Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix
Feb 22nd - John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)
Feb 22nd - Romulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
Feb 23rd - William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
Feb 25th - Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree)
Feb 26th - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
Feb 26th - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007)
Feb 26th - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
Feb 28th - Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
Feb 28th - Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005)
Feb 29th - Alf Gover, cricketer (bowled in 4 Tests for England/famous coach)
Feb 29th - Balthus, painter (Valerie)
Mar 2nd - Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter (Witte Ko)/communist
Mar 2nd - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
Mar 2nd - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
Mar 3rd - Riccardo Nielsen, composer
Mar 4th - Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [NS=Mar 17]
Mar 5th - Rex Harrison, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle)
Mar 5th - Sophie Stewart, Scotland, actress (As You Like It, Under the Red Robe)
Mar 5th - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Sep 12th - Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 74 of 74

Jan 4th - Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70
Jan 9th - Abraham Goldfaden, US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis), dies at 67
Jan 9th - Wilhelm Busch, writer, dies
Jan 10th - Anna S Barbiers, Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65
Jan 14th - Holger Drachmann, writer, dies
Jan 17th - Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
Jan 23rd - Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47
Jan 25th - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
Jan 25th - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
Feb 1st - Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44
Feb 14th - Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer, dies at 72
Feb 23rd - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
Feb 24th - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
Feb 29th - Pat Garrett, U.S. gunslinger
Feb 29th - John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (as Lord Hopetoun)
Mar 11th - Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83
Mar 11th - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
Mar 12th - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
Mar 25th - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
Mar 28th - John Eliot, English meteorology, dies at 68
Apr 4th - Josef Sucher, composer, dies at 64
Apr 5th - Gaetano Coronaro, composer, dies at 55
Apr 11th - Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
Apr 20th - Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85
Apr 22nd - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies
May 12th - Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69
May 23rd - Francois Coppee, French poet, dies
May 24th - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821)
May 26th - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indies theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies at 69
May 31st - C L "Boy" Johnson, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
May 31st - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839)
Jun 2nd - Redvers H Buller, English general, dies at 68
Jun 5th - Luca Fumagalli, composer, dies at 71
Jun 8th - Johan Lindegren, composer, dies at 66
Jun 9th - Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46
Jun 11th - Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45
Jun 14th - Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
Jun 21st - Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64
US President Grover Cleveland (Jun 24th) Jun 24th - Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97), dies at 71
Jul 3rd - Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
Jul 5th - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
Jul 10th - Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer, dies at 78
Jul 10th - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
Jul 14th - William Mason, composer, dies at 79
Jul 18th - Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83
Jul 20th - Federico Chueca, composer, dies at 62
Jul 20th - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835)
Jul 22nd - William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
Jul 24th - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867)
Aug 8th - Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40
Aug 11th - Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
Aug 13th - Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns), dies at 67
Aug 20th - Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64
Physicist/Nobel Laureate Henri Becquerel (Aug 25th) Aug 25th - Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], French physicist, dies at 55
Aug 26th - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)
Sep 3rd - Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Dutch East-Indies), dies
Sep 17th - Thomas E Selfridge, earlier US aviator, 1st to die in an air crash
Sep 20th - Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer, dies at 64
Sep 21st - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist/composer (Spanish Dancer), dies
Sep 29th - Joaquim M Machado de Assis, Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69
Nov 4th - Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies
Nov 8th - Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
Nov 14th - Kwang-siu, emperor of China, dies
Nov 15th - Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies
Nov 15th - Tz'u-hsi (Cixi), empress of China, dies at 73
Nov 16th - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829)
Nov 19th - Albert Dietrich, composer, dies at 79
Nov 20th - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
Nov 27th - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
Dec 22nd - Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44
Dec 23rd - Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72
Dec 23rd - Francois A Gevaert, Belg/Dutch composer (Diable au Moulin), dies at 68
Dec 24th - Francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80
Dec 30th - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)