1908

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Events of 1908

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January

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January 11: Grand Canyon designated as a monument.

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January 24: Boy Scout movement.

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
- 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 designated (becomes a National Park in February 1919).
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 women to smoke in public, only to be vetoed by the mayor.
January 24 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.

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February

February 1 - King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
February 11 - Australia regain The Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
February 12 - Start of the first around-the-world car race, from New York to Paris.
February 18 - Japanese immigration to the USA is forbidden.
February 25 - Los Angeles. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University) founded.

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March

March 4 - The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
March 7 - The University of British Columbia is established by the British Columbia University Act.
March 9 - Milan, Italy. Internazionale Football Club founded in Milan
March 21 - Frenchman Henri Farman pilots the first passenger flight.
March 25 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Clube Atlético Mineiro founded in Minas Gerais, today one of biggest clubs in Brazil

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April

April 19 - The Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, designed by Jens Jensen (landscape architect), opens to the public for the first time.
April 21 - Friedrich A Cook's claimed date to have reached North Pole
April 24 - The Amite, Louisiana Pine, Louisiana and Purvis, Mississippi tornado killed 143 and injured 770 people. 7th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
April 27 - The opening ceremony of the London Olympics is held.

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May

May 10 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia).
May 13 - Young Turks start revolution in the Ottoman Empire, and force sultan Abdul Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876.
May 24 - Empire Day is accepted as the traditional formation date of the 1st Arundel (Earl of Arundel's) Own Scout Group, although Scouting was probably active in Arundel prior to this date.
May 26 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil discovery in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.

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June

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Evidence of the Tunguska event that occurred on June 30. This photo was taken years later.

June 20 - The Georgia Tech Alumni Association is chartered in Atlanta, GA
June 30 - The Tunguska event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire.

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July

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 Olympic Games 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 24 - Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon in London in one of the most dramatic arrivals of the Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards.
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).
July 27 - The fourth (IV) Modern Olympic Games opens in London, England.

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August

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)

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September

September 8 - Danish minister of Justice, Peter Adler Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzler
September 17 - Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an aeroplane crash at Ft Myer, Virginia. The plane was flown by Orville Wright who was also severely injured in the crash but recovered.
September 23 - The University of Alberta is founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
September 27 - Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.

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October

October - The Bosnian Crisis begins after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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, their second World Championship win in a row.

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November

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 soldiers. There are many rumors 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)

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December

December 2 - Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two.
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 - A 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys Messina, Sicily and rocks Calabria killing over 75,000.

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Undated

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 is first published.
Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, is founded.
Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks.
Henri Matisse opens his own art academy.
Change of Emperor of Qing Dynasty from Guangxu Emperor of China (1875-190Image:Cool.gif to Henry Puyi (1909-1911).
A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal 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 Manila Business School was made into national school since the majority of its student came from different parts of the Philippines; renaming as the Philippine School of Commerce; which later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
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.
Iraklis, a Greek football club is founded.
Club Union becomes Chivas de Guadalajara.
Vimto is invented by John Noel Nichols. Originally sold under the name Vimtonic, Nichols shortened it to Vimto in 1912.