1908 Calendar
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1908 Historical Event(s)
January 12, 1908
– A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
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.
February 2, 1908
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
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.
October 1, 1908
– Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
November 7, 1908
– Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
November 22, 1908
– The Congress of Monastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
November 30, 1908
– A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
Who Were Born On 1908?
January 27, 1908
– Oran Page, American musician (jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader) (d. 1954)
March 22, 1908
– Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
April 11, 1908
– Leo Rosten, American humorist and author (d. 1997)
May 22, 1908
– Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
August 28, 1908
– Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist (d. 1996)
September 10, 1908
– Raymond Scott, American composer (d. 1994)
September 29, 1908
– Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
September 30, 1908
– David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
October 9, 1908
– Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
December 14, 1908
– Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer (d. 2001)