1908 Calendar
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1908 Historical Event(s)
January 28, 1908
– Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
February 2, 1908
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
March 23, 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.
May 26, 1908
– 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 Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
June 18, 1908
– Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
July 19, 1908
– Dutch football club Feyenoord was founded
July 26, 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).
August 8, 1908
– Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
October 6, 1908
– Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
October 14, 1908
– The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
Who Were Born On 1908?
January 11, 1908
– Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
February 29, 1908
– Dee Brown, American writer (d. 2002)
March 2, 1908
– Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
May 23, 1908
– Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (d. 1934)
July 22, 1908
– Amy Vanderbilt, American etiquette authority (d. 1974)
July 25, 1908
– Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
September 5, 1908
– Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
October 15, 1908
– John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born US economist (d. 2006)
November 26, 1908
– Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
December 29, 1908
– Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993)