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1908 Calendar

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•  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 1, 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
•  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.
•  April 7, 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
•  August 17, 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris.
•  September 22, 1908 – The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
•  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.

•  March 22, 1908 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
•  March 25, 1908 – Sir David Lean, English film director (d. 1991)
•  April 1, 1908 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
•  May 22, 1908 – Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
•  June 15, 1908 – Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
•  August 5, 1908 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
•  September 13, 1908 – Sicco Mansholt, Dutch statesmand (d.1995)
•  October 15, 1908 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born US economist (d. 2006)
•  November 28, 1908 – Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician (d. 1997)
•  December 14, 1908 – Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer (d. 2001)