1908

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1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• January 1 – 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 created.
• 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 aliens to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
• January 24 – Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
• February 1 – King Carlos I of Portugal and Crown Prince Luis are shot in Lisbon.
• February 11 – Australia regain The Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
• February 18 – Japanese immigration to USA forbidden.
• Philippe's, a restaurant opens in Los Angeles.
• St. Albans City F.C. founded.
• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian biologist, and Paul Ehrlich, Germany, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• August 11 - British hung up the Kshudiram Bose

Births

• February 23 – William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia
• May 31 – Don Ameche, American actor, (d. 1993)
• August 27 - Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
• Oskar Schindler, lucrative business man (d. 1974)

Deaths

• August 11 - Kshuridam Bose, Indian patriot against British Raj (b. 1889)nv:1901 – 1950