Important Historical Events of the year 1908, Year 1908 in History
List of 1908 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1908
What happened in the year 1908?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 11, 1908 | Grand Canyon National Monument is created. |
| 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. |
| January 21, 1908 | New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor. |
| January 24, 1908 | The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell. |
| 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. |
| January 30, 1908 | Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month. |
| February 1, 1908 | Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon. |
| March 4, 1908 | The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people. |
| March 9, 1908 | Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan. |
| April 1, 1908 | The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army. |
| April 8, 1908 | Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School. |
| April 11, 1908 | SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched. |
| April 14, 1908 | Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m) high downstream. |
| April 16, 1908 | Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah. |
| May 10, 1908 | Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia. |
| May 26, 1908 | The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were 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. |
| June 18, 1908 | The University of the Philippines is established. |
| June 30, 1908 | The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia. |
| July 1, 1908 | SOS is adopted as the international distress signal. |
| July 23, 1908 | The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans. |
| July 25, 1908 | Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. |
| 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. |
| August 27, 1908 | The Qing dynasty promulgates the Qinding Xianfa Dagang, the first constitutional document in the history of China, transforming the Qing empire into a constitutional monarchy. |
| September 16, 1908 | The General Motors Corporation is founded. |
| September 17, 1908 | The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality. |
| September 27, 1908 | Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit. |
| October 1, 1908 | Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825. |
| October 6, 1908 | The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| October 13, 1908 | Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there. |
| October 14, 1908 | The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series. |
| November 3, 1908 | William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States. |
| November 22, 1908 | The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet. |
| November 25, 1908 | A fire breaks out on SS Sardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people. |
| November 28, 1908 | A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor. |
| December 2, 1908 | Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two. |
| December 28, 1908 | The 7.1 Mw Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000. |