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January
January 11: Grand Canyon designated as a monument, and later, in 1919, becomes a National Park.
January 11: Grand Canyon designated as a monument, and later, in 1919, becomes a National Park.
January 24: Boy Scout movement.
January 24: Boy Scout movement.
* January 1
o British Harry Bensley leaves for his would-be trip around the world pushing a pram and wearing an iron mask, beginning from the Trafalgar Square
o A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time.
* January 11 - Grand Canyon National Monument is designated (becomes a National Park in February 1919).
* January 12 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
* January 13 - 170 people were trapped in the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, and burned to death. The tragedy would be a catalyst for stricter fire safety laws nationwide.
* 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 women to smoke in public, only to be vetoed by the mayor.
* January 24 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
[edit] February
* February 1 - King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
* February 3 - Greek multisport club Panathinaikos is founded.
* February 11 - Australia regains The Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
* February 12
o Start of the first around-the-world car race, the 1908 New York to Paris Race.
o De Meester's Dutch government leaves office.
* February 18 - Japanese immigration to the USA is forbidden.
* February 25 - Los Angeles. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University) founded.
[edit] March
* March 4 - The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
* March 7 - The University of British Columbia is established by the British Columbia University Act.
* March 9 - Internazionale Football Club founded in Milan, Italy.
* March 21 - Frenchman Henri Farman pilots the first passenger flight.
* March 25 - Clube Atlético Mineiro founded in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
* March 27 - First overseas Scout Troop formed in Gibraltar.
[edit] April
* April 8 - Harvard University votes to establish Harvard Business School.
* April 19 - The Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, designed by Jens Jensen, opens to the public for the first time.
* April 20 - Sunshine train disaster in Melbourne,Australia. Two trains collide killing 44 people and injuring more than 400 (over 100 seriously).[1]
* April 21 - Frederick Cook's claimed date to have reached North Pole
* April 24 - The seventh deadliest tornado in U.S. history strikes the towns of Amite, Louisiana, Pine, Louisiana and Purvis, Mississippi, killing 143 people and injuring 770.
* April 27 - The opening ceremony of the London Olympics is held.
[edit] May
* May 10 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia).
* May 24 - Empire Day is accepted as the traditional formation date of the 1st Arundel (Earl of Arundel's) Own Scout Group, although Scouting was probably active in Arundel prior to this date.
* May 26 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil discovery in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
[edit] June
Evidence of the Tunguska event (June 30). Photo taken 19 years later.
Evidence of the Tunguska event (June 30). Photo taken 19 years later.
* June 18 - The University of the Philippines System is founded.
* June 20 - The Georgia Tech Alumni Association is chartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
* June 30 - The Tunguska event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire.
[edit] July
* July 3 - Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Major Ahmed Niyazi, with 200 followers (Ottoman troops and civilians), begins open revolution by defecting from the 3rd Army Corps in Macedonia, decamping into the hill country.
* July 6 - Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole.
* July 11-12 night - Steamship Amalthea, housing 80 British strikebreakers while in Malmö harbour, Sweden, bombed by Anton Nilson. 1 dead, 20 injured.
* July 19 - Feyenoord Rotterdam football club founded.
* July 22 - Automobile manufacturing company Fisher Body founded.
* July 23 - Young Turk Revolution: The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) issues a formal ultimatum to Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the constitution of 1876, within the Ottoman Empire.
* July 24 - Young Turk Revolution: Abdul Hamid II announces the restoration of the Ottoman Empire's constitution.
* July 24 - Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon in London in one of the most dramatic arrivals of the Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards.
* July 26 - 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).
[edit] August
* August 24 - After an intense power struggle, Abd al-Aziz IV, sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafiz. (Date of proclamation)
* August 31 - Charter granted for Wayland Literary and Technical Institute in Plainview, Texas, now Wayland Baptist University.
[edit] September
* September 8 - Danish minister of Justice, Peter Adler Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzler.
* September 16 - William C. Durant founds the company which will eventually become General Motors.
* September 17 - At Ft Myer, Virginia, Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash. The pilot, Orville Wright, is severely injured in the crash but recovers.
* September 23 - The University of Alberta is founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
* September 27 - Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.
[edit] October
* October 5 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar
* October 6 - The Bosnian Crisis begins after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.
* October 13 - The Church of the Nazarene is organised officially at Pilot Point, Texas as the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. This is the official "birthday" of the denomination.
[edit] November
* November 3 - William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election
* November 6 - Western bandits Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia, after being surrounded by a large group of soldiers. There are many rumors to the contrary however, and their grave sites are unmarked.
* November 13 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia.
* November 14 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected mayor (of Aldeburgh)
* November 24 - The first credit union in the United States begins operation in Manchester, New Hampshire.
* November 29 - Iraklis Thessaloniki, the historic Greek sports club is founded, named after the mythical Greek hero Hercules.
[edit] December
* December 2 - Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two.
* December 28 - A 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys Messina, Sicily and rocks Calabria killing over 75,000 people.
[edit] Undated
* British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage.
* Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Léopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony.
* The Children's Encyclopedia is first published.
* Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, is founded.
* Blackball, New Zealand coal miners strike for 11 weeks, an important step in the formation of the New Zealand Labour Party.
* Henri Matisse opens his own art academy.
* A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.
* The Child Labour Act of Ontario is passed.
* The Irish Universities Act, 1908 is passed and creates the National University of Ireland at Dublin and the Queen's University of Belfast.
* First Ideal Home Exhibition held.
* The Manila Business School was made into national school since the majority of its student came from different parts of the Philippines; renaming as the Philippine School of Commerce; which later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
* The University of the Philippines is founded at Manila.
* First year of rugby league in Australia.
* American Temperance University closes.
* Club Union becomes Chivas de Guadalajara.
* Vimto is invented by John Noel Nichols. Originally sold under the name Vimtonic, Nichols shortened it to Vimto in 1912.
Ongoing
* Black Patch Tobacco Wars
