* 1908 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster ( d. 1994 )

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1908 – Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer

* 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )

* 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician ( d. 1997 )

* 1908 – Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer ( d. 2001 )

* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )

* 1908 – Kurt Wegner, German artist ( d. 1985 )

* 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player ( d. 1997 )

* 1908 – Will Lee, American actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter ( d. 1941 )

* 1908 – Gene Raymond, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1908 – The Territorial Force ( renamed Territorial Army in 1920 ) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.

* 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )

* 1979 – Barbara Luddy, American actress ( b. 1908 )

* 2001 – Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player ( b. 1908 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.

* 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American politician and jurist, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( d. 1990 )

* 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.

* 1908 – Ray Ventura, French bandleader ( d. 1979 )

* 1871 – Guangxu Emperor of China ( d. 1908 )

* 1908 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor ( d. 1984 )

* 1844 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician ( d. 1908 )

At first the predictions of Einstein's formula were seemingly refuted by a series of experiments by Svedberg in 1906 and 1907, which gave displacements of the particles as 4 to 6 times the predicted value, and by Henri in 1908 who found displacements 3 times greater than Einstein's formula predicted.

At the same time, in October 1908, Austria-Hungary seized the opportunity of the Ottoman political upheaval to annex the de jure Ottoman province of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878 ( see Bosnian Crisis ), and Bulgaria declared itself a fully independent kingdom.

At the same time, the first Romanian language newspapers and journals began to appear: Basarabia ( 1906 ), Viața Basarabiei ( 1907 ), Moldovanul ( 1907 ), Luminătorul ( 1908 ), Cuvînt moldovenesc ( 1913 ), Glasul Basarabiei ( 1913 ).

At the 1914 Olympic Congress, the delegates agreed to include ice speed skating in the 1916 Olympics, after figure skating had featured in the 1908 Olympics.

At the end of his second term, Roosevelt promoted his friend William Howard Taft for the 1908 Republican nomination.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1908.

* French — Fourest, Georges: " The Blonde Negress " ( 1909 ); Klingsor, Tristan: " By Moonlight " ( 1908 ), " At the Fountain " ( 1913 ); Magre, Maurice: " The Two Pierrots " ( 1913 ); Rouault, Georges: Funambules ( 1926 ).

At the age of 10 and seeing 1908 Circuit di Bologna, he decided to become a driver of race cars.

At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion ( 1908 – 1915 ).

At the Annual Conference of 1908 at Des Moines, Iowa, the name was officially changed to the Church of the Brethren.

At the November 3, 1908, general election, a vote was held in Ward County on whether to recreate Mountrail with different boundaries.

At about 4: 10 p. m. on April 24, 1908, the city was virtually wiped out by a tornado that became commonly called " The Great Cyclone ," or " The Cyclone of 1908.

At 10: 55 a. m. on the morning of Saturday, November 28, 1908, an explosion occurred in the mine which killed 154 men and left only one survivor.

In 1905, William Randolph Hearst purchased the magazine for US $ 400, 000 ( approximately $ 11, 000, 000 in 2007 prices ) and brought in journalist Charles Edward Russell, who contributed a series of investigative articles, including " The Growth of Caste in America " ( March 1907 ), " At the Throat of the Republic " ( December 1907-March 1908 ) and " What Are You Going to Do About It?

At a sale in 1908 more than 5, 000 standing kauri trees, totalling about 20, 000, 000 superficial feet ( 47, 000 m³ ), were sold for less than ₤ 2 per tree (₤ 2 in 1908 equates to around NZ $ 100 in 2003 ).

At the 1908 meeting of the American Archaeological Society in St. Louis, Missouri, a New Orleans police official named John Raymond Legrasse asked the assembled antiquarians to identify a statuette composed of an unidentifiable greenish-black stone, that " had been captured some months before in the wooded swamps south of New Orleans during a raid on a supposed voodoo meeting.

At the time of writing he was probably carrying a 9x19mm Parabellum Luger P08 pistol, but switched to a. 380 ACP Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless, then to a. 38 Special Smith & Wesson Model 10.

At the subsequent General Assembly ( held in October 1908 at Pilot Point, Texas ), which saw the merger with the Holiness Church of Christ, which was subsequently regarded as the natal date of the denomination, the 1907 decision was upheld.

At some point before his death in 1889, Handy recorded the recipe for the cocktail, and the drink made its first printed appearance in William T. " Cocktail Bill " Boothby's 1908 The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them.

At 612 feet ( 187 m ) above grade, the Singer Building was the tallest office building in the world from its completion in 1908 until the completion in 1909 of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

At the Indépendants in 1905, his paintings were already regarded as in the Neo-Impressionist tradition by contemporary critics, and he apparently continued to paint in large mosaic strokes until some time in 1908.

At the Indépendants in 1905, his paintings were already regarded as in the Neo-Impressionist tradition by contemporary critics, and he apparently continued to paint in large mosaic strokes until some time in 1908.