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* 1908 – The Territorial Force ( renamed Territorial Army in 1920 ) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
* 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American politician and jurist, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( d. 1990 )
1908 and Eve
Having spent two years ( 1907 – 1909 ) sailing around the Red Sea, Ceylon and South Africa, Taube began his career as a singer-songwriter and collector of sailors ' songs, and on Christmas Eve 1908, on board the Norwegian ship SS Bergen headed for Spain, he performed " Turalleri, piken fra Hamburg ".
He is notable in the history of movie censorship for canceling all moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908, claiming that the new medium degraded the morals of the community and that celluloid film was an unacceptable fire hazard.
From 1908 to 1958 the club held a series of public fancy dress balls at the Albert Hall, latterly on New Year's Eve, which raised funds for artists ' charities, but they ceased owing to their notoriety and rowdiness, and private functions with lavish decorations and themes were held at the club instead.
The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 in New York City, just 13 years after the birth of cinema, to protest New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr .' s revocation of moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908.
He married 1971 Eve Lucinda Fleming ( b. 15 May 1947 ), better known as the actress Lucy Fleming, younger daughter of Peter Fleming, otherwise Lt. Col. ( Robert ) Peter Fleming, OBE ( 1907 – 1971 ) by his wife Dame Celia Johnson, actress ( 1908 – 1982 ).
1908 and Arden
From 1908 until 1915 while living in Arden, Delaware, Nearing himself taught economics and sociology at the Wharton School and Swarthmore College, authoring a stream of books on the economics and social problems.
1908 and American
The Red Sox logo worn on uniforms in 1908, announcing the team's first official nicknameIn, the upstart American League established a competing club in Boston.
For 1908, the National League club returned to wearing red trim, but the American League team finally had an official nickname, and would remain the " Red Sox " for good.
* Moses H. Cone ( 1857 – 1908 ), an American textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers ( AIChE ), established in 1908, played a key role in making chemical engineering considered an independent science, and unit operations central to chemical engineering.
However, the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908 ; this remains the longest championship drought in North American professional sports.
Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.
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