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* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
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* 1871 – Guangxu Emperor of China ( d. 1908 )
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* 1844 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician ( d. 1908 )
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* Moses H. Cone ( 1857 – 1908 ), an American textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist
By 1908, James Dewar and H. Kamerlingh Onnes were successfully able to liquify hydrogen and then newly-discovered helium, respectively.
* " Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants ", by G. K. Chesterton, from his book Heretics ( 1908 ).
Scarlet Traces is intended as a sequel to H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds and centres on a counter-invasion of Mars, beginning about 1908 and continuing over the next three decades.
* John H. McCarthy ( 1850 – 1908 ), U. S. Representative from New York
In 1908, H. H.
D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ), author, lived at 12 Colworth Road, Addiscombe from 1908 to 1912 and was a teacher at Davidson Road School for some time.
The theatre was designed by Cecil Aubrey Masey and Roy Young ( possibly following a 1908 design by Frank H Jones ).
The present courthouse in Jackson was completed in 1908 and was designed by P. H.
* T. H. Harris, pioneer educator and state education superintendent from 1908 to 1940, was born in the Arizona community in Claiborne Parish in 1869, the son of a Baptist minister.
* T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education ( 1908 – 1940 ), educated at the former Homer College in the late 19th century
In the late 19th century Lisbon was the location of the former Lisbon Academy, attended for a brief time by T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education from 1908 to 1940.
* T. H. Harris, state education superintendent from 1908 – 1940, was principal of St. Landry High School in Opelousas prior to 1900.
Former U. S. Representative James H. Morrison, who held Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat from 1943 to 1967, was born in 1908 in Hammond.
Of particular note are the Lancaster Building designed by E. B. Blaisdell and built in 1895, Trinity Episcopal Church designed by H. J. Hardenbergh and built in 1908, and the York Harbor Reading Room designed by James Purdon and built in 1910.
Holst Township was named after a Norwegian pioneer farmer, H. J. Hoist, who from 1904 to 1908 was the county sheriff.
* Robert H. McCarter ( 1859 – 1941 ), New Jersey Attorney General from 1903 to 1908.
Author Frances H. Burnett built her home, Fairseat, in Plandome Park in 1908, and lived there until her death in 1924.
The village of Bexley was incorporated in 1908 when prominent citizens of Bullitt Park along Alum Creek, including industrialist and former Mayor of Columbus Robert H. Jeffrey, agreed to merge with the Lutheran community of Pleasant Ridge near Capital University and the Lutheran seminary.
Dante was founded in 1908 but was originally called Mayo, after H. T.
In 1908 or 1909, a town site was surveyed by C. F. H.
In 1908, the IWW launched a campaign led by James H. Walsh with the slogan " Don't Buy Jobs " in the streets around the Spokane employment agencies.
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