* 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 – 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 )

The Price house at 7836 Natural Bridge burned in 1908 and was rebuilt in 1909.

Professor Wheeler was curator of invertebrate zoology in the American Museum of Natural History in New York from 1903 to 1908.

* Regan, C. T. ( 1908 ) " A revision of the British and Irish fishes of the genus Coregonus " Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2, 482-490

City sights include the Fitte neighbourhood ( 1930 ), the monument to San Martín, the Palace of Justice, the Teatro Español Theatre ( 1908 ), the Provincial Art Museum ( with paintings by Raúl Soldi, Antonio Berni, Quinquela Martín and other important Argentine painters ) and the Provincial Natural History Museum.

Under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, he and Dr. R. M. Anderson undertook the ethnological survey of the Central Arctic coasts of the shores of North America from 1908 to 1912.

* Hermann Eberhard ( 1852 – 1908 ), a 19th-century German explorer that discovered Giant sloth remains at Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument.

Dr Wilhelm Weinberg ( Stuttgart, December 25, 1862 – Tübingen, November 27, 1937 ) was a German half-Jewish physician and obstetrician-gynecologist, practicing in Stuttgart, who in a 1908 paper ( Jahresheft des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg ( Annals of the Society of the National Natural History in Württemberg ) published in German, expressed the concept that would later come to be known as the Hardy-Weinberg principle.

He delivered an exposition of his ideas in a lecture on January 13, 1908, before the Verein für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg ( Society for the Natural History of the Fatherland in Württemberg ), about six months before Hardy's paper was published in English.

The Lantern Bearers, 1908, oil on canvas on board, created for Collier's magazine, the painting shows Parrish's use of glazes and saturated color in an evocative night scene, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Category: Bridges completed in 1908

* John Bridges ( archer ) ( 1852 – 1925 ), British archer who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Receiving the archives of Henry Chadwick in 1908, Spalding combined these records with his own memories ( and biases ) to write America's National Game ( published 1911 ) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarly account of the history of baseball.

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.

Image: Claude Monet 039. jpg | Palace From Mula, Venice, 1908, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for the State of Alabama's former 1908 statue of the education reformer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.

* 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.

He received fifty-eight votes for the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1908.

* 1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.

With his rehabilitation in public esteem came the enormous rise in values, and, at the Secretan sale in 1889, the portrait of Pieter van de Broecke Danvers was bid up to 4, 420, while in 1908 the National Gallery paid 25, 000 for the large group from the collection of Lord Talbot de Malahide.

Roosevelt added adjacent national forest lands and redesignated the preserve a U. S. National Monument on January 11, 1908.

In 1908 a large race riot erupted in the city which culminated in the lynching of two African American residents and led to the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ).

Rudimentary education in gemology for jewelers and gemologists began in the nineteenth century, but the first qualifications were instigated after the National Association of Goldsmiths of Great Britain ( NAG ) set up a Gemmological Committee for this purpose in 1908.

President Teddy Roosevelt appointed him to the National Conservation Commission in 1908, and it was Mackenzie, then manager of the Brazil Land, Cattle and Packing Company, with whom Roosevelt stayed when he visited Brazil in 1913.

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1908 and expanded in 1936.

Conkright, and the First National Bank of Richwood was formed in 1908 by L. J.

Hines took these photographs between 1908 and 1917 as staff photographer for the National Child Labour Committee.

Marion County is also home to the Ocala National Forest which was established in 1908 and is now the second largest national forest in the state.

* Jackson County Courthouse-Constructed in 1908 with murals adorn the Court Room and Rotunda, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, along with the Romanesque Revival Opera House / Starnes Jewelers Building ( 1908 ) and three small historic districts in the City's downtown area.

The smaller national forests now combined into the local Wallowa – Whitman National Forest were created in 1908.

Llangollen hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1908.

The town was incorporated in 1908, and was named for its location near the high wall of the Badlands National Monument.

His first years ( 1908 – 1912 ) in France were interrupted by long stays in Mexico where he advised on university matters and lectured at the School of Higher Studies at the National University in Mexico City.

In 1908, he was appointed Chairman of The National Commission on Country Life by president Theodore Roosevelt.

The Irish Universities Act, 1908 made this college a constituent college of the new National University of Ireland, and under a new charter the name of the college was changed to University College, Galway.