* 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 )

* 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 )

The full-time element of the British Army is referred to as the Regular Army and has been since the creation of the reservist Territorial Force in 1908.

The full-time element of the British Army is referred to as the Regular Army since the creation of the reservist Territorial Force in 1908.

The Territorial Army did not come into existence until 1908.

* 53rd ( Welsh ) Infantry Division, a Territorial Army division from 1908 to 1968

* The volunteer militia, later formalised ( 1908 ) within the Territorial Army, and today forming the headquarters of 68 Signal Squadron.

The Territorial Army was created in 1908 by the Secretary of State for War, Richard Haldane, when the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 combined the previously civilian-administered Volunteer Force, with the Militia and Yeomanry.

* Regiments of the British Territorial Force 1908 ( Regiments. org )

In 1908 the Imperial Yeomanry was merged with the Volunteer Force to form the Territorial Force, of which it became the cavalry arm.

The British 52nd ( Lowland ) Division was a Territorial Army division that was originally formed as part of the Territorial Force in 1908.

The reserve battalions of the regiment were reorganised in 1908 by the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, with the two militia battalions becoming as the 3rd and 4th ( Special Reserve ) Battalions and the 2nd and 3rd Volunteer Battalions transferring to the Territorial Force as the 5th and 6th Battalions ( TF ).

The 49th ( West Riding ) Infantry Division was formed on 1 April 1908 as the West Riding Division in the Territorial Force of the British Army.

The Territorial Force ( TF ) was the volunteer reserve component of the British Army from 1908 to 1920, when it became the Territorial Army.

In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the Territorial Force and the latter the Special Reserve ; the regiment now had one Reserve and seven Territorial battalions.

The Volunteer Force was merged with the Yeomanry in 1908 to form the Territorial Force.

This Act brought the part-time Volunteer Force infantry artillery and engineer units and Yeomanry ( mounted ) regiments from across the country together into a single Territorial Force in 1908.

As a qualified barrister, he had become Honorary Colonel of the 14th Middesex ( Inns of Court ) Rifle Volunteer Corps in Nov 1899 and supported its incorporation as an officer training unit in the new Territorial Force in 1908.

When the Territorial Force was created in 1908, the Volunteer Battalions linked to the regiment became Territorial Battalions of the West Yorkshire Regiment: