In 1908, Frankel sold the diamond for $ 400, 000 to a Salomon or Selim Habib, a wealthy Turkish diamond collector, reportedly in behalf of Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey ; however, on June 24, 1909, the stone was included in an auction of Habib's assets to settle his own debts, and the auction catalog explicitly stated that the Hope Diamond was one of only two gems in the collection which had never been owned by the Sultan.

* Urundi, a Resident with the native Mwami ( king ; 1908 Sultan )

However, eventually, signs were showing this policy game coming to an end and on May 13, 1908, the leadership of the CUP, with the scale of its organization, having had increased their power to such a point, were able to say to the Sultan that the ' Dynasty will be in danger ', if he were not to bring back the constitution.

In July 1908, a month after a Young Turk rebellion in Macedonia supported by an Albanian uprising in Kosovo and Macedonia escalated into widespread insurrection and mutiny within the imperial army, Sultan Abdül Hamid II agreed to demands by the Young Turks to restore constitutional rule.

In July 1908, a month after a Young Turk rebellion in Macedonia supported by an Albanian uprising in Kosovo and Vardar Macedonia escalated into widespread insurrection and mutiny within the imperial army, Sultan Abdül Hamid II agreed to demands by the Young Turks to restore constitutional rule.

But the question of the viability of Ottoman rule was revived after the Young Turk Revolution of July 1908, which compelled the Sultan to restore the suspended Ottoman constitution, and the significant developments in the years 1909 – 11.

The area was thus the scene of great intrigues of the late Ottoman period such as the dethronement of Sultan Abdülaziz at Dolmabahçe Palace in a coup in 1876, the announcement of the founding of the Ottoman parliament in 1908, and the deposing of Sultan Abdul Hamid II at Yıldız Palace in 1909.

In April 1908, the Committee of Union and Progress ( more commonly called the Young Turks ), a political party opposed to the absolute rule of Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid II, led a rebellion against their ruler.

Abdelaziz of Morocco ( 24 February 1878 – 10 June 1943 ; ), also known as Mulai Abd al-Aziz IV, served as the Sultan of Morocco from 1894 at the age of sixteen until he was deposed in 1908.

Abdelhafid of Morocco ( or Mulay Abdelhafid ) ( Fes, 24 February 1876 – Val-d ' Oise, 4 April 1937 ) () was the Sultan of Morocco from 1908 to 1912 and a member of the Alaouite Dynasty.

* In the Power of the Sultan ( 1908 )

Chief Rabbi Jacob Saul Dwek, Hakham Bashi of Aleppo, Syria, 1908. The institution of the Hakham Bashi was established by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II, as part of his policy of governing his exceedingly diverse subjects according to their own laws and authorities wherever possible.

The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople Madteos III ( Izmirlian ) was permitted to return to Istanbul in 1908 when Sultan Abdulhamid II was deposed by the Young Turks.

During the reign of the Young Turks ( 1908 – 1922 ), and after Sultan Abdulhamid II was deposed by the Young Turks, Patriarch Madteos III ( Izmirlian ) was permitted to return to Istanbul in 1908.

In 1908, the local teams in the league needed a regular soccer field, so this land was leased from the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II for 30 Ottoman gold pounds a year.

With the suppression of harem culture under Sultan ` Abdu ' l -` Aziz ( 1861 – 1876 ) and Sultan Abdul Hamid II ( 1876 – 1908 ), köçek dance and music lost the support of its imperial patrons and gradually disappeared.

Under the leadership of Enver Pasha, a Turkish military officer, the CUP launched a military coup against the Sultan in 1908, proclaiming a new regime on July 6.

By 1908 public and diplomatic pressure led Leopold II to the annex the Congo as the Belgian Congo colony.

On 15 November 1908 King Léopold II of Belgium formally relinquished personal control of the Congo Free State.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

The more severe program of Russification, called " the second period of oppression 1908 – 1917 " by the Finns, was halted on 15 March 1917 by the removal of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

* 1908 – Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain ( d. 1941 )

His father was cashiered from the Imperial German Army in 1908 — after repeatedly disparaging Kaiser Wilhelm II for his alleged homosexuality — and the Ribbentrop family were often short of money.

On November 15, 1908 the Belgian parliament annexed the colony, the reign of Leopold II over Congo being discredited.

The first major update to the NGC is the Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars ( abbreviated as IC ), published in two parts by Dreyer in 1895 ( IC I, containing 1, 520 objects ) and 1908 ( IC II, containing 3, 866 objects ).

Shortly before his accession to the throne in 1909, Albert undertook an extensive tour of the Belgian Congo, which had been annexed by Belgium in 1908 ( after having been previously owned by King Leopold II of Belgium as his personal property ), finding the area in poor condition.

Volume II ( 1908 ) online edition

The Back Series, bronze, left to right: The Back I, 1908 – 09, The Back II, 1913, The Back III 1916, The Back IV, c. 1931, all Museum of Modern Art, New York City

* Harrison Salisbury ( 1908 – 1993 ), an American journalist who was the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II

* Amon Göth ( 1908 – 1946 ), a commandant in the Nazi SS during World War II

One of the first U. S. motor roads, the Long Island Motor Parkway ( which opened on October 10, 1908 ) was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Brockley contains several fine churches: St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, Howson Road ( completed in 1901 ), St Peter's, Wickham Rd ( completed 1870 ), the Grade II listed St Andrews, Brockley Rd ( 1882 )-originally a Presbyterian Church, which contains the modern stained glass New Cross Fire memorial window ( 2002 )-and the Grade II listed St Hilda's, Crofton Park 1908.

* Thomas D. Howie, ( April 12, 1908 – July 17, 1944 ) was an American army officer, killed during the Battle of Normandy during World War II, while trying to capture the French town of Saint-Lô.

Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 ( he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908 ); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910 ; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius's works.

Christian VI and his Queen Sofie Magdalene ( 1733 ), Frederik V ( 1749 ), Oscar I ( 1845 ), Oscar II ( 1890 ), Haakon VII ( 1908 ), Olav V ( 1962 ) and most recently Harald V ( 1995 ).

Manuel II on his 1908 visit to the Ferreirinha Port wine Company.

Leopold II of Belgium | Leopold II, King of the Belgians and de facto owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908

Jeu de paume at the 1908 Summer Olympics was a medal event ; American Jay Gould II won the Gold medal.

* Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal ( 1887 – 1908 ), a. k. a. Louis II, Duke of Braganza

Ronald Ferguson was the second son of Andrew Henry Ferguson ( 1899 – 1966 ) and his wife Lady Marian Louisa Montagu Douglas Scott ( 1908 – 1996 ), a first cousin of Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, who became ( after her wedding to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester ) Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester and an aunt-by-marriage of Elizabeth II.

But by 1908 its record of brutality had touched the national conscience.

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

In fact, earlier in the 1908 season, the identical situation had been brought to the umpires ' attention by Evers ; the umpire that day was the same Hank O ' Day.

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.

The Orioles of the IL won nine league championships, first in 1908, followed by a lengthy run from 1919 to 1925, and then dramatically in 1944, after they had lost their home field Oriole Park in a disastrous mid-season fire.

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.

By 1908, Sydney Chaplin had become a star of Fred Karno's prestigious comedy company.

However, in the autumn of 1908, Munch's anxiety, compounded by excessive drinking and brawling, had become acute.

The litigation over patents between all the major American film-making companies had continued, and at the end of 1908 they decided to pool their patents and form a trust to use them to control the American film business.

Vitagraph and Edison already had multiple production units, and so had no difficulty meeting their quota, but in 1908 Biograph lost their one working director.

Before D. W. Griffith started directing at Biograph in May 1908, he had seen the two Pathé films just mentioned, and a number of Vitagraph films as well.

By 1894, Dewey had joined Tufts, with whom he would later write Ethics ( 1908 ), at the recently founded University of Chicago and invited Mead and Angell to follow him, the four men forming the basis of the so-called " Chicago group " of psychology.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

The five Deutschland class battleships constructed between 1903 and 1908 had similar armament as the Braunschweig class, but heavier armour, for the slightly greater sum of 24. 5 million GM each.

They had two children together, Lev Sedov ( 1906 – 16 February 1938 ) and Sergei Sedov ( 21 March 1908 – 29 October 1937 ), both of whom would predecease their parents.

He married Berg in 1908 and had several children with her.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

Nova Scotia had established representative government in 1758, an achievement that was later commemorated by erecting the Dingle Tower in 1908.

By 1908, the radicales had overthrown General Ferreira and the cívicos.

Fresh material having come to light, a new edition of the poems ( Die Gedichte des Paulus Diaconus ) has been edited by Karl Neff ( Munich, 1908 ), who denies, however, the attribution to Paul of the most famous poem in the collection, the Ut queant laxis, a hymn to St. John the Baptist, which Guido d ' Arezzo fitted to a melody which had previously been used for Horace's Ode 4. 11.

Separately, in 1908, Pickering announced that, by analysing irregularities in Uranus's orbit, he had found evidence for a ninth planet.

The first four lines had appeared in 1880, rising to 13 by 1897, all horse-drawn, but after electrification between 1898 and 1902 the number of lines had soared to 35 by 1908 and ultimately reached 40, carrying between them 600 trams every hour, day and night.