* 1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist ( d. 2000 )

In 1908, he was offered the vice-presidential nomination by William Howard Taft, but he declined it to run again for Governor.

In 1908, Doctor William Molly attempted to create an Esperanto nation in Neutral Moresnet known as " Amikejo " ( land of great friendship ).

* 1908 – William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1988 )

* 1908 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate ( d. 1993 )

* 1908 – William Hartnell, British actor ( d. 1975 )

* 1828 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1908 )

The two haploid and diploid terms were borrowed from German through William Henry Lang's 1908 translation of a 1894 textbook by Eduard Strasburger and colleagues.

File: Bardeen. jpg | John Bardeen ( 1908 – 1991 ): awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

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William Chandler Bagley taught in elementary schools before becoming a professor of education at the University of Illinois, where he served as the Director of the School of Education from 1908 until 1917.

Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys ( London, 1908 ), based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham ( Chief of Scouts in British Africa ), Ernest Thompson Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, William Alexander Smith of the Boys ' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson.

At the end of his second term, Roosevelt promoted his friend William Howard Taft for the 1908 Republican nomination.

He chose not to run for another term in 1908, and supported William Taft for the presidency, instead of Fairbanks.

Roosevelt certified William Howard Taft to be a genuine " progressive " in 1908, when Roosevelt pushed through the nomination of his Secretary of War for the Presidency.

The Democratic Party, led by William Jennings Bryan, advocated the income tax law passed in 1894, and proposed an income tax in its 1908 platform.

Wilson soundly defeated Lewis in the general election by a margin of more than 49, 000 votes, although Republican William Howard Taft had carried New Jersey in the 1908 presidential election by more than 80, 000 votes.

William Jennings Bryan, the nominee in 1896, 1900 and 1908, played a critical role in opposition to any candidate who had the support of " the financiers of Wall Street ".

* May 14 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman ( b. 1908 )

* March 18 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1908 )

* March 31 – Sir William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1908 )

** William Saroyan, American author ( b. 1908 )

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

Although William Jennings Bryan was nominated for a third time in 1908, it was not consecutive with his two other nominations in 1896 and 1900.

In 1908, opponents of Davila made an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow him.

Historically, the first attempt is 6 poems translated by Kambara Ariake in 1908.

In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers.

In 1908, at the burial of Zola at the Panthéon, he was slightly wounded in an assassination attempt.

Dreyfus was present at the ceremony removing Zola's ashes to the Panthéon in 1908, when he was wounded in the arm by a gunshot from Louis Gregori, a disgruntled journalist, in an assassination attempt.

He made one last attempt at office in a race for governor of Illinois in 1908, at age 72, narrowly losing.

The first such attempt was proposed in 1908 for incorporation as the city of Vista Grande.

The name was officially changed to East Gary in 1908 in an attempt to lure executives from the nearby US Steel plant in Gary, Indiana into creating a suburban community.

Works from this period include a piano fantasy based on themes from Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, an attempt at a string quartet, three songs which would eventually be published in 1908 and the opening movement ( the only one completed ) of his First Piano Concerto.

When 1908 passed with no serious attempt being made, the prize money was doubled to £ 1, 000 and the offer extended to the end of 1909.

Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament.

In 1908 there was also an attempt to establish a link between the National University of Ireland and Mungret College located about 5 km from Limerick.

By 1908, Rubinstein, destitute and desperate, hounded by creditors, and threatened with being evicted from his Berlin hotel room, made a failed attempt to hang himself.

It had begun life as the International Motor Company in 1908 in an attempt to create the first major consolidation within the industry with Maxwell-Briscoe and Buick, which did not succeed.

Joining the local Finchley and District League in 1908, they won the Third Division at the first attempt and were promoted.

In May 1908, Archibald Leitch wrote to the Cheshire Lines Committee ( CLC ) – who had a rail depot adjacent to the proposed site for the football ground – in an attempt to persuade them to subsidise construction of the grandstand alongside the railway line.

In 1930 there was an unsuccessful attempt to co-operate with William Crapo Durant ( the founder of General Motors in 1908 ).

He describes Leguía as a charming and self-effacing " man of the people " who gives a humorous account of the 1908 coup attempt.

A new attempt to open the line in 1908 succeeded, and a train went from Gulsvik to Bergen.

This tradition dates from the founding of the first VU branch in Kolding in 1908, when the newly elected second deputy auditor was informed by his high school principal that if he did not relinquish this new office immediately, he would be expelled from his school since it would be futile to attempt combining academic pursuits with a political career.

After another unsuccessful attempt at a Senate election in 1904, Smith was chosen to fill the vacancy resulting from the death of Senator William Pinkney Whyte in 1908.

It has survived not only the ravages of time but also the 1964 flood of the area, a 1908 attempt at logging, and a direct lightning strike which removed the top of the tree ( making its original height close to 300ft ).

In 1908 Selig Polyscope was involved in the production of The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, a touring " multimedia " attempt to bring L. Frank Baum's Oz books to a wider public ( which played to full houses but was nonetheless a financial disaster for Baum ).

Several films in production circa 1907In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers.