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In 1908, he became Wilbur Wright's first airplane passenger in France and in 1909 created the first university course in aeronautics.
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During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.
In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church, and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.
* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.
He gained a BSc with Gold Medal in 1908, and became a lecturer at St Mary's until 1914.
The modern Olympic movement revived interest in amateur sports, and amateur boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908.
He joined the Independent Labour Party in 1908, and became active in London local politics.
Among his 69 Ph. D. students in Göttingen were many who later became famous mathematicians, including ( with date of thesis ): Otto Blumenthal ( 1898 ), Felix Bernstein ( 1901 ), Hermann Weyl ( 1908 ), Richard Courant ( 1910 ), Erich Hecke ( 1910 ), Hugo Steinhaus ( 1911 ), and Wilhelm Ackermann ( 1925 ).
He then became the naval advisor to the Army Council from 1906 to 1908 where he was involved with drawing up plans for joint operations to land an expeditionary force in Europe.
The Detroit River became the busiest commercial river in the world and was dubbed " the Greatest Commercial Artery on Earth " by The Detroit News in 1908.
Sapir's work on Takelma became his doctoral dissertation which he defended in 1908.
He became an assistant professor in 1907, associate professor on 1908, and full professor in 1911.
In 1908 Hoover became an independent mining consultant, traveling worldwide until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
* John Brown ( baseball ) ( 1876 – 1908 ), player for 1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms, which later became Los Angeles Dodgers
Later that year he founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, which became the Oldsmobile division of General Motors in 1908, and he was also the founder of the REO Motor Car Company in 1904, both headquartered in Lansing.
In 1912, the old fortress was dismantled, and in 1908, the municipality Rothensee became part of Magdeburg,
In Japan the first successful planting of olive trees happened in 1908 on Shodo Island which became the cradle of olive cultivation.
) With the sale of so many records, sheet music, and piano rolls, the song became one of the most popular hits of 1908.
In 1908, when the second-hand business was merged into the regular sales offices, Watson became assistant sales manager ; moving up to become sales manager in 1910 with a further role — working along with NCR's engineers — in new product development.
In 1908 Bang and Ellerman showed that a filterable virus could transmit chicken leukemia, data largely ignored till the 1930s when leukemia became regarded as cancerous.
In 1907 he became associate professor and in 1908 full professor of mathematics at the University of Chernivtsi ( Russian Черновцы ), Ukraine.
In 1908, Jung became an editor of the newly founded Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research.
London, which had previously hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics, became the second city to host the Olympics twice ; Paris hosted the event in 1900 and 1924.
Usable gyrocompass was invented in 1906 in Germany by Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, and after successful tests in 1908 became widely used in German Imperial Navy.
In 1908, Camille Saint-Saëns composed the first music specifically for use in a motion picture ( L ' assasinat du duc de Guise ), and releasing recordings of songs used in films became prevalent in the 1930s.
In June 1908, Edward became the first reigning British monarch to visit the Russian Empire, despite refusing to visit in 1906, when Anglo-Russian relations were strained in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, the Dogger Bank incident, and the Tsar's dissolution of the Duma.
1908 and Wilbur
* 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.
*-Charles Rolls goes on his first aeroplane flight with Wilbur Wright on October 8, 1908 at Camp D ' Auvours, France
Wilbur spent the whole summer of 1908 rebuilding the machine and getting it into flying condition.
Inspired by Wilbur Wright's 1908 demonstrations of powered flight in Paris and being personally acquainted with several aviators, including artist-turned-aviator Léon Delagrange, who was reputed to be the father of her son André, de Laroche determined to take up flying for herself.
Poiret may also have been influenced by observing the behavior of Mrs. Hart O. Berg upon the first aeroplane flight she took in October 1908 with Wilbur Wright, whereon she tied a rope around the bottom of her skirt to keep it from blowing up during the flight.
Iorwith Wilbur Abel ( August 11, 1908 – August 10, 1987 ), also known as I. W.
On May 14, 1908, Wilbur flew Wright Company mechanic Charles Furnas ( 1880-1941 ) in 29 seconds, making him the first airplane passenger.
1908 and Wright's
In 1908, when a young Signal Corps officer, Mitchell observed Orville Wright's flying demonstration at Fort Myer, Virginia.
When he heard about the Wright's flight in 1908 he was quick to accept it.
1908 and first
* 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
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.
The first car to be named Aston Martin was created by Martin by fitting a four-cylinder Coventry-Simplex engine to the chassis of a 1908 Isotta-Fraschini.
1 ( 1907 – 1908 ); it is one of the most formidable " first " works ever written.
The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.
The term was first used in the early 20th century by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908.
On graduation he joined the 1st Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment in September 1908 as a second lieutenant, and first saw service later that year in India.
The Red Sox logo worn on uniforms in 1908, announcing the team's first official nicknameIn, the upstart American League established a competing club in Boston.
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 first the predictions of Einstein's formula were seemingly refuted by a series of experiments by Svedberg in 1906 and 1907, which gave displacements of the particles as 4 to 6 times the predicted value, and by Henri in 1908 who found displacements 3 times greater than Einstein's formula predicted.
The first piece to show clear signs of this new interest is the String Quartet No. 1 in A minor ( 1908 ), which contains folk-like elements.
Likewise, their back-to-back World Series victories in 1907 and 1908 made them the first club to win two World Series.
In what was a dramatic five game series, their NLDS victory over the Atlanta Braves was the franchise's first postseason series win since they went to the World Series in 1908, when they beat the Detroit Tigers in five games.
The very first cartoon, from 31 October 1908, calls the team the Haddocks.
His first published work was, Il sesso dal punto di vista statistico ( 1908 ).
* Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau ( 1908 ), the first comparative law journal in the U. S
On 9 November 1908 she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England.
Mrs Garrett Anderson: first English woman physician ; mayor of Aldeburgh, November 1908
They joined FIFA in 1906 and played their first ever games against countries other than the Home Nations on a tour of Central Europe in 1908.
Satie would follow these courses at the Schola, as a respected pupil, for more than five years, receiving a first ( intermediate ) diploma in 1908.
It was first shown in Melbourne, Australia on 26 December 1906 and in the UK in January 1908.
But Griffith's first use of cross-cutting in The Fatal Hour, made in July 1908, has a much stronger suspense story served by this construction than those in the earlier Pathé examples.
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