`` You are the ' Peoples' Poet ' '' was her appraisal in 1908, and she stopped teaching and writing to devote herself to the fulfillment of her husband's career.

On 9 November 1908 she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England.

Keller wrote The World I Live In in 1908 giving readers an insight into how she felt about the world.

In 1908, she undertook the unwrapping of the Two Brothers, a Middle Kingdom non-royal burial excavated by Petrie in Egypt.

Before her death, on November 15, 1908, she allegedly ordered her trusted eunuchs to poison the Guangxu Emperor.

However, the state of Texas did not require the filing of birth certificates until 1908, allowing Crawford to claim she was born in 1908.

Against her family's wishes, she married on 17 March 1947 to failed American movie producer David Alfred Sebastian, born in Detroit on 23 November 1908.

Feeling a kinship with the female revolutionaries who stormed the Bastille, she said in 1908: " I have always thought that the fact that I was born on that day had some kind of influence over my life.

In 1934 she married actor Lew Ayres ( 1908 – 1996 ).

In 1908 at 13 years, she entered an evening class at the Croydon School of Art, and attended the school into the 1940s.

It is named after Melitta Bentz ( 1873 – 1950 ) who founded the company after she invented the drip brew paper coffee filter ( German patent granted July 8, 1908 ).

Merman was born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann in her maternal grandmother's house located at 265 4th Street in Astoria, Queens, in New York City in 1908, though she would later emphatically declare that it was actually 1912.

In 1908, two years before the Boy Scouts of America was officially organized, Mrs. Myra Greeno Bass organized a local troop of 15 boys, using official Boy Scout materials she had acquired from England.

In 1908, two years before the Boy Scouts of America was officially organized, Mrs. Myra Greeno Bass organized a local troop of 15 boys, using official Boy Scout materials she had acquired from England.

In the early 1900s, Bathori began studying with Pierre-Émile Engel, whom she married in 1908.

Back in London in 1908, Mansfield quickly fell into the bohemian way of life lived by many artists and writers of that era, although she published only one story and one poem during her first 15 months there.

In 1908, she appeared in the musical Havana followed, the next year, by Our Miss Gibbs, in which she played Lady Connie ; she was then on tour again with Hicks, in Papa's Wife, before playing Sadie von Tromp in the hit operetta The Dollar Princess at Daly's Theatre in 1909.

In 1908, she accompanied Prince William to his wedding with Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna in Russia.

On 28 October 1908 she hit the Crumstone and floated off to sink finally at Staple island.

While visiting London in 1908, deeply despondent and ruinously in debt, she tried to kill herself by drinking an excess of laudanum.

In the spring of 1908 she returned to Vitagraph where she played the lead role in The Dispatch Beare.

An international daily newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, founded by Eddy in 1908 and winner of seven Pulitzer prizes, is published by the church through the Christian Science Publishing Society.

In addition to the reviews above are the Revue Thomiste, founded by Père Thomas Coconnier ( d. 1908 ), and the Analecta Ordinis Prædicatorum ( 1893 ).

* 1908: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, the World Esperanto Association, is founded by Hector Hodler, a 19-year-old Swiss Esperantist.

Futurism that was both an artistic-cultural movement and initially a political movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who founded the Futurist Manifesto ( 1908 ), that championed the causes of modernism, action, and political violence as necessary elements of politics while denouncing liberalism and parliamentary politics.

" In April 1908 he founded Modern Electrics, the world's first magazine about both electronics and radio, called " wireless " at the time.

The Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace was founded in 1908 to govern international competitions, and the first European championships were won by Great Britain in 1910.

* 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.

* 1908 – Ajinomoto is founded.

The first dedicated school for journalism, Missouri School of Journalism, was founded in 1908 in the United States of America by Walter Williams.

* 1908 – Dutch football / soccer club Feyenoord was founded

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.

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.

The Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust ), founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major American film companies ( Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé ), the leading film distributor ( George Kleine ) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

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

* 1908 – The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.

New England-based Tri-Sum Potato Chips, originally founded in 1908 as the Leominster Potato Chip Company, in Leominster, Massachusetts claim to be America's first potato chip manufacturer.

The Reed Institute ( the legal name of the college ) was founded in 1908, and Reed College held its first classes in 1911.

* 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.

* 1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.

The oldest football club in Estonia, Meteor Tallinn was founded in 1908 in the district Lasnamäe.

In 1908, Jung became an editor of the newly founded Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research.

Because the municipality of Espoo, to which the area of Kauniainen belonged, did not show much interest in the new community, the company was responsible for developing it ; roads were built, a school founded, electricity arranged and the company lobbied for a railway station ( opened in 1908 ) and a police office.

In the United States, Elmer Ambrose Sperry produced a workable gyrocompass system ( 1908: patent # 1, 242, 065 ), and founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company.

Blackburn Aircraft was founded by Robert Blackburn who built his first aircraft in 1908.

The football club Wilhelmina was founded in the pub De Vereeniging on 19 July 1908 and played in blue-sleeved red shirts and white shorts.