* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )

* 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American politician and jurist, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( d. 1990 )

* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

* 1908 – John A. Volpe, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation ( d. 1994 )

In the United States, Vitagraph was also trying cross-cutting for suspense in 1907 and 1908 with The Mill Girl and Get Me a Stepladder.

* 1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.

* 1908 – Edward Lansdale, American United States Air Force, CIA and OSS officer ( d. 1987 )

Category: 1908 establishments in the United States

Stephen Grover Cleveland ( March 18, 1837June 24, 1908 ) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt appointed Dr. Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner of the United States in 1908.

* 1908 – Nelson Rockefeller, American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States ( d. 1979 )

* 1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner ( later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation ).

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

Category: United States presidential candidates, 1908

" He proved correct ; the verdict and sentence were reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on July 22, 1908.

* 1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.

However, following Manchester United's first league title in 1908 and the FA Cup a year later, it was decided that Bank Street was too restrictive for Davies ' ambition ; in February 1909, six weeks before the club's first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was named as the home of Manchester United, following the purchase of land for around £ 60, 000.

* 1837 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States ( d. 1908 )

The British Union Flag was designed as a naval ensign in the 17th century, but it was not identified as " national flag " of the United Kingdom prior to 1908.

The United Kingdom claimed sovereignty over South Georgia in 1775 and the South Sandwich Islands in 1908.

In 1908 the United Kingdom annexed both South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

The United Kingdom formally annexed the South Sandwich Islands through the 1908 Letters Patent, grouping them with other British-held territory in Antarctica as the Falkland Islands Dependencies.

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

* 1836 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1908 )

* September 7 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1908 )

The United Kingdom premiere of the 1908 Rimsky-Korsakov edition took place on 24 June 1913 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.

Sofia was taken by Russian forces on January 4, 1878, during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78, and became the capital of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria in 1879, which became the Kingdom of Bulgaria in 1908.

Cadillac participated in an interchangeability test in the United Kingdom 1908, when it was awarded the Dewar Trophy for the most important advancement of the year in the automobile industry.

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC, KC ( 12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928 ) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the IV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in 1908 in London, England, United Kingdom.

* Tunisia, known as the Régence ( since 3 June 1955 autonomous ), where France had a Resident-general ( posted with the Basha bey of Tunis, who once the French protectorate was terminated on 20 March 1956 restyled his realm al-Mamlaka at-Tunisiyya ' Tunisian Kingdom '), in stead got a High commissioner from 13 September 1955 to 20 March 1956: Roger Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne ( b. 1908 – d. 1985 ); in continued shortly as independent monarchy, but on 25 July 1957 became the Tunisian Republic.

George V of the United Kingdom | Prince George, Prince of Wales, presents the title deeds of the Plains of Abraham to Governor General of Canada | Governor General Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey | the Earl Grey at the tercentenary of Quebec City in 1908

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman GCB ( 7 September 183622 April 1908 ) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908.

Category: 1908 establishments in the United Kingdom

Category: 1908 establishments in the United Kingdom

The Sampaio family lived abroad in the United States and the United Kingdom for some years, due to the professional activity of his father Arnaldo de Sampaio ( 1908 – 1984 ), a Medical Doctor.

In 1920, the Lambeth Conference repeated its 1908 condemnation of contraception and issued `` an emphatic warning against the use of unnatural means for the avoidance of conception, together with the grave dangers -- physical, moral, and religious -- thereby incurred, and against the evils which the extension of such use threaten the race ''.

Special postage stamps were issued from October 1898 until 1908, when a new communications cable was laid to the mainland, which made the pigeon post redundant.

The " Town of Brookneal " was incorporated and a charter issued in 1908.

Records issued by the Company before February 1908 were generally referred to as " G & Ts ", while those after that date are usually called " HMV " records.

The show was successful enough that Stieglitz issued a platinum print portfolio of 22 of her paintings and showed her work twice more, in 1908 and 1909.

In 1908, Austria issued a series of large pictorial stamps, designed by Koloman Moser, to commemorate the 60th year of Franz Josef's reign, depicting previous emperors, Franz Josef at various ages, Schönbrunn Palace, and the Hofburg ( both in Vienna ).

In 2008 / 2009, as part of the celebrations of the centenary of the 1908 British territorial claim, the British Antarctic Territory issued its first ever legal-tender coin.

Certainly the world ’ s first ' airmail ' stamps were issued for the Great Barrier Pigeon-Gram Service from 1898 to 1908.

Only one envelope was ever issued in French currency in 1908 ( 5 Centesimi for Jerusalem ).

Four different 1 Piaster lettercards were issued in 1888, 1890, 1900 and 1908.

During the period of Turkish currency three different newspaper wrappers were issued in 1899, 1900 and 1908.

One newspaper 5 Centimes wrapper was issued in 1908 for Jerusalem.

They were issued as a replacement to the 4 minute black wax Amberol cylinder introduced in 1908 which in turn replaced the 2 minute wax cylinders that Edison had been producing.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

In 1905, he filed for a patent – issued 1908 – for an " improved aeroplane " with a V-shaped trough body and fixed bird-like wings, the pilot hanging below supported by a swing seat.

A new Army Organization Statute was issued in 1904 ( revised in 1910 ), purchases of new artillery material ( including the 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06 / 09 gun ) and of the Mannlicher-Schönauer rifle were made, and a new, khaki field uniform was introduced in 1908.

The decree was issued under Pope Pius X, 10 August 1907, and took effect on Easter 19 April 1908.

The preliminary report of the Inland Waterways Commission issued in 1908, provides a unique topical perspective on these and other concurrent historical events on-going at the time.

From 1908 stamps were issued by the Nyasaland Protectorate, and from 1964 Malawi.

The Guangxu Emperor died on 14 November 1908, and on the same day, Empress Dowager Cixi issued an imperial edict proclaiming Zaifeng's eldest son Puyi as the successor.

Krum was prepared to continue Pearne ’ s work, and in August, 1903 a patent was filed for a ‘ typebar page printer ’ ( issued in May, 1908 ).

The Navy version of the Spanish Campaign Medal was created in June 1908 and issued to any member of either the Navy or Marine Corps who had served in the Philippine Islands between the dates of May 1st and August 16th, 1898.

11, 1902, US Patent # 896099 issued Aug. 18, 1908, US Patent # 2270707 iussued Jan. 20, 1942, US Patent # 5166459 issued Nov. 1992