In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

On 9 April 1908, France declared the protectorates and Mayotte a single colony, Mayotte and dependencies.

Eve Arden ( April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990 ) was an American actress.

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

Henry Chadwick ( October 5, 1824 – April 20, 1908 ), often called the " father of baseball ," was a sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian.

The US explorer Frederick Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole on 21 April 1908 with two Inuit men, Ahwelah and Etukishook, but he was unable to produce convincing proof and his claim is not widely accepted.

Grace made his final first-class appearance on 20 – 22 April 1908 for the Gentlemen of England v Surrey at The Oval, where, opening the innings, he scored 15 and 25.

* April 27 – The 1908 Summer Olympics begin in London.

* April 1 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )

* April 16 – David Lean, British film director ( b. 1908 )

* April 17 – Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter ( b. 1908 )

* April 27 – John Doeg, American tennis champion ( b. 1908 )

* April 1 – Barbara Luddy, American actress ( b. 1908 )

* April 25 – Celia Johnson, British actress ( b. 1908 )

* April 27 – Tom Tully, American actor ( b. 1908 )

* April 14 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer ( b. 1908 )

* April 25 – Eliza Daniel Stewart, American temperance movement leader ( d. 1908 )

In April of 1908 Dzerzhinsky was arrested once again in Warsaw and in 1909 he was exiled to Siberia again ( Yeniseysk Governorate ).

Oskar Schindler ( 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974 ) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia, which was that time part of Austria-Hungary.

Schindler was born on 28 April 1908 into a Sudeten German family in Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary.

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Wilhelm Busch ( 15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908 ) was an influential German caricaturist, painter, and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts.

* Ernestine Gilbreth ( April 4, 1908 – November 4, 2006 ) ( age 98 ); married Charles E. Carey ; two children ( Charles E. Carey, Lillian Barley ).

On 30 April 1908, two Bengali youths, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose, threw a bomb on a carriage at Muzzafarpur, in order to kill the Chief Presidency Majistrate Douglas Kingsford of Calcutta fame, but erroneously killed some women travelling in it.

In April 1908, during Edward's annual stay at Biarritz, he accepted the resignation of British Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

ELO's debut concert took place on 15 April 1972 at The Fox & Hounds Pub in Croydon, U. K. with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt ( horns, keyboards ), Wilfred Gibson ( violin ), Hugh McDowell ( cello ), Mike Edwards, Andy Craig ( cello ) and Richard Tandy on bass.

The meeting, convened by George William Wood on 7 April 1824,

Calhoun is home to the annual Ramp Festival in April, the West Virginia Wood Festival in June, the Bluegrass Festival in May, another Bluegrass Festival in August, the West Virginia Molasses Festival in September, and Octoberfest Celebration.

* Wood, Amy Louise, " They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama ", Southern Spaces, 27 April 2009.

* Amy Louise Wood, " They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama ", Southern Spaces, 27 April 2009.

* Arbelia Wood, purported but unverifiable supercentenarian, who was allegedly born April 6, 1893, Caledonia, Mississippi ( or 1885, as per some family sources, which claim she was a month shy of 120 at her death ); she died March 11, 2005, Clinton Township, Michigan.

It was the northernmost township in Wood County from its establishment on April 18, 1874 until December 1, 1962.

The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.

In April 2011, Kevin Wood ( Andrew Wood's brother ) teamed up with hard rock band Lace Weeper to record Mother Love Bone's Crown Of Thorns as a tribute to Andy's 21 years passing.

* 7 April 1952 Stratford — Ravenstone Wood Junction passenger traffic

The division was activated on 15 April 1941 by cadre of the 1st Armored Division, and was fitted out as a full armored division in 1942 under the command of Major General John S. Wood.

Phillips died at 8 George Street, Hanover Square, London, on 20 April 1845, and was interred in the burial-ground of St. John's Wood chapel.

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, ( 16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959 ), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s, during which he held several senior ministerial posts, most notably as Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1940.

It was his strong second against Empire Maker ( ridden by Jerry Bailey ) in the 1 1 / 8-mile Grade I Wood Memorial on April 12, however, that secured his place in the Kentucky Derby.

On 13 April 1868, the MR opened the first section of Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway as a branch from its existing route.

Frank Searle, managing director of Daimler Hire and its subsidiaries moved with his deputy Humphery Wood into the new national carrier Imperial Airways at its formation on 1 April 1924.

Wood was unhappy with her career and her personal life, having recently divorced from Robert Wagner in April 1962.

A prospect in the minor leagues, Wood made his first appearance in the Major Leagues on April 12, 1998.

Family members report that Randy Wood died in La Jolla, California on April 9, 2011 after a fall in his home at age 94.

But in April 1943, the Germans announced that they had discovered the graves of 4, 300 Polish officers who had been taken prisoner in 1939 and murdered by the Soviets, in a mass grave in Katyń Wood near Smolensk.

Joyce Anne DeWitt ( born April 23, 1949 ) is an American actress most famous for playing Janet Wood on the ABC sitcom Three's Company.

Edward Whymper was born in London, England on 27 April 1840 to Josiah Wood Whymper and Elizabeth Claridge.

* Holding of Delville Wood: 4 September 1916 – April 1917

The Eastern Phoebe is also present on the breeding grounds by March, while Eastern Wood Pewees don't arrive until very late April and early May.

Barbara Maureen Roche ( née Margolis, born 13 April 1954 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hornsey and Wood Green from 1992 until 2005, when she lost the seat, despite having previously enjoyed a majority of over 10, 500.