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 1834, Johnston took up farming in Texas, but enlisted as a private in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence against the Republic of Mexico in 1836.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

Following a burglary, a murder, and two attempted murders in Adelaide during March 1838, Governor Hindmarsh created the South Australian Police Force ( now named South Australia Police ) in April 1838 under 21-year-old Henry Inman.

Alexios V Doukas, surnamed Mourtzouphlos (, d. December 1205, Constantinople ) was Byzantine Emperor ( 5 February – 12 April 1204 ) during the second and final siege of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade.

In January 1972, three months before the planned April launch date, a fuel tank in the Command Module was accidentally damaged during a routine test.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

The star culminates at midnight on about 30 April, being visible during the northern spring or the southern autumn.

Antares B can be observed with a small telescope for a few seconds during lunar occultations while Antares itself is hidden by the Moon ; it was discovered by Johann Tobias Bürg during one such occultation on April 13, 1819.

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

Travelling in remote areas in northern Australia is not advisable during the wet season ( November to April ), as heavy tropical downpours can quickly make dirt roads impassable.

In spring, the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia normally thaw during in late April, with some ice ridges persisting until May in the eastern extremities of the Gulf of Finland.

A Beltane Fire Festival has been held every year since 1988 during the night of 30 April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland and attended by up to 15, 000 people.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

As a consequence on April 13, 1975, several units of N ' Djamena's gendarmerie killed Tombalbaye during a coup.

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

By 1974, another challenge to the state's authority and legitimacy had come from 19 April Movement ( M-19 ), a mostly urban guerrilla group founded allegedly in response to an electoral fraud during the final National Front election of Misael Pastrana ( 1970 – 1974 ) and the defeat of former dictator Gustavo Rojas.

cyclones possible during rainy season ( December to April ); Le Kartala on Grande Comore is an active volcano

Wind storms can be frequent, bringing Saharan dust into the city during the months of March and April.

In April 2010 during Admiral Mike Mullen's address at Columbia, President Lee C. Bollinger stated that the ROTC would be readmitted to campus if the admiral's plans for revoking the don't ask, don't tell policy were successful.

An incident also occurred in April 2007 in the Chicago Loop district, where a coyote, later nicknamed " Adrian ", quietly entered a Quizno's restaurant during the lunch hours ; it was later captured and released at a wildlife rehabilitation center near Barrington, Illinois.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

Finally, Khrushchev was also reacting in part to the Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missiles which the United States had installed in Turkey during April 1962.