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.

) Their original " Red Stockings " nickname lives on in three ways: in the Boston Red Sox of the American League, who adopted it in 1908 after the National Leaguers had given up their red trim briefly ; in the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, who reclaimed their city's old nickname in the 1880s during their days in the then-major American Association ; and in the perennial red trim that the Braves wear in their uniforms.

The club adopted the name " Red Sox " in 1908 after their intra-city rivals temporarily dropped the red trim from their uniforms.

The Imperial Russian armies following their adoption of khaki-grey field uniforms in 1908, took the opportunity to upgrade their parade uniforms to much more elaborate and colourful styles, and were experimenting with a mix of khaki and bright colours when war broke out in 1914.

At the 1914 Olympic Congress, the delegates agreed to include ice speed skating in the 1916 Olympics, after figure skating had featured in the 1908 Olympics.

* The Games also featured a week of winter sports, with figure skating appearing for the first time since the 1908 Olympics, and ice hockey making its Olympic debut.

The claim that Mary Davenport Engberg had previously appeared as " a featured soloist for several years with the Seattle Symphony " contrasts with her being listed as a soloist only twice in a three-week period in news articles and surviving Seattle Symphony programs: a Sunday afternoon pops concert in the Moore Theatre on December 13, 1908 and a benefit concert on January 3, 1909 for victims of an earthquake in Italy.

Both events entered the Olympic programme at the 1912 Summer Games after a one-off men's medley relay featured in 1908 Olympics.

A 1908 sequence about Mutt's trial featured a parade of thinly-disguised caricatures of specific San Francisco political figures, many of whom were being prosecuted for graft.

* Figure skating is included in the inaugural Winter Olympics, having already featured in the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics.

As shown in the listing of Wallace's output featured below, the two ten year periods from 1908 – 1918 and 1922 – 1932 were the most prolific of his life, but for different reasons.

From 1908 until the final event in 1914, Palermo was featured in the Lipton Challenge Cup, organised by Scottish businessman Sir Thomas Lipton.

He featured originally in stories set at Greyfriars School in the boys ' weekly story paper The Magnet first published in 1908, and has since appeared in novels, on television, in stage plays, and in comic strips.

For a brief time it was popular, and was featured during the 1908 Summer Olympics.

It was subsequently featured at the London games in 1908, the Antwerp games in 1920 and the Paris games in 1924.

There was an interruption in construction after 1908, but the company introduced new models in 1911 ; these featured 4192 cc six-cylinder engines and proved to be successful in many races.

The Arno was an English automobile manufactured in Coventry only in 1908 ; the car, which featured a 25hp White and Poppe engine and shaft drive, was introduced at that year's Stanley Show.

Between 1908 and 1972, White Hart Lane was one of very few British football grounds that featured no advertising hoardings at all.

At the 1919 Olympic Congress, the delegates agreed to include long track speed skating in the 1916 Olympics, after figure skating had featured in the 1908 Olympics.

In May 1908, he created a cover for the magazine that featured his first " fadeaway girl " design with a figure whose clothing matched, and disappeared into, the background.

The men's 3 miles team race was a unique event featured only at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

The trees remained through the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1908, at which they were featured exhibitions.

* An underground Nome Kingdom is featured in several of the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, notably the Ozma of Oz ( 1907 ), Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ( 1908 ) and Tik-Tok of Oz ( 1914 ).

PCC originally featured 27 holes when it was chartered in 1908 by the affluent Hornblower family.

The opera has been recorded many times since the first acoustical recording in 1908, and the story has been the subject of a large number of screen and stage adaptions.

With his rehabilitation in public esteem came the enormous rise in values, and, at the Secretan sale in 1889, the portrait of Pieter van de Broecke Danvers was bid up to 4, 420, while in 1908 the National Gallery paid 25, 000 for the large group from the collection of Lord Talbot de Malahide.

A large group of conformal maps for relating solutions of Maxwell ’ s equations was identified by Ebenezer Cunningham ( 1908 ) and Harry Bateman ( 1910 ).

In 1908 a large race riot erupted in the city which culminated in the lynching of two African American residents and led to the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ).

Corral ( in yellow ) on the other side of the block. 1908 View of Gunfight Site, Left mid photo, marked with a large white patch.

On June 30, 1908, in the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, there occurred a powerful explosion most likely to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5 – 10 kilometers ( 3 – 6 miles ) above Earth's surface.

The turkey industry in Cuero began large scale operations in 1908.

Some of the businesses mentioned above were destroyed in the fire of 1908, which engulfed a large part of town on the west side of Main Street.

In October 1908, a large forest fire consumed of Presque Isle County, and

He attracted statewide attention in 1908 when he assisted Francis J. Heney in the graft prosecution of Abe Ruef and Mayor Eugene Schmitz, his success due in large measure to the fact that after Heney had been gunned down in the courtroom, he took the lead for the prosecution and won the case.

The municipality of Giske was established on 1 January 1908 when it was separated from the large municipality of Borgund.

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 ).

While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.

In his will, dated 26 October 1908, Grossmith left small bequests to a variety of charities and persons ; 2, 000 pounds, artworks and heirlooms to each of his children ( except that Lawrence did not receive a specific cash bequest ), his son George receiving also " two silver bowls presented to him by Sullivan and Carte the ivory baton with which he conducted the orchestra on the occasion of his said son's first appearance on the stage " in Haste to the Wedding ; and smaller bequests to his children's spouses and his nieces, nephews, grandchildren and some cousins, with the residuary estate shared equally by his children ( although the residuary estate was not large ).

In 1908, a psychiatric hospital opened on a large estate along the lake shore.

To a large extent this was due to the political upheaval in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution ; it is indicative that between 1908 and 1911, the office of Navy Minister changed hands nine times.

The Morelos Garden dates from 1908 and is easily recognizable by the large stone statue of José María Morelos, which is known colloquially as " Morelotes ".

At the Indépendants in 1905, his paintings were already regarded as in the Neo-Impressionist tradition by contemporary critics, and he apparently continued to paint in large mosaic strokes until some time in 1908.

At the Indépendants in 1905, his paintings were already regarded as in the Neo-Impressionist tradition by contemporary critics, and he apparently continued to paint in large mosaic strokes until some time in 1908.

To take his followers away from the corrupting influence of non-Doukhobors and Edinolichniki (' individual owners ') Doukhobors, and to find better conditions for agriculture, Verigin, starting in 1908, bought large tracts of land in south-eastern British Columbia.

Even as early as 1908, it was recognized that " The final, insurmountable problems with any form of mechanical scanning were the limited number of scans per second, which produced a flickering image, and the relatively large size of each hole in the disk, which resulted in poor resolution ".

Gogarty and his wife went on to have two more children, Dermot ( born 1908 ) and Brenda ( born 1911 ), and in 1917 Gogarty purchased Renyvle, a large country house in Connemara.

In 1908, a large deposit of copper ore was discovered in Outokumpu, in Northern Karelia.