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1908 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2048. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1908 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1908

• January 12, 1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
• February 1, 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon.
• February 2, 1908 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
• June 30, 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
• July 26, 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).
• August 8, 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
• September 23, 1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
• November 22, 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• November 30, 1908 – A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154.
• December 28, 1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily, Italy killing over 75,000.

Who Were Born On 1908?

• January 1, 1908 – Bill Tapia, American singer and guitarist (d. 2011)
• February 1, 1908 – Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist and banker (d. 1998)
• February 5, 1908 – Marie Baron, Dutch swimmer and diver (d. 1948)
• April 28, 1908 – Ethel Catherwood, American-Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower (d. 1987)
• June 18, 1908 – Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (d. 1997)
• June 25, 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (d. 2000)
• July 9, 1908 – Minor White, American photographer, critic, and educator (d. 1976)
• September 1, 1908 – Lou Kenton, English soldier and potter (d. 2012)
• September 13, 1908 – Sicco Mansholt, Dutch farmer and politician, 4th President of the European Commission (d. 1995)
• November 26, 1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989)