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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
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Historical Events Of 1908
- January 21, 1908 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
- January 28, 1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
- February 2, 1908 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- April 7, 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
- May 20, 1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
- May 26, 1908 – At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
- July 23, 1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
- July 25, 1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- September 16, 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
- September 17, 1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
Who Were Born On 1908?
- February 6, 1908 – Edward Lansdale, American general and CIA agent (d. 1987)
- February 17, 1908 – Ants Eskola, Estonian actor and singer (d. 1989)
- April 1, 1908 – Harlow Rothert, American shot putter, lawyer, and academic (d. 1997)
- April 24, 1908 – Marceline Day, American actress (d. 2000)
- May 29, 1908 – Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)
- June 6, 1908 – Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (d. 1968)
- July 22, 1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
- September 15, 1908 – Kid Sheik, American trumpet player (Preservation Hall Jazz Band) (d. 1996)
- September 19, 1908 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (d. 1975)
- November 23, 1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright (d. 2006)