Historical Events In 1908

Mar 07 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council &announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"

Mar 08 Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids &2 teachers

Mar 26 The Prince Edward Island Assembly passes a law to ban all automobiles from its roads, since rescinded

Mar 08 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York

Mar 05 The birth of Rex Harrison, English actor

Mar 11 Laurier government creates National Battlefields Commission; partly to save Quebec's Plains of Abraham from property development.

Mar 17 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds)

Mar 25 The birth of David Lean, British director

Mar 05 First ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica

Mar 04 Collingwood OH primary school catches fire; 180 die

Mar 20 The birth of Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor

Mar 08 First International Women's Day, founded by German labor activist Clara Zetkin.

Aug 20 Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo 1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect

Aug 25 Allen Winter wins US first $50,000 trotting race

Aug 14 Race riot in Springfield Illinois

Aug 22 The birth of Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer

Aug 30 The birth of Fred MacMurray, American actor

Aug 17 Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay &Montgomery

Sep 16 General Motors founded by William C Durant

Sep 23 University of Alberta opens

Sep 09 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va

Sep 17 Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight

Feb 03 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act

Feb 12 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska &Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel

Feb 11 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland

Feb 11 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England

Feb 28 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran

Feb 29 Dutch scientists produce solid helium

Feb 10 In England Canadian Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 rounds to defend his world heavyweight boxing title

Feb 27 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)

Feb 27 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma

Feb 25 The tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens

Feb 18 US postage stamps in coils issued

Feb 11 The birth of Vivian Fuchs, British Antartic explorer

Apr 12 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts

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