1908

• 3. January: The area of the one bases
• : Those Birresborner Source of lime tree becomes as non-profit recognized
• 8. November: Blessed speaking that
• 4. June: In those becomes Laeiszhalle, one concert-resounds inaugurated

Disasters

• : Fall of the "Matsushima" after a ammunition explosion Makung (Pescadores islands). From the 347 men crew 206 men dies
• : In Siberia that happens
• : The first dead one by an airplane misfortune into that
• : In the bill Radbod in the muensterlaendischen Bockum Hoevel (today city Hamm) occurs a schlagwetterexplosion; 348 miners come to death. Infolgedessesn is strengthened the supervision of mountain in the Ruhr district and intensified within the range of the safety requirements the basic research (degassing behavior of the coal, ventilation). After this misfortune for the mining industry electrical digging and helmet lamps are compellingly prescribed
• : The Sicilian cities and by a heavy earthquake are destroyed and over 70.000 humans die

Politics

• Strike of the department store employees in Berlin
• 1. January: Federal President in that becomes again
• 1. January: Restaurant reconciliation between and enters into force
• 1. January: The law over number-describe for bicycles steps into in strength
• 1. February: That Karl I. and its son, crown Prince shot. New king becomes the Ludwig of Philipps younger brother Manuel II
• 4. April: That Finnish becomes because of "anarchist convicition" of with immediate effect dissolved
• elections of the federal parliament: With 99 seats that remains strongest in
• : On pressure that that sets the liberal of again in strength
• 5. October: . Austria Hungary proclaims the Annexion independent Zarentum and appoints itself
• 2. December: The two-year becomes in to Chinese crowned

Science and technology

• and develop first Ionization detector
• invents that Coffee filter: From its idea a world enterprise, those develops from the "a woman enterprise" Melitta entrepreneurial group
• : First use of the new wireless telegraphic connection between and
• May: liquefies for the first time ( 4.2 K = -269 °C)
• 7. August: Those out in (: In first becomes Model T that finished
• : First powered flight in through in
• : That puts in an airplane in ( in the Austrian composer becomes
• 2. January: John D. Rockefeller donates formerly of in created university of approximately 2.2 million USD
• 2. January: The opera "a winter fairy tale" of becomes in uraufgefuehrt
• : Premiere of the Operette The man with the three women of to in
• : In that that becomes : First the world in Théatre you Gymnase in
• 4. November: Premiere of the opera Sealed of Leo sheet metal in
• 7. November: Premiere of the Operette The merry women of in : Premiere of the Operette The courageous soldier of to in
• : Premiere of the Operette The divorced woman of to Carl theatre in

• "Gespenstersonate" is uraufgefuehrt
• That Austrian publishes his essay Ornamentation and crime, by a clear demand for the end of the to the expression comes
• Appear of „The Gehuelfe"in

Sport

Entries of Leichtathletik world records see under the respective discipline under .

• 5. April: first international match that
• : in

• 2. January: Robert Planel, French composer (? : : : : Cus D'Amato, US-American box coach (? : : Bengt Stroemgren, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist (? : Else MOS hammer, German schneiderin and Philanthropin (? : : Lev Landau, Russian physicist (? : : : : Vivian Ernest fox, British geologist and polar researcher (? : : , († : : : : Paul Sixt, German kapellmeister (? : William McMahon, Australian politician and prime minister (? : : : : : : : : Josef Garovi, Swiss composer (? : Michael Redgrave, British actor (? : : Hernando Téllez, Colombian writer (? : : : : : : : , († : : : : : : : : : : : Erich Bielka, Austrian diplomat (? : Joe grant, US-American Comic author with Disney (? : : : : : : Hélène Boucher, French female pilot (? : : : : : : Francisco Marto, blessed, a witness of a Marienerscheinung (? : : : Sarit Dhanarajata, general and prime minister of Thailand (? : : : : : : , US-amerikanischer Komponist († 1975)
• 2. Juli: Thurgood Marshall, Bürgerrechtler, Mitglied des Obersten Gerichtshofs der USA († 1993)
• 3. Juli: Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, US-amerikanische Essayistin († 1991)
• 8. Juli: Harald Reinl, deutscher Filmregisseur und Drehhbuchautor († 1986)
• 8. Juli: Kaii Higashiyama, japanischer Landschaftsmaler († 1999)
• 8. Juli: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 41. Vizepräsident der USA († 1979)
• 20. Juli: Gunnar de Frumerie, schwedischer Komponist († 1987)
• 20. Juli: Walter Strzygowski, österreichischer Wirtschaftsgeograph († 1970)
• 26. Juli: Salvador Allende Gossens, Arzt, Präsident Chiles († 1973)
• 31. Juli: Franz Meyers, deutscher Politiker († 2002)
• 2. August: René Graetz, deutscher Bildhauer und Grafiker († 1974)
• 3. August: Ernesto Geisel, brasilianischer Politiker und Staatspräsident († 1996)
• 4. August: Inger Karén, erste Altistin an der Staatsoper Dresden († 1972)
• 5. August: Harold Holt, war australischer Politiker und 17. Premierminister († 1967)
• 6. August: Helen Jacobs, US-amerikanische Tennisspielerin († 1997)
• 6. August: Necdet Mahfi Ayral, türkischer Schauspieler († 2004)
• 6. August: Rufino Jiao Santos, archbishop of Manila and cardinal (? : : Nina Makarowa, Russian komponistin (? : : Edgar Faure, French politician and prime minister (? : : : : Kurt Wegner, artists (? : : : : : : : : : : : : George Simpson, US-American athlete and olympia participant (? : : : : : : : : : Edmond Pidoux Swiss writer (? : : : : : : : : Jean Yves Daniel Lesur, French composer and organist (? : : : : : : : : Kurt Heyns, German chemist (? : : : : Giséle friend, German Soziologin and fotografin (? : : : : : : : –
  • 9. January: : : Mikhail Tschigorin, Russian chess master (* : : : : : : : Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (* : Eduard Zeller, German philosopher (* : Henry E. Bird, English chess player (* : : Henry Campbell Bannerman, British politician and head of the government (* : : : : : : : : Stephen G. Cleveland, 22. and 24. President of the USA (* : : William Mason, US-American composer (* : : William Randal Cremer, British politician and Nobelpreistraeger (* : : : : Friedrich Paulsen, paedagogue and Kant researcher (* : : Edmund Kretschmer, German composer (* : : : Machado de Assis, Brazilian author of novels, kurzgeschichten and poems (* : : : : Heinrich keel Kiel, German pioneer of the Sonderschulpaedagogik (* :
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