1908
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Events
- : Charlotte Cooper its wins 5° tito it characterizes it them to Wimbledon to 37 years and 282 days, becoming the oldest vincitrice of the torneo.
- - Bariums: the society of soccer of the city is born.
- - Tunguska (Russia): an enormous outbreak devasta 2150 square kilometers of forest.
- - : to Gilding Stones, stremato from the hard work, it cuts for first the goal of maratona supported from two judges of contest. For this aid it will come then disqualified and it will lose the gold medal.
- - Reggio Calabria: monday, hours 5.21 of the mattino; an earthquake that catches up 10° the degree of the Mercalli scale, accompanied from maremoto is involved also the city of ; most serious the budget of the victims: to Reggio Calabria approximately 15.000 died on one population of 45.000 inhabitants, and to approximately 80.000 died on one population of 130.000 inhabitants. Numerous the arrangement jolt that repeated in the following days the catastrophe, until the end of the month of March of 1909. It will come defined like one of the two more catastrophic sismici events that the Italian history memories.
Been born
- 9 January - Simone de Beauvoir, French scrittrice ( 1986)
- - , physicist nuclear ( )
- - , Russian physicist ( 1968)
- 6 February - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician ( 1999)
- 7 March - Anna Locksmiths Italian attrice ( 1973)
- 5 you open them - , attrice American ( 1989)
- 1 May - Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer ( 1968)
- - Vittorini Helium, Italian writer ( 1966)
- - Salvador Allende, President of Chile 1970-1973 († 1973)
- - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( )
- 9 september - Cesar Pavian, writer ( 1950)
- - Karl Abarth, Austrian automotive constructor ( 1979)
- - Remedios Varo, pittrice surrealist ( 1963)
- - Simon Wiesenthal, survivor to the nazi concentration camps ( 2005)
Died
- - Rome, Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter (n. )
- - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (n. )
- - Nikolay Andreyevitch Rimsky-Korsakoff, Russian composer (n. )
- - Antoine Henri Becquerel, French physicist, (n. )
- - Alexander Cruto, inventor of the lamp electrical worker with filament in carbon (n. )
Prizes Nobel
- : Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
- for the Literature: Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- : Paul Ehrlich, Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
- : Gabriel Lippmann
- for Chemistry: Ernest Rutherford
