1908

Centuries: ( - Century XX - Century XXI)

Decades: 1850 - 1860 - 1870 - 1880 - 1890 - 1900 - 1910 - 1920 - 1930 - 1940 - 1950

Years: 1903 1907 - 1908 - 1913

Events

• 24 of January - Robert Baden-Powell comeca Escotismo.
• 1 of February - the king Carlos I of Portugal e its older son Filipe Luis, Duke of Bragança they are assassinated in Place of fetichism of the Paço in for militant Republicans.
• - Opening of in .
• Pious Pope X it modifies the denomination of the agency Court of the Inquisição Saint it stops Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Births

• 9 of January - Simone de Beauvoir, philosopher and writer.
• 22 of January - Lev Davidovich Landau, physicist and Soviet mathematician.
• 14 of March - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher; (m. )
• 27 of June - Pink Guimarães João, Brazilian writer (m. 1967).
• 22 of August - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (m. ).
• 15 of October - Jose Maria Nicholas, Portuguese ciclista.
• 14 of November - Joseph McCarthy, politician of U.S.A., senator of Wisconsin (m. ).
• 28 of November - Claude Lévi-Strauss, philosopher and anthropologist.
• 10 of December - Olivier Messiaen, French composer; (m. 1992)
• 31 of December - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian and "hunting" architect of nazistas (m. 2005)

Deaths

• - Grover Cleveland, 22º and 24º President of (n. 1837)
• 29 of September - Axe of Assis, Brazilian writer (n. 1839)

Prize Nobel

• - Gabriel Lippmann
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• - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich
• - Rudolf Christoph Eucken
• Peace - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer