WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1908
Find out what all happened January to October 1908

The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people. (4. March 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. (25. July 1908)

The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army. (1. April 1908)

The Norwegian football club SK Brann was founded. (26. September 1908)

Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru. (18. June 1908)

A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. (12. January 1908)

The General Motors Corporation is founded. (16. September 1908)

At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) 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. (26. May 1908)

The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed. (22. September 1908)

Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France. (17. August 1908)

Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening. (20. May 1908)

Khilafat Day – the day of establishment of Khilafat in Islam Ahmadiyya. (27. May 1908)

The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality. (17. September 1908)

The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people. (13. January 1908)

Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco. (28. January 1908)

The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women. (15. January 1908)

Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking a crisis. (6. October 1908)

King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon. (1. February 1908)

The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell. (24. January 1908)

Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School. (8. April 1908)