WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1908
Find out what all happened January to July 1908

The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia. (30. June 1908)

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

Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia. (10. May 1908)

The University of the Philippines is established. (18. June 1908)

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

Grand Canyon National Monument is created. (11. January 1908)

The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans. (23. July 1908)

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

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

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

H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (7. April 1908)

Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club. (9. March 1908)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to 2 months in jail earlier in the month. (30. January 1908)

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

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

SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches. (11. April 1908)

For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York, New York's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight. (1. January 1908)