WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1908
Find out what all happened January to August 1908

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

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

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

Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight. (8. August 1908)

Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah. (16. April 1908)

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

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

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

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

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

SOS is adopted as the international distress signal. (1. July 1908)

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

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

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)

American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later. (23. 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 Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people. (13. January 1908)

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