WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1908
Find out what all happened July to November 1908

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

The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date. (14. October 1908)

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

The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan. (27. September 1908)

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

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia. (7. November 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)

University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded. (23. September 1908)

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

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

Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825. (1. October 1908)

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

A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154. (30. November 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)

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

United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation). (26. July 1908)

The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet. (22. November 1908)