WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1908
Find out what all happened January to November 1908

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

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia. (7. November 1908)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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