WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1908
Find out what all happened February to December 1908

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

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

Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two. (2. December 1908)

Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League. (20. April 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154. (30. November 1908)

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

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