Table of Contents
499 relations: Abd al-Hafid of Morocco, Abdelaziz of Morocco, Abdul Hamid II, Abraham Maslow, Aden Adde, Adolf Hitler, Aerial lift, Ahmadiyya, Ahmed Balafrej, Air burst, Alfons Rebane, Alfred Hershey, Alfred Proksch, Alistair Cooke, Alois Hudec, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Amintore Fanfani, Anna Magnani, Annie Ryder Gracey, Anton Nilson, Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Armstrong Whitworth, Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Arthur Goldberg, Arthur Mee, Arthur O'Connell, Arturo de Córdova, Arturo Frondizi, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Athens, Augustus Le Plongeon, Austria-Hungary, Éleuthère Mascart, Élie Metchnikoff, Baby Face Nelson, Balthus, Bank of Communications, Baron Ignaz von Plener, Battleship, Beijing, Belfast, Belgian Congo, Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, Bette Davis, Billy the Kid, Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1908), Bleichert, Bo Yibo, Bolivia, ... Expand index (449 more) »
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (عبد الحفيظ بن الحسن العلوي) or Moulay Abdelhafid (24 February 1875 – 4 April 1937) (عبد الحفيظ) was the Sultan of Morocco from 1908 to 1912 and a member of the Alaouite Dynasty.
See 1908 and Abd al-Hafid of Morocco
Abdelaziz of Morocco
Moulay Abd al-Aziz bin Hassan (عبد العزيز بن الحسن), born on 24 February 1881 in Marrakesh and died on 10 June 1943 in Tangier, was a sultan of Morocco from 9 June 1894 to 21 August 1908, as a ruler of the 'Alawi dynasty.
See 1908 and Abdelaziz of Morocco
Abdul Hamid II
Abdulhamid or Abdul Hamid II (Abd ul-Hamid-i s̱ānī; II.; 21 September 184210 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state.
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.
Aden Adde
Aden Abdulle Osman Da’ar (Aadan Cabdulle Cismaan Dacar, آدمعبد الله عثمان دعر.) (9 December 1908 – 8 June 2007), popularly known as Aden Adde, was a Somali politician who served as the first president of the Somali Republic from 1 July 1960 to 6 July 1967.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.
Aerial lift
An aerial lift, also known as a cable car or ropeway, is a means of cable transport in which cabins, cars, gondolas, or open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of one or more cables.
Ahmadiyya
Ahmadiyya, officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ) is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions.
Ahmed Balafrej
Ahmed Balafrej (Arabic: أحمد بلافريج; September 5, 1908 – April 14, 1990) was the second Prime Minister of Morocco between May 12, 1958, and December 2, 1958.
Air burst
An air burst or airburst is the detonation of an explosive device such as an anti-personnel artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of on contact with the ground or target.
Alfons Rebane
Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane (24 June 1908 – 8 March 1976) was an Estonian military commander.
Alfred Hershey
Alfred Day Hershey (December 4, 1908 – May 22, 1997) was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist.
Alfred Proksch
Alfred Proksch (December 11, 1908 – January 3, 2011) was an Austrian Olympic athlete and graphic designer.
Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke (born Alfred Cooke; 20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States.
Alois Hudec
Alois Hudec (12 July 1908 – 23 January 1997) was a Czechoslovak gymnast and an individual World and Olympic Champion in the sport.
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (ΑΚΑ) is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority.
See 1908 and Alpha Kappa Alpha
Amintore Fanfani
Amintore Fanfani (6 February 1908 – 20 November 1999) was an Italian politician and statesman, who served as 32nd prime minister of Italy for five separate terms.
Anna Magnani
Anna Maria Magnani (7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian actress.
Annie Ryder Gracey
Annie Ryder Gracey (Ryder; pen name, Mrs. J. T. Gracey; November 4, 1836 - February 17, 1908) was an American author and missionary of the long nineteenth century.
See 1908 and Annie Ryder Gracey
Anton Nilson
Anton Nilson (11 November 1887 – 16 August 1989) was a Swedish terrorist and militant socialist who was convicted of murder for a fatal bombing in 1908.
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì
Antonio Starrabba (or Starabba), Marquess of Rudinì (16 April 18397 August 1908) was an Italian statesman, Prime Minister of Italy between 1891 and 1892 and from 1896 until 1898.
See 1908 and Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì
Armstrong Whitworth
Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century.
See 1908 and Armstrong Whitworth
Arnold Burrowes Kemball
General Sir Arnold Burrowes Kemball, KCB, KCSI, (18 November 1820, Bombay – 21 September 1908, London), was a British Army officer who took part in the First Afghan War, the Persian War, the Serbian-Ottoman War and the Russo-Turkish War, and was British representative in the Persian Gulf and Consul at Baghdad.
See 1908 and Arnold Burrowes Kemball
Arthur Goldberg
Arthur Joseph Goldberg (August 8, 1908January 19, 1990) was an American statesman and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. Secretary of Labor, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Arthur Mee
Arthur Henry Mee (21 July 187527 May 1943) was an English writer, journalist and educator.
Arthur O'Connell
Arthur Joseph O'Connell (March 29, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American stage, film and television actor, who achieved prominence in character roles in the 1950s.
Arturo de Córdova
Arturo García Rodríguez (8 May 1908 – 3 November 1973), known professionally as Arturo de Córdova, was a Mexican actor who appeared in over a hundred films.
See 1908 and Arturo de Córdova
Arturo Frondizi
Arturo Frondizi Ércoli (October 28, 1908 – April 18, 1995) was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher and politician, who was elected President of Argentina and ruled between May 1, 1958, and March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown by a military coup.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering theoretical, observational, and instrumental astronomy and astrophysics.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
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Augustus Le Plongeon
Augustus Henry Julian Le Plongeon (4 May 1825 – 13 December 1908) was a British-American antiquarian and photographer who studied the pre-Columbian ruins of America, particularly those of the Maya civilization on the northern Yucatán Peninsula.
See 1908 and Augustus Le Plongeon
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
Éleuthère Mascart
Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart (20 February 1837 – 24 August 1908) was a French physicist, a researcher in optics, electricity, magnetism, and meteorology.
See 1908 and Éleuthère Mascart
Élie Metchnikoff
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Илья Ильич Мечников; – 15 July 1916), also spelled Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry and also at archive.org best known for his pioneering research in immunology (study of immune systems) and thanatology (study of death).
Baby Face Nelson
Lester Joseph Gillis (December 6, 1908 – November 27, 1934), also known as George Nelson and Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber who became a criminal partner of John Dillinger, when he helped Dillinger escape from prison, in Crown Point, Indiana.
Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist.
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Bank of Communications
Bank of Communications (BOCOM or BankComm) is the fifth-largest bank in mainland China.
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Baron Ignaz von Plener
Baron Ignaz von Plener (21 May 1810 – 17 February 1908) was an Austrian statesman.
See 1908 and Baron Ignaz von Plener
Battleship
A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower.
Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
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Belfast
Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.
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Belgian Congo
The Belgian Congo (Congo belge,; Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology (Franklin Cummings Tech) is a private college of engineering and industrial technologies in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.
Billy the Kid
Henry McCarty (September 17 or November 23, 1859July 14, 1881), alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who is alleged to have killed 21 men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21.
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1908)
Bjarni Benediktsson (30 April 1908 – 10 July 1970) was an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party who served as prime minister of Iceland from 1963 to 1970.
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Bleichert
Bleichert, short for Adolf Bleichert & Co., was a German engineering firm founded in 1874 by Adolf Bleichert.
Bo Yibo
Bo Yibo (17 February 1908 – 15 January 2007) was a Chinese politician.
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Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
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Bolzano
Bolzano (or; Bozen; Balsan or Bulsan) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol, in Northern Italy.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Босна и Херцеговина), sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.
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Bosnian Crisis
The Bosnian Crisis, also known as the Annexation Crisis (Bosnische Annexionskrise, Bosna Krizi; Анексиона криза) or the First Balkan Crisis, erupted on 5 October 1908 when Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, territories formerly within the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire but under Austro-Hungarian administration since 1878.
Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Boyertown, Pennsylvania
Boyertown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Boyerschteddel) is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes
Minas Geraes, spelled Minas Gerais in some sources, was a dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy.
See 1908 and Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes
Bristol Channel
The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren, literal translation: "Severn Sea") is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales (from Pembrokeshire to the Vale of Glamorgan) and South West England (from Devon, Somerset to North Somerset).
Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen (born Christian Ludolf Ebsen Jr.; April 2, 1908 – July 6, 2003), also known as Frank "Buddy" Ebsen, was an American actor and dancer.
Buster Crabbe
Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II (February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor.
Butch Cassidy
Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West.
Canton, Ohio
Canton is a city in and the county seat of Stark County, Ohio, United States.
Carl Koldewey
Carl Christian Koldewey (26 October 1837 – 17 May 1908) was a German Arctic explorer.
Carlos Arias Navarro
Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquess of Arias Navarro (11 December 1908 – 27 November 1989) was the prime Minister of Spain during the final years of the Francoist dictatorship and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.
See 1908 and Carlos Arias Navarro
Carlos I of Portugal
''Dom'' Carlos I (28 September 1863 – 1 February 1908), known as the Diplomat (o Diplomata), the Martyr, and the Oceanographer, among many other names, was King of Portugal from 1889 until his assassination in 1908.
See 1908 and Carlos I of Portugal
Carlos Lleras Restrepo
Carlos Alberto Lleras Restrepo (12 April 1908 – 27 September 1994) was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served the 22nd President of Colombia from 1966 to 1970.
See 1908 and Carlos Lleras Restrepo
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress.
Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn Astor (September 22, 1830 – October 30, 1908) was a prominent American socialite of the second half of the 19th century who led the Four Hundred, high society of New York City in the Guilded Age.
See 1908 and Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Cecilia Seghizzi
Cecilia Seghizzi (5 September 1908 – 22 November 2019) was an Italian composer, painter and teacher.
Charles N. Sims
Charles N. Sims (May 18, 1835 – March 27, 1908) was an American Methodist preacher and the third chancellor of Syracuse University, serving from 1881 to 1893.
Charles Upham
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham (21 September 1908 – 22 November 1994) was a New Zealand soldier decorated for actions during World War II.
Chester Gillette
Chester Ellsworth Gillette (August 9, 1883 – March 30, 1908), was an American convicted murderer, who became the basis for the fictional character Clyde Griffiths in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy.
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chivu Stoica
Chivu Stoica (the family name being Chivu; 8 August 1908 – 18 February 1975) was a leading Romanian Communist politician, who served as 48th Prime Minister of Romania.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology.
See 1908 and Claude Lévi-Strauss
Cleveland
Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Collinwood school fire
The Collinwood school fire (also known as the Lake View School fire) was a major disaster that occurred at the Lake View School in Collinwood, Ohio, when a fire erupted on March 4, 1908, killing 172 students, two teachers and one rescuer.
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Comet
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.
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Committee of Union and Progress
The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP, also translated as the Society of Union and Progress; script) was a revolutionary group and political party active between 1889 and 1926 in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.
See 1908 and Committee of Union and Progress
Congo Free State
The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo (État indépendant du Congo), was a large state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908.
Dan Maskell
Daniel Maskell (11 April 1908 – 10 December 1992) was an English tennis professional who later became a radio and television commentator on the game.
David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema.
David Oistrakh
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (– 24 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor.
December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Demetrios Vikelas
Demetrios Vikelas (also written as Demetrius Bikelas; Δημήτριος Βικέλας; 15 February 1835 – 20 July 1908) was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the co-founder and first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896.
See 1908 and Demetrios Vikelas
Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Detroit Tigers
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit.
Distress signal
A distress signal, also known as a distress call, is an internationally recognized means for obtaining help.
Dmitry Ustinov
Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (Дмитрий Фёдорович Устинов; 30 October 1908 – 20 December 1984) was a Soviet politician and a Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Don Ameche
Don Ameche (born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian.
Don Bradman
Sir Donald George Bradman (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
Dorando Pietri
Dorando Pietri (often wrongly spelt Petri; 16 October 1885 – 7 February 1942) was an Italian long-distance runner.
Doria Shafik
Doria Shafik (درية شفيق‎; 14 December 1908 – 20 September 1975) was an Egyptian feminist, poet and editor, and one of the principal leaders of the women's liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s.
Dorothea Leighton
Dorothea Cross Leighton (September 2, 1908 – August 15, 1989) was an American social psychiatrist and a founder of the field of medical anthropology.
See 1908 and Dorothea Leighton
Dreadnought
The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century.
Drusilla Wilson
Drusilla Wilson (Cox; May 3, 1815 – June 9, 1908) was an American temperance leader and Quaker pastor.
Durham Stevens
Durham White Stevens (February 1, 1851 – March 25, 1908) was an American diplomat and later an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working for the Japanese colonial office in Korea, the Resident-General.
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Ed Heinemann
Edward Henry Heinemann (March 14, 1908 – November 26, 1991) was a military aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft Company.
Eddie Tolan
Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan (September 29, 1908 – January 30, 1967), nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American track and field athlete who competed in sprints.
Edgar Faure
Edgar Jean Faure (18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.
Edmondo De Amicis
Edmondo De Amicis (21 October 1846 – 11 March 1908) was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer.
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Edward MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period.
Edward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
Edward Teller
Edward Teller (Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design.
Eleanor Kirk
Eleanor Ames (née, Easterbrook; after first marriage, Child; after second marriage, Hubbell; after third marriage, Ames; October 7, 1831 – June 20, 1908), better known by her pen name, Eleanor Kirk, was an American author, businesswoman, newspaper publisher, and suffragist.
Eliza A. Pittsinger
Eliza A. Pittsinger (March 18, 1837 - February 22, 1908), known as "The California Poetess", was an American poet of the long nineteenth century.
See 1908 and Eliza A. Pittsinger
Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer.
Emmanuelle Cinquin
Emmanuelle Cinquin, NDS (born 16 November 1908 – 20 October 2008), widely known just as Sœur Emmanuelle, was a religious sister of both Belgian and French origins, noted for her involvement in working for the plight of the poor in Turkey and Egypt.
See 1908 and Emmanuelle Cinquin
Emperor of China
Throughout Chinese history, "Emperor" was the superlative title held by the monarchs who ruled various imperial dynasties or Chinese empires.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Empress Dowager Cixi (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost 50 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Enomoto Takeaki
Viscount was a Japanese samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu period Japan, who remained faithful to the Tokugawa shogunate and fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War.
Enver Hoxha
Enver Hoxha (16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who was the ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985.
Ephemeris time
The term ephemeris time (often abbreviated ET) can in principle refer to time in association with any ephemeris (itinerary of the trajectory of an astronomical object).
Ernest Fenollosa
Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (February 18, 1853 – September 21, 1908) was an American art historian of Japanese art, professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University.
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.
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Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.
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Esther Pugh
Esther Pugh (August 31, 1834 – March 29, 1908) was an American temperance reformer of the long nineteenth century.
Estrellita Castro
Estrella Castro Navarrete known professionally as Estrellita Castro (26 June 1908 in Seville – 10 July 1983 in Madrid) was a Spanish singer and actress.
See 1908 and Estrellita Castro
Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann; January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.
Eugen Suchoň
Eugen Suchoň (September 25, 1908 – August 5, 1993) was one of the most important Slovak composers of the 20th century.
Eve Arden
Eve Arden (born Eunice Mary Quedens, April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an American film, radio, stage and television actress.
Fearless Nadia
Mary Ann Evans (8 January 1908 – 9 January 1996), also known by her stage name Fearless Nadia, was an Australian-Indian actress and stuntwoman, who worked in Indian cinema.
February 29
February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Federico Chueca
Pío Estanislao Federico Chueca y Robres (5 May 1846 – 20 June 1908) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas and author of La gran vía along with Joaquín Valverde Durán in 1886.
Felipe Calderón (Filipino politician)
Felipe Gonzáles Calderón y Roca, also known as Felipe G. Calderon (April 4, 1868 – June 6, 1908) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, and intellectual, known as the "Father of the Malolos Constitution".
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Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria; 26 February 1861 – 10 September 1948) was Prince of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1908 and Tsar of Bulgaria from 1908 until his abdication in 1918.
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Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Ferdinando IV, Granduca di Toscana; 10 June 1835 – 17 January 1908) was the last Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1859 to 1860.
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Feyenoord
Feyenoord Rotterdam is a Dutch professional football club based in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in the Dutch football.
Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Four figure skating events were contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, but they were held in October 1908, six months after most of the other Olympic events at the 1908 Games.
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Financial services
Financial services are economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.
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Ford Model T
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.
Ford Piquette Avenue Plant
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is a former factory located within the Milwaukee Junction area of Detroit, Michigan, in the United States.
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Fort Myer
Fort Myer is the previous name used for a U.S. Army post next to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Founded during the American Civil War as Fort Cass and Fort Whipple, the post merged in 2005 with the neighboring Marine Corps installation, Henderson Hall, and is today named Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall.
François Coppée
François Edouard Joachim Coppée (26 January 1842 – 23 May 1908) was a French poet and novelist.
Francisco and Jacinta Marto
Francisco de Jesus Marto (11 June 1908 – 4 April 1919) and Jacinta de Jesus Marto (5 March 1910 – 20 February 1920) were siblings from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima, Portugal, who, with their cousin Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005), reportedly witnessed three apparitions of the Angel of Peace in 1916, and several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Cova da Iria in 1917.
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Franco-British Exhibition
The Franco-British Exhibition was a large public fair held in London between 14 May and 31 October 1908.
See 1908 and Franco-British Exhibition
Frank Robison
Frank DeHass Robison (1852 – September 25, 1908) was an American businessman, best known as a baseball executive.
Fred MacMurray
Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor.
Fred Phillips (make-up artist)
Frederick Beauregard Phillips (April 26, 1908 – March 21, 1993), also known as Fred Philipps, was a Hollywood make-up artist.
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Frederick Cook
Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908.
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, (15 January 1841 – 14 June 1908) styled as Hon.
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Fredrik Bajer
Fredrik Bajer (21 April 1837 – 22 January 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 together with Klas Pontus Arnoldson.
Gabriel Lippmann
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann ForMemRS (16 August 1845 – 13 July 1921) was a Luxembourgish-French physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.
Garfield Todd
Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd (13 July 1908 – 13 October 2002) was a liberal Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1953 to 1958 and later became an opponent of white minority rule in Rhodesia.
Günther Prien
Günther Prien (16 January 1908 – presumed 8 March 1941) was a German U-boat commander during World War II.
Geli Raubal
Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal (4 June 1908 – 18 September 1931) was an Austrian woman who was the half-niece of Adolf Hitler.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond (born Raymond Guion; August 13, 1908 – May 3, 1998) was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s.
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
The was an informal agreement between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan whereby Japan would not allow laborers further emigration to the United States and the United States would not impose restrictions on Japanese immigrants already present in the country.
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George Pal
George Pal (born György Pál Marczincsak;; February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer, principally associated with the fantasy and science-fiction genres.
Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).
Giovanni Leone
Giovanni Leone (3 November 1908 – 9 November 2001) was an Italian politician, jurist and university professor.
Grand Harbour
The Grand Harbour (il-Port il-Kbir; Porto Grande), also known as the Port of Valletta, is a natural harbour on the island of Malta.
Great Locomotive Chase
The Great Locomotive Chase (a portion of the Andrews' Raid or the Mitchel Raid) was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War.
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Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
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Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.
Guangxu Emperor
The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 – 14 November 1908), also known by his temple name Emperor Dezong of Qing, personal name Zaitian, was the tenth emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
H. H. Asquith
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British politician and statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.
Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).
Hans Schaffner
Hans Schaffner (16 December 1908, in Interlaken – 26 November 2004 in Bern) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1961–1970).
Harland & Wolff
Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding and fabrication company headquartered in London with sites in Belfast, Arnish, Appledore and Methil.
Harold Holt
Harold Edward Holt (5 August 190817 December 1967) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967.
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Harrisonburg is an independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Hákun Djurhuus
Hákun Djurhuus (11 December 1908 – 22 September 1987) was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands from 1963 to 1967.
Hélène Boucher
Hélène Boucher (23 May 1908 — 30 November 1934) was a well-known French pilot in the early 1930s, when she set several women's world speed records and the all-comers record for 1,000 km (621 mi) in 1934.
Helen Jacobs
Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 – June 2, 1997) was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles.
Henri Becquerel
Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover radioactivity.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film.
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Henri Farman
Henri Farman (26 May 1874 – 17 July 1958) was a British-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman.
Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999)
Henri of Orléans, Count of Paris (Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie d'Orléans; 5 July 1908 – 19 June 1999), was the Orléanist pretender to the defunct throne of France as Henry VI from 1940 until his death in 1999.
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Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (né Campbell; 7 September 183622 April 1908) was a British statesman and Liberal politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908.
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Henry Chadwick (writer)
Henry Chadwick (October 5, 1824 – April 20, 1908) was an English-American sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian, often called the "Father of Baseball" for his early reporting on and contributions to the development of the game.
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.
Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan (born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor.
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Holger Drachmann
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (9 October 1846 – 14 January 1908) was a Danish poet, dramatist and painter.
Hugo Distler
August Hugo Distler (24 June 1908 – 1 November 1942)Slonimsky & Kuhn, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, v. 2, p. 889 was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.
Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.
Ignacio de Veintemilla
Mario Ignacio Francisco Tomás Antonio de Veintemilla y Villacís (31 July 1828 – 19 July 1908) was President of Ecuador 18 December 1876 to 9 July 1883.
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Ilya Frank
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union.
Imogene Coca
Imogene Coca (born Emogeane Coca; November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001) was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows.
Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy.
International Radiotelegraph Convention (1906)
The first International Radiotelegraph Convention (French: Convention Radiotélégraphique Internationale) was held in Berlin, Germany, in 1906.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill (14 February 18641 August 1926; birth date sometimes given as 21 January 1864) was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye
Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye were an English musical variety double act who were known for performing syncopated piano duets together from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, one of several called the "Dean of Science Fiction".
Jacob Parrott
Jacob Wilson Parrott (July 17, 1843 – December 22, 1908) was an American soldier and carpenter.
Jacob W. Davis
Jacob William Davis (born Jākobs Jufess; Якоб Яковлевич Юфес, May 14, 1831 – January 20, 1908) was a Russian-American tailor of Latvian Jewish origin who is credited with inventing modern jeans.
James M. Spangler
James Murray Spangler (November 20, 1848 – January 23, 1915) was an American inventor, salesman, and janitor who invented the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner that revolutionized household carpet cleaning.
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James Madison University
James Madison University (JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor.
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
Japanese Americans
are Americans of Japanese ancestry.
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Józef Gosławski (sculptor)
Józef Jan Gosławski (24 April 1908 – 23 January 1963) was a Polish sculptor and medallic artist.
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Jean Delannoy
Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
Jean-Pierre Wimille
Jean-Pierre Wimille (26 February 1908 – 28 January 1949) was a French racing driver and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
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Jef Lambeaux
Jef Lambeaux or Josef Lambeaux (14 January 18525 June 1908) was a Belgian sculptor.
Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories.
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
John Berthier
John Baptiste Berthier (February 24, 1840 – October 16, 1908) was a Catholic missionary and educator.
John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun
John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, (25 September 1860 – 29 February 1908) was a British aristocrat and statesman who served as the first governor-general of Australia, in office from 1901 to 1902.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual.
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John Mills
Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
Johnny Hayes
John Joseph Hayes (April 10, 1886 – August 25, 1965) was an American athlete, a member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and winner of the marathon race at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Jonas Lie (writer)
Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie (6 November 1833 – 5 July 1908) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who, together with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Alexander Kielland, is considered to have been one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature.
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Jorge Oteiza
Jorge Oteiza (October 21, 1908 – April 9, 2003), was a Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer from the Basque Autonomous Community, renowned for being one of the main theorists on Basque modern art.
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957.
Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish and British physicist.
Josephine E. Keating
Josephine E. Keating (Smith; 1838 – November 8, 1908) was an American literary critic, musician and music teacher of the long nineteenth century.
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July 2
This date marks the halfway point of the year.
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Kaii Higashiyama
was a Japanese writer and artist particularly renowned for his Nihonga style paintings.
Karl Möbius
Karl August Möbius (7 February 1825 in Eilenburg – 26 April 1908 in Berlin) was a German zoologist who was a pioneer in the field of ecology and a former director of the Natural History Museum in Berlin.
Karl Swenson
Karl Swenson (July 23, 1908 – October 8, 1978) was an American theatre, radio, film, and television actor.
Kingdom of Bulgaria
The Tsardom of Bulgaria (translit), also referred to as the Third Bulgarian Tsardom (translit), sometimes translated in English as the "Kingdom of Bulgaria", or simply Bulgaria, was a constitutional monarchy in Southeastern Europe, which was established on 5 October (O.S. 22 September) 1908, when the Bulgarian state was raised from a principality to a tsardom.
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Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Klas Pontus Arnoldson (27 October 1844 – 20 February 1916) was a Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 with Fredrik Bajer.
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Korean Americans
Korean Americans are Americans who are of full or partial Korean ethnic descent.
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai (Krasnoyarskiy kray) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) located in Siberia.
Krystyna Skarbek
Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, (1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.
Kurt Böhme
Kurt Böhme (5 May 1908 – 20 December 1989) was a German bass.
Kurt Eichhorn
Kurt Peter Eichhorn (4 August 1908 – 29 June 1994), was a German conductor.
Laurence Naismith
Laurence Naismith (born Lawrence Johnson; 14 December 1908 – 5 June 1992) was an English actor.
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Lauri Lehtinen
Lauri Aleksanteri Lehtinen (10 August 1908 – 4 December 1973) was a Finnish long-distance runner, winner of a controversial 5000 m race at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Léon Delagrange
Ferdinand Marie Léon Delagrange (13 March 1872 – 4 January 1910) was a sculptor and pioneering French aviator who was one of the top aviators in the world.
Le Moustier
Le Moustier is an archeological site consisting of two rock shelters in Peyzac-le-Moustier, a village in the Dordogne, France.
Lee Krasner
Lenore "Lee" Krasner (born Lena Krassner; October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an American painter and visual artist active primarily in New York whose work has been associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Leonor Fini
Leonor Fini (30 August 1907 – 18 January 1996) was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women.
Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II (Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor; Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; 9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
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Leroy Anderson
Leroy Anderson (June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler.
Leslie Green
Leslie William Green (6 February 1875 – 31 August 1908) was an English architect.
Lev Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau (Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.
Lev Pontryagin
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin (Лев Семёнович Понтрягин, also written Pontriagin or Pontrjagin, first name sometimes anglicized as Leon) (3 September 1908 – 3 May 1988) was a Soviet mathematician.
Lew Ayres
Lewis Frederick Ayres III (December 28, 1908 – December 30, 1996) was an American actor whose film and television career spanned 65 years.
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader.
Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.
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Lisbon Regicide
The Lisbon Regicide or Regicide of 1908 (Regicídio de 1908) was the assassination of King Carlos I of Portugal and the Algarves and his heir-apparent, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, by assassins sympathetic to Republican interests and aided by elements within the Portuguese Carbonária, disenchanted politicians and anti-monarchists.
List of heads of government of Sudan
This article lists the heads of government of Sudan, from the establishment of the office of Chief Minister in 1952 until the present day.
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List of lawmen and prime ministers of the Faroe Islands
The prime minister of the Faroe Islands is the head of government of the Faroe Islands.
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Lita Grey
Lita Grey (born Lillita Louise MacMurray, April 15, 1908 – December 29, 1995), who was known for most of her life as Lita Grey Chaplin, was an American actress.
Louis L'Amour
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal
Dom Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Duke of Braganza (21 March 1887 – 1 February 1908) was the eldest son and heir-apparent of King Carlos I of Portugal.
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Luis Regueiro
Luis Regueiro Pagola (1 July 1908 – 6 December 1995), sometimes nicknamed Corso, was a footballer, and an Olympian from the Basque Country in the north of Spain who played as a forward.
Lupe Vélez
María Guadalupe Villalobos "Lupe" Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 14, 1944) was a Mexican actress, singer, and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Lydia Thompson
Lydia Thompson (born Eliza Thompson; 19 February 1838 – 17 November 1908), was an English dancer, comedian, actor and theatrical producer.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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M. M. Kaye
Mary Margaret "Mollie" Kaye (21 August 1908 – 29 January 2004) was a British writer.
Macedonia (region)
Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe.
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Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme VelhoVainfas, p. 505.
Mae Questel
Mae Questel (born Mae Kwestel; September 13, 1908 – January 4, 1998) was an American actress.
Make-up artist
A make-up artist, also called a makeup artist, and often shortened to MUA, is an artist whose medium is the human body, applying makeup and prosthetics on others for theatre, television, film, fashion, magazines and other similar productions including all aspects of the modeling industry.
Malmö
Malmö (Malmö,; Malmø) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Skåne (Scania).
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Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto.
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Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of, usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes.
March
March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Marina Semyonova
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova (Марина Тимофеевна Семёнова, – 9 June 2010) was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina.
Mary F. Eastman
Mary F. Eastman (October 20, 1833 - November 1, 1908) was an American educator, lecturer, writer, and suffragist of the long nineteenth century.
Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.
Masjed Soleyman
Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سلیمان) is a city in the Central District of Masjed Soleyman County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Max Grundig
Max Grundig (7 May 1908 – 8 December 1989) was the German founder of electronics company Grundig AG.
Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor.
Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years.
Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Meteoroid
A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.
Michael DeBakey
Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
Michael Maltese
Michael Maltese (February 6, 1908 – February 22, 1981) was an American storyboard artist for classic animated cartoon shorts.
Michael Redgrave
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English actor and filmmaker.
Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.
Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen).
Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
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Milton Berle
Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger;; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian.
Minas Geraes-class battleship
Two Minas Geraes-class battleships were built for the Brazilian Navy in the early twentieth century.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
The is an executive department of the Government of Japan, and is responsible for the country's foreign policy and international relations.
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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam.
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Modified Mercalli intensity scale
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS) measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location.
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Mohammad Natsir
Mohammad Natsir (17 July 19086 February 1993) was an Islamic scholar and politician.
Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub
Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub (translit; 17 May 1908 – 23 June 1976) was both Foreign Minister and then the 5th Prime Minister of Sudan.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
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Neanderthal
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.
Nestor Mesta Chayres
Néstor Mesta Cháyres (aka Nestor Chaires, Ciudad Lerdo, February 26, 1908 - Mexico City, June 29, 1971) was an acclaimed tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of Spanish songs, boleros and Mexican romantic music on the international concert stage.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (書 26 May 190812 June 1976) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the first vice president of South Vietnam, serving under President Ngô Đình Diệm from 1956 until Diệm's overthrow and assassination in 1963.
Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso
Nicolás Salmerón Alonso (10 April 1838 – 21 September 1908) was a Spanish politician, president of the First Spanish Republic.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five.
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Nimrod (ship)
Nimrod was a wooden-hulled, three-masted sailing ship with auxiliary steam engine that was built in Scotland in 1867 as a whaler.
Nimrod Expedition
The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
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North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
Nozu Michitsura
Field Marshal The Marquis was a Japanese field marshal and leading figure in the early Imperial Japanese Army.
October
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Old Style and New Style dates
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively.
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Old Tom Morris
Thomas Mitchell Morris (16 June 1821 – 24 May 1908), otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, and The Grand Old Man of Golf, was a Scottish golfer.
Olivetti
Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines.
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Otto Hauser
Otto Hauser (April 12/27, 1874 in Wädenswil – June 14/19, 1932 in Berlin) was a Swiss prehistorian.
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Ouida
Maria Louise Ramé (1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908), going by the name Marie Louise de la Ramée and known by the pseudonym Ouida, was an English novelist.
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Pablo de Sarasate
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908), commonly known as Pablo de Sarasate, was a Spanish (Navarrese) violinist, composer and conductor of the Romantic period.
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Paik Too-chin
Paik Too-chin or Baek Du-jin (October 7, 1908 – September 5, 1993) was a South Korean politician.
Panathinaikos A.O.
Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, literally in English: "Panathenaic Athletic Club" or Panathinaikos A.C.), also known simply as Panathinaikós, is a major Greek multi-sport club based in the City of Athens.
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Pat Garrett
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid.
Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
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Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy.
Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid (January 10, 1908 – March 29, 1992) was an Austrian-American actor, director, producer, and writer.
Paul Taffanel
Claude-Paul Taffanel (16 September 1844 – 22 November 1908) was a French flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century.
Paula Nenette Pepin
Antonietta Paule Pepin Fitzpatrick (9 April 1908 – 14 November 1990), also known as Nenette, was a French composer, pianist and lyricist.
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Peg Entwistle
Millicent Lilian 'Peg' Entwistle (5 February 1908 – 16 September 1932) was a British stage and screen actress.
Penny Post
The Penny Post is any one of several postal systems in which normal letters could be sent for one penny.
Percy Faith
Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian–American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of instrumental ballads and Christmas standards.
Percy Williams (sprinter)
Percy Alfred Williams (May 19, 1908 – November 29, 1982) was a Canadian athlete, winner of the 100 and 200 metres races at the 1928 Summer Olympics and a former world record holder for the 100 metres sprint.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences is a fortnightly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society.
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Pietà, Malta
Pietà (Tal-Pietà) is a small harbour town in the Eastern Region of Malta, located near the outskirts of the capital city Valletta.
Podkamennaya Tunguska
The Podkamennaya Tunguska (Подкаменная Тунгуска, literally Tunguska under the stones; Дулгу Катэнӈа, Ket: Ӄо’ль) also known as Middle Tunguska or Stony Tunguska, is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
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President of Argentina
The president of Argentina (Presidente de Argentina; officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation Presidente de la Nación Argentina.) is both head of state and head of government of Argentina.
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President of Chile
The President of Chile (Presidente de Chile), officially known as the President of the Republic of Chile (Presidente de la República de Chile), is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Chile.
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President of Cuba
The president of Cuba (Presidente de Cuba), officially the president of the Republic of Cuba (Presidente de la República de Cuba), is the head of state of Cuba.
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President of Ecuador
The president of Ecuador (Presidente del Ecuador), officially called the constitutional president of the Republic of Ecuador (Presidente Constitucional de la República del Ecuador), serves as the head of state and head of government of Ecuador.
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President of Italy
The president of Italy, officially titled President of the Italian Republic (Presidente della Repubblica Italiana), is the head of state of Italy.
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President of Liberia
The president of the Republic of Liberia is the head of state and government of Liberia.
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President of the International Olympic Committee
The president of the International Olympic Committee is head of the executive board that assumes the general overall responsibility for the administration of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the management of its affairs.
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President of the Republic (Spain)
President of the Republic (Presidente de la República) was the title of the head of state during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939).
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President of the Swiss Confederation
The president of the Swiss Confederation, also known as the president of the confederation, federal president or colloquially as the president of Switzerland, is as primus inter pares among the other members of the Federal Council formally the head of Switzerland's seven-member executive branch.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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President of Venezuela
The president of Venezuela (Presidente de Venezuela), officially known as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is the head of state and head of government in Venezuela.
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Pretoria
Pretoria, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.
Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Prime Minister of France
The prime minister of France (Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
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Prime Minister of Italy
The prime minister of Italy, officially the president of the Council of Ministers (Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri), is the head of government of the Italian Republic.
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Prime Minister of Jordan
The prime minister of Jordan is the head of government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
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Prime Minister of Lebanon
The prime minister of Lebanon, officially the president of the Council of Ministers, is the head of government and the head of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon.
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Prime Minister of Morocco
The prime minister of Morocco, officially head of government, is the head of government of the Kingdom of Morocco.
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Prime Minister of Romania
The prime minister of Romania (Prim-ministrul României), officially the prime minister of the Government of Romania (Prim-ministrul Guvernului României), is the head of the Government of Romania.
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Prime Minister of South Korea
The prime minister of the Republic of Korea is the deputy head of government and the second highest political office of South Korea who is appointed by the President of the Republic of Korea, with the National Assembly's approval.
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.
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Prince Yamashina Kikumaro
, was the second head of the Yamashina-no-miya, a collateral line of the Japanese imperial family.
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Puyi
Puyi (7 February 190617 October 1967) was the last emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty.
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Qasim Amin
Qasim Amin (قاسمأمين; 1 December 1863 – 12 April 1908)Political and diplomatic history of the Arab world, 1900-1967, Menahem Mansoor was an Egyptian jurist, Islamic Modernist and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and Cairo University.
Qin Hanzhang
Qin Hanzhang (19 February 1908 – 15 August 2019) was a Chinese engineer, scientist and supercentenarian.
Radoje Domanović
Radoje Domanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Радоје Домановић; February 16, 1873 – August 17, 1908) was a Serbian journalist, writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories.
Randal Cremer
Sir William Randal Cremer (18 March 1828 – 22 July 1908) usually known by his middle name "Randal", was a British Liberal Member of Parliament, a pacifist, and a leading advocate for international arbitration.
Rómulo Betancourt
Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello (22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981), known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was the president of Venezuela, from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Acción Democrática, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century.
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Redvers Buller
General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, (7 December 1839 – 2 June 1908) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Rex Harrison
Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor.
Rhoads Opera House fire
The Rhoads Opera House Fire occurred on January 13, 1908, in Boyertown, Pennsylvania.
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Richard Gerstl
Richard Gerstl (14 September 1883 – 4 November 1908) was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with the wife of Arnold Schoenberg, which led to his suicide.
Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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Rita Cetina Gutiérrez
Rita Cetina Gutiérrez (22 May 1846 – 11 October 1908) was a Mexican teacher, poet and feminist who promoted secular education in the nineteenth century in Mérida, Yucatán.
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River Tyne
The River Tyne is a river in North East England.
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide/Girl Scout Movement.
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Robert Merle
Robert Merle (28 August 1908 – 27 March 2004) was a French novelist.
Robert Morley
Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States.
Robert Peary
Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Roger Casement
Roger David Casement (Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader.
Rogers Brothers
The Rogers Brothers was a comedy double-act consisting of brothers Gus Rogers (1869–1908) and Max Rogers (1873–1932).
Rotterdam
Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (5 January 184614 September 1926) was a German philosopher.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
Ruth Bancroft
Ruth Bancroft (Petersson; September 2, 1908 – November 26, 2017) was the creator of the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California.
Salvador Allende
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973.
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
Scouting
Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth social movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports.
Scouting for Boys
Scouting for Boys: A handbook for instruction in good citizenship is a book on Boy Scout training, published in various editions since 1908.
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Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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Sidney Hill
Simon Sidney Hill (1 October 18293 March 1908) was an English philanthropist, merchant, gentleman farmer, and justice of the peace.
Sigismondo Savona
Sigismondo Savona (12 March 1835 – 24 July 1908) was a Maltese educator and politician who played a prominent role in the Language Question which defined the politics of the Crown Colony of Malta in the late 19th century.
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Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal (31 December 190820 September 2005) was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer.
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
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Slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.
Solar eclipse of December 23, 1908
A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, December 23, 1908, with a magnitude of 1.0024.
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Solar eclipse of January 3, 1908
A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Friday, January 3 and Saturday, January 4, 1908, with a magnitude of 1.0437.
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Solar eclipse of June 28, 1908
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, June 28, 1908, with a magnitude of 0.9655.
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Solar Saros 130
Saros cycle series 130 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 eclipses, 43 of which are umbral (all total).
Solar Saros 135
Saros cycle series 135 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's ascending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 eclipses, including 53 umbral eclipses (45 annular, 2 hybrid, 6 total).
Solar Saros 140
Saros cycle series 140 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 eclipses, including 47 umbral eclipses (11 total, 4 hybrid, 32 annular).
Solar time
Solar time is a calculation of the passage of time based on the position of the Sun in the sky.
SOS
SOS is a Morse code distress signal, used internationally, originally established for maritime use.
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South American dreadnought race
A naval arms race among Argentina, Brazil, and Chile—the wealthiest and most powerful countries in South America—began in the early twentieth century when the Brazilian government ordered three dreadnoughts, formidable battleships whose capabilities far outstripped older vessels in the world's navies.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
South Tyrol
South Tyrol (Südtirol,; Alto Adige,; Südtirol) is an autonomous province in northern Italy.
Southern Italy
Southern Italy (Sud Italia,, or Italia meridionale,; 'o Sudde; Italia dû Suddi), also known as Meridione or Mezzogiorno (Miezojuorno; Menzujornu), is a macroregion of Italy consisting of its southern regions.
St. Louis Cardinals
The St.
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Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist.
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Strikebreaker
A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, bootlicker, blackguard or knobstick) is a person who works despite a strike.
Suleiman Nabulsi
Suleiman Nabulsi (سليمان النابلسي; 1908 – 14 October 1976) was a leftist Jordanian political figure who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Jordan in 1956–57.
Sundance Kid
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – November 7, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the American Old West.
Sunshine rail disaster
The Sunshine rail disaster occurred on 20 April 1908 at the junction at Sunshine railway station (in Sunshine, Victoria, Australia) when a Melbourne-bound train from Bendigo collided with the rear of a train from Ballarat.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
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Syracuse University
Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.
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Takieddin el-Solh
Takieddin el-Solh (also Takieddin Solh, Takieddin as-Solh; تقي الدين الصلح) (1908 – 27 November 1988) was a Lebanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1973 to 1974, and again briefly in 1980.
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Terrestrial Time
Terrestrial Time (TT) is a modern astronomical time standard defined by the International Astronomical Union, primarily for time-measurements of astronomical observations made from the surface of Earth.
Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor.
Thérèse Peltier
Thérèse Peltier (1873 – 1926), born Thérèse Juliette Cochet, was a French sculptor and early aviation pioneer.
The Children's Encyclopædia
The Children's Encyclopædia was an encyclopaedia originated by Arthur Mee, and published by the Educational Book Company, a subsidiary of Northcliffe's Amalgamated Press, London.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.
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The Hoover Company
The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in Ohio, United States, in 1915.
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The Melting Pot (play)
The Melting Pot is a play by Israel Zangwill, first staged in 1908.
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The Observatory (journal)
The Observatory is a publication, variously described as a journal, a magazine and a review, devoted to astronomy.
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The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.
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Theodore Roethke
Theodore Huebner Roethke (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet.
Thomas Selfridge
Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in an airplane crash.
Thurgood Marshall
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991.
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Tom Tully
Thomas Kane Tulley (August 21, 1908 – April 27, 1982) was an American actor.
Tomás Estrada Palma
Tomás Estrada Palma (July 6, 1835 – November 4, 1908) was a Cuban politician, the president of the Cuban Republican in Arms during the Ten Years' War, and the first President of Cuba, between May 20, 1902, and September 28, 1906.
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Tony Pastor
Antonio Pastor (May 28, 1837 – August 26, 1908) was an American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid-to-late-nineteenth century.
Transvaal University College
Transvaal University College was a multi-campus public research university in South Africa which gave rise to the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Pretoria.
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Tsar
Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; tsar; tsar'; car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.
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Tunguska event
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908.
Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
United Parcel Service
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
University of Nebraska Omaha
The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is a public research university in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
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University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (also known as Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria (Universiteit van Pretoria, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa.
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Vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum, is a device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.
Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the British decorations system.
Victorien Sardou
Victorien Sardou (5 September 18318 November 1908) was a French dramatist.
Viktor Ambartsumian
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (Виктор Амазаспович Амбарцумян; Վիկտոր Համազասպի Համբարձումյան, Viktor Hamazaspi Hambardzumyan; 12 August 1996) was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Vivian Fuchs
Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs (11 February 1908 – 11 November 1999) was an English scientist-explorer and expedition organizer.
Walter Bruch
Walter Bruch (2 March 1908 – 5 May 1990) was a German electrical engineer and pioneer of German television.
Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Wiere Brothers
Harry Wiere (23 June 1906 in Berlin, German Empire – 15 January 1992), Herbert Wiere (27 February 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 5 August 1999), and Sylvester Wiere (17 September 1909 in Prague, Austria-Hungary – 7 July 1970), known collectively as the Wiere Brothers or the Three Wiere Brothers, were a comedy team who appeared in 1930s and 1940s films, and as live performers from the 1920s to the late 1960s.
Wilhelm Busch
Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (14 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter.
Willard Libby
Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine (known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century".
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William D. Coleman (politician)
William David Coleman (July 18, 1842 – July 12, 1908) was an Americo-Liberian politician.
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William Hartnell
William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor, who is best known for playing the original incarnation of the Doctor, in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966; he reprised the role in 1972–1973.
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices.
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William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, orator, and politician.
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William McMahon
Sir William McMahon (23 February 190831 March 1988) was an Australian politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972.
William Saroyan
William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
William Wood (ventriloquist)
William B. Wood (1861/1862 – January 20, 1908) was an American illusionist and ventriloquist who toured South America and Europe with his own company.
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Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire.
Wireless telegraphy
Wireless telegraphy or radiotelegraphy is transmission of text messages by radio waves, analogous to electrical telegraphy using cables.
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World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada.
Wright brothers
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.
Young Turk Revolution
The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire.
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Yun Bong-gil
Yun Bong-gil (21 June 1908 – 19 December 1932) was a Korean independence activist.
1830
It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the Revolutions of 1830 in France, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and Italy.
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1844
In the Philippines, this was the only leap year with 365 days, when Tuesday, December 31 was skipped as Monday, December 30 was immediately followed by Wednesday, January 1, 1845, the next day after. 1908 and 1844 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1848
1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century. 1908 and 1848 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1867
There were only 354 days this year in the newly purchased territory of Alaska.
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1908 Hong Kong typhoon
The 1908 Hong Kong Typhoon was a tropical cyclone which made landfall near Hong Kong on the night of 27 July 1908.
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1908 Messina earthquake
A devastating earthquake occurred on 28 December 1908 in Sicily and Calabria, southern Italy with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
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1908 New York to Paris Race
The 1908 New York to Paris Race was an automobile competition consisting of drivers attempting to travel from New York to Paris.
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1908 Summer Olympics
The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908.
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1908 United States presidential election
The 1908 United States presidential election was the 31st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1908.
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1908 World Series
The 1908 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1908 season.
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1941
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million.
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1942
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million.
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1944
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. 1908 and 1944 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1957
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
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1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. 1908 and 1960 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1969–70 European Cup
The 1969–70 European Cup was the 15th season of the European Cup, a club football tournament organised by UEFA for the domestic league champions of its member associations.
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1971
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
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1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal.
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1975
It was also declared the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
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1978
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1983
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
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1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
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1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
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1988
1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm. 1908 and 1988 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1989
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union during Perestroika.
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1991
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947.
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1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. 1908 and 1992 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1993
1993 was designated as.
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1994
The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
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1995
1995 was designated as.
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1996
1996 was designated as. 1908 and 1996 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1998
1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.
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1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
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2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematical Year. 1908 and 2000 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror.
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2002
After the September 11 attacks of the previous year, foreign policy and international relations were generally united in combating al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
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2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Freshwater In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
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2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). 1908 and 2004 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit.
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2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
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2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
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2008
2008 was designated as. 1908 and 2008 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler.
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2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake.
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2011
The year marked the start of a series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, and in some cases sparking civil wars such as the Syrian civil war and the first Libyan civil war, the former still ongoing while the latter gave way to the second Libyan civil war.
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2012
2012 was designated as. 1908 and 2012 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as.
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2017
2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
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