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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1908 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1908
MCMVIII
Ab urbe condita2661
Armenian calendar1357
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԷ
Assyrian calendar6658
Baháʼí calendar64–65
Balinese saka calendar1829–1830
Bengali calendar1315
Berber calendar2858
British Regnal yearEdw. 7 – 8 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar2452
Burmese calendar1270
Byzantine calendar7416–7417
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4605 or 4398
    — to —
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4606 or 4399
Coptic calendar1624–1625
Discordian calendar3074
Ethiopian calendar1900–1901
Hebrew calendar5668–5669
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1964–1965
 - Shaka Samvat1829–1830
 - Kali Yuga5008–5009
Holocene calendar11908
Igbo calendar908–909
Iranian calendar1286–1287
Islamic calendar1325–1326
Japanese calendarMeiji 41
(明治41年)
Javanese calendar1837–1838
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4241
Minguo calendar4 before ROC
民前4年
Nanakshahi calendar440
Thai solar calendar2450–2451
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
2034 or 1653 or 881
    — to —
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
2035 or 1654 or 882

1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1908th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 908th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1908, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

According to NASA reports, 1908 was the coldest recorded year since 1880.[1]

Events

January

January 24: Boy Scout movement.

February

March

April

May

June

File:Tunguska event fallen trees.jpg
Evidence of the Tunguska event (June 30). Photo taken 19 years later.

July

1908 Summer Olympics

August

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

Births

January

Simone de Beauvoir

February

Amintore Fanfani
Rómulo Betancourt

March

File:Olympia-Kanone 1936.jpg
Walter Bruch behind camera
David Lean

April

May

James Stewart

June

Salvador Allende

July

Nelson Rockefeller

August

Lyndon B. Johnson

September

October

Carole Lombard

November

Claude Lévi-Strauss

December

Simon Wiesenthal

Date unknown

Deaths

January–June

Wilhelm Busch
Carlos I of Portugal
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Prince Yamashina Kikumaro
Grover Cleveland

July–December

Demetrius Vikelas
Henri Becquerel
Tomas Estrada Palma
Emperor Guangxu of China
Empress Dowager Cixi

Nobel Prizes

References

  1. ^ NASA - GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP)
  2. ^ "Leon Delagrange". Early Aviators. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  3. ^ "Ballarat Genealogy: Newspaper Report of the accident". ballaratgenealogy.org.au. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012.
  4. ^ Pasechnik, I. P. (1986). "Refinement of the moment of explosion of the Tunguska meteorite from the seismic data". Cosmic Matter and the Earth (in Russian). Novosibirsk: Nauka. p. 66.
  5. ^ Farinella, Paolo; Foschini, L.; Froeschlé, Christiane; Gonczi, R.; Jopek, T. J.; Longo, G.; Michel, Patrick (2001). "Probable asteroidal origin of the Tunguska Cosmic Body" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. 377: 1081–1097. Bibcode:2001A&A...377.1081F. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20011054. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
  6. ^ Trayner, Chris (1994). "Perplexities of the Tunguska Meteorite". The Observatory. 114: 227–231. Bibcode:1994Obs...114..227T. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
  7. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  8. ^ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635-1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 20.

Further reading

  • The Annual Register for 1908, British and world events online