April 1908 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1908 The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
• 02 Apr 1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday.
• 03 Apr 1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in two hours.
• 05 Apr 1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns.
• 07 Apr 1908 H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
• 08 Apr 1908 Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
• 11 Apr 1908 SMS Blucher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
• 12 Apr 1908 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts.
• 16 Apr 1908 Natural Bridges National Monument established (Lake Powell Utah).
• 18 Apr 1908 Tommy Burns knocks out Jewy Smith in five for heavyweight boxing title.
• 20 Apr 1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of New York in 2:25:43.2.
• 23 Apr 1908 Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands and Sweden signs North Sea accord.
• 24 Apr 1908 Mr and Mrs Jacob Murdock become the first to travel across the US by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard and arrive in New York City in 32 days-5 hours-25 minutes.

Famous Birthday

• Bette Davis

  American actress, one of the most outstanding stars of Hollywood's history.

• Herbert von Karajan

  Austrian conductor and manager (d. 1989).

• Oskar Schindler

  Czech businessman who joined the Nazi party and became a double agent, managing to shuffle Jews through his factory rolls and getting them...

• Victor Vasarely

  Hungarian / French painter / author (Op Art).

• Abraham Maslow

  American psychologist and academic (d. 1970).

• André Martinet
• Eddie Albert

  Actor.

• Eddie Albert
• Mary Welsh Hemingway
• Edward R Murrow

  newscaster (Person to Person), dies at age 57.

• Buddy Ebsen

  American actor (Born 1908).

• Alfred Adam

  French actor, on stage and in films, known as a character actor who often plays in treacherous roles.

• Alfredo Uchoa
• Lionel Hampton

  American vibraphone player pianist bandleader and actor (d. 2002).

• Lionel Hampton

  American vibraphone player pianist bandleader and actor (d. 2002).

• Ray Ventura

  French jazz bandleader.

• Marceline Day

  American actress (Born 1908).

• Jack Williamson

  American writer, noted as being the pioneer writer of sci-fi as a legitimate academic subject.

• Elizabeth Allan

  Actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head).

• George Oppen

  Poet.

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Famous Deaths

• Josef Sucher composer

  dies at age 64.

• Gaetano Coronaro composer

  dies at age 55.

• Henry Chadwick sports reporter (baseball)

  dies at age 85.

• Henry Bird

  English chess player and author (Born 1829).

• Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Scottish merchant and politician Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Haydn Quartet & Billy Murray - Keep On Smiling
2. Alan Turner - Good-Bye, Sweetheart, Good-Bye
3. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - Wouldn't You Like to Have Me for a Sweetheart?
4. Enrico Caruso - Dorn Sebastian - In Terra Solo (On Earth Alone)
5. Byron G. Harlan - There Never Was a Girl Like You