August 1908 calendar

August 1908
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in August 1908.
The US president was Theodore Roosevelt (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was H. H. Asquith (Liberal), Pope Pius X was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on August 1908: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of August 1908?

Events

08 Aug 1908 Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
13 Aug 1908 Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
14 Aug 1908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois.
17 Aug 1908 Bank of Italy opens new headquarters at Clay and Montgomery.
20 Aug 1908 Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo.
24 Aug 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
25 Aug 1908 National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
27 Aug 1908 Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
28 Aug 1908 14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club, Massachusetts
29 Aug 1908 New York gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London.

Famous Birthday

Lyndon Johnson
American politician, the 36th U.S.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French master photographer; exhibited from 1934 with work regarded as one of the glories of postwar photojournalism.
René de Castries
Fred MacMurray
Actor (My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83.
William Saroyan
American writer of short stories, novels and plays who achieved immediate fame in 1934 with a short story.
M M Kaye
British writer (d. 2004).
René Lucot
Harold Holt
Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia 1966-1967.
Robert Merle
Don Bradman
Australian cricketer and manager (d. 2001).
Edgar Faure
French lawyer and politician, the assistant delegate at the Nurnberg trials in 1945.
Collier Young
American scriptwriter and film producer in the '50s and '60s.
Arthur Adamov
Kislovodsk, Russia -- Playwright (Paolo Paoli).
Alexander d'Arcy
David Farrar
Forest Gate, England -- Actor (Beat Girl, I Accuse).
Birgit Cullberg
Jean-Louis Lortat-Jacob
Russell Procope
Henry Ingrand
Anton Ameiser
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