January 1908 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1908 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
• 02 Jan 1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
• 07 Jan 1908 England beat Australia by one wicket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• 09 Jan 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium.
• 11 Jan 1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• 12 Jan 1908 A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
• 13 Jan 1908 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games
• 14 Jan 1908 Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut versus England Adelaide (116).
• 15 Jan 1908 C Hill and R J Hartigan make 8th wicket partnership 243 for Australia.
• 16 Jan 1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established.
• 21 Jan 1908 New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
• 23 Jan 1908 US and Great Britain demand end of abuses in Congo.
• 28 Jan 1908 Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'etat against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister Joao Franco.
• 29 Jan 1908 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates.

Famous Birthday

• Simone de Beauvoir

  French philosopher and author (d. 1986).

• Stéphane Grappelli

  Italian-French musician, one of the most popular jazz musicians of the last 50 years.

• Guy de Larigaudie
• Edward Teller

  Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", even though he claimed he did not care...

• Stanislas-André Steeman
• Ethel Merman

  American singer and actress known as the First Lady of Musical Comedy.

• Gunter Prien

  German military, a submarine commander whose life inspired the film, "Das Boot.

• Jean Delannoy

  French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.

• Paul Henreid

  Italian-American actor and director (d. 1992).

• Lionel Stander

  US blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86.

• Georges Langelaan

  British author and journalist, born in France to a British father and French mother.

• Jimmy Shand
• Simone Mathieu
• Paul Misraki

  Turkish-French composer and historian (d. 1998).

• Bernard Lee

  London, England -- Actor (M in James Bond movies).

• Martha Norelius
• Roberta Bitgood

  composer.

• Ben Seijes

  Dutch historian (WWII).

• Lord Iliffe

  English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph / Autocar).

• Red Allen

  American musician (d. 1967).

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Famous Deaths

• Holger Drachmann

  Danish poet and dramatist (Born 1846).

• Antony Winkler Prins writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia)

  dies at age 70.

• Abraham Goldfaden US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis)

  dies at age 67.

• Anna S Barbiers Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster)

  dies at age 65.

• Edward Alexander MacDowell US composer (Indian Suite)

  dies at age 47.

• Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ

  Ruler of Toscane, dies at 72.

• Ouida

  British writer and popular novelist who began writing in 1859.

• Mikhail Chigorin

  Russian chess player and theoretician (d. 1908).

• John Ordronaux

  American Civil War army surgeon, a professor of medical jurisprudence, and pioneering mental health commissioner (Born 1830).

• Wilhelm Busch

  German writer and artist, the author and sketcher of delightful children and young adult stories.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Reinald Werrenrath - As Long as the World Rolls On
2. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - Make Believe
3. Frank Stanley - You
4. Arthur Collins - Dixie Dan
5. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Who Do You Love?