May 1908 calendar

May 1908
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in May 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 May 1908: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of May 1908?

Events

05 May 1908 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2.
09 May 1908 Dirk Fock becomes Governor of Suriname.
10 May 1908 First official Mother's Day service is held, at the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia, organized by Anna Jarvis.
12 May 1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield.
18 May 1908 US Congress mandates that "In God We Trust" appear on all US coins.
20 May 1908 The Aldrich-Vreeland Act alters security deposit requirements for national banks.
23 May 1908 Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
24 May 1908 Belgium Catholic socialist / liberal parliamentary election
26 May 1908 At Masjed Soleyman (???? ??????) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
30 May 1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is first passenger in a airplane.
31 May 1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is first airplane passenger (Belgium).

Famous Birthday

James Stewart
American actor (d. 1997).
James Stewart
American actor (d. 1997).
Swami Muktananda
Ian Fleming
English novelist, creator of James Bond (Born 1908).
Ian Fleming
English novelist, creator of James Bond (Born 1908).
Hélène Boucher
French pilot (d. 1934).
Don Ameche
American actor in vaudeville and radio with some 50 films from 1936.
Mel Blanc
American king of the voiceover and provider of voices for 3,000 cartoons with nearly 400 characters as well as a dazzling array of sound...
Arturo de Córdova
René-Jacques
John Bardeen
American physicist, a researcher of super-conductivity and solid-state physics.
Jacques Massu
French general who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez crisis.
Hannes Alfven
Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).
Mark Schorer
American novelist and critic.
Pierre-Henri Teitgen
French attorney, educator and resistance fighter.
James Crenshaw
American writer who is a journalist and author on psychic subjects.
Robert Morley
England, United Kingdom -- Actor (High Road to China, African Queen).
Louis Daquin
French film director, screenwriter, author, radical ideas concerning human & social problems made him outcast in france, married once, two...
Raymond Legrand
French composer and director, mostly known for his film music.
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus
Paris 8?me Military man.
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