September 1908 calendar

Events

• 02 Sep 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
• 03 Sep 1908 James Barries What Every Woman Knows, premieres in London
• 04 Sep 1908 Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship
• 09 Sep 1908 Russia takes part of Poland
• 12 Sep 1908 Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
• 16 Sep 1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
• 17 Sep 1908 The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
• 18 Sep 1908 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1.
• 20 Sep 1908 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith second no-hitter, beats Philadelphia Phillies 1-0.
• 22 Sep 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
• 23 Sep 1908 University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
• 24 Sep 1908 Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
• 26 Sep 1908 Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Brooklyn Dodgers in a doubleheader.
• 27 Sep 1908 The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
• 29 Sep 1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms

Famous Birthday

• Richard Wright (author)
• Cesare Pavese

  Italian writer, a novelist, critic and poet with a tormented personality.

• David Oistrakh

  Odessa, Russia -- Violinist / prof (Moscow Conservatory).

• Joaquín Nin-Culmell

  German-American pianist and composer (d. 2004).

• Mika Waltari

  Finnish novelist, playwright and short story writer, the best-known author of his country.

• Jacqueline Audry

  French director who began as a script girl in 1933 before becoming an assistant director.

• Madeleine Ozeray

  Belgian/French stage and film actress.

• Michael E Debakey
• Matthew Black

  Scottish theologian, a Professor of Divinity, Biblical Citicism and Principal of St. Mary's College at the University of St. Andrews, 1954;...

• Bernard Lorjou

  French artist, painter of Expressionism and a founding member of the anti-abstract art Group "L'homme Témoin".

• Penny Singleton

  American actress and singer (d. 2003).

• Annie Ducaux

  French actress, capable of a great range from tragedy to comedy.

• Eugen Suchon

  Composer.

• Edward Dmytryk

  Director (Carpetbaggers, Young Lions, Caine Mutiny).

• Cecil Smith (figure skater)
• Fred Adison

  French musician, singer and jazz conductor.

• Maurice Naessens

  Belgian banker.

• Viktor A Ambartsoemjan

  Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50).

• Everhardus J van Romondt

  Physician / Dutch Antillean Minister of Eco.

• James "Jimmy" Johnson

  English Labor MP (1950-59, 64-83).

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Famous Deaths

• Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk

  Governor-General (Dutch East-Indies).

• Thomas E Selfridge

  Earlier US aviator, 1st to die in an air crash.

• Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Pablo de Sarasate

  Spanish violinist / Composer (Spanish Dancer).

• Joaquim M Machado de Assis

  Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69.

• Pablo de Sarasate

  Spanish violinist and composer (Born 1844).

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

  Brazilian writer (Born 1839).

• Thomas Selfridge

  First Lieutenant in the U.S.

• Henri Julien

  Canadian cartoonist (Born 1852).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - I've Taken Quite a Fancy to You
2. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine
3. Harry Macdonough & John Bieling - Over the Hills and Far Away
4. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - The ABCs of the U.S.A.
5. Eddie Morton - The Right Church, but the Wrong Pew