1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1908 - Events. 1908 - January-February. January 1 - British Harry Bensley leaves for his would-be trip around the world pushing a pram and wearing an iron mask, beginning from the Trafalgar Square January 1 - A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time January 8 - A train collision occurs in ...

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1908 - January. January 8 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975) January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (d. 1986) January 12 - Jean Delannoy, French film director January 14 - Russ Columbo, singer, bandleader, and composer (d. 1934) January 15 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003) January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (d. 1997) January 27 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American ...

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Zeppelin mail was mail carried on zeppelins, the German airships that saw civilian use from 1908 to 1939. Almost every zeppelin flight carried mail, sometimes in large quantities; the covers usually received special postmarks, and a number of nations issued postage stamps specifically intended for use on mail carried by the zeppelins. Zeppelin mail - First period 1908 to 1914. The first zeppelin to carry mail was LZ 4, in July 1908, followed shortly by LZ 3. The early flights did not use any special ...

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The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between King Léopold II's formal relinquishment of personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November, 1908, to the dawn of Congolese independence on 30 June, 1960. Belgian Congo - 1908-1950s. Léopold gave up control of his personal property, the Congo Free State mainly due to international outrage over the brutality of his reign. However, the new era of Belgian rule in the Congo did little to improve the c ...

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Belgian Congo - 1908-1950s Belgian Congo - The Rise of Nationalism
Belgian Congo - ABAKO Belgian Congo - The MNC Belgian Congo - Katanga
Belgian Congo - 1959 and 1960: Accelerating Towards Independence

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For the Chinese ethnic group, see Buyei. Puyi (Chinese:溥儀;) (February 7, 1906 - October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ruling family was the Xuantong Emperor (宣統皇帝) of China between 1908 and 1924 (ruling emperor between 1908 and 1912, and non-ruling emperor between 1912 and 1924), the tenth and last emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to rule over China. He was married to the Empress Gobulo Wan Rong under the suggestion of the Imperial Dowager Concubine Duan-Kang （端康太妃）. Later be ...

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Puyi - Emperor of China 1908-1924 Puyi - Brief restoration 1917 Puyi - Private citizen 1924-1932 Puyi - Ruler of Manchukuo 1932-1945 Puyi - Later life 1945-1967 Puyi - Marriages
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The Young Turks were a Turkish patriotic constitutionalist society, officially known as the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) — in Turkish the Ittihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti — whose leaders led a rebellion against Sultan Abdul Hamid II (who was officially deposed and exiled in 1909). They ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1908 until the end of World War I in November 1918. Young Turks - History. The Young Turks had their origins in secret societies of progressive university students an ...

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Young Turks - Liberalism and Constitutionalism Young Turks - Materialism and Posivitism Young Turks - Strong government Young Turks - Nationalism Young Turks - Impact on modern Turkey Young Turks - Revolution and CUP as a model Young Turks - References for Young Turks Ideology

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Wilhelm Maybach (*February 9, 1846 – December 29, 1929) was a German car-engine and automobile designer and an industrialist. He was born in Heilbronn, Germany, and died in Stuttgart. Maybach worked with Gottlieb Daimler in the late 19th century on the development of light, high speed internal combustion engines. Their collaboration led to the development of an engine that was suitable for use in motorised vehicles including the worlds first motorcycle, in powerbo ...

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Upstairs, Downstairs was a 1970s British television series set in a grand Edwardian town house in London and depicting the events of the early twentieth century as they affected the servants ('downstairs') and masters ('upstairs'). The series was originally conceived by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins as a comedy, called Behind the Green Baize Door, about two housemaids (to be played by themselves) who worked in a Victorian country house. After approaching a development company in 1969 their ideas were expanded and d ...

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Upstairs Downstairs - Series one 1903-1909 Upstairs Downstairs - Series two 1908-1910 Upstairs Downstairs - Series three 1912-1914 Upstairs Downstairs - Series four1914-1918 Upstairs Downstairs - Series five 1919-1930
Upstairs Downstairs - Upstairs Characters and Cast Members
Upstairs Downstairs - The Bellamy Family Upstairs Downstairs - Recurring Friends of the Upstairs
Upstairs Downstairs - Downstairs Characters and Cast Members
Upstairs Downstairs - The Servants Upstairs Downstairs - Recurring Friends of the Downstairs
Upstairs Downstairs - DVD releases Upstairs Downstairs - Influence

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1908 in aviation - January. - Henry Farman wins the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for making a circular flight of over 1 km (0.6 miles). 1908 in aviation - May. May 14 - Charles Furnas becomes the first passenger in an aeroplane, piloted by Wilbur Wright. First heavy-than-air passenger carrying flight. Wilbur Wright flew Charles W. Furnas for a distance of 2.5 miles in a Wright Model B. 1908 in aviation - June. June 8 - Alliot V ...

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March March 12 - AEA Red Wing May May 18 - AEA White Wing June June 28 - AEA June Bug December December 6 - AEA Silver Dart ...

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1908 in rail transport - Unknown date births. John Francis Nash, vice president of operations for New York Central and president of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and Lehigh Valley Railroad (d. 2004) ...

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1908 in rail transport - February events. February 28 First trip through the St. Clair tunnel between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario using electric locomotives. 1908 in rail transport - April events. April 20 - Sunshine train disaster, Melbourne, Australia: Rear-end collision, kills 44 and injures around 400. 1908 in rail transport - June events. June 23 The Denver & Interurban begins operations u ...

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Bennett Park, Detroit, Michigan 1908 World Series - Game 2 October 11. West Side Park, Chicago, Illinois 1908 World Series - Game 3 October 12. West Side Park, Chicago, Illinois 1908 World Series - Game 4 October 13. Bennett Park, Detroit, Michigan 1908 World Series - Game 5 October 14. Bennett Park, Detroit, Michigan ...

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1908 World Series, 1908 World Series - Matchup, 1908 World Series - Game 1 October 10, 1908 World Series - Game 2 October 11, 1908 World Series - Game 3 October 12, 1908 World Series - Game 4 October 13, 1908 World Series - Game 5 October 14, 1908 World Series - External link

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U.S. presidential election 1908 - Republican Party nomination. The 1908 Republican Convention was held in Chicago from 16 June to 19 June. Prominent Republican candidates included House Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon of Illinois, Charles Evans Hughes of New York, and Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, but William Howard Taft, the Secretary of War, prevailed with the backing of outgoing President Theodore Roosevelt. U.S. p ...

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(Host nation in bold.) Top medal-collecting nations: (for the full table, see 1908 Summer Olympics medal count) ...

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In 1906, Frank W. Kushel, a Sears manager, was given responsibility for the catalog company's unwieldy, non-profitable building materials department. Sales were down, and there was too much inventory sitting in expensive warehouses. He is credited with suggesting to Richard Sears that the company assemble kits of all the parts needed and sell entire houses through mail-order. Beginning in 1908, Sears issued its first specialty catalog for houses, Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans, featuring 22 styles ranging in pri ...

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Sears Catalog Home, Sears Catalog Home - History: Mail-order, Sears Catalog Home - Modern Homes 1908-1940, Sears Catalog Home - Heritage

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U.S. presidential election 1908 - Campaign. With the silver issue no longer dominant, Bryan campaigned on a progressive platform attacking "government by privilege". Taft also took many reform positions, and Bryan's support for many of Roosevelt's policies blurred the distinctions between the parties. Business continued to support Taft, and Bryan failed to secure labor. As a result, Bryan ended up with the worst of his three defeats, losing almost all the Northern states to Taft and losing the popular vote by eight points. See also:

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When the exhibition was opened, a temporary station was constructed within the northern perimeter of the depot on the site of the reversing siding. A new tunnel was bored to connect directly to the end of the eastbound tunnel at Shepherd's Bush station forming a loop. As constructed for the exhibition, Wood Lane station had just a single track with platforms on each side - one for unloading and one for loading. Trains entered the station anti-clockwise in a westbound direction from the tunnel under the depot and exit ...

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Wood Lane Central Line tube station, Wood Lane Central Line tube station - Wood Lane depot 1900, Wood Lane Central Line tube station - Wood Lane station 1908, Wood Lane Central Line tube station - Wood Lane station 1920, Wood Lane Central Line tube station - Closure 1947, Wood Lane Central Line tube station - Oddities

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The first zeppelin to carry mail was LZ 4, in July 1908, followed shortly by LZ 3. The early flights did not use any special markings; the first was an oval reading "LUFTSCHIFF / SIGNALPOST" around the edge and "Z III" in the center, used on LZ 6 (Z 3) from August to October 1909. By 1911 a number of different postmarks were in use; a typical example was a circle reading "AN BORD DES / ZEPPELIN / LUFTSCHIFFES", with a date in the center and the name of the zeppelin at bottom. These were actually applied on boa ...

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Zeppelin mail, Zeppelin mail - First period 1908 to 1914, Zeppelin mail - Inter-war period 1919 to 1939, Zeppelin mail - Reference

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