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1 er août, France : arrestation des secrétaires de la CGT à la suite de la grève de Draveil-Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. 8 août : premier vol de Wilbur Wright au Mans, en France.
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1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight. 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive). 1919 – The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 is signed.
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1908 – Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France (d. 1988) 1908 – Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet and gardener (d. 1994) 1908 – Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1977) 1909 – Gérard Filion, Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
July 8 – French aviator Léon Delagrange makes the world's first flight with a female passenger, his partner and fellow sculptor Thérèse Peltier. [10] July 11 – 12 – The steamship Amalthea, housing 80 British strikebreakers in Malmö harbour, Sweden, is bombed by Anton Nilson; 1 is killed, 20 injured.
The 1908 Olympics were by far the best organized to date. They also had the most international field of any Olympics yet held. By now the Olympics were becoming “known” to the world and athletes everywhere wanted to compete, and managed to find ways to do so.
- Olympic Games
- IV / 1908
- London, Great Britain ( Venues )
- 13 July
2 July – Léon Arthur Elchinger, Bishop of Strasbourg (died 1998) 5 July – Henri, comte de Paris, Orléanist claimant to the French throne (died 1999) 12 July – Alain Cuny, actor (died 1994) 25 July – Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré, priest and author (died 2004) 5 August – Shlomo Pines, French-born Israeli scholar of Jewish and Islamic ...
The year 1908 began at midnight when a 700-pound "electric ball" fell from the flagpole atop the New York Times building—the first-ever ball-drop in Times Square. It ended 366 days later (1908...
