1908 in the United States
List of events
Events from the year 1908 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
United States postcards for New Year 1908 January 11: Grand Canyon designated as a monument, and later, in 1919, becomes a National Park .
January
January 1
January 13 – A fire at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania , kills 170 people. The tragedy is a catalyst for stricter fire safety laws nationwide.
January 15 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (the first Greek-letter organization for black college women) is established.
January 21 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance , making it illegal for people who control public places to allow women to smoke in them. It is vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr.
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
October 1: Ford Model T launch.
November
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1 – Bill Tapia , musician (died 2011)
January 11 – Lionel Stander , actor (died 1994 )
January 14 – Russ Columbo , singer, bandleader, and composer (died 1934)
January 17 – Cus D'Amato , boxing trainer (died 1985 )
January 27 – Oran "Hot Lips" Page , Jazz musician (died 1954)
February 2 – Justice M. Chambers , Medal of Honor recipient (died 1982)
February 5 – Edith Ceccarelli , supercentenarian (died 2024 )
February 10 – Charles Henri Ford , novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer and collage artist (died 2002)
February 13 – Pauline Frederick , journalist (died 1990)
February 17 – Red Barber , baseball announcer and sports journalist (died 1992)
February 25 – George Duning , film composer (died 2000 )
February 26 – Tex Avery , Cartoonist (died 1980)
February 29 – Dee Brown , writer and historian (died 2002)
March 4 – T.R.M. Howard , African-American civil rights leader and surgeon (died 1976)
March 5 – Irving Fiske , American playwright, WPA writer and speaker; co-created Quarry Hill Creative Center in Rochester , Vermont , early children's rights activist; died 1990)
March 13 – Walter Annenberg , Publisher and philanthropist (died 2002)
March 20
March 22 – Louis L'Amour , author (died 1988)
March 26 – Henry (Hank) Sylvern , Radio personality (died 1964)
March 29 – Arthur O'Connell , Actor (died 1981)
April 1 – Abraham Maslow , psychologist (died 1970 )[6]
April 2 – Buddy Ebsen , actor and dancer (died 2003)
April 4
April 5 – Bette Davis , actress (died 1989)
April 6 – John P. Davies , diplomat (died 1999)
April 15 – eden ahbez , musician (died 1995)
April 20 – Lionel Hampton , African-American musician and bandleader (died 2002)
April 25 – Edward R. Murrow , Journalist (died 1965)
April 29 – Jack Williamson , science fiction author (died 2006)
May 3 – Howard Cary , American engineer & founder of Cary Instruments (died 1991)
May 10 – Helen Elsie Austin , American attorney (died 2004 )
May 20 – James Stewart , actor (died 1997)
May 23
May 25 – Theodore Roethke , poet (died 1963)
May 30 – Mel Blanc , voice actor (died 1989)[7]
May 31 – Don Ameche , actor (died 1993)
June 13 – Marjorie F. Lambert , archaeologist & anthropologist (died 2006 )
June 18 – Bud Collyer , voice actor and game show host (died 1969)
June 20 – Billy Werber , baseball player (died 2009)
June 21
June 23 – Karl Warner , athlete (died 1995 )
June 25
June 26 – William F. Knowland , United States Senator from California from 1945 till 1959. Politician and newspaperman (died 1974 )
June 27
June 29
June 30 – Eunice Norton , pianist (died 2005 )
July 1 – Alvino Rey , swing era musician and bandleader (died 2004 )
July 3 – M. F. K. Fisher , food writer (died 1992 )
July 5
July 8 – Nelson A. Rockefeller , 49th governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 and 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (died 1979 )
July 12 – Milton Berle , comedian (died 2002)
July 19 – Daniel Fry , contactee (died 1992 )
July 21
July 22 – Claire Falkenstein , sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer and teacher (died 1997 )
July 23
July 25 – Kathryn Eames , actress (died 2004)
July 27 – Joseph Mitchell , writer (died 1996)
July 31 – Bill Shadel , Radio and TV news anchor (died 2005)
August 2 – Al Alquist , California politician (died 2006)
August 9 – A. I. Bezzerides , screenwriter (died 2007)
August 16
Orlando Cole , classical cellist and educator (died 2010)William Maxwell , novelist and editor (died 2000)** Miriam Rosen Minsker, centenarian[9]
August 20 – Al López , baseball player and manager (died 2005)
August 21 – Tom Tully , actor (died 1982 )
August 27 – Lyndon B. Johnson , 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, 37th vice president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (died 1973)
August 28 – Roger Tory Peterson , naturalist, artist and educator (died 1996)
August 30 – Fred MacMurray , actor (died 1991 )
August 31 – William Saroyan , fiction writer (died 1981)
September 2 – Ruth Bancroft , landscape and garden designer (died 2017 )
September 4 – Richard Wright , African-American author (died 1960)
September 6 – Korczak Ziolkowski , sculptor (died 1982)
September 7
September 10 – Raymond Scott , composer, bandleader, electronic music pioneer (died 1994)
September 13 – Mae Questel , actress (died 1998 )[10]
September 15 – Penny Singleton , actress (died 2003 )
September 16 – Neil Reagan , radio station manager, and CBS senior producer (died 1996 )
September 29 – Eddie Tolan , athlete (died 1967 )[11]
October 6 – Carole Lombard , film actress (died 1942)
October 9 – Lee Wiley , jazz singer (died 1975)
October 14 – Ruth Hale , playwright and actress (died 2003)
October 15 – Herman Chittison , pianist (died 1967 )
October 20
October 22 – John Gould , humorist, essayist and columnist (died 2003)
October 25 – Polly Ann Young , actress (died 1997 )
October 27 – Lee Krasner , American painter (died 1984 )
November 1 – Felix Knight , actor, tenor, and vocal coach (Babes in Toyland (1934) ) (died 1998 )
November 12 – Harry Blackmun , judge (died 1999)
November 14 – Joseph McCarthy , U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (died 1957 )
November 18 – Imogene Coca , actress (died 2001)
November 20 – Alistair Cooke , English-born journalist (died 2004)
November 23 – Nelson S. Bond , science fiction writer (died 2006)
November 28 – Mary Oppen , activist, artist, photographer and writer (died 1990 )
November 29 – Adam Clayton Powell Jr. , politician (died 1972)
December 3 – Edward Underdown , actor (died 1989)
December 4 – Alfred Hershey , bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
December 6 – Baby Face Nelson , bank robber (died 1934 )
December 7 – Slim Bryant , country music singer, songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)
December 11 – Elliott Carter , composer (died 2012)
December 14 – Morey Amsterdam , actor and comedian (died 1996 )
December 16 – Frances Day , actress and singer (died 1984 )
December 17 – Willard Libby , chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1980)
December 21 – Herbert Hutner , banker and lawyer (died 2008)
December 23 – Sol Carter , baseball player (died 2006)
Deaths
Grover Cleveland February 1 – Sara Iredell Fleetwood , African-American nurse and teacher (born 1849 )
February 21 – Harriet Hosmer , neoclassical sculptor, first female professional sculptor (born 1830 )
March 25 – Durham Stevens , diplomat (born 1851 )
March 26 – Louis Chauvin , ragtime pianist (born 1881 )
March 27 – Charles N. Sims , Methodist preacher, third chancellor of Syracuse University (born 1835 )
April 19 – Simon B. Conover , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1873 to 1879 (born 1840 )
April 20 – Henry Chadwick , English-born baseball writer and historian (born 1824)
May 14 – John O'Connell , baseball player (born 1872)
June 1 – James Kimbrough Jones , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1885 to 1903 (born 1839 )
June 9 – Drusilla Wilson , American temperance leader and Quaker pastor (born 1815 )
June 13 – Henry Lomb , German-American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (born 1848)
June 14 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby , founder of the Stanley Cup (born 1841)
June 24 – Grover Cleveland , 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897 (born 1837)
July 3 – Joel Chandler Harris , author (born 1848)
July 10 – Phoebe Knapp , hymn composer (born 1839)
July 29 – Estelle M. H. Merrill , journalist (born 1858 )
August 4 – William B. Allison , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1873 to 1908 (born 1829 )
August 26 – Tony Pastor , vaudeville and theater impresario (born 1837)
September 17 – Thomas Selfridge , army officer & first aviation casualty (born 1882)
October 30 – Caroline Astor , socialite (born 1830)
November 7 – Butch Cassidy , train and bank robber (born 1866 )
December 9 – William Harvey Carney , first African American to receive the Medal of Honor (born 1840 )
December 13 – Augustus Le Plongeon , photographer and antiquarian (born 1826 )
Jacob W. Davis , Latvian-born tailor, inventor of jeans (born 1831)
See also
References
^ "Who was the first African-American to Win an Olympic Gold Medal?" .^ "Model T Facts" (Press release). US: Ford. Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-04-23 .^ Approximately $21,597 in 2017, when adjusted for inflation.
^ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985 . Caterham: Marden. p. 20. ^ Gregory, Rick (1980). "Robertson County and the Black Patch War, 1904–1909" . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 39 (3): 341–358. ISSN 0040-3261 . JSTOR 42626100 . ^ Robert B. Ewen (March 1998). Personality: A Topical Approach – Theories, Research, Major Controversies, and Emerging Findings ISBN 978-0-8058-3146-7 ^ "Mel Blanc | American entertainer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 8 April 2020 .^ John R. Shook (1 January 2005). Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers ISBN 978-1-84371-037-0 ^ "Local WNY woman celebrates 108th birthday" ^ Mark Christopher Carnes (2002). American National Biography: Supplement ISBN 978-0-19-522202-9 ^ Roberto Quercetani (1964). A World History of Track and Field Athletics, 1864–1964
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