1908

1908

THE TUNGUSKA EVENT!
(the above photograph is not actually the Tunguska impact, but Castle Bravo, a 1954 United States nuclear bomb test of comparable magnitude)

Mother's Day observed for the first time in the U.S.

First major commercial discovery of oil in the Middle East.

Winston Churchill ordained as a Druid. (not kidding)

Henry Ford first produces his "Model T"

Chicago Cubs win their last World Series ever.

Harry Bensley begins his trip around the world, wearing an iron mask and wheeling an empty baby carriage.

Some kind of "feminist" allows chicks to compete in the Olympic Games for the first time.

born: Jimmy Stewart, Tex Avery, Rex Harrison, Louis L'Amour, Buddy Ebsen, Bette Davis,

died: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Charles Ives - Three Places in New England
I. The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his Colored Regiment)
II. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut
III. 'The Housatonic at Stockbridge
(written 1908; never actually performed until 1930)

Anton Webern - Passacaglia

Len Spencer - Arkansas Traveler