News and Events of 1908

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Klas P. Arnoldson (Sweden) and Frederik Bajer (Denmark)

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Earthquake and resulting tsunami kill 70,000 to 100,000 in southern Italy and Sicily.
Petroleum production starts in Middle East.
Mysterious Siberian explosion levels hundreds of square miles of forest. Explanations include a comet, meteorite, natural atomic explosion, or crashed UFO.

President: Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks
Population: 88,710,000

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U.S. Supreme Court, in Danbury Hatters' case, outlaws secondary union boycotts.
President Roosevelt holds White House Conservation Conference, which leads to establishment of the National Conservation Commission.

Federal spending:   $0.66 billion
Unemployment:   8.0%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Chicago Cubs d. Detroit (4-1)

Montreal Wanderers

Women: Charlotte Sterry d. A. Morton (6-4 6-4)
Men: Arthur Gore d. R. Barrett (6-3 6-2 4-6 3-6 6-4)

Stone Street

Penn (CFRA, HF) (11-0-1) & LSU (NCF) (10-0-0)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudolf Eucken (Germany)

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Arnold Schoenberg's Book of Hanging Gardens released, bringing new style to classical music. Harmony and tonality are replaced by dissonance, creating what many listeners consider to be noise.

Chemistry: Sir Ernest Rutherford (UK), for investigations into disintegration of elements

Physics: Gabriel Lippmann (France), for method of reproducing colors by photography

Physiology or Medicine: Paul Ehrlich (Germany) and Elie Metchnikoff (USSR), for work on immunity