What Happened In July 1908 In History

Historical Events for July, 1908

• 1st » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
• 23rd » Second Constitutional Era e.g The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottoman Empire called Ottomans.
• 25th » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the University of Tokyo known as Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
• 26th » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

Famous Birthdays on July in 1908

• 1st » Peter Anders (tenor) known as Peter Anders, German tenor (d. 1954)
• 1st » Ed Gordon (athlete) or Ed Gordon, American long jumper (d. 1971)
• 2nd » Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, 32nd United States Solicitor General (d. 1993)
• 3rd » M. F. K. Fisher, American author (d. 1992)
• 3rd » Robert B. Meyner, American politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1990)
• 6th » Anton Muttukumaru, Ceylonese general (d. 2001)
• 7th » Revilo P. Oliver, American author and academic (d. 1994)
• 8th » Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and actor (Tympany Five) (d. 1975)
• 8th » Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
• 9th » Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani philosopher and scholar (d. 1973)
• 11th » Karl Nabersberg, German youth leader (d. 1946)
• 12th » Milton Berle, American comedian, actor, and singer (d. 2002)
• 12th » Alain Cuny, French actor (d. 1994)
• 12th » Paul Runyan, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2002)
• 18th » Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (d. 1981)
• 18th » Lupe Vélez, Mexican-American actress and dancer (d. 1944)
• 21st » Jug McSpaden, American golfer (d. 1996)
• 22nd » Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
• 25th » Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
• 25th » Ambroise-Marie Carré, French priest and author (d. 2004)
• 25th » Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
• 25th » Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (d. 2003)
• 26th » Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourger sculptor (d. 2002)
• 27th » Joseph Mitchell (writer) known as Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1996)

Famous Deaths for July 1908

• 3rd » Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)
• 5th » Jonas Lie, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1833)
• 10th » Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
• 11th » Friedrich Traun, German tennis player (b. 1876)
• 20th » Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author (b. 1835)
• 20th » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881)
• 22nd » Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Peace Prize e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
• 24th » Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. 1867)

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