Historical Events in 1908
64 curated events dated to this year, and 250 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1908
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Discovery of Oil at Masjid i-Sulaiman in Persia
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Ford Model T Introduced
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The Tunguska Event
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Chlorination of Public Water Supply Initiated
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Civil List Pension Awarded
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Jones self-publishes The Rose that Bloometh in My Heart
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Mental Breakdown in Italy
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Publication of 'Plea of the Negro Soldier and a Hundred Other Poems'
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Wilbur Wright's Le Mans demonstrations astonish Europe
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Australian Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act Passed
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Automobile Mass Production by Ford
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Cavafy's Appointment as a Civil Servant
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Ezra Pound's Relocation to Italy
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FBI Established as Bureau of Investigation in Washington
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Founding of The English Review
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Marriage of Edna Wahlert McCourt
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Move to Chicago
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Paul Poiret Liberates Women from Corsets
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Publication of 'A Lume Spento'
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Publication of 'Including Finnigin'
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Publication of 'Interludes and Poems'
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Publication of 'Nirvana Days'
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Publication of 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp'
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Publication of 'The Soul's Journey'
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The First Successful Isolation of Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
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The Great Earthquake of 1908 in Messina
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Children Act restricts children in pub bars
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Education at Lafayette College
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First Literary Contributions
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First Published Poem
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First Published Work
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Founding of the FBI Predecessor Agency
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Friendship with Ezra Pound
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Hale Discovers Magnetic Fields in Sunspots
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Invention of Cellophane by Jacques E. Brandenberger
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Joining Oxford University Press
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Jones publishes Our Greater Louisville: Souvenir Poem
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Marriage to Lilian Steichen
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Marriage to Mary Bottomley
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Monro separates from Dorothy and leaves for France
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Move to New York City
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Publication of 'The Church and the Future'
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Publication of 'The Man Who Was Thursday'
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Publication of 'The New Inferno'
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Relocation to St. Louis
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Scholarship to Marlborough College
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Suffragette Dress and the Corset in the British Suffrage Movement
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The Daily Telegraph Affair
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The Invention of the Teabag by Thomas Sullivan
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Birth of First Child
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Birth of First Child, Marie Belloc
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Education at Hotchkiss School
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Éluard's Family Relocation to Paris
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First Electric Stand Mixer Patented
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Glenn Curtiss June Bug Flight
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Lawrence takes teaching post in Croydon
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Marriage to Aline Murray
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Namibian Diamond Mining
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Publication of 'The Human Tragedy' (Poetic Version)
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Publication of 'The New Thought'
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Publication of Kitty Taillleur
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Switzerland Holds Referendum Banning Absinthe
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Dett Begins Teaching at Lane College in Tennessee
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Graduation from Columbia University
Poets alive in 1908
250 poets
Poets in 1908
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