Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 - 1913 - 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Events:
- May 29 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris
- The Seventeenth Amendment - the direct election of senators - becomes law
- de Sitter: speed of light is independent of speed of source
- Sagnac: speed of light depends on speed of rotating platform
- Change of US presidency from William Howard Taft (1909-1913) to Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
- Painting September Morn creates a national sensation in U.S.
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- February 11 - Lucio Diestro, composer.
- May 20 - William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard
- June 11 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach
- July 14 - Gerald Ford, American president.
- August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novellist
- September 12 - Jesse Owens, American athlete
- September 30 - Bill Walsh, Movie producer and writer.
- November 2 - Burt Lancaster, actor
- November 5 - Vivien Leigh, British actress
- November 7 - Albert Camus, writer
- November 22 - Benjamin Britten, composer
- December 29 - The first serial motion picture, The Unwelcome Throne is released by Seligs Polyscope Company.
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