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The 20th Century Almanac · The 1900s

1908

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, igniting a Balkan crisis, while a revolution by the Young Turks forced constitutional rule on the Ottoman Empire. Henry Ford introduced the Model T, and a massive explosion flattened the Siberian forest at Tunguska.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
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World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
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Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
RUTHERFORD, Lord ERNEST, Great Britain, Victoria University, Manchester, b. 1871 (in Nelson, New Zealand), d. 1937: "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"
Literature
EUCKEN, RUDOLF CHRISTOPH, Germany, b. 1846, d. 1926: "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works h
Peace
Bureau, Berne
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: METCHNIKOFF, ELIE, Russia, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, b. 1845, d. 1916; and EHRLICH, PAUL, Germany, Gšttingen University and Kšnigliches Institut fŸr experimentelle Therapie (Royal Inst
Physics
LIPPMANN, GABRIEL, France, Sorbonne University, Paris, b. 1845 (in Hollerich, Luxembourg), d. 1921: "for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference" googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.d