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| 1908 |
| | | International outrage at Congo atrocities forces Belgium to annexe King Leopold's private colony | |
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| 1908 |
| | | German physicist Hans Geiger, working in England with Rutherford, develops an instrument that can detect and count alpha particles | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Augusto Leguía begins a long spell as the strong man of Peruvian politics | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes write "Shine on, Harvest Moon" for The Follies of 1908 | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in a production by Stanislavsky | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Bronislava Nijinska joins her brother Vaslav in the Maryinsky company in St Petersburg | |
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| 1908 |
| | | After first being discussed at the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in 1906, SOS is formally ratified as the international distress signal | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger patents cellophane, a flexible transparent film made from cellulose | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Parliament in Australia chooses Canberra as the site of the nation's new capital | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Coffee replaces sugar as Brazil's main crop, accounting for more than 50% of exports in 1908 | |
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