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| 1908 |
| | | UK prime minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns because of ill health and is followed as Liberal leader and prime mininster by Herbert Asquith | |
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| 1908 |
| | | David Lloyd George becomes chancellor of the exchequer in Asquith's new cabinet | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Polyscope Film Company releases the first horror movie, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, filmed from a popular stage production | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Burman Oil Company, developing a concession granted in 1901 to William Knox D'Arcy, discovers oil in Iran | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Without financial support from his mother, Hitler ekes out a meagre living painting postcards and advertisements | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Austria annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, in response to the policy of the Young Turks in Istanbul | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Sergei Diaghilev presents Fyodor Chaliapin in Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Liberal government in Britain introduces an old-age pension, albeit only five shillings a week. | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Ernest Shackleton, leading an expedition to the Antarctic, locates the south magnetic pole | |
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| c. 1908 |
| | | Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque introduces analytic Cubism | |
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