Mother's Day - The First Celebration
Time: 1908
Place: Grafton, West Virginia, U.S.
Details: The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.
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George Washington-Battle of Jumonville Glen
Tuesday May 28, 1754 - Pennsylvania, U.S.


George Washington-Washington's surrender
Thursday Jul 4, 1754 - Near present-day Farmington and Uniontown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Albert Einstein-Lecturer at Bern
1908 - Bern, Switzerland


Xinhai Revolution-The Imperial Resident In Lhasa
1908 - Lhasa, Tibet, China


Franklin D. Roosevelt-First Job
1908 - New York, U.S.


Xinhai Revolution-The Revolutionaries began To Shift Their Call To The New Armies
1908 - China


John Maynard Keynes-Return to Cambridge
1908 - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom


Marcus Garvey-Mother died
Mar, 1908 - Kingston, Jamaica


Plague-Plague infection is first reported in Ecuador and Venezuela
1908 - Ecuador and Venezuela


Xinhai Revolution-Qin-lian Uprising
Friday Mar 27, 1908 - Qinzhou, Guangxi, China


Winston Churchill-Churchill was appointed President of the Board of Trade
Wednesday Apr 8, 1908 - London, England, United Kingdom


Winston Churchill-Churchill lost the Manchester North West
Friday Apr 24, 1908 - England, United Kingdom


Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Birth
Tuesday Apr 28, 1908 - Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (Now: Czech Republic)


Xinhai Revolution-Hekou Uprising
Thursday Apr 30, 1908 - Hekou, Honghe, Yunnan, China


The Wright brothers-First fixed-wing aircraft passenger on a few short flights
Thursday May 14, 1908 - U.S.


Carter G. Woodson-Woodson attended the University of Chicago
1908 - University of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.


Library of Congress-Schatz collection of early opera librettos
1908 - Washington D.C., U.S.


Disasters with highest death tolls-Tunguska Event
Tuesday Jun 30, 1908 - Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Siberia, Russian Empire


Juneteenth-Texas and all former Confederate states passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disenfranchised black people
1908 - U.S.


Flag of the United States-Star for Oklahoma
Saturday Jul 4, 1908 - U.S.


Father's Day-The First observance of a day honoring fathers
Sunday Jul 5, 1908 - Fairmont, West Virginia, U.S.


Ottoman Empire-Young Turk Revolution
Jul, 1908 - Ottoman Empire


Armenian Genocide-Armenians' hopes for equality in the Ottoman Empire brightened when a coup d'état staged by officers in the Ottoman Third Army
Friday Jul 24, 1908 - Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Now Thessaloniki, Greece)


Titanic-Drawings
Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 - Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom


The Wright brothers-Some newspapers that called him a "bluffeur"
Saturday Aug 8, 1908 - Le Mans, France


Wind turbine-The Spread in U.S.
1908 - U.S.


The Wright brothers-Demonstrating another nearly identical Flyer to the United States Army
Thursday Sep 3, 1908 - Virginia, U.S.


The Wright brothers-The First hour-long flight
Wednesday Sep 9, 1908 - U.S.


Ottoman Empire-Austria-Hungary officially annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina
1908 - Bosnia and Herzegovina


The Wright brothers-The First airplane crash fatality
Thursday Sep 17, 1908 - U.S.


Plane Accidents-The first powered aircraft crash
Thursday Sep 17, 1908 - Fort Myer, Virginia, U.S.


Winston Churchill-Churchill and Clementine Hozier married
Sep, 1908 - London, England, United Kingdom


John Maynard Keynes-Civil Service career
Oct, 1908 - London, England


The Wright brothers-The First American woman passenger
Wednesday Oct 7, 1908 - U.S.


Xinhai Revolution-Mapaoying Uprising
Thursday Nov 19, 1908 - Anhui, China


Marcus Garvey-Garvey became a trade unionist and took a leading role
Nov, 1908 - Jamaica


Xinhai Revolution-Allowing The Gentry and businessmen To Participate In Politics
Dec, 1908 - China


Mother's Day-Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother's Day an official holiday
1908 - Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., U.S.


Antibiotic-Ehrlich Received The Nobel Prize
Thursday Dec 10, 1908 - Stockholm, Sweden


Disasters with highest death tolls-1908 Messina Earthquake
Monday Dec 28, 1908 - Italy