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Date: 19 April 1908

Eric Spear (18 April 1908 – 3 November 1966) was an English composer best known for his film scores and the theme of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
Lees meer...18 april 1908 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♈. Het was de 108e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Theodore Roosevelt.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 118 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 18 april 2026, 42 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 18 april 2027, in 322 dagen. Je hebt 43.141 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 1.035.388 uur, of ongeveer 62.123.330 minuten, of ongeveer 3.727.399.800 seconden.
Date: 19 April 1908
ON the lower floor of the Astor Library Building is a collection of German prints, chosen from those in the Print Department of the Lenox Library Building, with the intention of showing the general tendency of modern graphic art in Germany.
Date: 18 April 1908
ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON'S "Italians Days and Ways," which the Lippincotts published late in 1906, is going into a fourth edition at once. Miss Wharton in this book gives delightfully familiar glimpses of Genoa, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Sorrento, and other cities and towns less well known about.
Date: 18 April 1908
WASHINGTON, April 17. -- The forty-five Japanese who are making a tour around the world and who arrived in Washington yesterday devoted their time to sightseeing to-day.
Date: 19 April 1908
LONDON, April 10. -- The news that W. S. Simpson had invented a new and terrible electric gun capable of sending a projectile 300 miles has doubtless reached you by cable. In the opinion of W.T. Stead, the well-known advocate for universial peace, Mr. Simpson's invention, which will shortly be tried by military and naval experts here, is one of the most efficient arguments in the cause of peace if brought forward.
Date: 19 April 1908
LONDON, April 11. -- An interesting description of conditions in Harbin and Mukden, in which cities American Consuls are supporting the Chinese against the aggressions of Russia and Japan, is contained in a letter written by the Peking correspondent of the Reuter News Agency.
Date: 18 April 1908
Date: 18 April 1908
Date: 19 April 1908
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York Times
Marconi Wireless
ROME, April 18, (by telegraph to Clifden, Ireland; thence by wireless.) -- Miss Mary Lee, the daughter of the great Confederate General, is in Rome for the Easter ceremonies, but will leave soon after.