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( 1900s: )     1908
Officially this was about law enforcement, but soon director for life J. Edgar Hoover used it as a private goon squad.
year 1908

Events

• January 24 – Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys begins publication in London. The book eventually sold over 100 million copies, and effectively begins the worldwide Boy Scout movement.
• February 1 – Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Prince Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
• April 8 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
• May 14–October 31 – The Franco-British Exhibition (1908) is held in London.
• May 26 – At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil discovery in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
• June 30 (June 17 OS) – The Tunguska event or "Russian explosion" near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire, is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment, at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface.
• July 23 – Young Turk Revolution: The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) issues a formal ultimatum to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, to restore the constitution of 1876 within the Ottoman Empire (it is restored the following day).
• October 1 – Official launch of Henry Ford's Ford Model T automobile, the first having left the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan, on September 27.
• October 5– Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire; Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar.
• October 6 – The Bosnian crisis begins, after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Empire.
• November 3 – 1908 United States presidential election: Republican candidate William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan, 321 electoral votes to 162.
• November 15 – King Leopold II of Belgium formally relinquishes his personal control of the Congo Free State (becoming Belgian Congo) to Belgium, following evidence collected by Roger Casement of maladministration.

 

Event

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
University of Alberta		Public Flagship	Canadian university
James Madison University		Research Public	College in Virginia, USA
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo			One of the largest and most prestigious universities of Brazil.
Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)
Cairo University		Public	Most important university in Egypt.
Kellogg School of Management		Private business school	Chicago business school
University of British Columbia			Canadian university with 71 Rhodes scholars and 3 Canadian Prime Ministers
University of Pretoria		University	Former Afrikaans-speaking university, by 2016 changed to English as education language
FBI			Formerly focused on "law enforcement", the Federal Bureau of Investigation has since 2013 been officially prioritising "national security". Director for life J. Edgar Hoover used it for multiple purposes over the decades - most notably muckraking for information to be used later as blackmail material.

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary
Spencer Cavendish	23 July 1833	24 March 1908	France Cannes	Politician
Henry Campbell-Bannerman	7 September 1836	22 April 1908	London United Kingdom 10 Downing Street	Politician Businessperson
Grover Cleveland	18 March 1837	24 June 1908	United States New Jersey Princeton University	Politician Lawyer

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Ihsan Sabri Caglayangil	1908	Turkey Istanbul	30 December 1993	Politician	Turkish politician who lost his job 3 times in separate military coups. Bilderberg/1975
J. V. Thygesen	1908			Banker	Danish businessman banker who headed Privatbanken 1954-1974. Attended the 1975 Bilderberg.
Milton Katz	1908		August 1995	Academic Lawyer Teacher	A professor at Harvard University who attended the 1962 Bilderberg
Vecdi Diker	1908	Turkey Istanbul	13 July 1997	Engineer	US-educated Turkish engineer and Directorate of Highways. Early Bilderberg guest.
Clarence Dunlap	1 January 1908	Nova Scotia Sydney Mines	20 October 2003	Pilot	Canadian air force officer who was at NATO in 1959. Deputy commander-in-chief of NORAD in the 1960s.
Allan Noble	1908		17 November 1982	Diplomat Politician Mariner	English naval commander, conservative politician, and diplomat. Son of Admiral Percy Noble. Attended the 1957 February Bilderberg meeting as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
Robert van Roijen Sr.	1908	London UK	1981	Spook Book publisher	Dutch-American spook and book publisher. Brother of Herman van Roijen.
Philip Crowe	7 January 1908		16 November 1976	Diplomat Spook Journalist Big game hunter	US OSS spook and diplomat
Leon Keyserling	11 January 1908	United States South Carolina Charleston	9 August 1987
Earle Wheeler	13 January 1908	United States Washington DC	18 December 1975
Edward Teller	15 January 1908	Budapest Austria-Hungary	9 September 2003	Academic Scientist	Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "the father of the hydrogen bomb".
Duncan Sandys	24 January 1908	London United Kingdom	26 November 1987	Diplomat	UK diplomat, son-in-law of Winston Churchill.
Mark Zborowski	27 January 1908		30 April 1990	Spook Anthropologist
Louis Rasminsky	1 February 1908	Montreal Quebec	15 September 1998	Central banker	Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973
Roger W. Jones	3 February 1908	Connecticut New Hartford	28 May 1993	Bureaucracy	Government official that served seven United States Presidents in various capacities.
Edward Lansdale	6 February 1908	United States Michigan Detroit	23 February 1987	Spook Soldier
Amintore Fanfani	6 February 1908	Italy Tuscany Pieve Santo Stefano	20 November 1999	Politician Economist	Quad bilderberger, Italian PM
Leslie O'Brien	8 February 1908	London Dulwich	24 November 1995	Central banker	Governor of the Bank of England 1966-1973
James Easton	11 February 1908		19 October 1990	Spook Pilot	An RAF pilot who became deputy director general of MI6
Foy Kohler	15 February 1908	Ohio Oakwood	23 December 1990	Diplomat Spook	US diplomat and cold warrior. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Committee on the Present Danger, Team B, Council on Foreign Relations.
William McMahon	23 February 1908	Australia New South Wales Redfern	31 March 1988	Politician Lawyer
Robert Vandeputte	26 February 1908	Antwerp	18 November 1997	Central banker	Attended the 1972 Bilberberg as Governor of the National Bank of Belgium
Donald Tyerman	1 March 1908		4 April 1981	Journalist Editor
Michael Josselson	2 March 1908	Tartu Russia/Tsarist Russia	7 January 1978	Spook Polyglot	CIA agent who set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom in 1950.
Ralph Murray	3 March 1908		11 September 1983	Spook Broadcaster	Head of the British secret propaganda unit Information Research Department
Israel Krupp	9 March 1908		25 October 1991
Maurice Stans	22 March 1908	United States Minnesota Shakopee	14 April 1998	Accountant Deep state functionary	Nixon associate who handled black funds
Charles Burton Marshall	25 March 1908	New York Catskill		Academic	William Elliott protegé who became member of policy planning staff at the State Department. Wrote a paper entitled The Berlin Crisis for the 1959 Bilderberg
Roger Seydoux de Clausonne	28 March 1908	France Paris	3 July 1985	Diplomat Academic	Spooky French diplomat who attended the 1973 Bilderberg
Jean de la Garde	29 March 1908		11 January 1984	Diplomat	Bilderberg visitor tentatively identified as a French diplomat
Shepard Stone	31 March 1908		4 May 1990	Spook Propagandist	New York Times propagandist and Bilderberg Steering committee member who was Director of International Affairs of the Ford Foundation for 15 years.
Max Schmidheiny	3 April 1908		19 August 1991	Businessperson	One of the most influential captains of industry in Switzerland in the 20th century
Pieter Kuin	7 April 1908	Netherlands Zijpe	14 August 2002	Economist	Unilever multinational corporation executive who spoke on "European co-operation for the development of Southern Italy" with Paul Rykens at the 1968 Bilderberg
Francis Wilcox	9 April 1908	US Iowa Columbus Junction	20 February 1985	Diplomat	State dept official on the Committee on the Present Danger, attended 2 early Bilderbergs
Vic Feather	10 April 1908	Bradford	28 July 1976	Propagandist Union organizer	General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress secretly working for the Information Research Department.
Richard Löwenthal	15 April 1908	Germany Berlin	9 August 1991	Journalist Academic Deep state operative	A Jewish exile from Nazi Germany, he soon was attached to US and UK intelligence services. After the war became a major intellectual in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and often consulted by the SPD’s leaders, especially Willy Brandt and Ernst Reuter. He attended the 1968 Bilderberg conference.
Guido Colonna di Paliano	16 April 1908	Italy Naples	27 January 1982	Diplomat Italian aristocrat	SDS connected Italian aristocrat and diplomat. Deputy Secretary General of NATO 1962-64, then European Commissioner.
Leonard Schapiro	22 April 1908	Glasgow UK	2 November 1983	Propagandist Academic	"Inner-circle" British Cold War propagandist.
Laurence Helsby	27 April 1908		5 December 1978	Civil servant
Bjarni Benediktsson	30 April 1908	Iceland Reykjavík	10 July 1970	Academic Lawyer Deep politician	Main responsible for Iceland joining NATO in 1949, against significant opposition, and for giving the United States Air Force a lease on Keflavík Airport. Prime Minister of Iceland for most of the 1960s. Died in 1970 from a fire soon after his 4th Bilderberg
Nicholas Kaldor	12 May 1908	Hungary Budapest	30 September 1986	Economist	Hungarian/British economist with large influence on 1960-70 Labour governments
Ian Fleming	28 May 1908	London United Kingdom Mayfair	12 August 1964	Author Spook Journalist	"A womaniser of outrageous proportions", spook and author who created the James Bond character
Pierre-Henri Teitgen	29 May 1908		6 April 1997	Politician Academic Lawyer	Attended the first Bilderberg as ex-French Minister of Justice
John Boyd-Carpenter	2 June 1908		11 July 1998	Politician
Walworth Barbour	4 June 1908	US Massachusetts Cambridge	21 July 1982	Diplomat	US Ambassador to Israel for 12 years
Otto Skorzeny	12 June 1908	Vienna Austria-Hungary	5 July 1975	Spook Soldier	Senior Nazi soldier who remained active after WWII, in touch with some of his old colleagues such as Reinhard Gehlen.
Sam Giancana	15 June 1908	United States Chicago Illinois	19 June 1975	Crime boss HSCA/Premature deaths	Head of Chicago mafia
Vera Atkins	16 June 1908	Romania Galați	24 June 2000	Spook
Erik Brofoss	21 June 1908		7 May 1979	Politician Economist Central banker	Central Bank Governor of Norway 1954-1970
Ettore Lolli	23 June 1908	Italy Bologna Emilia-Romagna	2000	Banker	Italian single Bilderberger (1964) banker who "brought the the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers together in a joint venture".
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