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 Officially this was about law enforcement, but soon director for life J. Edgar Hoover used it as a private goon squad. | |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 | |
| 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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