1908
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1908 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1908th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 908
1908 Baby New Year on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
July: 1908 Summer Olympics.
October 1: Ford Model T launch.
Edward Teller
Tunguska event
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The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons TNT equivalent that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908
1908
…by Bleichert opens in Bolzano, South Tyrol, the first modern aerial enclosed cable car solely for passenger service. June 30 (June 17 OS) – The Tunguska event 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…
Trees knocked down and burned by the blast. (image from over two decades after the event)
Tunguska marshes, near the site of the explosion. This photo was published in the magazine Around the World in 1931. The original photo was taken between 1927 and 1930 (presumptively no later than 14 September 1930).[citation needed]
Sample of burn damaged tree, museum of Moscow State University
Thin section of a fragment of "John's stone" from the epicentre of the Tunguska event. "John's stone" was suspected of being a Tunguska meteorite fragment, but is in fact a metamorphic, terrestrial rock.