Editing 1908 (section)

=== July ===
[[File:Olympic games 1908 London.jpg|240px|thumbnail|right|July: [[1908 Summer Olympics]].]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; {{overbar|[[SOS]]}} comes into force internationally as a [[distress signal]] (originally for ship-to-shore [[wireless telegraphy]]).<ref>{{citation|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103239133&view=1up&seq=36|title=Article XVI|work=Service Regulations annexed to the [[International Radiotelegraph Convention (1906)|International Radiotelegraph Convention]]|location=Berlin|date=1906-11-03|page=34|access-date=October 3, 2023|archive-date=November 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129104414/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103239133&view=1up&seq=36|url-status=live}}.</ref>
* [[July 3]] – [[Young Turk Revolution]] in the [[Ottoman Empire]]: Major Ahmed Niyazi, with 200 followers (Ottoman troops and civilians), begins an open revolution by defecting from the 3rd Army Corps in [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]], decamping into the hill country.
* [[July 6]] – [[Robert Peary]] sets sail for the [[North Pole]].
* [[July 8]] – French aviator [[Léon Delagrange]] makes the world's first flight with a female passenger, his partner and fellow sculptor [[Thérèse Peltier]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Therese Peltier|url=https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/women-in-aviation/Peltier.cfm|work=Women in aviation and space history|access-date=2017-05-07|archive-date=September 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929102614/https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/women-in-aviation/Peltier.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 11]]–[[July 12|12]] – The steamship ''Amalthea'', housing 80 British [[strikebreaker]]s in [[Malmö]] harbour, [[Sweden]], is bombed by [[Anton Nilson]]; 1 is killed, 20 injured.
* [[July 11]] – The Western University of Pennsylvania is renamed the [[University of Pittsburgh]].
* [[July 13]]–[[July 25|25]] – The [[1908 Summer Olympics]] are held in London. (Originally scheduled to be in Rome, but changed due to the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 1906.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref> [[Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics|Figure skating]] events are held in London from [[October 28]]–[[October 29|29]].)
* [[July 19]] – [[Feyenoord]], the first Dutch football club to [[1969–70 European Cup|win]] the [[UEFA Champions League]], is founded at [[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
* [[July 23]] – [[Young Turk Revolution]]: The [[Committee of Union and Progress]] (CUP) issues a formal ultimatum to [[Abdul Hamid II|Sultan Abdul Hamid II]], to restore the constitution of [[1876]] within the [[Ottoman Empire]]; it is restored the following day.
* [[July 24]] – Italian [[Dorando Pietri]] wins the Olympic [[marathon]] (run from [[Windsor Castle]] to London) in one of the most dramatic arrivals in Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards for receiving assistance; victory is awarded to Irish-American [[Johnny Hayes]].
* [[July 26]] – The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] is founded.
* [[July 27]]–[[July 28|28]] – The [[1908 Hong Kong typhoon]] sinks the passenger steamer ''Ying King'', causing 421 deaths.