Timeline February 1908

Events in February 1908 5

• 1908 Privatdozent at Bern An unpaid foothold in academia Einstein was admitted as a lecturer at the University of Bern in February 1908, after an earlier application was rejected for lacking a habilitation thesis. His first course drew three students, two of them friends. He was still working full time at the patent office.
• 1908 Regicide of 1908 The Fall of Monarchy The assassination of King Carlos I and Prince Luís Filipe in Lisbon, leading to the end of the monarchy.
• 1908 – 1983 Buster Crabbe (1908-1983) American Olympic swimmer turned actor, the screen's Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.
• 1908 Buster Crabbe born in Oakland Buster Crabbe is born in Oakland.
• 1908 – 2001 Balthus (1908-2001) Died 18 February 2001, aged 92 Balthus, born Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola, was a figurative painter who worked against the grain of twentieth-century abstraction. His canvases of interiors and adolescent girls were admired for their composition and unsettling for their subject matter. He directed the French Academy in Rome for many years.