July 1908

Monday 06:

Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.

Monday 13:

Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.

Wednesday 22:

Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and automobile bodies.

Saturday 25:

Ajinomoto is born. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG) and patents a process for manufacturing it.

Sunday 26:

United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).