1904

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Year 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

Contents:
Events of 1904 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Births Deaths Nobel Prizes See also - Notes - External links

Events of 1904

January - February

February 7: Aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire.

January 7 - The distress signal CQD is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS.
January 12 - Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.37 mph.
January 16 - The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
February 7 - The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
February 8 - A Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur (Lushun) starts the Russo-Japanese War.
February 10 - Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
February 23 - For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
February 28 - Sport Lisboa e Benfica is founded in Portugal.

March - April

March 3 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
March 4 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria, followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
March 31 - British expedition to Tibet - Battle of Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.
April 8
- The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France.
- Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 19 - The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but there are no fatalities.
April 27 - The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
April 30 - The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).

May - June

May 4 - U.S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal.
May 5 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
May 9 - GWR 3440 City of Truro becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph.
May 21 - The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established.
June 10 - Irish author James Joyce meets his future wife Nora Barnacle.
June 15 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.
June 16 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
June 16 - James Joyce walks to Ringsend with Nora Barnacle; he later uses this date (Bloomsday) as the setting for his novel Ulysses.
June 28 - The Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing 635, including 225 Norwegian emigrants.
June 29 - The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs.

November 4 - In Florence, Italy, the Arno River floods.^{citation needed}
November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.
November 24 - The first successful caterpillar track is made (it later revolutionizes construction vehicles and land warfare).
December 2 - The St. Petersburg Soviet urges a run on the banks: the attempt fails and the executive committee is arrested.
December 3 - Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, Himalia.
December 4 - The K.U. or Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen in Denmark .
December 10 - The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded.
December 27 - The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.
December 30 - The East Boston Tunnel opens.
December 31 - In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.

Nov. 24: caterpillar track

Undated

The Herero Wars begin.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a Second Manifesto against polygamy.
The subject of alcohol and heart attacks is first investigated.
The Loftus Road and Griffin Park football stadiums open.
Stuyvesant High School is founded in New York City.

Ongoing

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
1904-1905 Welsh Revival

Births

**1904 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1904 MCMIV
Ab urbe condita	2657
Armenian calendar	1353 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԳ
Bahá'í calendar	60 – 61
Berber calendar	2854
Buddhist calendar	2448
Burmese calendar	1266
Byzantine calendar	7412 – 7413
Chinese calendar	癸卯年十一月十四日 (4540/4600-11-14) — to — 甲辰年十一月廿五日 (4541/4601-11-25)
Coptic calendar	1620 – 1621
Ethiopian calendar	1896 – 1897
Hebrew calendar	5664 – 5665
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1959 – 1960
- Shaka Samvat	1826 – 1827
- Kali Yuga	5005 – 5006
Holocene calendar	11904
Iranian calendar	1282 – 1283
Islamic calendar	1321 – 1322
Japanese calendar	Meiji 37 (明治37年)
Korean calendar	4237
Thai solar calendar	2447
v • d • e

January-February

January 1 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
January 3 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
January 10 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (The Wizard of Oz)(d. 1987)
January 13 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (d. 1977)
January 14 - Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
January 18 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
January 22
- George Balanchine, Russian-born choreographer (d. 1983)
- Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
January 26
- Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
- Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1988)
January 27 - J. J. Gibson, American psychologist (d. 1979)
January 28 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
January 29 - Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (d. 1976)
February 1 - S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author (d. 1979)
February 3
- Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
- Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, American writer and historian (d. 1977)
February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983)
February 16
- George F. Kennan, American diplomat (d. 2005)
- Philip Rabinowitz (runner), South African record breaking sprinter (d. 2008)
February 20 - Aleksei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957)

March-April

March 1 - Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)
March 2 - Dr. Seuss, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat) (d. 1991)
March 4
- George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
- Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
- Chief Tahachee (actor), American-born stage and film actor (d. 1978)
March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi official (d. 1942)
March 14 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress
March 20 - B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (d. 1990)
March 22 - Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (d. 2006)
March 26
- Gustave Biéler, Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (d. 1944)
- Joseph Campbell, American author on mythology (d. 1987)
- Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
April 1 - Nikolai Berzarin, Russian Red Army General (d. 1945)
April 3 - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (d. 1979)
April 8 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
April 9 - Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
April 14 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
April 15 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (d. 1948)
April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
April 24 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (d. 1997)
April 26 - Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (d. 1982)
April 27 - Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (d. 1972)
April 29 - Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)

May-June

May 6
- Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born engineer (d. 1984)
- Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
May 8 - John Snagge, British radio personality (d. 1996)
May 11 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)
May 17 - Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
May 21
- Fats Waller, American pianist and comedian (d. 1943)
- Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981)
May 27 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
June 2
- Frantisek Planicka, Czech footballer (d. 1996)
- Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (Tarzan) (d. 1984)
June 3 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
June 6 - Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (d. 1928)
June 26 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born film actor (d. 1964)

July-August

July 5 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist and author (d. 2005)
July 6 - Erik Wickberg, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1996)
July 8 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008)
July 12 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
July 15 - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
July 28 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
August 4 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
August 7 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
August 12 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (d. 1918)
August 16 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
August 17
- Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
- Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
August 21 - Count Basie, American musician and bandleader (d. 1984)
August 22 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader (d. 1997)
August 23
- Viscountess Furness, American socialite twin (d. 1970)
- Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, American socialite twin (d. 1965)
August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)
August 29 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)

September-October

September 9 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
September 22 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
September 29 - Greer Garson, English actress (d. 1996)
October 1
- A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
- Irene Craigmile Bolam, American Amelia Earhart look-alike/believed alias(d. 1982)
October 3 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
October 9 - Wally Brown, American actor and comedian (d. 1961)
October 20 - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
October 23 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
October 25 - Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator (d. 1968)
October 27 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)

November-December

November 2 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
November 4 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
November 11 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
November 12 - Jacques Tourneur, French director (d. 1977)
November 14
- Dick Powell, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
- Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1988)
November 16 - Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (d. 1996)
November 18 - Masao Koga, Japanese composer (d. 1978)
November 25
- Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
- Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
November 30 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
December 6 - Eve Curie, French author (d. 2007)
December 12 - Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-born magazine editor and socialite (d. 1981)
December 18 - George Stevens, American film director (d. 1975)
December 24 - Joseph M. Juran, American engineer and philanthropist (d. 2008)
December 25 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
December 26 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
December 30 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
December 31 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975)
date unknown
- Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (d. 1991)
- Tevfik Esenç, Turkish-born last speaker of the Ubykh language (d. 1992)

Deaths

January - June

January 2 - January 10 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter (b. 1824)
January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
February 8 - Alfred Ainger, English biographer (b. 1837)
February 22 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
March 5 - John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British founder of the Army Post Office Corps (b. 1829)
March 17 - Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III (b. 1819)
April 10 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
May 1 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
May 8 - Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer and motion picture pioneer (b. 1830)
May 10 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer and journalist (b. 1841)
May 19 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
June 4 - George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero (b. 1862)
June 12 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)

July - December

July 3 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of Zionism (b. 1860)
July 5 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
July 14
- Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
- Paul Kruger, South African resistance leader (b. 1825)
July 22 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)

August 6 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
August 16 - Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, American author of dime fiction (b. 1843)
August 22 - Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1851)
August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
August 29 - Ottoman Sultan Murad V (b. 1840)
September 26
- Lafcadio Hearn, American-Japanese author (b. 1850)
- John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
October 4
- Frédéric Bartholdi, Alsatian sculptor (b. 1834)
- Laurence Hope, English poetess (b. 1865)
October 21 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss-Algerian explorer (b. 1877)

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