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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).
Events of 1904
January - February
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 8 - The first tunnel beneath the Hudson River is completed.
March 21 - Battle of Chumik Shenko: British under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.
April 8
April 8-April 10 - Aleister Crowley writes The Book of the Law in Cairo, Egypt.
April 19 - The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but kills no one.
April 27 - The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
April 30 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).
May - June
May 4 - Frederick Henry Royce meets Charles Stewart Rolls to discuss Rolls-Royce agreement.
May 5 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, 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 engine to run in excess of 100mph.
May 18 - in Paris, 12 nations sign the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade.
May 21 - Foundation of FIFA.
June 15 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1021.
June 15 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Horsham, West Sussex
June 16 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
June 16 - Leopold Bloom walks through Dublin (First Bloomsday).
June 28 - The Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, 635 are killed, biggest group is 225 Norwegian emigrants.
June 29 - 1904 Moscow tornado
July - August
July 21 - Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
July 23 - In St. Louis, Missouri, Charles E. Menches invents the ice cream cone during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
August 3 - A British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa in Tibet.
August 14 - Ismael Montes becomes president of Bolivia.
August 17 – Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur.
August 18 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
September - October
September 7 - The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
October 1 - Assumption College is founded.
October 4 - Two time UEFA Cup champions (and 17 time Swedish champions) IFK Göteborg is founded.
October 15
October 19 - Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
October 20 - Toowoomba, Queensland is declared a city.
October 21 - The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea, in what would be known as the Dogger Bank incident.
October 27 - The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens (IRT); the system is now the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.
November - December
November 4 - In Florence, Italy, the Arno River floods.
November 8 - Theodore Roosevelt defeats Alton B. Parker in the U.S. presidential election.
November 24 - The first successful caterpillar track is made (it would later revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare).
December 2 - St. Petersburg Soviet urges 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 - KU or Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) in Denmark is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen. Still existing today, it's the oldest youth political organisation in Denmark and believed to be one of the oldest remaining in the world.
December 10 - Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
December 27 - The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.
December 30 - East Boston Tunnel opens.
December 31 - In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, renamed in April from Longacre Square.
Undated
Herero Wars begin.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a "Second Manifesto" against polygamy.
Subject of alcohol and heart attacks first investigated.
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
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 (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
January 26
January 27 - J. J. Gibson, American psychologist (d. 1979)
January 29
February 1 - S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author (d. 1979)
February 3
February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, American writer and historian (d. 1977)
February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983)
February 16
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 author (d. 1991)
March 4
March 6 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, 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
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
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
May 27 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
June 2
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
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)
July 31 - Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
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
August 21 - Count Basie, American musician and bandleader (d. 1984)
August 22 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader (d. 1997)
August 23
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, gangster (d. 1971)
September 29 - Greer Garson, English actress (d. 1996)
October 1 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
October 1 - Irene Craigmile Bolam, American Amelia Earhart look-alike/believed alias(d. 1682)
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)
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
November 25
November 30 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
December 6 - Eve Curie, French author and daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie
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
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)
date unknown
Deaths » :(See 1904 list of deaths by name: .)
January - June
January 2 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
February 8 - Alfred Ainger, 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
July 22 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
August 6 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
August 22 - Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1851)
August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
August 29 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
September 24 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
September 26
October 4
October 21 - Isabelle Eberhardt, explorer (b. 1877)
Nobel prizes
Physics - The Lord Rayleigh
Chemistry - Sir William Ramsay
Physiology or Medicine - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Literature - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre
Peace - Institut De Droit International
Fictional
Sometime in this year, the events of Raimuiro Senkitan took place.
Three of the short novels about Samantha Edwards took place in this year.
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