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).

Events of 1904

January - February

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

March - April

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

May - June

• 4 May - U.S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal.
• 5 May - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• 9 May - GWR 3440 City of Truro becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed 100mph.
• 21 May - The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established.
• 10 June - Irish author James Joyce meets his future wife Nora Barnacle.
• 15 June - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1021.
• 16 June - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• 16 June - James Joyce walks to Ringsend with Nora Barnacle; he later used this date ( Bloomsday) as the setting for his novel Ulysses.
• 28 June - The Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing 635, including 225 Norwegian emigrants.
• 29 June - The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs.

July - August

• 1 July - The third Modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as part of the World's Fair.
• 21 July - The Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
• 23 July - In St. Louis, Missouri, the ice cream cone is invented during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
• 3 August - British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa in Tibet.
• 14 August - Ismael Montes becomes President of Bolivia.
• 17 August - Russo-Japanese War: Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur.
• 18 August - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.

September - October

• 7 September - British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
• 15 October - Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 19 October - Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
• 21 October - Russo-Japanese War: 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.
• 27 October - The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.

November - December

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

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

January-February

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

March-April

• 1 March - Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)
• 2 March - Dr. Seuss, American children's author (d. 1991)
• 4 March
  • 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)
• 7 March - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)
• 14 March - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress
• 20 March - B. F. Skinner, American behavioural psychologist (d. 1990)
• 22 March - Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (d. 2006)
• 26 March
  • 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)
• 1 April - Nikolai Berzarin, Russian Red Army General (d.1945)
• 3 April - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (d. 1979)
• 8 April - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 9 April - Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
• 14 April - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
• 15 April - Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (d. 1948)
• 16 April - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
• 22 April - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
• 24 April - Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (d. 1997)
• 26 April - Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (d. 1982)
• 27 April - Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (d. 1972)
• 29 April - Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)

May-June

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

July-August

• 5 July - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist and author (d. 2005)
• 6 July - Erik Wickberg, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1996)
• 8 July - Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008)
• 12 July - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 15 July - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
• 28 July - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)

• 4 August - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
• 7 August - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
• 12 August - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (d. 1918)
• 16 August - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• 17 August
  • Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
  • Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
• 21 August - Count Basie, American musician and bandleader (d. 1984)
• 22 August - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader (d. 1997)
• 23 August
  • Viscountess Furness, American socialite twin (d. 1970)
  • Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, American socialite twin (d. 1965)
• 28 August - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)
• 29 August - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)

September-October

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

November-December

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

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

July - December

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

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