1904

1904 is a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1901 1902 1903 - 1904 - 1905 1906 1907 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes

Events

\n* January 7 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."\n* February 7 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.\n* February 8 - Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur (Lushun) starts Russo-Japanese War\n* February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in Congo\n* February 23 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.\n* March 3 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.\n* March 4 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.\n* March 8 – The first tunnel beneath the Hudson River completed\n* March 21 – Battle of Chumik Shenko – British under general Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops\n* April 8 - Entente Cordiale signed between the UK and France.\n* April 8 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.\n* April 17 – 10-minute darkness in Wimbledon\n* April 18 – Hurricane in Goliad, Texas kills 114\n* April 30 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in Saint Louis, Missouri (closes December 1)\n* May 4 - First Rolls-Royce manufactured\n* June 15 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000.\n* June 16 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.\n* July 21 - Trans-Siberian railway completed\n* July 23 - In St. Louis, Missouri, Charles E. Menches invents the ice cream cone during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.\n* August 17 – Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur\n* September 7 - Fire spreads over downtown Baltimore in USA - 1500 buildings destroyed, no known fatalities\n* October 27 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world\n* November - Theodore Roosevelt defeats Alton B. Parker in the U.S. presidential election\n* November 24 - The first successful caterpillar track is made (it would later revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare).

• Ismael Montes becomes president of Bolivia\n* Herero Wars begin\n* Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a "Second Manifesto" against polygamy

Births

\n* Gustave Biéler, SOE agent, hero of WW II executed by the Nazis\n* January 1 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician, (d. 1982)\n* January 5 - Jeane Dixon, astrologer (d. 1997)\n* January 10 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (d. 1987)\n* January 14 - Cecil Beaton, photographer (d. 1980)\n* January 18 - Cary Grant, actor (d. 1986)\n* January 22 - George Balanchine, choreographer (d. 1983)\n* January 26 - Ancel Keys, scientist\n* February 1 - S. J. Perelman, humorist, author\n* February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, historian (d. 1977)\n* February 5 - Walter Gross, cabaretist (d. 1989)\n* February 7 - Ernst Ginsberg, actor and film director (d. 1964) \n* February 11 - Henry LaBouisse, head of UNICEF (1965-1979)\n* February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand Prime Minister (1960-1972)\n* February 20 - Aleksei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)\n* February 25 - Adelle Davis, nutritionist, writer (d. 1974)\n* February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader (d. 1957)\n* March 1 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (d. 1944)\n* March 2 - Dr. Seuss, author (d. 1991)\n* March 8 - Victor de Kowa, actor (d. 1973)\n* March 6 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor (d. 1942)\n* March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)\n* March 20 - B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist (d. 1990)\n* March 23 - Joan Crawford, actress (d. 1977)\n* March 26 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology (d. 1987)\n*March 26 - Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece.\n* March 28 - Werner Bahlsen, biscuit producer (d. 1985)\n* April 3 - Sally Rand, dancer (d. 1979)\n* April 7 - Ralph Bunche, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)\n* April 9 - Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (d. 1972)\n* April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (d. 1983)\n* April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (d. 1967)\n* May 6 - Harry Martinson, swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1978)\n* May 6 - Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais Method\n* May 11 - Salvador Dalí, artist (d. 1989)\n* May 17 - Jean Gabin, actor (d. 1976)\n* May 21 - Fats Waller, pianist (d. 1943)\n* May 21 - Robert Montgomery, actor (d. 1981)\n* May 27 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete\n* June 2 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)\n* July 12 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and leader (d. 1997)\n* July 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet (d. 1973)\n* August 6 - Jean Desses, French couturier (d. 1970)\n* August 17 - Leopold Nowak, musicologist\n* August 21 - Count Basie, jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1984)\n* August 23 - Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, socialite twin (d. 1965)\n* August 23 - Thelma Morgan, socialite twin, Viscountess Furness (d. 1970)\n* August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)\n* September 29 - Greer Garson, actress (d. 1996)\n* November 11 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician\n* November 14 - Dick Powell, actor and singer (d. 1963)\n* November 25 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete\n* November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter (d. 1980)

Deaths

\n* January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table\n* May 19 - Auguste Molinier, French historian\n* June 4 - George Frederick Phillips, military hero of the Spanish-American War \n* July 5 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Famous Kazakh poet.\n* July 14 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer\n* July 22 - Wilson Barrett, actor\n* August 6 - Eduard Hanslick, music critic\n* August 22 - Kate Chopin, author\n* August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter\n* August 29 - Murat V, deposed Ottoman sultan\n* September 26 - John F. Stairs, businessman, statesman\n* October 4 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor

Nobel Prizes

\n* Physics - Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh\n* Chemistry - Sir William Ramsay\n* Medicine - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov\n* Literature - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre\n* Peace - Institut De Droit International \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n