1904

1904 is a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).

Years:
1901 1902 1903 - 1904 - 1905 1906 1907
Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1904 in art
1904 in aviation
1904 in film
1904 in literature
1904 in music
1904 in science
1904 in sports
1904 in Canada
List of state leaders in 1904
List of religious leaders in 1904
List of international organization leaders in 1904

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

Events

January 7 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."
February 7 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
February 8 - Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur (Lushun) starts Russo-Japanese War
February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in Congo
February 23 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
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 completed
March 21 – Battle of Chumik Shenko – British under general Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops
April 8 - Entente Cordiale signed between the UK and France.
April 8 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 17 – 10-minute darkness in Wimbledon
April 18 – Hurricane in Goliad, Texas kills 114
April 30 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in Saint Louis, Missouri (closes December 1)
May 4 - First Rolls-Royce manufactured
June 15 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000.
June 16 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
July 21 - Trans-Siberian railway completed
July 23 - In St. Louis, Missouri, Charles E. Menches invents the ice cream cone during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
August 17 – Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur
September 7 - Fire spreads over downtown Baltimore in USA - 1500 buildings destroyed, no known fatalities
October 27 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world
November - 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).
Ismael Montes becomes president of Bolivia
Herero Wars begin
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a "Second Manifesto" against polygamy

Births

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

Deaths

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

Years: 1901 1902 1903 - 1904 - 1905 1906 1907
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1904 in art 1904 in aviation 1904 in film 1904 in literature 1904 in music 1904 in science 1904 in sports 1904 in Canada List of state leaders in 1904 List of religious leaders in 1904 List of international organization leaders in 1904