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1904

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 - 1904 - 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909

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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 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.
April 30 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in Saint Louis, Missouri (closes December 1)
July 23 - In St. Louis, Missouri, Charles E. Menches invents the ice cream cone during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
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).
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a "Second Manifesto" against polygamy

Year in topic

1904 in film
- The Great Train Robbery, by Siegmund Lubin (a remake of the 1903 classic...)
- The giant French film company Pathé Freres opens offices in Brussels, Belgium, New York City and Moscow, Russia, with an inventory of 12,000 titles.
1904 in literature
1904 in music
1904 in sports
- The third Summer Olympic Games are held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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 - Alexei 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
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
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
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
May 11 - Salvador Dalí, artist
May 17 - Jean Gabin, actor (d. 1976)
May 21 - Fats Waller, pianist (d. 1943)
May 21 - Robert Montgomery, actor (d. 1981)
June 2 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor
July 12 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and leader
July 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet
August 6 - Jean Desses, French couturier (d. 1970)
August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
September 29 - Greer Garson, actress (d. 1996)
November 14 - Dick Powell, actor and singer (d. 1963)
November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter

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 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

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