1904 (original) (raw)

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

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 Path� 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 Bi�ler, SOE agent, hero of WW II executed by the Nazis
January 5 - Jeane Dixon, astrologer (+ 1997)
January 10 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (+ 1987)
January 14 - Cecil Beaton, photographer (+ 1980)
January 18 - Cary Grant, actor (+ 1986)
January 22 - George Balanchine, choreographer (+ 1983)
January 26 - Ancel Keys, scientist
February 1 - S. J. Perelman, humorist, author
February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, historian (+ 1977)
February 5 - Walter Gross, cabaretist (+ 1989)
February 7 - Ernst Ginsberg, actor and film director (+ 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 (+ 1980)
February 25 - Adelle Davis, nutritionist, writer (+ 1974)
February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader (+ 1957)
March 1 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (+ 1944)
March 2 - Dr. Seuss, author (+ 1991)
March 8 - Victor de Kowa, actor (+ 1973)
March 6 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor (+ 1942)
March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
March 20 - B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist (+ 1990)
March 23 - Joan Crawford, actress (+ 1977)
March 26 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology
March 28 - Werner Bahlsen, biscuit producer (+ 1985)
April 3 - Sally Rand, dancer (+ 1979)
April 7 - Ralph Bunche, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (+ 1983)
April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (+ 1967)
May 6 - Harry Martinson, swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
May 11 - Salvador Dal�, artist
May 17 - Jean Gabin, actor (+ 1976)
May 21 - Fats Waller, pianist (+ 1943)
May 21 - Robert Montgomery, actor (+ 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 (+ 1970)
August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
September 29 - Greer Garson, actress (+ 1996)
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 - Fr�d�ric Bartholdi, sculptor

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh
Chemistry - Sir William Ramsay
Medicine - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Literature - Fr�d�ric Mistral, Jos� Echegaray Y Eizaguirre
Peace - Institut De Droit International