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'''1904''' '''(MCMIV)''' is a Leap_year_starting_on_a_Friday (link will take you to calendar).
==Events==
===January-March===
* January_7 - The Distress_signal CQD is established only to be replaced two years later by SOS.
* February_7 - The Great_Baltimore_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-June===
* 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_8, April_9, and April_10 - Aleister_Crowley receives The_Book_of_the_Law in Cairo, Egypt.
* April_18 – Hurricane in Goliad,_Texas kills 114.
* April_27 - The Australian_Labor_Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris_Watson.
* April_30 - Louisiana_Purchase_Exposition World's_Fair opens in Saint_Louis,_Missouri (closes December_1)
* May_4 - First Rolls-Royce manufactured
* May_5 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington_Avenue_Grounds, Cy_Young of the Boston Americans threw the first Perfect_game in the modern era of Baseball.
* May_18 - in Paris, 12 nations sign the International_Agreement_for_the_Suppression_of_the_White_Slave_Trade
* 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.
* June_16 - Leopold_Bloom walks through Dublin (First Bloomsday).
===July-December===
* 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_3 - A British expedition under colonel Francis_Younghusband takes Lhasa in Tibet
* August_17 – Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port_Arthur.
* August_18 - Chris_Watson resigns as Prime_Minister_of_Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
* September_7 - Fire spreads over downtown Baltimore in USA - 1500 buildings destroyed, no known fatalities.
* September_7 - Dalai_Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan_Treaty with colonel Francis_Younghusband
* October_21 - 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.
* October_27 - The first underground line of the New_York_City_Subway opens (IRT); the system is now the largest in the United_States, and one of the largest in the world.
* November_4 - In Florence, Italy, the Arno River floods.
* November_8 - 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).
* December_2 - St._Petersburg_Soviet urges run on the Banks. Attempt fails and the executive committee is arrested
* December_27 - The stage play ''Peter_Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up'' premiered in London
* December_31 - The first New_Year's_Eve celebration is held in Times_Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New_York,_New_York.
===Unknown dates===
* Ismael_Montes becomes President_of_Bolivia.
* Herero_Wars begin.
* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a "Second Manifesto" against polygamy.
*1904-1905_Welsh_Revival- Christian revival breaks out in Wales.
* Subject of Alcohol_and_heart_attacks first investigated.
==Births==
===January-February===
*January_1 - Fazal_Ilahi_Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
*January_3 - Jeane_Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
*January_10 - Ray_Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)
*January_14 - Cecil_Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
*January_18 - Cary_Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
*January_22 - George_Balanchine, Russian-born choreographer (d. 1983)
*January 22 - Arkady_Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
*January_26 - Ancel_Keys, American scientist (d, 2004)
*January 26 - Seán_MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (d. 1988)
*January_29 - Arnold_Gehlen, German philosopher (d. 1976)
*January 29 - Luigi_Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
*February_1 - S._J._Perelman, American humorist and author (d. 1979)
*February_3 - Luigi_Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
*February 3 - Pretty_Boy_Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
*February_4 - MacKinlay_Kantor, American writer and historian (d. 1977)
*February_11 - Sir Keith_Holyoake, Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand (d. 1983)
*February_16 - George_F._Kennan, American diplomat (d. 2005)
*February_20 - Aleksei_Kosygin, Premier_of_the_Soviet_Union (d. 1980)
*February_29 - Jimmy_Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957)
===March-April===
*March_1 - Glenn_Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)
*March_2 - Dr._Seuss, American author (d. 1991)
*March_4 - George_Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
*March_6 - Joseph_Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
*March_7 - Reinhard_Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)
*March_20 - B._F._Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (d. 1990)
*March_26 - Joseph_Campbell, American author on mythology (d. 1987)
*March 26 - Xenophon_Zolotas, Prime_Minister_of_Greece (d. 2004)
*April_3 - Sally_Rand, American dancer and actress (d. 1979)
*April_7 - Ralph_Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (d. 1971)
*April_8 - John_Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
*April_9 - Sharkey_Bonano, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
*April_14 - Sir John_Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
*April_16 - Fifi_D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
*April_22 - Robert_Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
*April_24 - Willem_de_Kooning, Dutch artist (d. 1997)
*April_26 - Jimmy_McGrory, Scottish footballer (d. 1982)
*April_27 - Cecil_Day-Lewis, English poet (d. 1972)
===May-July===
* May_6 - Moshe_Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born engineer (d. 1984)
*May 6 - Harry_Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
* May_11 - Salvador_Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)
* May_17 - Jean_Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
* May_21 - Fats_Waller, American pianist and comedian (d. 1943)
* May_21 - Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981)
* May_27 - Chuhei_Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
* June_2 - Frantisek_Planicka, Czech footballer (d. 1996)
* June_2 - Johnny_Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
*June_3 - Jan_Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
*June_26 - Peter_Lorre, Austria-Hugarian-born film actor (d. 1964)
* July_5 - Ernst_Mayr, German-born biologist and author (d. 2005)
* July_12 - Pablo_Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
* July_17 - Tsarevich_Alexei_of_Russia (d. 1918)
* July_28 - Pavel_Alekseyevich_Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
* July_31 - Brett_Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
===August-December===
*August_4 - Witold_Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
*August_7 - Ralph_Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (d. 1971)
*August_16 - Wendell_Meredith_Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
*August_17 - Leopold_Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
*August_21 - Count_Basie, American musician and bandleader (d. 1984)
*August_22 - Deng_Xiaoping, de facto Chinese leader (d. 1997)
*August_23 - Thelma_Morgan, Viscountess Furness, American socialite twin (d. 1970)
*August_23 - Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, American socialite twin (d. 1965)
*August_28 - Secondo_Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)
*August_29 - Werner_Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (d. 1979)
*September_9 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
*September_22 - Joseph_Valachi, gangster (d. 1971)
*September_29 - Greer_Garson, English actress (d. 1996)
*October_1 - A.K._Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
*October_3 - Charles_J._Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
*October_23 - Harvey_Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
*October_25 - Vladimir_Peter_Tytla, American animator (d. 1968)
*November_2 - Louis_Eugène_Félix_Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
*November_11 - J._H._C._Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
*November_12 - Jacques_Tourneur, French director (d. 1977)
*November_14 - Dick_Powell, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
*November_14 - Michael_Ramsey, Archbishop_of_Canterbury (d. 1988)
*November_25 - Lillian_Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
*November_30 - Clyfford_Still, American painter (d. 1980)
*December_12 - Baron Nicolas_de_Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (d. 1981)
*December_18 - George_Stevens, American film director (d. 1975)
*December_25 - Gerhard_Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
*December_26 - Alejo_Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
*December_30 - Dmitri_Borisovich_Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
===Unknown dates===
* Gustave_Biéler, Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (d. 1944)
* Bernard_Castro, Italian inventor (d. 1991)
* J._J._Gibson, Gay psychologist (d. 1979)
==Deaths==
*January_2 - James_Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
*January_20 - Dmitri_Ivanovich_Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
*March_5 - John_Lowther_du_Plat_Taylor, British founder of the Army Post Office Corps (b. 1829)
*May_1 - Antonin_Dvorak, Czech composer (b. 1841)
*May_19 - Auguste_Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
*June_4 - George_Frederick_Phillips, Canadian-born military hero (b. 1862)
*July_3 - Theodor_Herzl, Austrian founder of Zionism (b. 1860)
*July_5 - Abai_Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
*July_14 - Anton_Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
*July 14 - Paul_Kruger, South African resistance leader (b. 1825)
*July_22 - Wilson_Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
*August_6 - Eduard_Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
*August_22 - Kate_Chopin, American author (b. 1851)
*August_25 - Henri_Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
*August_29 - Murad_V, Ottoman_Sultan (b. 1840)
*September_25 - Niels_Ryberg_Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (b. 1860)
*September_26 - John_F._Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
*October_4 - Frédéric_Bartholdi, Alsatian sculptor (b. 1834)
==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
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