Today in History for Year 1904

Months in Year 1904: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 174

Jan 1st - Neth Indies colony begins opium production
Jan 4th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2 games to 1
Jan 4th - Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US
Jan 5th - -34°F (-36.7°C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record)
Jan 5th - -42°F (-41.1°C), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record)
Jan 5th - England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 & 8-68
Jan 7th - Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st intl radio distress signal
Jan 8th - Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
Jan 11th - Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
Jan 12th - Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison
Jan 17th - Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
Jan 21st - Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno
Jan 23rd - Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
Jan 25th - 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
Jan 25th - J M Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin
Jan 28th - 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on U of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
Jan 29th - 1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
Jan 31st - Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth," premieres
Feb 4th - John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin
Feb 5th - American occupation of Cuba ends
Feb 6th - Russian-Japanese war began
Feb 7th - Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
Feb 8th - Russo-Japanese War begins
Feb 9th - Japan declares war on Russia
Feb 10th - Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
Composer Giacomo Puccini Feb 17th - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan
Feb 21st - National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich
Feb 22nd - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
Feb 23rd - US acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
Feb 25th - J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Natl Theater Society
Feb 25th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games
Feb 28th - Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
Feb 29th - Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal
Mar 1st - England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead v Australia
Mar 2nd - "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted
Mar 2nd - Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Milan
Mar 3rd - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
Mar 5th - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation.
Mar 8th - Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
Mar 9th - Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt Mar 11th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games
Mar 12th - 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
Mar 12th - Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
Mar 13th - Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
Mar 18th - 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"
Apr 5th - The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
Apr 8th - Gr Brit & France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
Apr 8th - British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.
Apr 13th - Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army
Apr 13th - Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin
Apr 14th - George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premiered in London
Apr 18th - L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
Apr 19th - 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring of NY in 2:38:04.4
Apr 19th - Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
Apr 20th - George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premieres in London
Playwright George Bernard Shaw Apr 20th - Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
Apr 21st - Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)
Apr 23rd - American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
Apr 25th - NY Yankee Jack Chesbro's 1st of 41 wins this year
Apr 26th - Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
Apr 27th - The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
Apr 30th - Ice cream cone makes its debut
May 2nd - 30th Kentucky Derby: Shorty Prior aboard Elwood wins in 2:08.50
May 4th - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
May 4th - Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
May 5th - Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Phila A's (3-0)
May 6th - American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting
May 7th - Flexible Flyer trademark registered
May 9th - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine to exceed 100mph.
May 11th - Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace
May 14th - 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
May 17th - Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade," premieres in Paris
May 18th - American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
May 21st - Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris
May 25th - 38th Belmont: George Odom aboard Delhi wins in 2:06.6
May 27th - NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants)
May 28th - 29th Preakness: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Bryn Mawr wins in 1:44.2
May 30th - Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
Jun 2nd - Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
Jun 6th - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ
Jun 11th - Cub's Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0
Jun 11th - German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa
Jun 14th - Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
Jun 15th - Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)
Novelist & Poet James Joyce Jun 16th - Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
Jun 16th - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
Jun 21st - Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)
Jun 28th - International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam
Jun 28th - The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
Jun 29th - 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
Jul 1st - 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
Jul 5th - Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn
Jul 9th - 10th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 303 at Glen View Club IL
Jul 15th - 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
Jul 16th - Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
Jul 19th - Cleveland Nap's Neal Ball makes 1st unassisted triple play
Jul 19th - Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
Jul 21st - After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
Jul 21st - Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
Jul 23rd - Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 434

Jan 1st - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
Jan 1st - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (d. 1993)
Jan 2nd - James Melton, Moultrie Ga, opera tenor (Ford Festival)
Jan 2nd - Sally Rand, Hickory County MO, stripper (fan dance)
Jan 3rd - Boris Kochno, Russian ballet dancer (La Chatte)
Jan 5th - Erica Morini, Vienna Austria, concert violinist (d. 1995)
Jan 5th - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
Jan 8th - Peter Arno, NYC, cartoonist (New Yorker)
Jan 8th - Karl Brandt, Alsacian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
Jan 10th - Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer
Jan 10th - Ray Bolger, Dorchester Mass, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz)
Jan 11th - Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president (UN General Assembly)
Jan 12th - Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist
Jan 13th - Richard Addinsell, London England, composer (Taming of Shrew)
Jan 14th - Cecil Beaton, England, royal family photographer
Jan 14th - Emily Hahn, American writer (d. 1997)
Jan 16th - Max Vredenburg, composer
Jan 17th - Grant Withers, Pueblo CO, actor (Oklahoma, Annie)
Jan 17th - Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Quebec, Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds)
Jan 18th - Cary Grant, England, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
Jan 18th - Henri-Georges Adam, French etcher/painter/sculptor (Grand Nude)
Jan 18th - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
Jan 19th - James Winston Watts, developer (Frontal Lobotomy)
Jan 20th - Alexandra Danilova, Peterhof Russia, ballerina (Turning Point)
Jan 20th - Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin
Jan 20th - Theodore Brameld, author/educator (Use of Explosive Ideas)
Jan 21st - Joseph Ford McGuinn, Brooklyn NY, actor (Dick Tracy's G-Men)
Jan 21st - Richard P Blackmur, Mass, critic/poet (Good European)
Ballet choreographer George Balanchine (Jan 22nd) Jan 22nd - George Balanchine [Giorgi Balanchivadze], ballet composer/choreographer, (d. 1983), [OS=Jan 9]
Jan 22nd - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
Jan 23rd - Theodor Schaefer, composer
Jan 25th - Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Het Parool)
Jan 26th - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail)
Jan 26th - Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty Intl co-founder (Nobel '74)
Jan 26th - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
Jan 28th - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
Jan 31st - E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/ARP-alderman/co-founder (Trouw)
Feb 1st - S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
Feb 2nd - Buzurg Alavi, Persian author (Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha)
Feb 2nd - Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer
Feb 3rd - Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd, FBI Most Wanted criminal
Feb 3rd - Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
Feb 3rd - Roger Makins, diplomat
Feb 4th - Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch politician (SDAP)/resistance fighter
Feb 4th - MacKinlay Kantor, Webster City Iowa, novelist (Andersonville)
Feb 4th - Predrag Milosevic, composer
Feb 6th - Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Feb 7th - Milton Krims, writer (Speed)
Feb 8th - Igor' Fyodorovich Belza, composer
Feb 10th - John Farrow, Sydney Aust, director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake Island)
Feb 11th - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79)
Feb 11th - Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM (1960-72)
Feb 12th - Ted Mack, Denver Colo, TV host (Original Amateur Hour)
Feb 14th - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer
Feb 14th - Hanning Phillips, Lord Lieutenant (Dyfed)
Feb 14th - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist
Feb 15th - Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34)
Feb 15th - Mary Adshead, muralist/painter
Feb 16th - Ellis Achong, cricketer (West Indian SLA, 8 wickets in 6 Tests)
Feb 16th - George F Kennan, Milwaukee Wisc, US ambassador (to Moscow)
Feb 17th - Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], Dutch writer (Jesus' Robe)
Feb 17th - Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980)
Feb 19th - Havank, [HF vqan der Kallen], Dutch thriller writer (St Eustache)
Feb 20th - Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)
Feb 20th - Armin Loos, composer
Feb 20th - Bramwell Fletcher, Yorkshire England, actor (White Cargo, Mummy)
Feb 21st - Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
Feb 22nd - Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera)
Feb 23rd - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina)
Feb 23rd - William L Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich)
Feb 25th - Adelle Davis, author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer)
Feb 27th - James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
Feb 27th - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Innocent Heart)
Feb 27th - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
Feb 27th - André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
Feb 27th - Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
Feb 29th - Alan Richardson, composer
Feb 29th - Jimmy Dorsey, Shenandoah Pa, orchestra leader (Stage Show)
Feb 29th - John "Pepper" Martin, baseballer (NL stolen base leader 1933,34,36)
Feb 29th - Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausen
Feb 29th - Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and founder of Kalakshetra (d. 1986)
Mar 1st - Glenn Miller, bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
Mar 1st - Paul Hartman, SF California, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction)
Children's Author Dr Seuss (Mar 2nd) Mar 2nd - Dr Seuss, [Theodor Geisel], children's author (Horton Hears a Who!)
Mar 4th - George Gamow, nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3...
Mar 4th - Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
Mar 4th - Chief Tahachee, American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978)
Mar 5th - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
Mar 6th - Hugh Williams, actor/writer (Charley's Aunt, Bank Holiday)
Mar 6th - Johannes C "Chris" Baay, Dutch actor (Klatergoud, Surprise Raid)
Mar 6th - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
Mar 6th - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
Mar 7th - Ivar Ballangrud, Norway, Olympic speed skater (4 gold, 2 silver)
Mar 7th - Reinhard Heydrich, German governor (Bohemen/Moravia (Lidice))
Mar 7th - Virginia Downing, actress (Gig, Butterfield 8)
Mar 7th - Willy Forst, Austria actor/director (Vienna Blood)
Mar 9th - Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (d. 2002)
Mar 11th - Cornelis Jan Bakker, Dutch/US nuclear physicist
Mar 11th - Maurits Wertheim, Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes)
Mar 12th - Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper (NZ's 1st Test, later Northants)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Feb 2nd - US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 75 of 75

Jan 2nd - James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82
Jan 5th - Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64
Jan 9th - Alfred Richard, cricketer (6 & 0 in only Test for S Af 1895-96), dies
Jan 10th - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
Jan 15th - Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
Jan 24th - Franz Coenen, composer, dies at 77
Jan 26th - John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64
Jan 26th - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
Jan 27th - Adam Minchejmer, composer, dies at 73
Feb 1st - Peter PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76
Feb 2nd - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
Feb 10th - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
Feb 20th - Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83
Feb 22nd - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
Mar 5th - Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71
Mar 7th - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
Apr 9th - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
Apr 13th - Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies
Apr 16th - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
Confederate General James Longstreet (Jan 2nd) Apr 16th - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
Apr 24th - Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies at 77
May 1st - AntonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62
May 1st - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
May 6th - Franz von Lenbach, German painter, dies at 67
May 7th - Peter Hille, writer, dies
May 8th - Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies
May 10th - Henry M Stanley, [John Rowlands], British explorer, dies
May 13th - Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies
May 14th - Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78
May 16th - N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
May 19th - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
May 26th - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
Jun 3rd - Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard & Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide
Jun 12th - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
Jun 13th - Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
Jun 30th - Thomas Emmett, cricketer (English Test bowler of the sostenuter), dies
Jul 3rd - Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
Jul 3rd - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
Jul 5th - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
Jul 14th - S J Paul Kruger, general/pres South-Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78
Jul 15th - Anton Pavlovich Chechov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44
Jul 22nd - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
Jul 23rd - John Simon, public health pioneer, dies
Jul 28th - Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies
Aug 4th - Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54
Aug 6th - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
Aug 9th - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
Aug 10th - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies
Aug 25th - William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
Aug 29th - Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies
Aug 30th - Kate Fanny Loder, composer, dies at 79
Sep 13th - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
Sep 18th - Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies
Sep 21st - Chief Joseph, US indian chief (Nez Perces), dies
Sep 26th - Lafcadio Hearn, author (Soul of the Great Ball), dies at 54
Sep 26th - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
Sep 29th - Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies
Sep 30th - Sigurd Lie, composer, dies at 33
Oct 1st - William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Sect of State, dies at 76
Oct 4th - Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies
Oct 4th - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
Oct 8th - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62
Oct 13th - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)
Oct 17th - Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32
Oct 20th - Henry Hiles, composer, dies at 77
Oct 21st - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
Oct 25th - Teresa Milanollo, composer, dies at 77
Nov 3rd - Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer, dies at 57
Nov 4th - Jack Brown, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1894-99), dies
Nov 18th - Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies
Nov 22nd - Theophile E A de Bock, painter/etcher, dies
Nov 30th - Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer, dies at 64
Dec 10th - James Cranston, cricketer (scored 16 & 15 in Test for England), dies
Dec 24th - Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55
Dec 25th - Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61