Today in History for August 1904

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 16 of 16

3rd - British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
7th - Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96
10th - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
10th - Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
10th - Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
10th - Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games
11th - German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
16th - NYC begins building Grand Central Station
17th - Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chic White Sox, 6-0
18th - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
23rd - Automobile tire chain patented
24th - 24th US Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97)
24th - Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
25th - James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
29th - 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
30th - Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 32 of 32

3rd - Clifford D[onald] Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Station)
4th - Theodore Newton, NJ, actor (Ace of Aces, Voltaire)
4th - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Pornography)
4th - Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
5th - Kenneth Thimann, botanist
6th - Henry Payne Iba, Easton Mo, US basketball coach (Olympic-gold-64, 68)
6th - M Revis, [Willem Fisherman], author (Gelakte Brain)
7th - Ralph Bunche, Detroit Michigan, founder/diplomat (UN) (Nobel 1950), (d. 1971)
8th - Istvan Szelenyi, composer
8th - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
11th - Jess Stacy, pianist
12th - Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II [OS=July 30]
12th - Frank Ervin, harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66)
12th - Kay Campbell, [Catherine Hibben], actress (All My Children)
13th - Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Olathe KS, actor (Wings)
15th - Bill Baird, Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
16th - Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel 1946)
17th - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
17th - Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
Diplomat and Nobel Laureate Ralph Bunche (7th) 18th - Max Factor Jr, CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
18th - Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY)
18th - [Francis] Max Factor, cosmetics manufacturer (Max Factor)
19th - Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor
20th - Jaap [Jacob AW] Burger, chairman (PvdA)
21st - [William] Count Basie, Red Bank NJ, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles)
22nd - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader (1976-1983)
24th - Rod Redwing, NY, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory)
26th - Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer (Goodbye to Berlin)
27th - Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
27th - John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
28th - Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
29th - Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

4th - Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54
6th - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
9th - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
10th - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies
25th - William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
29th - Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies
30th - Kate Fanny Loder, composer, dies at 79