1904: Encyclopedia II - 1904 - Events

1904 - Events

1904 - 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 17 - Puccini's Madame Butterfly debuts in Milan to no great success
• 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.

1904 - 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 18 - The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but kills no one.
• 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).

1904 - 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.

1904 - 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.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Events", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki