1904 Calendar
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1904 Historical Event(s)
January 7, 1904
– The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
January 23, 1904
– 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.
February 16, 1904
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
April 8, 1904
– The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
April 10, 1904
– British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
April 24, 1904
– The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
May 4, 1904
– Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
May 5, 1904
– Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
July 21, 1904
– Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
October 8, 1904
– Prince Albert, Saskatchewan was incorporated as a city.
Who Were Born On 1904?
February 27, 1904
– Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
April 24, 1904
– Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (d. 1997)
May 6, 1904
– Raymond Bailey, American actor (d. 1980)
October 20, 1904
– Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)
October 24, 1904
– A.K. Golam Jilani, a Bangladeshi who was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement. (d. 1932)
November 2, 1904
– Hugh Patrick Lygon, English aristocrat (d. 1936)
November 14, 1904
– Harold Larwood, English cricketer (d. 1995)
December 12, 1904
– Nicolas de Gunzburg, French magazine editor (d. 1981)
December 17, 1904
– Paul Cadmus, American artist (d. 1999)
December 24, 1904
– Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist (d. 2008)