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1904 Calendar

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•  January 7, 1904 – The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
•  February 8, 1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
•  February 16, 1904 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
•  April 27, 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
•  June 28, 1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
•  August 10, 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
•  October 19, 1904 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
•  November 16, 1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
•  November 18, 1904 – General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
•  December 3, 1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California’s Lick Observatory.

•  January 8, 1904 – Tampa Red, American blues musician (d. 1981)
•  February 15, 1904 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist (d. 1983)
•  February 16, 1904 – Karl-Heinz Bürger, German Nazi figure (d. 1988)
•  February 20, 1904 – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
•  February 27, 1904 – Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
•  May 21, 1904 – Fats Waller, American pianist (d. 1943)
•  June 17, 1904 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (d. 1991)
•  July 6, 1904 – Erik Wickberg, Swedish 9th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1996)
•  September 17, 1904 – Edgar G. Ulmer, Austrian-American film director (d. 1972)