1904 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1904?
- January 8, 1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
- January 17, 1904 – Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
- 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 7, 1904 – A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- February 9, 1904 – Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
- February 16, 1904 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 1904 – Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
- April 8, 1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
- April 30, 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 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.
- May 9, 1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph.
- May 15, 1904 – The Russian minelayer Amur laid a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan’s battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and “Yashima”.
- June 15, 1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- June 16, 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- October 8, 1904 – Edmonton, Alberta was incorporated as a city.
- October 15, 1904 – The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
- October 27, 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
- November 16, 1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
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