1904 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1904?
- 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.
- March 3, 1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder.
- April 5, 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
- April 8, 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
- April 10, 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
- April 30, 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 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”.
- May 21, 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
- June 16, 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called “Bloomsday”.
- 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.
- 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.
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