1904 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1904?
- 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 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.
- February 22, 1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
- 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 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 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 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”.
- August 10, 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
- August 23, 1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
- 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).
- December 10, 1904 – The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston.
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