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1904 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 904th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1904, the ...
November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker. November 23 – The Olympic Games end. [20] November 24 – A continuous track tractor is successfully demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company.
1904 – Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 – U.S. presidential election : Theodore Roosevelt elected president for full term; Charles W. Fairbanks elected vice president March 4, 1905 – President Roosevelt begins full term, Fairbanks becomes the 26th vice president
Still, 1904 stands as the coldest year on record in New Jersey. The statewide average temperature that year was only 47.8 degrees, state records show. The statewide average has not dipped below 51 ...
In 1904, St. Louis hosted a world's fair to celebrate the centennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The idea for such a commemorative event seems to have emerged early in 1898, with Kansas City and St. Louis initially presented as potential hosts for a fair based on their central location within the territory encompassed by the 1803 land ...
Throughout the 1904 campaign, the Democrats raised less than $500,000 (equivalent to $17 million in 2023), with more than half of it coming from Virginia tobacco magnate Thomas Fortune Ryan. [6] In the final weeks of the campaign, Parker tried to save his campaign by undertaking a brief speaking tour at the insistence of desperate party leaders ...
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The 1904 Democratic National Convention was held in July in St. Louis, Missouri, then also hosting the 1904 World's Fair and the 1904 Summer Olympics. Parker's mentor David B. Hill—having attempted and failed to capture the nomination himself at the 1892 convention—now led the campaign for his protege's nomination. [6]