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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 ...
Governor of Alabama: William D. Jelks (); Governor of Arkansas: Jeff Davis (); Governor of California: George Pardee (); Governor of Colorado: James Hamilton Peabody (); Governor of Connecticut: Abiram Chamberlain ()
Worst industrial accident in American history. 1908 – Ford Model T appears on the market; 1908 – Root–Takahira Agreement; 1908 – Federal Bureau of Investigation established; 1908 – Aldrich–Vreeland Act; 1908 – U.S. presidential election: William Howard Taft elected president; James S. Sherman vice president.
Andrew Jackson De Voe, Hackensack's turn of the century "weather prophet," said the region was besieged by a "hole in the sky," The Record reported on Jan. 5, 1904.
1 July–23 November – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri and win one gold and one silver medal. 21 July – Official opening of Birmingham Corporation Water Department's scheme bringing water to the city from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Wales via the Elan aqueduct. [13] [14]
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, and Fred L. Israel, eds. History of American presidential elections, 1789-1968. Vol. 3. (1971), history of the campaign by William Harbaugh, with primary documents. Shoemaker, Fred C. "Alton B. Parker: the images of a gilded age statesman in an era of progressive politics" (MA thesis, The Ohio State University, 1983 ...
1904 – SS Haimun sends its first news story on March 15, 1904. [63] It was a Chinese steamer ship commanded by war correspondent Lionel James in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War for The Times. It is the first known instance of a "press boat" dedicated to war correspondence during naval battles.
"We want people to think about what the next 120 years look like," Concetta Bencivenga, New York Transit Museum director, told The Post. "The subway is for everyone. It’s the great social equalizer.