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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 ()
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.
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 ...
Halford Mackinder read a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" at the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulated the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics. [283] On the night of January 25–26, a fire at the Turin National University Library destroyed over 100,000 books and manuscripts. [284] [285] [286 ...
Delhi, winner of the 1904 Belmont Stakes, circa 1912. The horse Delhi, ridden by jockey George M. Odom, won the 1904 Belmont Stakes at Morris Park Racecourse in the Bronx, New York City. [303] In Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, ten coal miners were asphyxiated by fumes from a locomotive in a tunnel at the Summit Branch Coal Company.
The 1904 Olympic marathon, one of the strangest events in the history of the modern Olympic Games, took place in St. Louis, Missouri. The race was held in 90 °F (32 °C) temperatures, with only two water sources available, 6 miles (9.7 km) and 12 miles (19 km) along the 40-kilometre (25 mi) course, due to Olympic organizer James Edward ...
"The past happened, but history is made," Liz says. "Every generation makes its own history. ... Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures, via a series of emails. However, it took two years for him to ...