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December 21 – The first of Virginia Woolf's published writings, "Haworth, November 1904", an account of a visit to the Brontë family home, appears anonymously in a women's supplement to a clerical journal, The Guardian. [6] [7] (A book review written later has appeared in the same journal a week earlier.) [8]
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million (equivalent to $509 million in 2023) [ 1 ] were used to finance the event.
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 ...
April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1). [12] May 4 – U.S. Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal. [13] May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. [14]
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [a] (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k ɒ f /; [3] Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов [b], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 [c] – 15 July 1904 [d]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem ...
Jim Key at the 1904 World's Fair. Beautiful Jim Key was a famous performing horse around the turn of the twentieth century. [1] His promoters claimed that the horse could read and write, make change with money, do arithmetic for "numbers below thirty," [2] and cite Bible passages "where the horse is mentioned."
The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as actors, ... 1904–2010: 106: American actress and dance instructor; ...
The 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature was the fourth literary prize resulting from Alfred Nobel's will. It was equally divided between the French Provençal philologist Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his ...