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Phil Harris, the bandleader who became famous by portraying himself as a flashy, hard-drinking musician on the old Jack Benny radio show, died. … He was 89. July 1 – Mary Calderone, physician and public health advocate (died 1998) [48] July 15 – Dorothy Fields, librettist (died 1974) [49]
1904–2010: 106: American actress and dance instructor; last surviving Ziegfeld girl [267] Roger Tréville: 1902–2005: 102: French actor [268] Mabel Trunnelle: 1879–1981: 101: American actress [269] Morton Tubor: 1917–2019: 102: American film and sound editor [270] Franca Valeri: 1920–2020: 100: Italian actress [271] Ninette de Valois ...
Drew was born in 1904 into an African-American middle-class family in Washington, D.C. [3] His father, Richard, was a carpet layer [4] and his mother, Nora Burrell, trained as a teacher. [5] Drew and three (two sisters, one brother) of his four younger siblings (three sisters and one brother total) grew up in Washington's largely middle-class ...
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 ...
One of his most important industrial inventions, still in use today, is the thread rolling machine. He quickly began selling his newly devised manufacturing equipment alongside his commercial products. Hubbell received at least 45 patents, [3] most of which were for electric products. The pull-chain electrical light socket was patented in 1896 ...
The Vulcan statue is today a prominent feature of the Vulcan Park and Museum in Birmingham, Alabama, where it was originally cast. [64] Natural History exhibit at the 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis. The Smithsonian Institution coordinated the US government exhibits. It featured a blue whale, the first full-cast of a blue whale ever created. [65]
Westinghouse Works, 1904, a collection of 21 short films directed by Billy Bitzer – The Widow and the Only Man, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. – The Wonderful Living Fan (Le Merveilleux Éventail vivant), directed by Georges Méliès –
An illustration of the aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire in February 1904. The Great Baltimore Fire raged in Baltimore, Maryland from Sunday February 7 to Monday February 8, 1904. In the fire, more than 1,500 buildings were completely leveled, and some 1,000 severely damaged, bringing property loss from the disaster to an estimated $100 ...