1904

Events:

   * January 7 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be
     replaced two years later by "SOS."
   * February 7 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500
     buildings in 30 hours.
   * February 8 - Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur (Lushun) starts
     Russo-Japanese War
   * February 23 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the
     Panama Canal Zone.
   * March 3 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make
     a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
   * March 4 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward
     Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
   * April 30 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in Saint
     Louis, Missouri (closes December 1)
   * July 23 - In St. Louis, Missouri, Charles E. Menches invents the ice
     cream cone during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
   * November - Theodore Roosevelt defeats Alton B. Parker in the U.S.
     presidential election
   * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith
     issues a "Second Manifesto" against polygamy

Births:

   * Gustave BiŽler, SOE agent, hero of WW II executed by the Nazis
   * January 5 - Jeane Dixon, astrologer (+ 1997)
   * January 10 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (+ 1987)
   * January 14 - Cecil Beaton, photographer (+ 1980)
   * January 18 - Cary Grant, actor (+ 1986)
   * January 22 - George Balanchine, choreographer (+ 1983)
   * January 26 - Ancel Keys, scientist
   * February 1 - S. J. Perelman, humorist, author
   * February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, historian (+ 1977)
   * February 5 - Walter Gross, cabaretist (+ 1989)
   * February 7 - Ernst Ginsberg, actor and film director (+ 1964)
   * February 11 - Henry LaBouisse, head of UNICEF (1965-1979)
   * February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand Prime Minister
     (1960-1972)
   * February 20 - Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (+ 1980)
   * February 25 - Adelle Davis, nutritionist, writer (+ 1974)
   * February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader (+ 1957)
   * March 1 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (+ 1944)
   * March 2 - Dr. Seuss, author (+ 1991)
   * March 8 - Victor de Kowa, actor (+ 1973)
   * March 6 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor (+ 1942)
   * March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
   * March 20 - B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist (+ 1990)
   * March 23 - Joan Crawford, actress (+ 1977)
   * March 26 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology
   * March 28 - Werner Bahlsen, biscuit producer (+ 1985)
   * April 3 - Sally Rand, dancer (+ 1979)
   * April 7 - Ralph Bunche, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
   * April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (+ 1983)
   * April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (+ 1967)
   * May 6 - Harry Martinson, swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in
     literature
   * May 11 - Salvador Dal’, artist
   * May 17 - Jean Gabin, actor (+ 1976)
   * May 21 - Fats Waller, pianist (+ 1943)
   * May 21 - Robert Montgomery, actor (+ 1981)
   * June 2 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor
   * July 12 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and leader
   * July 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet
   * August 6 - Jean Desses, French couturier (+ 1970)
   * August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
   * November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter

Deaths:

   * January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor
     of the Periodic table
   * May 19 - Auguste Molinier, French historian
   * July 14 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer
   * July 22 - Wilson Barrett, actor
   * August 22 - Kate Chopin, author
   * August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
   * August 29 - Murat V, deposed Ottoman sultan
   * September 26 - John F. Stairs, businessman, statesman
   * October 4 - FrŽdŽric Bartholdi, sculptor

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh
   * Chemistry - Sir William Ramsay
   * Medicine - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
   * Literature - FrŽdŽric Mistral, JosŽ Echegaray Y Eizaguirre
   * Peace - Institut De Droit International

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