1904 in the United States
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| Years: | 1901 1902 1903 – 1904 – 1905 1906 1907 |
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Events from the year 1904 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
- President: Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York)
- Vice President: vacant
- Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R–Illinois)
- Congress: 58th
Events
January–March
- January 12 – Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.37 mph.
- January 16 – The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
- February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
April–June
- April 8 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
- April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).
- May 4 – U.S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal.
- May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta women's fraternity is founded at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
- June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.
July–September
- July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri, United States as part of the World's Fair.
- July 23 – In St. Louis, Missouri, the ice cream cone is invented during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
October–December
- October 1 – Phi Delta Epsilon, the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and eight of his friends at Cornell University Medical College.
- October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, the co-ed Professional Business Fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University
- October 15 – Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
- October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.
- November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.
- December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
- December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens.
- December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.
Undated
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a Second Manifesto against polygamy.
- Stuyvesant High School is founded in New York City.
- The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, now Bethune-Cookman University, is founded.
Ongoing
- Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
- Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
- Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904–1908)
Births
- January 26 – Ancel Keys, nutritionist (died 2004)
- February 3 – Pretty Boy Floyd, bank robber (died 1934)
- February 16 – George F. Kennan, political adviser (died 2005)
- April 12 – Glen H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1945 to 1951 (died 1984)
- April 20 – Bob Bartlett, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1959 to 1968 (died 1968)
- May 17 – John J. Williams, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1947 to 1970 (died 1988)
- June 3 – Charles R. Drew, African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion (died 1950)
Deaths
- January 2 – James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War (died 1821)
- January 9 – John Brown Gordon, United States Senator from Georgia from 1873 till 1880 and from 1891 till 1897. (born 1832)
- December 21 – George L. Shoup, United States Senator from Idaho from 1890 till 1901. (born 1836)
See also
Further reading
- "Domestic Chronology", Statistician and Economist, San Francisco: Louis P. McCarty, 1905, pp. 227–347 – via HathiTrust. (Covers events May 1898-June 1905)
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