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1904 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2044. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1904 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1904
- January 8, 1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
- January 23, 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
- February 16, 1904 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder.
- April 24, 1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
- May 4, 1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
- June 15, 1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- June 16, 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called “Bloomsday”.
- August 23, 1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
- October 27, 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
Who Were Born On 1904?
- February 4, 1904 – MacKinlay Kantor, American author and screenwriter (d. 1977)
- March 1, 1904 – Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)
- May 6, 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
- May 22, 1904 – Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and critic (d. 1962)
- July 5, 1904 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (d. 2005)
- September 1, 1904 – Johnny Mack Brown, American football player and actor (d. 1974)
- September 7, 1904 – C.B. Colby, American author (d. 1977)
- September 27, 1904 – Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and politician (d. 1981)
- October 2, 1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)
- November 24, 1904 – Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian captain and surgeon (d. 1988)