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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

Historical Events Of 1904

• 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 5, 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
• April 8, 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• April 24, 1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
• April 27, 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
• June 15, 1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
• June 28, 1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
• July 31, 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
• November 16, 1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

Who Were Born On 1904?

• March 5, 1904 – Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (d. 1984)
• March 30, 1904 – Ripper Collins, American baseball player and coach (d. 1970)
• April 23, 1904 – Cliff Bricker, Canadian runner (d. 1980)
• April 27, 1904 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish-English poet and author (d. 1972)
• August 6, 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (d. 1970)
• September 12, 1904 – István Horthy, Hungarian admiral (d. 1942)
• September 17, 1904 – Edgar G. Ulmer, Czech-American director, screenwriter, and set designer (d. 1972)
• October 22, 1904 – Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1965)
• December 9, 1904 – Robert Livingston, American actor and singer (d. 1988)