WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1904
Find out what all happened January to December 1904

Edmonton, Alberta is incorporated as a city. (8. October 1904)

Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium. (21. July 1904)

English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube). (16. November 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. (3. March 1904)

General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup. (18. November 1904)

British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law. (10. April 1904)

A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. (7. February 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. (23. January 1904)

Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. (5. May 1904)

Panama and Uruguay establish diplomatic links. (28. October 1904)

Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre. (17. January 1904)

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri. (30. April 1904)

British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law. (8. April 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. (27. October 1904)

Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place. (10. August 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". (16. June 1904)

The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. (8. January 1904)

Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. (16. June 1904)

The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory. (3. December 1904)

Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War. (8. February 1904)