WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1904
Find out what all happened April to December 1904

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

The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale. (8. April 1904)

The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal. (4. May 1904)

Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times. (8. April 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)

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

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

The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima. (15. May 1904)

The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. (10. May 1904)

The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h). (9. May 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)

Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries. (20. October 1904)

Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable. (6. December 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)

Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England. (4. May 1904)

The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years. (24. April 1904)

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris. (21. May 1904)

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

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

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