List of events
Events from the year 1904 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
October – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of Bethune–Cookman University , is opened in Florida by Mary McLeod Bethune .
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 17 – Amadeo Giannini founds the Bank of Italy in San Francisco, predecessor of the Bank of America .
October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American Gabriel A. O’Reilly.
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
Ongoing
Births
January 5 – Jeane Dixon , astrologer (died 1997 )
January 10 – Ray Bolger , actor, singer and dancer, best known for his role in The Wizard of Oz (died 1987 )
January 19 – Leo Soileau , Cajun musician (died 1980 )
January 21 – Edris Rice-Wray Carson , medical researcher (died 1990 )
January 26 – Ancel Keys , nutritionist (died 2004 )
February 3 – Pretty Boy Floyd , bank robber (shot 1934 )
February 16 – George F. Kennan , political adviser (died 2005 )
March 1
March 2 – Dr. Seuss , children's author (The Cat in the Hat ) (died 1991 )
March 20
March 23 (possible year) – Joan Crawford , actress (died 1977 )
March 26 – Joseph Campbell , author on mythology (died 1987 )
April 12 – Glen H. Taylor , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1945 to 1951 (died 1984 )
April 18 – Pigmeat Markham , African American entertainer (died 1981 )
April 20 – Bob Bartlett , U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1959 to 1968 (died 1968 )
April 22 – J. Robert Oppenheimer , physicist (died 1967 )
May 17 – John J. Williams , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1947 to 1970 (died 1988 )
May 21
June 3 – Charles R. Drew , African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion (died 1950 )
June 2 – Johnny Weissmuller , swimmer and actor (Tarzan ) (died 1984 )
June 24 – Phil Harris , bandleader and comic actor (died 1995 )
July 1 – Mary Calderone , physician and public health advocate (died 1998 )
July 15 – Dorothy Fields , librettist (died 1974 )
August 16 – Wendell Meredith Stanley , chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 (died 1971 )
August 17 – Mary Cain , newspaper editor and politician (died 1984 )
August 21 – Count Basie , African American jazz bandleader (died 1984)
September 12 – Lou Moore , race car driver and team owner (died 1956 )
October 3 – Charles J. Pedersen , chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 (died 1989 )
November 1 – Laura La Plante , silent film actress (died 1996 )
November 17 – Isamu Noguchi , sculptor (died 1988 )
November 25 – Lillian Copeland , Olympic field athlete (died 1964 )
December 7 – Clarence Nash , voice actor (died 1985 )
December 18 – George Stevens , film director (died 1975 )
December 25 – Flemmie Pansy Kittrell , nutritionist (died 1980 )
December 30 – David M. Shoup , general (died 1983 )
Deaths
January 2 – James Longstreet , one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War (born 1821 )
January 9 – John Brown Gordon , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1873 to 1880 and from 1891 to 1897 (born 1832 )
January 20 – Maria Louisa Bustill , schoolteacher, mother of Paul Robeson (born 1853 )
February 15 – Mark Hanna , U.S. Senator from Ohio (born 1837 )
March 18 – William Elbridge Sewell , naval officer and Governor of Guam (born 1851 )
June 5 – Olivia Langdon Clemens , editor (born 1845 )
June 28 – Dan Emmett , founder of the Virginia Minstrels (born 1815 )
July 26 – Henry Clay Taylor , admiral (born 1845 )
August 16 – Colonel Prentiss Ingraham , author of dime fiction (born 1843 )
August 22 – Kate Chopin , fiction writer (born 1850 )
October 11 – Trumbull Stickney , classicist and poet (born 1874 )
December 21 – George L. Shoup , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1901 (born 1836 )
Little Joe Monahan , transgender rancher (born 1850 )
See also
References
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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