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[[Image:Lady Helen Vincent.jpg|right|thumb|Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon]]
[[Image:Vulcan stereograph 1904.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Stereograph of Vulcan at the World's Fair]]
'''1904''' was the 33rd year after the founding of the city of [[Birmingham]].
'''1904''' was the 33rd year after the founding of the city of [[Birmingham]].


==Events==
==Events==
* [[January 28]]: A [[List of snowfalls|rare snowfall]] brought 8.1 inches to Birmingham.
* [[January 28]]: A [[List of snowfalls|rare snowfall]] brought 8.1 inches to Birmingham.
* [[March 27]]: [[Bethel Baptist Church]] was organized in [[Collegeville]].  
* [[April 15]]: A large fire destroyed 18 houses in [[Wylam]].
* [[April 25]]: [[Russell Cunningham]] was sworn in as acting [[Governor of Alabama]] while [[William Jelks]] was hospitalized out of state.
* [[April 26]]–[[April 28|28]]: The [[1904 Conference for Education in the South]] was held at the [[Jefferson Theatre]].
* [[April 30]]-[[December 1]]: [[Giuseppe Moretti]]'s statue of [[Vulcan]] represented the mineral wealth of the [[Birmingham District]] at the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy at St Louis, Missouri's Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
* [[April 30]]-[[December 1]]: [[Giuseppe Moretti]]'s statue of [[Vulcan]] represented the mineral wealth of the [[Birmingham District]] at the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy at St Louis, Missouri's [[Alabama exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition|Louisiana Purchase Exposition]] (World's Fair).
* [[June 3]]: [[Parker High School|Industrial High School]] graduated its first senior class.
* [[June 7]]: The newly-assembled [[Vulcan]] statue was christened with water from the [[Cahaba River]] at the World's Fair in St Louis, Missouri.  
* [[June 7]]: The newly-assembled [[Vulcan]] statue was christened with water from the [[Cahaba River]] at the World's Fair in St Louis, Missouri.  
* [[July 11]]: By order of producer Mabel Whitman, the [[Jefferson Theatre]] agreed to open its dress circle and parquet seats to African-American patrons for performances of the Whitman Sisters' New Orleans Troubadours on [[July 23]].
* [[July 11]]: By order of producer Mabel Whitman, the [[Jefferson Theatre]] agreed to open its dress circle and parquet seats to African-American patrons for performances of the Whitman Sisters' New Orleans Troubadours on [[July 23]].
* The first barber shop opened in the space still in use as the [[Hippodrome]] barber shop in [[Woodlawn]].
* August: The [[1904 National Convention for the United Association of Plumbers, Gas and Steamfitters]] was hosted by [[UA Local 91]] in [[Birmingham]].
* September-October: A severe drought affected the entire state.
* The [[Woodlawn Library]] was established by the [[Women's Club of Woodlawn]] at [[Woodlawn City Hall]].
* The [[Woodlawn Library]] was established by the [[Women's Club of Woodlawn]] at [[Woodlawn City Hall]].
* [[St Andrew's Episcopal Church|St Andrew's Episcopal Mission]] purchased a lot at [[11th Avenue South]] and [[Center Street]] for a new church building.
* [[Birmingham City Physician]] [[Charles Whelan Jr]] enforced a new city ordinance requiring smallpox vaccination.
* [[St Mark's Catholic Church]] was founded in [[Republic]].
* [[December 28]]: A [[1904 Reliance Restaurant fire|major fire]] damaged several businesses on the 200 block of [[20th Street North]].  
* [[Birmingham City Physician]] [[Charles Whelan, Jr]] enforced a new city ordinance requiring smallpox vaccination.


===Business===
===Business===
[[Image:Motlow Bros letterhead.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
* [[January 28]]: The [[Ferd Marx Store|Ferd Marx Dry Goods Co.]] was reorganized.
* [[February 17]]: [[John Frye]]'s [[Traders National Bank]] opened.
* October: [[Banner Mine]], owned by [[Pratt Consolidated Coal Company]], went into operation.
* [[December 3]]: The [[Seaboard Air Line Railway]] opened a freight office staffed by agent [[H. R. Pinney]] on [[20th Street South]].
* December: The [[Pratt Consolidated Coal Company]] was incorporated in Delaware.
* December: The former [[Trotwood Park]] land was sold by the [[Birmingham Matinee Club]], but the buyer never made payment.
* The architecture firm of [[Breeding & Whilldin]] was founded and commissioned to design a new [[Birmingham High School]].
* The architecture firm of [[Breeding & Whilldin]] was founded and commissioned to design a new [[Birmingham High School]].
* The [[Birmingham Mineral Railroad]] was subsumed into the [[Louisville & Nashville Railroad]] system.
* The [[Birmingham Mineral Railroad]] was subsumed into the [[Louisville & Nashville Railroad]] system.
* The [[Empire Mine|Empire Coal Company]] was organized.
* Insurance brokerage [[Molton, Allen & Williams|Molton & Stickney]] moved to [[Dr Smith's Block]] at the corner of [[19th Street North|19th Street]] and [[2nd Avenue North]].
* [[Jesse Motlow]] and [[Spoon Motlow]] founded the [[Motlow Brothers Distilling Company]] in [[Birmingham]].
* [[Porter's|Porter's Clothing Company]] opened.
* Surface work began at [[Valley View Mine]].
* The law firm of Walker, Tillman, Campbell & Morrow became [[Bradley Arant Boult Cummings|Tillman, Grubb, Bradley & Morrow]]
* The law firm of Walker, Tillman, Campbell & Morrow became [[Bradley Arant Boult Cummings|Tillman, Grubb, Bradley & Morrow]]
* [[Jesse Motlow]] and [[Spoon Motlow]] founded the [[Motlow Brothers Distilling Company]] in [[Birmingham]].
* The first barber shop opened in the space still in use as the [[Hippodrome]] barber shop in [[Woodlawn]].
* [[John Hough]] bought the [[Klein Brothers Pharmacy]].
 
===Education===
* [[February 22]]: [[Lauderdale College]] opened in [[Collegeville]].
* [[June 3]]: [[Parker High School|Industrial High School]] graduated its first senior class.
* [[A. H. Parker]] became principal of [[Parker High School|Industrial High School]].
* [[A. O. Lane]] completed his third term as president of the [[Birmingham Board of Education]].
* [[St Joseph's School]] was founded in [[Brookside]].
* [[Elyton]]'s [[Alley School]] was reorganized as part of the [[Jefferson County Schools]] system.
 
=== Government ===
* [[April 25]]: [[Russell Cunningham]] was sworn in as acting [[Governor of Alabama]] while [[William Jelks]] was hospitalized out of state.
* Attorney [[John Altman]] was appointed to sit on the Northwestern Chancery Division of Alabama.
* [[Frank Gamble Blair]] succeeded [[William Cochrane]] as [[Mayor of Tuscaloosa]].
* [[Bibb Graves]] retired from the [[Alabama House of Representatives]] to unsuccessfully challenge incumbent [[Ariosto Wiley]] to represent the [[Second Congressional District of Alabama]].
* [[D. F. Sugg]] defeated incumbent [[Charles Camp]] in the election for chief of the [[Ensley Police Department]].
* Birmingham City Physician [[Charles Whelan Jr]] appointed twelve doctors to carry out a city ordinance requiring smallpox vaccinations.
 
===Religion===
[[Image:James Coyle.jpg|thumb|right|150px|James Coyle]]
* January: [[Trinity Christian Methodist Episcopal Church|Trinity Colored Methodist Episcopal Church]] was founded in [[Collegeville]].
* [[March 27]]: [[Bethel Baptist Church]] was organized in [[Collegeville]].  
* The [[Birmingham-Easonian Baptist Bible College|Birmingham Baptist College]] was founded by [[William Pettiford]] and [[Charles Boothe]].
* The [[Birmingham-Easonian Baptist Bible College|Birmingham Baptist College]] was founded by [[William Pettiford]] and [[Charles Boothe]].
* [[February 17]]: [[John Frye]]'s [[Traders National Bank]] opened.
* [[St Mark's Catholic Church]] in [[Republic]] was established by [[John Canepa]].
* December: The [[Pratt Consolidated Coal Company]] was incorporated in Delaware.
* [[James Coyle]] became pastor of [[St Paul's Cathedral]].
* [[W. W. Dorman]] succeeded [[E. B. Norton]] as pastor of [[East Lake United Methodist Church]].
* [[Adolph Loveman]] succeeded [[Simon Klotz]] as president of [[Temple Emanu-El]].
* [[J. C. Persinger]] succeeded [[W. T. Andrews]] as pastor of [[Avondale United Methodist Church]].
* [[St Andrew's Episcopal Church|St Andrew's Episcopal Mission]] purchased a lot at [[11th Avenue South]] and [[Center Street]] for a new church building.
* [[St Mark's Catholic Church]] was founded in [[Republic]].
* [[Rev. Yasgour]] served as rabbi of [[Knesseth Israel Congregation]].


===Athletics===
===Sports===
[[Image:Mike Donahue 1909.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Mike Donahue]]
* [[March 23]]: The New York Giants led by "Iron Man" pitcher Joe McGinnitty, played an exhibition against the [[Birmingham Barons]], called "Iron Men" that night, to raise funds for [[Vulcan]]'s completion.
* [[C. I. Taylor]] organized the [[Birmingham Giants]] baseball team.
* [[C. I. Taylor]] organized the [[Birmingham Giants]] baseball team.
* [[Mike Donahue]] became the head coach for the [[Auburn Tigers football]] team.
* [[Mike Donahue]] became the head coach for the [[Auburn Tigers football]] team.
* [[Auburn Tigers football|Auburn]] won the [[1904 Iron Bowl|Iron Bowl]] 29-5 at [[West End Park]].
* [[Auburn Tigers football|Auburn]] won the [[1904 Iron Bowl|Iron Bowl]] 29-5 at [[West End Park]].
 
* [[Harry Vaughn|Harry "Farmer" Vaughn]] succeeded [[Tom O'Brien]] as [[List of Birmingham Barons managers|manager of the Birmingham Barons]].
==Works==
* [[1904 Birmingham Base Ball Club]]
* [[Vulcan]] by [[Giuseppi Moretti]]
* [[William Elias B. Davis statue]], also by Moretti
* [[Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent]] by John Singer Sargent
* Improved automatic railroad car-coupling, U.S. Patent No. 761,056 by [[Andrew Beard]]
 
===Buildings===
[[Image:Bham Country Club Lakeview.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Country Club of Birmingham clubhouse]]
* [[11th Avenue United Methodist Church]]
* [[Alabama A&M University]] library
* [[Buck Creek Mill]] mill building
* [[Clarkson Bridge]] in [[Cullman County]]
* [[Country Club of Birmingham]] clubhouse at [[Lakeview Park]]
* [[Ensley Works]] additional blast furnace and bessemer converter
* [[Richard Massey residence]]
* [[Thomas Rowan residence]] additions


==Individuals==
==Individuals==
* [[June 23]]: [[Richard White]] bought a Wittnauer [[Huland Moore|watch]] for his bride, Olga at [[F. W. Bromberg]].
* [[Laura Burton]] received her medical license and opened a practice in the [[Watts Building (1888)|Watts Building]].
* [[Laura Burton]] received her medical license and opened a practice in the [[Watts Building (1888)|Watts Building]].
* [[B. B. Comer]] was elected to the [[Alabama Public Service Commission|Alabama Railroad Commission]].
* [[B. B. Comer]] was elected to the [[Alabama Public Service Commission|Alabama Railroad Commission]].
* [[James Coyle]] became pastor of [[St Paul's Cathedral]].
* [[W. W. Dorman]] succeeded [[E. B. Norton]] as pastor of [[East Lake United Methodist Church]].
* [[Culpepper Exum]] was elected president of the [[Birmingham Chamber of Commerce]].
* [[Culpepper Exum]] was elected president of the [[Birmingham Chamber of Commerce]].
* [[Hill Ferguson]] became president of the [[University of Alabama Alumni Society]].
* [[William Gussen]] was elected first president of the [[Alabama Music Teachers Association]].
* [[William Gussen]] was elected first president of the [[Alabama Music Teachers Association]].
* [[A. O. Lane]] completed his third term as president of the [[Birmingham Board of Education]].
* [[Adolph Loveman]] succeeded [[Simon Klotz]] as president of [[Temple Emanu-El]].
* [[Lloyd Noland]] was appointed to assist William Gorgas to control disease in the Panama Canal zone.
* [[Lloyd Noland]] was appointed to assist William Gorgas to control disease in the Panama Canal zone.
* [[A. H. Parker]] became principal of [[Parker High School|Industrial High School]].
* [[John Persons]] began as a cashier and accountant for Colonel [[G. T. Bush]].
* [[J. C. Persinger]] succeeded [[W. T. Andrews]] as pastor of [[Avondale United Methodist Church]].
* [[G. H. Stevenson]] purchased what would become known as the [[G. H. Stevenson residence]].
* [[Rev. Yasgour]] served as rabbi of [[Knesseth Israel Congregation]].


===Births===
===Births===
[[Image:Arthur Shores.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Arthur Shores]]
[[Image:Albert Boutwell.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Albert Boutwell]]
* [[January 14]]: [[Robert Chambliss]], terrorist
* [[January 14]]: [[Robert Chambliss]], terrorist
* [[January 22]]: [[John Beecher]], activist poet
* [[January 22]]: [[John Beecher]], activist poet
* [[February 29]]: [[Wilson Driver]], jazz drummer
* [[February 29]]: [[Wilson Driver]], jazz drummer
* [[March 22]]: [[Frank Yeilding Jr]], banker
* [[June 11]]: [[Pinetop Smith]], boogie-woogie pianist
* [[June 11]]: [[Pinetop Smith]], boogie-woogie pianist
* [[September 1]]: [[Johnny Mack Brown]], football player and actor
* [[September 1]]: [[Johnny Mack Brown]], football player and actor
* [[September 25]]: [[Arthur Shores]], attorney and [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[September 25]]: [[Arthur Shores]], attorney and [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[November 24]]: [[Victor Josselyn]], gymnast and writer
* [[October 5]]: [[Sammy West]], baseball player
* [[October 5]]: [[Sammy West]], baseball player
* [[October 20]]: [[James Head]], business owner and civic leader
* [[October 20]]: [[James Head]], business owner and civic leader
* [[November 13]]: [[Albert Boutwell]], 22nd [[Mayor of Birmingham]]
* [[November 13]]: [[Albert Boutwell]], 22nd [[Mayor of Birmingham]]
* [[December 6]]: [[Carlyle Tillery]], novelist
* [[December 20]]: [[Spud Davis]], baseball player
* [[December 20]]: [[Spud Davis]], baseball player
* [[Richard Blauvelt Coe]], artist
* [[Richard Blauvelt Coe]], artist
* [[Alice Johnson]], daughter of [[Crawford Johnson]]
* [[Alice Johnson]], daughter of [[Crawford Johnson]]
* [[Clarence Price]], president of [[South Elyton Civic League]]
* [[Buster Waits]], bookkeeper and baseball mascot
* [[Buster Waits]], bookkeeper and baseball mascot
* [[Jennie Wood]], socialite and murder victim
* [[Jennie Wood]], socialite and murder victim
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===Marriages===
===Marriages===
* [[November 4]]: [[Bem Price]] married Lutie Bragg.
* [[November 23]]: [[Bem Price]] married Lutie Bragg.
* [[Charles Carraway]] married [[Maggie Carraway|Maggie Lacey]] of Pratt.
* [[Rick Woodward]] married [[Annie Woodward|Annie Jemison]].
* [[Rick Woodward]] married [[Annie Woodward|Annie Jemison]].
* Furniture magnate [[Rosa Zinszer]] married physician [[W. H. Wilder]].


===Deaths===
===Deaths===
* [[January 24]]: [[Mitchell Porter]], attorney
<!-- [[Image:William Walker Jr 1904.jpg|right|thumb|150px|William Walker Jr]] -->
* [[July 10]]: [[William Walker, Jr]], attorney
* [[January 24]]: [[Mitchell A. Porter]], attorney
* [[February 1]]: [[Flora Turner]], wife of architect [[Joseph Turner]]
* [[April 17]]: [[Thomas Parsons]], [[Jefferson County Commission]]er
* [[April 21]]: [[Reinhard Wilda]], founder of the [[Birmingham Steam Laundry]]
* [[July 10]]: [[William Walker Jr]], attorney
* [[July 28]]: [[Patrick O'Reilly]], rector of [[St Paul's Cathedral|St Paul's Catholic Church]]
* [[September 26]]: [[Daniel Fulenwider]], business owner and investor
* [[November 7]]: [[Paul Chamborden]], saloonkeeper
* [[J. W. McMahon]], hotelier and murder victim
* [[Jesse Pearson]]
* [[Jesse Pearson]]
* [[Mamie Lou Brown|Mamie Lou Coleman Brown]]
==Works==
[[Image:Lady Helen Vincent.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon]]
* [[1904 Moretti bas-relief]] by [[Giuseppe Moretti]]
* [[Vulcan]] by Giuseppi Moretti
* [[William Elias B. Davis statue]], also by Moretti
* [[Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent]] by John Singer Sargent
* Improved automatic railroad car-coupling, U.S. Patent No. 761,056 by [[Andrew Beard]]
* "[http://www.memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2010/20101208001tr/20101208001tr.pdf An Industrial Review of the General Business Interests of Birmingham] and the cities and towns comprising the great state of Alabama" (1904) Birmingham: Post B, Alabama Division, Travelers Protective Association
===Buildings===
[[Image:Bham Country Club Lakeview.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Country Club of Birmingham clubhouse]]
* [[11th Avenue United Methodist Church]]
* [[2200 2nd Avenue North]]
* [[Alabama A&M University]] library
* [[Buck Creek Mill]] mill building
* [[Clarkson Bridge]] in [[Cullman County]]
* [[Country Club of Birmingham]] clubhouse at [[Lakeview Park]]
* [[Douglas Building]]
* [[Ensley Works]] additional blast furnace and bessemer converter
* [[Gingold Building]] at 2214 [[2nd Avenue North (Downtown)|2nd Avenue North]]
* [[Lacke Building]]
* [[Terence Mackin residence]]
* [[Richard Massey residence]]
* [[Thomas Rowan residence]] additions
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:John Altman.jpg|[[John Altman]]
Image:Sumter Bethea.jpg|[[Sumter Bethea]]
Image:John Carmichael.jpg|[[John Carmichael]]
Image:B H Cooper.png|[[B. H. Cooper]]
Image:Russell Cunningham.jpg|[[Russell Cunningham]]
Image:Charles Drennen.jpg|[[Charles Drennen]]
Image:Mel Drennen 1904.jpg|[[Mel Drennen]]
Image:Mel Drennen.jpg|[[Mel Drennen]]
Image:John C Forney.png|[[John C. Forney]]
Image:John Gillespy.jpg|[[John Gillespy]]
Image:Henry Gray.jpg|[[Henry Gray]]
Image:Daniel Greene.jpg|[[Daniel Greene]]
Image:Samuel Greene.jpg|[[Samuel Greene]]
Image:William Gunn.jpg|[[William Gunn]]
Image:Walter McAdory.jpg|[[Walter McAdory]]
Image:Thomas McDonald.jpg|[[Thomas McDonald]]
Image:John F McLaughlin.jpg|[[John F. McLaughlin]]
Image:Richard McNally.jpg|[[Richard McNally]]
Image:Robert A Morris.jpg|[[Robert A. Morris]]
Image:John O'Neill.png|[[John O'Neill]]
Image:Rufus Rhodes.jpg|[[Rufus Rhodes]]
Image:John Rountree.jpg|[[John Rountree]]
Image:Henry Stockmar.png|[[Henry Stockmar]]
Image:Andrew Tarrant.jpg|[[Andrew Tarrant]]
Image:Robert Thach.png|[[Robert Thach]]
Image:N. F. Thompson.jpg|[[N. F. Thompson]]
Image:James Weatherly.jpg|[[James Weatherly]]
Image:Benjamin Wyman 1904.jpg|[[Benjamin Wyman]]
Image:Moore Handley 1904.png|[[Moore & Handley]]
Image:Frank Nelson Building 1904.jpg|[[Frank Nelson Building]]
Image:Woodward Building 1904.jpg|[[Woodward Building]]
Image:Batton Convertible Chair.jpg|[[Batton Convertible Chair]]
Image:Birmingham Medical College dissection.jpg|Dissection of a cadaver at the [[Birmingham Medical College]]
Image:Vulcan legs in studio.jpg|Plaster cast for [[Vulcan]] at Moretti's studio in Passaic, NJ
</gallery>


==Context==
==Context==
1904 was a leap year. A January fire destroyed 1,500 buildings in Baltimore, Maryland. The Russo-Japanese War broke out in February. Longacre Square in New York City became Times Square in April. Cy Young threw the modern game's first perfect game in May, the same month that FIFA was established. St Louis, Missouri hosted the Games of the 3rd Olympiad. Teddy Roosevelt defeated Alton Parker to serve a first full term as President.
1904 was a leap year. A January fire destroyed 1,500 buildings in Baltimore, Maryland. The Russo-Japanese War broke out in February. Longacre Square in New York City became Times Square in April. Cy Young threw the modern game's first perfect game in May, the same month that FIFA was established. St Louis, Missouri hosted the Games of the 3rd Olympiad. Teddy Roosevelt defeated Alton Parker to serve a first full term as President.
Ivan Pavlov won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Puccini's ''Madame Butterfly'' debuted in Milan and Mahler's ''Symphony No. 5'' premiered in Cologne. The New York Giants won the National League pennant, but declined to participate in a second-ever World Series against the Boston Americans.


Notable 1904 births include those of actors Ray Bolger, Peter Lorre and Cary Grant; choreographer George Balanchine; gangster Pretty Boy Floyd; musicians Count Basie, Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Fats Waller; authors Theodore Seuss Geisel and Joseph Campbell; artists Salvador Dalí and Willem de Kooning, physicist Robert Oppenheimer; and Chinese leader Deng Xiaopeng.
Notable 1904 births include those of actors Ray Bolger, Peter Lorre and Cary Grant; choreographer George Balanchine; gangster Pretty Boy Floyd; musicians Count Basie, Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Fats Waller; authors Theodore Seuss Geisel and Joseph Campbell; artists Salvador Dalí and Willem de Kooning, physicist Robert Oppenheimer; and Chinese leader Deng Xiaopeng.


Deaths in 1904 included those of Queen Isabella II of Spain; composer Antonín Dvořák; photographer Eadweard Muybridge; authors Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin and Lafcadio Hearn; and sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi.
Deaths in 1904 included those of Queen Isabella II of Spain; composer Antonín Dvořák; photographer Eadweard Muybridge; authors Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin and Lafcadio Hearn; and sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi.
Ivan Pavlov won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Puccini's ''Madame Butterfly'' debuted in Milan and Mahler's ''Symphony No. 5'' premiered in Cologne. The New York Giants won the National League pennant, but declined to participate in a second-ever World Series against the Boston Americans.


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Stereograph of Vulcan at the World's Fair

1904 was the 33rd year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

Business

Motlow Bros letterhead.jpg

Education

Government

Religion

James Coyle

Sports

Mike Donahue

Individuals

Births

Arthur Shores
Albert Boutwell

Marriages

Deaths

Works

Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon

Buildings

Country Club of Birmingham clubhouse

Gallery

Context

1904 was a leap year. A January fire destroyed 1,500 buildings in Baltimore, Maryland. The Russo-Japanese War broke out in February. Longacre Square in New York City became Times Square in April. Cy Young threw the modern game's first perfect game in May, the same month that FIFA was established. St Louis, Missouri hosted the Games of the 3rd Olympiad. Teddy Roosevelt defeated Alton Parker to serve a first full term as President.

Ivan Pavlov won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Puccini's Madame Butterfly debuted in Milan and Mahler's Symphony No. 5 premiered in Cologne. The New York Giants won the National League pennant, but declined to participate in a second-ever World Series against the Boston Americans.

Notable 1904 births include those of actors Ray Bolger, Peter Lorre and Cary Grant; choreographer George Balanchine; gangster Pretty Boy Floyd; musicians Count Basie, Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Fats Waller; authors Theodore Seuss Geisel and Joseph Campbell; artists Salvador Dalí and Willem de Kooning, physicist Robert Oppenheimer; and Chinese leader Deng Xiaopeng.

Deaths in 1904 included those of Queen Isabella II of Spain; composer Antonín Dvořák; photographer Eadweard Muybridge; authors Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin and Lafcadio Hearn; and sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi.

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