Top News Stories from 1904
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.378 billion
population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: Institut de Droit International (Belgium)
More World Statistics... - Russo-Japanese War begins. As Russia and Japan fight over Manchuria and Korea.
- Entente Cordiale: Britain and France settle their international differences.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: none
Population: 82,166,000
More U.S. Statistics... - New York City subway opens.
- U.S. Supreme Court rules that citizens of Puerto Rico cannot be denied entry to the continental U.S.
- U.S. begins construction of the Panama Canal.
Economics
Federal spending: $0.58 billion
Unemployment: 5.4%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
Not HeldStanley Cup
Ottawa Silver SevenWimbledon
Women: Dorothea Douglass d. C. Sterry (6-0 6-3)Men: Laurie Doherty d. F. Riseley (6-1 7-5 8-6)
Kentucky Derby Champion
ElwoodNCAA Football Champions
Penn (CFRA, HF) (12-0-0) & Michigan (NCF) (10-0-0) 1904 Summer OlympicsEntertainment
Entertainment Awards
Nobel Prize for Literature: Frédéric Mistral (France) and José Echegaray (Spain)
More Entertainment Awards... Events
- The London Symphony Orchestra is established.
- Anton Chekhov introduces modern realism at the premiere of The Cherry Orchard at the Moscow Art Theatre.
- The teddy bear is first produced. It is named after Pres. Theodore Roosevelt.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Sir William Ramsay (UK), for discovery and determination of place of inert gaseous elements in air
Physics: John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (UK), for discovery of argon in investigating gas density
Physiology or Medicine: Ivan P. Pavlov (USSR), for work on the physiology of digestion
More Nobel Prizes in 1998... - A telephone answering machine is invented.
- The first flat-disk phonograph is introduced.
