Events from the year 1904 in the United States.
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Events
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- October – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of BethuneâÂÂCookman 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 10 â The opera The Sho-Gun, authored by George Ade and Gustav Luders and produced by Henry W. Savage, premieres at Wallack's Theatre in New York City, New York.
- 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.
- November 23 – The Olympic Games end.
- November 24 – A continuous track tractor is successfully demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company.
- December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
- December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens, for streetcars.
- 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 13 – Erwin Canham, journalist (died 1982)
- February 16 –
- George F. Kennan, political adviser (died 2005)
- James Baskett, actor (died 1948)
- March 1
- Paul Hartman, actor and dancer (died 1973)
- Glenn Miller, bandleader (died 1944)
- March 2 – Dr. Seuss, children's author (The Cat in the Hat) (died 1991)
- March 4 – Chief Tahachee, writer and actor (died 1978)
- March 20
- Frank Mills, politician in Ohio legislature (died 1969)
- B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist (died 1990)
- March 23 (possible year) – Joan Crawford, actress (died 1977)
- March 26 – Joseph Campbell, author on mythology (died 1987)
- April 6 – William Challee, actor (died 1989)
- April 9 – Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (died 1972)
- 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)
- April 27 – Syd Nathan, record producer, music industry executive and founder of King Records (died 1968)
- May 10 – James Roy Andersen, general (died 1945)
- May 17 – John J. Williams, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1947 to 1970 (died 1988)
- May 21
- Robert Montgomery, actor and director (died 1981)
- Fats Waller, African American jazz pianist and entertainer (died 1943)
- May 30 – Doris Packer, actress (died 1979)
- June 2 – Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer and actor (Tarzan) (died 1984)
- June 3 – Charles R. Drew, African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion (died 1950)
- June 12
- Bill Cox, athlete (died 1996)
- Johnny Murray, voice actor (died 1956)
- June 21 – Orian Landreth, American football coach (died 1996)
- June 22 – William O. Gallery, admiral (died 1981)
- June 24 – Phil Harris, bandleader and comic actor (died 1995)
- June 26 – Virginia Brown Faire, actress (died 1980)
- July 1 – Mary Calderone, physician and public health advocate (died 1998)
- July 5 – Eugenia Clinchard, child actress (died 1989)
- July 8 – Nick Connor, politician (died 1995)
- July 15 – Dorothy Fields, librettist (died 1974)
- July 16 – Geraldine Knight Scott, landscape architect (died 1989)
- August 13 – Charles "Buddy" Rogers, actor and jazz musician (died 1999)
- 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)
- August 22 – Jay Novello, actor (died 1982)
- August 26 – Georgia Schmidt, actress (died 1997)
- September 12 – Lou Moore, race car driver and team owner (died 1956)
- September 19 – Elvia Allman, actress (died 1992)
- October 1 – Irene Craigmile Bolam, Amelia Earhart look-alike/believed alias (died 1982)
- October 3 – Charles J. Pedersen, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 (died 1989)
- October 8 – Wally Brown, actor and comedian (died 1961)
- October 12 – Anthony F. DePalma, orthopedic surgeon and professor (died 2005)
- October 23 – Harvey Penick, golfer (died 1995)
- November 1 – Laura La Plante, silent film actress (died 1996)
- November 17 – Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (died 1988)
- November 18 – William H. Brockman Jr., United States Navy admiral (died 1979)
- 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 19 – Benjamin W. Fortson Jr, politician, Georgia Secretary of State (died 1979)
- December 25 – Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, nutritionist (died 1980)
- December 30 – David M. Shoup, general (died 1983)
- Full date unknown
- E. Gifford Upjohn, American business executive (died 1993)
Deaths
- January 2 – James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War (born 1821)
- January 6 – Julia Anna Orum, educator, lecturer, and author (born 1843
- 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 9 – Mary Abbott, golfer (born 1857)
- February 15 – Mark Hanna, U.S. Senator from Ohio (born 1837)
- March 17 – 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
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Further reading
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