1904

Many events happened in the world and the US during the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, here is some of the history from that year.

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• Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War. As Russia and Japan fight over Manchuria and Korea.
• Entente Cordiale: Britain and France settle their international differences.
• First New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world.
• Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
• Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• U.S. Supreme Court rules that citizens of Puerto Rico cannot be denied entry to the continental U.S.
• For 10 million dollars, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone and begins begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
• United States Federal spending: 580 million dollars.
• Queen Isabella II of Spain died on April 10.
• GWR 3440 City of Truro becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph.
• US Unemployment: 5.4 percent.
• Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (The Wizard of Oz) was born on January 10th.
• The first successful caterpillar track is made (it would later revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare).
• Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist was born on May 11th.
• John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.
• Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.37 miles per hour.
• Cost of a first-class US stamp: 2 cents.
• Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer and motion picture pioneer, died May 8th.
• The automobile tire chain is patented.
• The Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
• Kentucky Derby Champion: Elwood.
• B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist was born on March 20th.
• 1904 Summer Olympics
• Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
• Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• 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 President Theodore Roosevelt.
• Cary Grant, English actor was born January 18th.
• The telephone answering machine is invented.
• The East Boston Tunnel opens.
• The subject of alcohol and heart attacks is first investigated.
• The first flat-disk phonograph is introduced.
• U.S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.
• Dr. Seuss, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat) was born on March 2nd.
• The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded.
• Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, Himalia.
• US Population: 82,166,000.
• The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".