1904

1903 1904 1905

Events

1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.
1904-1905 Affaire des Fiches' in France.
Future UFW leader Philip Vera Cruz is born.
Chaim Weizmann settles in England.
U.S. Marines intervene in Tangier, Morocco.
U.S. Marines continue to occupy the Isthmus of Panama, which they will do until January 21, 1914.

January 5: U.S. Marines intervene to protect American legation in Seoul, Korea.
April: Anglo-French Entente Cordiale ends the contest between the two imperial powers for control of Egypt.
April 22: J. Robert Oppenheimer is born.
May 26: Wright brothers begin a series of over 100 flights in Flyer No. II.
July 15: After surviving 6 assassination plots, Russian Minister of the Interior (responsible for the Okhrana) Viacheslav Konstantinovich Plevhe is assassinated on Izmailovskii Prospekt with bombs thrown by Boris Savinkov's band of Socialist Revolutionary Battle Organization miltiants.
July 30: Russian Empress Alexandra gives birth to the ill fated male heir of Nicholas II.
July 31: Russia completes 4607-mile Trans-Siberian Railroad.
August 21: first arrest for speeding in an automobile occurs in Newport, Rhode Island.
September 21: Chief Joseph dies at Colville Reservation.
November 9: Wilbur Wright flies 4.43 kilometres (2.75 miles) in Dayton.