1904 in the United States

1904 in the United States
Decades:	1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s
Years:	1901 1902 1903 – 1904 – 1905 1906 1907
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Events from the year 1904 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
• Vice President: vacant
• Chief Justice: Melville Fuller
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-Illinois)
• Congress: 58th

Events

January–March

• January 12 – Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.37 mph.
• January 16 – The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
• February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.

April–June

• April 8 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).
• May 4 – U.S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal.
• May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.

July–September

• July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri, United States as part of the World's Fair.
• July 23 – In St. Louis, Missouri, the ice cream cone is invented during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

October–December

• 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 15 – Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
• 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.
• December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded.
• December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens.
• December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.

Undated

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a Second Manifesto against polygamy.
• Stuyvesant High School is founded in New York City.
• The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, now Bethune-Cookman University, is founded.

Ongoing

• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904–1908)

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External links

• Media related to 1904 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons