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1 July–23 November – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri and win one gold and one silver medal. 21 July – Official opening of Birmingham Corporation Water Department 's scheme bringing water to the city from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Wales via the Elan aqueduct.
1908 →. The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, United States, took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24 miles 1500 yards (40 km). [1] It proved to be a bizarre affair due to poor organization and officiating. [2] The race was run during the hottest part of the day on dusty country roads, with only two ...
478 missing [1] The Battle of the Yalu River (Amnok River) lasted from April 30 to May 1, 1904 and was the first major land battle during the Russo-Japanese War. It was fought near Wiju (modern village of Sinuiju, North Korea) on the lower reaches of the Yalu River, on the border between Korea and China. Also known as the Yalu River Crossing ...
James Adams (cricketer, born 1904) Sidney Adams. Stewart Adams (ice hockey) Weston Adams. Gordon Adamson. Yevhen Adamtsevych. Leo Adde. Richard Addinsell. Christopher Addison, 2nd Viscount Addison.
Februar 1904: mat engem Iwweraschungsugrëff vun de japaneschen Truppen op russesch Krichsschëffer zu Port Arthur fänkt de Russesch-Japanesche Krich un. Déi zwee Länner streide sech scho laang ëm den Afloss an der Mandschurei an a Korea.
December 21 – The first of Virginia Woolf 's published writings, "Haworth, November 1904", an account of a visit to the Brontë family home, appears anonymously in a women's supplement to a clerical journal, The Guardian. [6] [7] (A book review written later has appeared in the same journal a week earlier.)
HMS. Pathfinder. (1904) HMS Pathfinder was the lead ship of her class of two British scout cruisers, and was the first ship ever to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired by submarine (the American Civil War sloop-of-war USS Housatonic had been sunk by a spar torpedo ). She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, launched on 16 July 1904 ...
