October 1904 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1904 JB van Heutsz becomes Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies
• 03 Oct 1904 France and Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence
• 04 Oct 1904 1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
• 05 Oct 1904 Alpha Kappa Psi, the co-ed Professional Business Fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University
• 10 Oct 1904 Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
• 15 Oct 1904 The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
• 16 Oct 1904 Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
• 17 Oct 1904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors.
• 18 Oct 1904 Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne
• 19 Oct 1904 Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
• 21 Oct 1904 Russo-Japanese War ampndash Dogger Bank incident: The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea.
• 22 Oct 1904 Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
• 24 Oct 1904 1st New York subway opens
• 27 Oct 1904 The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
• 29 Oct 1904 IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (NYC) opens
• 20 Oct 1904 Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

Famous Birthday

• Graham Greene

• Merville Fitch

• Charlot Gabin

• Tommey Douglas

• Lal Bahadur Shashtri

• Momoko Kochi

• Grayton Greene

• Germaine Holley

• Graham Greene

• Graham Greene

• Constance Bennett

• Henri Médus
• Edmond Ardisson
• Christian Pineau

• Hermann Ehlers

• Henri Guisol

• James Hutchison

• Umberto Sacripanti

• Perc Westmore
• Victor Larock
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Famous Deaths

• Isabella Bird

• Isabelle Eberhardt

• Isabellarose Eberhardt

• Iszabella Bird

• Pavlos Melas

• Adela Florence Nicolson

• Winton Dally

• Mary Tenney Gray

• Carl Josef Bayer

• Isabella Bird

• Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi

• Haritina Korotkevich

• Frederic Bartholdi

• Karl Bayer

• Henry Hiles

• William GGVV Harcourt

• Gustav Ratzenhofer

• Nikolai Amani

• Teresa Milanollo

• Frederic Auguste

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Byron G. Harlan - Good-Bye, Little Girl, Good-Bye
2. Mina Hickman - Good-Bye, Little Girl, Good-Bye
3. J.W. Myers - On a Good Old Trolley Ride
4. Haydn Quartet - Sweet Adeline (You're the Flower of My Heart)
5. Bob Roberts - Teasing