April 1904 calendar

Events

• 05 Apr 1904 The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
• 08 Apr 1904 Great Britain and France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter.
• 10 Apr 1904 British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
• 19 Apr 1904 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring of New York in 2:38:04.4.
• 20 Apr 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in Saint Louis.
• 21 Apr 1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League).
• 23 Apr 1904 American Academy of Arts and Letters forms.
• 24 Apr 1904 The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
• 26 Apr 1904 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms.
• 27 Apr 1904 The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
• 30 Apr 1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut.

Famous Birthday

• Robert Oppenheimer

  American scientist, a nuclear physicist and head of the Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee 1947-1952.

• Willem de Kooning
• Yves Congar
• Jean Hélion

  French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist.

• John Gielgud

  English actor director and producer (d. 2000).

• Kurt Georg Kiesinger

  third West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at age 83 (born 1904).

• Gabriel Loire

  French artist, a stained glass artist and painter.

• Henri Vilbert

  France Actor.

• Joachim Gottschalk

  German actor.

• Russ Morgan

  Scranton, Pennsylvania -- Orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard).

• Arshile Gorky

  Armenian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1948).

• Marie-Jeanne Lempereur

  Belgian centenarian.

• Sir David Robinson

  British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987).

• Harald James

  Penrose pilot.

• Lyle Latell

  Iowa, United States -- Actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon).

• Arthur Ernest

  Mourant haematologist.

• John Antill

  composer.

• Leslie French

  Actor / singer (More than a Miracle).

• Edward Chodorov

  Playwright / director (Story of Louis Pasteur).

• John R

  Hicks British economist (Nobel Prize 1972).

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Famous Deaths

• Queen Isabella

  II of Spain (Born 1830).

• Isabella II Queen of Spain (1833-68)

  dies at age 73.

• Vasili Vereshtshagin Russian painter (War and Peace)

  dies.

• Maximilian Kronberger

  German poet and author (d. 1904).

• Samuel Smiles

  Scottish writer and reformer (Born 1812).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Vess Ossman - Razzle Dazzle
2. Henry Burr - Sammy
3. J.W. Myers - Navajo
4. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Under the Anheuser Bush
5. Billy Murray - I Can't Do the Sum