August 1904 calendar

Events

• 03 Aug 1904 British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
• 07 Aug 1904 Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96
• 10 Aug 1904 Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
• 11 Aug 1904 German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
• 14 Aug 1904 Ismael Montes becomes President of Bolivia.
• 16 Aug 1904 New York City begins building Grand Central Station
• 17 Aug 1904 Russo-Japanese War: A Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur.
• 23 Aug 1904 The automobile tire chain is patented.
• 24 Aug 1904 24th US Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier
• 25 Aug 1904 James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
• 30 Aug 1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon

Famous Birthday

• Deng Xiaoping

  Chinese politician, a thrice purged Communist Party patriarch who impacted three decades of powerful influence on Chinese politics.

• Alexei Nikolaevich Tsarevich of Russia
• Léo Joannon

  French writer and film director.

• Count Basie

  American pianist composer and bandleader (Count Basie Orchestra) (d. 1984).

• Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Jean Zay

  French politician (Minister of national Education) and lawyer of Jewish father (Zay comes from "See") and protestant mother, murdered by...

• Christopher Isherwood

  British-American novelist, essayist, screenwriter and playwright.

• Roger Chapelain-Midy

  French painter, lithographer and decorato.

• Ruby Keeler

  Canadian-American actress and dancer, she was the first of six kids raised in a New York tenement.

• Thelma Morgan

  American socialite born in Switzerland and noted family, the identical twin to Gloria and the daughter of a Diplomat father and a Spanish...

• Max Factor Jr

  Makeup inventor.

• Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt
• Ralph Bunche

  American political scientist academic and diplomat Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971).

• Ralph Bunche

  American political scientist academic and diplomat Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971).

• Yves du Manoir
• Buddy Rogers

  American actor and bandleader, a silent-screen star best known for the film "Wings.

• Delio Cantimori

  Italian historian whose importance rests squarely on his two books that are studies of Italian heresy, "Italian Heretics of the 16th...

• Jacno (musician)
• Gilbert Renault
• John Hay Whitney

  US newspaper magnate, dies at age 76.

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Famous Deaths

• Arnold Krug

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau

  French Foreign Minister (Dreyfus).

• Kate Fanny Loder

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Rene Waldeck-Rousseau

  French statesman (Born 1846).

• Henri Fantin-Latour

  French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.

• Friedrich Ratzel

  German geographer and ethnographer and a principal influence in the modern development of both disciplines.

• William Renshaw

  British tennis player (Born 1861).

• Kate Chopin

  American author (Born 1850).

• Eduard Hanslick

  Bohemian-Austrian musicologist and critic (d. 1904).

• Murad V

  Ottoman sultan (d. 1904).

• William Hall

  Canadian soldier Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1904).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Billy Murray - In the Days of Old
2. S. H. Dudley - Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
3. Haydn Quartet - The Old Folks at Home
4. Henry Burr - Good-Bye, My Lady Love
5. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Good-Bye, Fedora