April 1904 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Apr 13 US Congress authorizes Lewis and Clark Expo $1 gold coin

Explorer and Leader of Lewis & Clark Expedition William Clark

Explorer and Leader of Lewis & Clark Expedition Meriwether Lewis

Apr 18 L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
Apr 19 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
Apr 20 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
Apr 23 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms

Event of Interest

Apr 24 President Loubet of France visits King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and pointedly ignores the Pope, exacerbating relations between France and the Roman Catholic Church

Apr 26 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms

A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia

Apr 26 General Kuroko leads the Japanese Army against the large Russian force at the Yalu river during the Russo-Japanese War

First Labour Government

Apr 27 The Australian Labor Party under Prime Minister Chris Watson becomes the first Labor government in the world

Australia's first Labor ministry, the first in the world

Apr 30 Ice cream cone makes its debut at St. Louis World's Fair invented by Ernest A. Hamwi (independently of other claimant Italo Marchiony in NY)

Birthdays in History

Apr 1 Juan Gil-Albert, Spanish poet and writer, born in Alcoy (d. 1994)
Apr 3 Russel Wright, American industrial designer, born in Lebanon, Ohio (d. 1976)
Apr 6 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician and author (Chancellor of West Germany 1966-69, born in Ebingen, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1988)
Apr 8 John R. Hicks, British economist (Value and Capital), (Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science 1972), born in Warwick, England (d. 1989)
Apr 11 Arthur Ernest Mourant, British hematologist, born in La Hougue Bie, Jersey (d. 1994)
Apr 12 Harald Penrose, British test pilot, born in Hereford, England (d. 1996)
Apr 13 Georges Yves Marie Congar, Dominican theologian cardinal, born in Sedan, Ardennes, France (d. 1995)
Apr 14 Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist, born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (d. 1983)
Apr 14 Sonia Gaskell, Russian-Dutch choreographer (Diaghilev), born in Vilkaviškis, Lithuania (d. 1974)
Apr 15 Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American abstract painter, born in Khorgom, Vilayet of Van, Ottoman Empire (d. 1948)
Apr 16 Clifford P. Case, American lawyer and politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey, born in Franklin Park, New Jersey (d. 1982)
Apr 20 George Stibitz, American mathematician and scientist, born in York, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
Apr 21 Gijs van Hall, Dutch politician and Mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), born in Amsterdam (d. 1977)

Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)

Apr 22 American theoretical physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project), born in NYC, New York

Apr 24 Willem De Kooning, Dutch artist (North Atlantic Light), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1997)
Apr 26 Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop (Montreal), born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada (d. 1991)
Apr 27 Arthur F. Burns, American economist and chairman (Federal Reserve Board), born in Stanislau, Austria-Hungary (d. 1987)
Apr 27 Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet (British Poet Laureate 1968-72) and detective writer (Nicholas Blake), born in Ballintubbert, Queen's County (d. 1972)
Apr 29 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi), born in Acqualagna, Italy (d. 1962)