* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor ( d. 2000 )

As early as 1904, John Gaynor, a Wisconsin grower, and A. U. Chaney, a fruit broker from Des Moines, Iowa, organized Wisconsin growers into a cooperative called the Wisconsin Cranberry Sales Company to receive a uniform price from buyers.

John Fleming invented the first radio tube, the diode, in 1904.

John Dewey, a principal figure in this movement from the 1880s to 1904, set the tone for educational philosophy as well as concrete school reforms.

* 1832 – John Brown Gordon, American politician ( d. 1904 )

* John Bull's Other Island ( 1904 )

* John Ford House ( 1827 – 1904 ), American legislator who, from 1875 to 1883, served as Democratic representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district

* 1904 – John Milligan, American baseball player ( d. 1972 )

* 1848 – John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman ( d. 1904 )

The first excavation at Tell as-Sultan was carried out in 1867, and the monasteries of St. George of Koziba and John the Baptist were refounded and completed in 1901 and 1904, respectively.

: One century ago, in November 1904, John Ambrose Fleming FRS, Pender Professor at UCL, filed in Great Britain, for a device called the Thermionic Valve.

* John Brown ( actor ) ( 1904 – 1957 ), English radio and film actor

Peter Weissmüller and John Ott were both brewers, Ott immigrating in 1902, Weissmüller in 1904.

He appears, portrayed by John Huston, in the 1975 film The Wind and the Lion, a fictionalization of the Perdicaris Affair in Morocco in 1904.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

Sappho of Lesbos, depicted here in a 1904 painting by John William Godward, gave the term lesbian the connotation of erotic desire between women.

As the owner of Anfield and founder of Liverpool, John Houlding was the club's first chairman, a position he held from its founding in 1892 until 1904.

Baum would work primarily with John R. Neill on his fantasy work beginning in 1904, but Baum met Neill few times ( all before he moved to California ) and often found Neill's art not humorous enough for his liking, and was particularly offended when Neill published The Oz Toy Book: Cut-outs for the Kiddies without authorization.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM ( 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919 ) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

* 1904 – John Snagge, English newsreader and commentator ( d. 1996 )

Baby New Year 1905 chases old 1904 into the history books in this cartoon by John T. McCutcheon.

* 1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve ( vacuum tube ).

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After tensions with the U. S. government came to a head in 1890, the church officially abandoned the public practice of polygamy in the United States, and eventually stopped performing official polygamous marriages altogether after a Second Manifesto in 1904.

* U. S. Supreme Court, " Steimetz v. Allen, 192 U. S. 543 ( 1904 )".

* J. Joseph Smith ( 1904 – 1980 ), U. S. Representative from Connecticut

Brown ( 1835 – 1904 ), Kentucky governor 1891 – 1895, U. S. representative ( D – KY, 1859 – 1861, 1873 – 1877 )

The Panama Canal was built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914 ; the existing 83-kilometer ( 50-mi.

In 1904, The U. S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi's financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie.

He served in the Ohio Senate ( 1899 – 1903 ), as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio ( 1904 – 1906 ) and as a U. S. Senator ( 1915 – 1921 ).

* November 8 – U. S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.

** Jack Z. Anderson, U. S. Representative from California ( b. 1904 )

Following the invention and patenting < sup ></ sup > of the first Batch ( ice cream ) Freezer 40 years before in 1904 by Emery Thompson of New Rochelle, New York, U. S. A.,

The vast majority of legal scholars have concluded that in writing the Schenck opinion Justice Holmes never meant to replace the " bad tendency " test which had been established in the 1868 English case R. v. Hicklin and incorporated into American jurisprudence in the 1904 Supreme Court case U. S. ex rel.

Interventionism found its formal articulation in the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, proclaiming the right of the United States to intervene in the affairs of weak states in the Americas in order to stabilize them, a moment that underlined the emergent U. S. regional hegemony.

In 1880 Hayes appointed Longstreet as his ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and later he served from 1897 to 1904, under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, as U. S. Commissioner of Railroads, succeeding Wade Hampton III.

* George Graham Vest ( 1830 – 1904 ) U. S. Senator from Missouri

* Nathaniel H. Odell ( 1828 – 1904 ), U. S. Representative from New York

The press in use today was made in 1903 by R. Hoe & Co's chief cabinetmaker Frederick S. Betchley in conjunction with the 1904 die, with the cabinet being made of mahogany.

In 1904 the U. S. Army and the Ohio National Guard conducted joint training exercises near the city.

Cocaine ( not the other extracts from the Peruvian coca leaf ) was prohibited from soft drinks in the U. S. after 1904, and Coca-Cola no longer uses kola in its original recipe.

* James Eastland ( U. S. Senator from Mississippi, 1904 – 1986 )

( Beginning in 1904, the U. S. Navy had broadcast daily time signals and weather reports, but these employed spark transmitters, transmitting in Morse code ).

In 1904, the U. S. Army Signal Corps built the McCarty Telegraph station on a site near a roadhouse established the previous year at the confluence of the Tanana and Delta rivers.

In 1904, the property finally passed out of the family upon its conveyance to Fairfax S. Landstreet from then-owner Edward G. Cherbonnier.

* John Walter Smith, Congressman for Maryland 1st District, 1899 – 1900 ; 44th Governor of Maryland, 1900 – 1904 ; U. S. Senator, 1907-1919.

In 1904 E. P. Queen and S. F. Jackson started up a new sawmill at Ellsinore.