page_title: 1904
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1904 / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: Baltimore après l'incendie de 1904
context_page_description: 1904 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 904th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1904, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 7 – The distress signal CQD is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS.
  January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  January 12 – Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.37 mph (147.05 km/h).
  January 16 – The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
  January 18 – The Herero Rebellion in German South-West Africa begins.
  January 23 – The Ålesund Fire destroys most buildings in the town of Ålesund, Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter.
  January 25 – Halford Mackinder presents a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics.
caption: February 7: Aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire.
exif: {}