1904

Events from the year 1904 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY)
* Vice President: vacant
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R–IL)
* Congress: 58th
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 2 – The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America concludes at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
* 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 91.371 miles per hour (147.047 km/h).
* February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
* February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
===April - June===
* April 8 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
* April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).
* May 4 – U.S. Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal.
* May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
* May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta women's fraternity is founded at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
* June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.
===July - September===
* July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri, United States as part of the World's Fair.
* July 23 – In St. Louis, Missouri, the ice cream cone is invented during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
* August 7 – Eden train wreck in Colorado: a bridge is washed away by a flash flood as a train crosses, resulting in at least 88 deaths.
* September 1 – Stuyvesant High School opens in New York City as Manhattan's first manual trade school for boys.
* September 24 – New Market train wreck in Tennessee: two trains collide head-on at speed, resulting in at least 56 deaths.
* September 25 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a Second Manifesto against polygamy.
===October - December===
* October 1 – Phi Delta Epsilon, the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and eight of his friends at Cornell University Medical College.
* October 2 – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of Bethune–Cookman University, is opened in Florida by Mary McLeod Bethune.
* October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, the co-ed Professional Business fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University
* October 15 – Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
* October 17 – Amadeo Giannini founds the Bank of Italy in San Francisco, predecessor of the Bank of America.
* October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American Gabriel A. O'Reilly.
* October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.
* November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.
* December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
* December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens.
* December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.
==Memoriam==
* January 2 – James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War (aged 82; Gainesville, GA, USA)
* January 9 – John Brown Gordon, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1873 to 1880 and from 1891 to 1897 (aged 71; Miami, FL, USA)
* January 11 – Little Joe Monahan, transgender rancher (aged 54; Rockville, OR, USA)
* January 20 – Maria Louisa Bustill, schoolteacher, mother of Paul Robeson (aged 50; Princeton, NJ, USA)
* February 9 – Mary Abbott, golfer (aged 46; Miami, FL, USA)
* February 15 – Mark Hanna, U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1897 to 1904 (aged 66; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 17 – William Elbridge Sewell, naval officer and Governor of Guam (aged 52; Bolton, NY, USA)
* May 28 – Matthew Quay, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1901 to 1904 (aged 70; Beaver, PA, USA)
* June 5 – Olivia Langdon Clemens, editor (aged 58; Florence, Italy)
* June 28 – Dan Emmett, founder of the Virginia Minstrels (aged 88; Mount Vernon, OH, USA)
* July 26 – Henry Clay Taylor, admiral (aged 59; ON, Canada)
* August 1 – Robert E. Pattison, 19th Governor of Pennsylvania (aged 53; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* August 16 – Prentiss Ingraham, author of dime fiction (aged 60; Biloxi, MS, USA)
* August 22 – Kate Chopin, fiction writer (aged 54; St. Louis, MO, USA)
* October 5 – Henry B. Metcalf, prohibitionist and politician (aged 75; Pawtucket, RI, USA)
* October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, classicist and poet (aged 30; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* December 21 – George L. Shoup, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1901 (aged 68; Boise, ID, USA)
==External links==
* 1904 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 13