News and Events of 1904

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Institut de Droit International (Belgium)

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President: Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: none
Population: 82,166,000

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New York City subway opens.
U.S. Supreme Court rules that citizens of Puerto Rico cannot be denied entry to the continental U.S.
U.S. begins construction of the Panama Canal.

Federal spending:   $0.58 billion
Unemployment:   5.4%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Not Held

Ottawa Silver Seven

Women: Dorothea Douglass d. C. Sterry (6-0 6-3)
Men: Laurie Doherty d. F. Riseley (6-1 7-5 8-6)

Elwood

Penn (CFRA, HF) (12-0-0) & Michigan (NCF) (10-0-0)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Frédéric Mistral (France) and José Echegaray (Spain)

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The London Symphony Orchestra is established.
Anton Chekhov introduces modern realism at the premiere of The Cherry Orchard at the Moscow Art Theatre.
The teddy bear is first produced. It is named after Pres. Theodore Roosevelt.

Chemistry: Sir William Ramsay (UK), for discovery and determination of place of inert gaseous elements in air

Physics: John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (UK), for discovery of argon in investigating gas density

Physiology or Medicine: Ivan P. Pavlov (USSR), for work on the physiology of digestion