1904
The Year Everything Important Happened
1904: Monthly Archives for September 2007

Gertrude Stein moves to Paris

Fourteen Poems by C. P. Cavafy

e.e. cummings. Complete Poems 1904-1962

Porfirio Diaz, aging dictator of Mexico, is "re-elected"

Construction begins on The "Palacio de Bellas Artes" in Mexico City

108 Years remaining until end of Mayan Long-Count Calendar, Return of Quetzalcoatl, End of World

A new trolley car line opens between Los Angeles and Hollywood

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)

Annie Besant lectures on "The Higher Self"

Silas C. Swallow is nominated as the Prohibition Party's presidential candidate

Max Weber publishes "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"

Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)

A Note on Methodology

The First U.S. Open Polo Championship is played in Van Courtlandt Park

"Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!"

Mrs. Bridges is Born

Edward Stratemeyer Creates "The Bobbsey Twins"

Lady Marjorie Bellamy sits for a painting by Guthrie Scone

The Hon. Nancy Mitford, CBE (1904-1973)

The Games of the III Olympiad Conclude in St. Louis, 3rd September 1904

Thomas Crapper Retires