October 1 –
Phi Delta Epsilon, the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and eight of his friends at Cornell University Medical College.
June 24 –
Phil Harris, bandleader and comic actor (died
1995)
"Benny Show's Phil Harris Dies at 89". Los Angeles Times. August 13, 1995. Retrieved July 27, 2022. Phil Harris, the bandleader who became famous by portraying himself as a flashy, hard-drinking musician on the old Jack Benny radio show, died. … He was 89.
^"Canal Treaty Ratified". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 148. 24 February 1904. Page 6, column 1. Retrieved 13 January 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"Officers Stay at Posts During Disaster". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 2, columns 1-2. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Kleinfield, N. R. (2 September 2007).
"As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough?". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2022. Few are alive anymore who can recall June 15, 1904, when 1,021 people died in the burning and sinking of the steamer 'General Slocum,' the deadliest New York disaster until Sept. 11, 2001.
^
abBell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of international games. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. p. 473.
ISBN0-7864-1026-4.
^Bret, David (2006).
Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr. New York:
Da Capo Press. p. 8.
ISBN9780786732364. Retrieved 16 January 2022 – via Google Books. She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur, most likely on 23 March 1904 (though she always maintained it was 1908, when birth certificates became state mandatory, and also the year of arch-rival Bette Davis's birth) in San Antonio, Texas...
^"INVALID SCALDED TO DEATH IN BATHTUB". The Washington Times. 8 January 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 13 December 2022 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
public domain.
^"FORMER NAVAL GOVERNOR OF GUAM IS DEAD". San Francisco Call. Vol. 95, no. 109. 18 March 1904. Page 2, column 4. Retrieved 3 February 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"REAR ADMIRAL TAYLOR GOES TO FINAL REST". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCVI, no. 57. 27 July 1904. Page 5, column 4. Retrieved 24 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"Domestic Chronology", Statistician and Economist, San Francisco: Louis P. McCarty, 1905, pp. 227–347,
hdl:
2027/uc1.b3142275 – via HathiTrust. (Covers events May 1898-June 1905.)
October 1 –
Phi Delta Epsilon, the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and eight of his friends at Cornell University Medical College.
June 24 –
Phil Harris, bandleader and comic actor (died
1995)
"Benny Show's Phil Harris Dies at 89". Los Angeles Times. August 13, 1995. Retrieved July 27, 2022. Phil Harris, the bandleader who became famous by portraying himself as a flashy, hard-drinking musician on the old Jack Benny radio show, died. … He was 89.
^"Canal Treaty Ratified". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 148. 24 February 1904. Page 6, column 1. Retrieved 13 January 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"Officers Stay at Posts During Disaster". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 2, columns 1-2. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Kleinfield, N. R. (2 September 2007).
"As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough?". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2022. Few are alive anymore who can recall June 15, 1904, when 1,021 people died in the burning and sinking of the steamer 'General Slocum,' the deadliest New York disaster until Sept. 11, 2001.
^
abBell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of international games. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. p. 473.
ISBN0-7864-1026-4.
^Bret, David (2006).
Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr. New York:
Da Capo Press. p. 8.
ISBN9780786732364. Retrieved 16 January 2022 – via Google Books. She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur, most likely on 23 March 1904 (though she always maintained it was 1908, when birth certificates became state mandatory, and also the year of arch-rival Bette Davis's birth) in San Antonio, Texas...
^"INVALID SCALDED TO DEATH IN BATHTUB". The Washington Times. 8 January 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 13 December 2022 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
public domain.
^"FORMER NAVAL GOVERNOR OF GUAM IS DEAD". San Francisco Call. Vol. 95, no. 109. 18 March 1904. Page 2, column 4. Retrieved 3 February 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"REAR ADMIRAL TAYLOR GOES TO FINAL REST". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCVI, no. 57. 27 July 1904. Page 5, column 4. Retrieved 24 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"Domestic Chronology", Statistician and Economist, San Francisco: Louis P. McCarty, 1905, pp. 227–347,
hdl:
2027/uc1.b3142275 – via HathiTrust. (Covers events May 1898-June 1905.)