1904
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Events
- Real World: January 7. CQD is established as a universal Morse code distress signal.
- Real World: February 7. Over 1500 buildings in Baltimore, Maryland are destroyed during the Great Baltimore Fire.
- Real World: February 8. A Japanese surprise attack at Port Arthur starts the Russo-Japanese War.
- Real World: February 23. The U.S. buys control of the Panama Canal Zone.
- Real World: April 8 - April 10. In Cairo, Egypt, Aleister Crowley writes the Book of the Law, which was supposedly dictated to him by an entity calling itself Aiwaz.
- Real World: July 23. The ice cream cone is invented by Charles E. Menches at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Real World: August 3. Lhasa, Tibet, is captured by British Colonel Francis Younghusband.
- Real World: September 7. The Anglo-Tibetan Treaty is signed by the Dalai Lama and Francis Younghusband.
- Real World: October 27. The New York City subway system begins operation.
- Real World: November 8. Theodore Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
Births
Deaths
- Hex, Jonah (DC (Pre-Crisis Earth-1), DC (Post-Crisis), DC (Post-Zero Hour))
(DC Special #16)
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James, The Sea-Wolf by Jack London, Ghost Stories by James Montague, The Master of the World by Jules Verne, The Food of the Gods by H.G. Wells.
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