1904

• Russo-Japanese War

  Work begins on the Panama cannal

• Work begins on Panama Canal
• Rolls-Royce Co. established
• New York policeman arrests woman on the street for smoking in public
• 1st World Series
• James Barrie's Peter Pan
• Crash helmet invented
• Novocain introduced
• Offset printing invented
• Ice cream cone introduced at the St. Louis World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition)
• The banana split is invented
• Campbell's Pork and Beans introduced
• Dr. Pepper introduced
• Puccini's Madame Butterfly
• The Kickapoo is the dance craze
• Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby, Johnny Weissmuller, Peter Lorre, Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dali and George Balanchine born
• Anton Chekhov and A. Dvorák die

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