February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of death February 26, 1904
The temperature on February 26, 1904 was between -2.6 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
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