February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
Day of death October 2, 1904
The temperature on October 2, 1904 was between 6.9 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
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