January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
Day of death September 28, 1904
The temperature on September 28, 1904 was between 4.7 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
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