Editing 1904 (section)

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1904}}
* [[January 7]] – The [[distress signal]] ''[[CQD]]'' is established,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015064554713&view=1up&seq=368 |chapter=Distress Signalling |first=G. E. |last=Turnbull |title=The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony |year=1913 |pages=318–322 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=[[HathiTrust]] |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105080658/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015064554713&view=1up&seq=368 |url-status=live}}</ref> only to be replaced 2 years later by ''[[SOS]]''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t80k29264&view=1up&seq=42 |article=Service Regulation XVI |title=International Wireless Telegraph Convention |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]] |year=1907 |pages=38, 50 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=HathiTrust |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105080721/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft80k29264&view=1up&seq=42 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] – The [[Blackstone Library]] is dedicated, marking the beginning of the [[Chicago Public Library]] system.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/Blackstone_Library.pdf |last1=Crawford |first1=Matt |last2=Tatum |first2=Terry |title=Landmark Designation Report: Blackston Library |publisher=[[Commission on Chicago Landmarks]], Historic Preservation Division, Chicago Department of Zoning and Land Use Planning, [[City of Chicago]] |date=August 2010 |page=4 |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130174754/https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/Blackstone_Library.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 12]] – The [[Herero Wars]] in [[German South West Africa]] begin.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1bRcJ885fAC |last=Bridgman |first=Jon M. |author-link=Jon Bridgman |title=The Revolt of the Hereros |location=[[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[Los Angeles]], London |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1981 |page=73 |isbn=0-520-04113-5 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] – [[Anton Chekhov]]'s last play, ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' («Вишнëвый сад», ''Vishnevyi sad''), opens at the [[Moscow Art Theatre]] directed by [[Constantin Stanislavski]], 6 month's before the author's death.
* [[January 23]] – The [[Ålesund fire]] destroys most buildings in the town of [[Ålesund]], Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bybrann.no/?page_id=92 |title=Brannsjefens rapport |trans-title=Fire chief's report |publisher=bybrann.no |year=2010 |language=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826071841/http://bybrann.no/?page_id=92 |archive-date=26 August 2012 |access-date=15 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://bybrann.no/?page_id=113 |title=Bybrannfakta |trans-title=City fire facts |publisher=bybrann.no |year=2010 |language=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826175552/http://bybrann.no/?page_id=113 |archive-date=26 August 2012 |access-date=15 December 2021}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] – [[Halford Mackinder]] presents a paper on "[[The Geographical Pivot of History]]" to the [[Royal Geographical Society]] of London in which he formulates the [[Heartland Theory]], originating the study of [[geopolitics]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Mackinder |first=H. J. |author-link=Halford Mackinder |title=The Geographical Pivot of History |title-link=The Geographical Pivot of History |journal=[[The Geographical Journal]] |volume=XXIII |issue=4 |date=April 1904 |pages=421–444|doi=10.2307/1775498 |jstor=1775498 |bibcode=1904GeogJ..23..421M |hdl=2027/uc1.b000726582 }}, cited in {{cite journal |last=Mackinder |first=H J |title=The geographical pivot of history (1904) |journal=The Geographical Journal |url=https://www.iwp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20131016_MackinderTheGeographicalJournal.pdf |volume=170 |issue=4 |date=December 2004 |pages=298–321 |doi=10.1111/j.0016-7398.2004.00132.x |bibcode=2004GeogJ.170..298M |hdl=2027/uc1.b000726582 |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031836/http://www.iwp.edu/docLib/20131016_MackinderTheGeographicalJournal.pdf |archive-date=7 November 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>