Editing 1904 (section)

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1904}}
* [[April 4]] – [[1904 Kresna earthquakes]]: two earthquakes strike near Kresna, Bulgaria, killing at least 200 people.<ref name="NGDC">{{cite journal |title=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/search |website=Global Significant Earthquake Database |year=1972 |publisher=NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information |access-date=31 October 2021 |doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K |author1=National Geophysical Data Center |archive-date=February 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220100414/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/search |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[Joseph F. Smith]] announces the [[Second Manifesto]] in [[General Conference (LDS Church)|General Conference]] of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] in [[Utah Territory]], prohibiting the practice of [[Mormonism and polygamy|polygamy]], which has continued to be sanctioned by some of its leaders in violation of the [[1890 Manifesto]] officially banning the practice.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/improvementera0707unse/page/544/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Seventy-Fourth Annual Conference|magazine=[[Improvement Era]] |department=Editor's Table|volume=VII |issue=7 |date=May 1904 |pages=545–546 |access-date=14 February 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
* [[April 8]]
** The [[Entente Cordiale]] is signed between the UK and France.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/entente_toc.html |title=Entente Cordiale Table of Contents |year=2000 |publisher=[[Memorial University of Newfoundland]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040812065412/http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/entente_toc.html |archive-date=12 August 2004 |access-date=14 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=British History Timeline |publisher=[[BBC]] |location=UK |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/worldwars_timeline_noflash.shtml |website=bbc.co.uk |access-date=8 October 2020 |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127015243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/worldwars_timeline_noflash.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Longacre Square]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]] is renamed [[Times Square]], after ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/100-years-ago-an-intersection-s-new-name-times-square.html?_r=0 |last=Barron |first=James |author-link=James Barron (journalist) |title=100 Years Ago, an Intersection's New Name: Times Square |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=8 April 2004 |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=September 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909125612/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/100-years-ago-an-intersection-s-new-name-times-square.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 8]]–[[April 10|10]] – [[Aleister Crowley]] writes ''Liber Al vel Legis'', better known as ''[[The Book of the Law]]'', a text central to [[Thelema]], in Cairo.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Van Kleeck |first=Justin Scott |url=http://esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/ArtofLaw.htm |title=The Art of the Law: Aleister Crowley's Use of Ritual and Drama |journal=Esoterica |volume=V |page=195 |issn=1523-1224 |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=[[Michigan State University]] |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314065735/http://esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/ArtofLaw.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 19]] – The [[Great Fire of Toronto (1904)|Great Fire of Toronto]] destroys much of the city's downtown, but there are no fatalities.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=$10,000,000 Fire at Toronto: Blocks of Buildings Wiped Out. Wind Causes Flames to Spread Very Rapidly. Firemen Make Heroic Fight. Assistance Came From Cities Around Toronto |volume=XXXI |issue=204 |date=20 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 1-3; page 2, column 3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=22 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318121937/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Fire Brigade is Almost Helpless: Great Portion of Business and Manufacturing Section Destroyed |volume=XXXI |issue=204 |date=20 April 1904 |at=Page 2, column 3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=22 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Great Toronto Fire, April 19, 1904 |website=[[Archives of Ontario]] |url=http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fire/index.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825133436/http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fire/index.aspx |archive-date=25 August 2017 |publisher=[[Queen's Printer for Ontario]] |access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Bradburn |first=Jamie |title=Great Fire of Toronto (1904) |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=22 April 2020 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-fire-of-toronto-1904 |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-fire-of-toronto-1904 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 27]] – The [[Australian Labor Party]] becomes the first such party to gain national government, under [[Chris Watson]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Bede |last=Nairn |title=Watson, John Christian (Chris) (1867–1941) |dictionary=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]] |publisher=[[National Centre of Biography]], [[Australian National University]] |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-john-christian-chris-9003/text15849 |year=1990 |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115138/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-john-christian-chris-9003/text15849 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.moadoph.gov.au/blog/a-perfect-picture-of-the-statesman-john-christian-watson/ |last=Rhodes |first=Campbell |title=A perfect picture of the statesman: John Christian Watson |date=30 April 2013 |website=[[Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House]] |department=Blog |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=April 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402162747/https://moadoph.gov.au/blog/a-perfect-picture-of-the-statesman-john-christian-watson/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 30]] – The [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition]] [[World's Fair]] opens in [[St. Louis, Missouri]] (closes [[December 1]]).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040430.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LOUISIANA PURCHASE FAIR TO THROW WIDE ITS GATES TODAY Men Worked Late to Complete the Grounds Ceremony to Be More Practical Than Gaudy Enormous Crowd Pours in to Witness Opening |volume=XXXI |issue=214 |date=30 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040430.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=WORLD'S FAIR GATES OPENED; ROOSEVELT BOOMS ATHLETICS Perfect Day Shines on the Great Event at St. Louis |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 4-6; page 5, column 1 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.50&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PRESIDENT PUTS POWER IN MOTION AT FAIR |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 1 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318121946/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.50&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.51&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=CEREMONIOUS OPENING OF GREAT EXPOSITION |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 5, columns 1-3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115131/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.51&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.123&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION IS GREATEST UNIVERSAL FAIR IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD Opening Day Finds Vast Exhibition in Full and Satisfying Readiness for Visitors. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 17, columns 1-7; page 19, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115131/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.123&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.124&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Display Spreads Over Area of 1240 Acres, Representing an Expenditure of $50,000,000. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 17, columns 6-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.124&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION IS FORMALLY THROWN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 25, columns 5-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Exercises of a Simple Nature Mark the Inaugural. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 25, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115148/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Roosevelt Presses Key and the Machinery Is Started. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 25, column 7; page 28, columns 5-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115150/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=VAST ASSEMBLAGE TAKES PART IN INAUGURAL CEREMONY St. Louis Puts Forth Her Best and Bravest Efforts in Honor of Her Great and Magnificent Exposition. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 27, columns 1-7; page 28, columns 1-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=O'Neil |first=Tim |title=April 30, 1904: The most anticipated day in St. Louis history |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |department=History |date=30 April 2021 |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/history/april-30-1904-the-most-anticipated-day-in-st-louis-history/article_42cfb7bc-121d-5aa3-86a2-6df0b4f70da5.html |access-date=18 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/history/april-30-1904-the-most-anticipated-day-in-st-louis-history/article_42cfb7bc-121d-5aa3-86a2-6df0b4f70da5.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1904-saint-louis |title=1904 Saint Louis |website=[[Bureau International des Expositions]] |department=Expo Timeline |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318232255/https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1904-saint-louis |url-status=live }}</ref>