Editing 1904 (section)

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1904}}
[[File:1904summerolympicsposter.jpg|thumb|100px|[[1904 Summer Olympics]]]]
[[File:Pavlos Melas Photograph.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Pavlos Melas]]]]
* [[July]] – [[Pavlos Melas]] enters [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] with a small unit of men during the [[Macedonian Struggle]].
* [[July 1]] – The [[1904 Summer Olympics|third Modern Olympic Games]] open in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], United States, as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|World's Fair]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/editions/3 |title=1904 Summer Olympics |website=[[Olympedia]] |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 November 2022 |archive-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115052801/https://www.olympedia.org/editions/3 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[July 22]] – The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted [[Chinese South Africans|Chinese]] [[coolie]]s arrive at [[Durban]] in South Africa from [[Qinhuangdao]] to relieve the shortage of unskilled labourers in the [[Transvaal Colony]] gold mines, recruited and shipped by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation (CEMC), of which [[Herbert Hoover]] is a director.<ref>{{cite book|first=Walter|last=Liggett|authorlink=Walter Liggett|title=The Rise of Herbert Hoover|location=New York|year=1932}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] – A [[continuous track]] [[tractor]] is [[patent]]ed by [[David Roberts (engineer)|David Roberts]] of [[Richard Hornsby & Sons]] of [[Grantham]] in England.<ref>British Patent No. 16,345. {{cite book|first=Peter|last=Robinson|title=Lincoln's Excavators: The Ruston years 1875–1930|year=2003|location=Nynehead|publisher=Roundoak|isbn=1-871565-42-1}}</ref>