7th » A Great Baltimore Fire called fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
8th » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Lushun known as Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
9th » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
17th » 'Madama Butterfly' receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
22nd » 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.
Famous Birthdays on February in 1904
1st » S. J. Perelman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1979)
2nd » Bozorg Alavi, Iranian author and activist (d. 1997)
3rd » Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
3rd » Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
4th » MacKinlay Kantor, American author and screenwriter (d. 1977)
10th » John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1963)
11th » Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983)
12th » Ted Mack (radio-TV host) called Ted Mack, American radio and television host (d. 1976)
14th » Hertta Kuusinen, Finnish politician (d. 1974)
14th » Charles Oatley, English physicist and engineer (d. 1996)
16th » Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS officer (d. 1988)
16th » George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (d. 2005)
17th » Hans Morgenthau, German philosopher (d. 1980)
19th » Havank, Dutch journalist and author (d. 1964)
19th » Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish author (d. 1950)
20th » Alexei Kosygin, Russian politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
23rd » Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (d. 1980)
23rd » William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (d. 1993)
23rd » Leopold Trepper, Polish-Austrian spy (d. 1982)
27th » James T. Farrell, American author (d. 1979)
27th » Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
27th » Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
27th » André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
29th » Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 1986)
29th » Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The California Ramblers, The Dorsey Brothers, and The Charleston Chasers) (d. 1957)
29th » Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)
Famous Deaths for February 1904
2nd » William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1841)
10th » John A. Roche, American politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
22nd » Leslie Stephen, English author and critic (b. 1832)