What Happened In November 1904 In History

Historical Events for November, 1904

• 16th » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the vacuum tube e.g thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
• 18th » General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.

Famous Birthdays on November in 1904

• 2nd » Hugh Lygon, German-English son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (d. 1936)
• 4th » Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer, technician, and academic (d. 1967)
• 5th » Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
• 8th » Cedric Belfrage, English-American journalist and author, co-founded 'Guardian (United States) e.g The National Guardian' (d. 1990)
• 9th » Viktor Brack, German SS officer (d. 1948)
• 9th » Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (d. 1947)
• 11th » Alger Hiss, American lawyer and spy (d. 1996)
• 11th » J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1960)
• 13th » H. C. Potter, American director and producer (d. 1977)
• 14th » Harold Haley, American judge (d. 1970)
• 14th » Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1995)
• 14th » Dick Powell, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1963)
• 16th » Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian journalist and politician, 1st List of heads of state of Nigeria called President of Nigeria (d. 1996)
• 17th » Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and architect (d. 1988)
• 18th » Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1983)
• 18th » Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter (d. 1990)
• 19th » Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
• 21st » Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist (d. 1969)
• 22nd » Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 22nd » Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (d. 2005)
• 24th » Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian surgeon and captain (d. 1988)
• 25th » Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1964)
• 25th » Ba Jin, Chinese author (d. 2005)
• 25th » Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2000)
• 26th » Armand Frappier, Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
• 28th » James Eastland, American planter and politician (d. 1986)
• 28th » Nancy Mitford, English journalist and author (d. 1973)
• 29th » Egon Eiermann, German architect, designed the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (d. 1970)
• 30th » Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)

Famous Deaths for November 1904

• 28th » Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1847)

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