May 1904

• The Battle of the Yalu River, the first major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, ended in a Japanese victory.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=JAPANESE CAPTURE RUSSIAN INTRENCHMENTS AFTER DESPERATE FIGHTING ON YALU'S BANKS |volume=XCV |issue=154 |date=2 May 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 1-7; page 2, columns 3-4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RUSSIANS ATTRIBUTE DEFEAT TO FOE'S SUPERIOR NUMBERS |volume=XCV |issue=154 |date=2 May 1904 |at=Page 2, columns 1-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.14.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=St. Petersburg Staff Asserts Yalu Engagement Was Not Decisive. |volume=XCV |issue=154 |date=2 May 1904 |at=Page 2, columns 1-2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite journal |last=Garner |first=J. W. |title=Record of Political Events. |journal=Political Science Quarterly |volume=19 |issue=4 |publisher=Academy of Political Science, Wiley |date=December 1904 |pages=717–48 |doi=10.2307/2140340 |jstor=2140340 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2140340 |access-date=24 March 2022 }}{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/184/mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/184/mode/2up 184-196] |location=Philadelphia |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co. |year=1905 |access-date=8 March 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}
• On International Workers' Day, Russian railway workers held a protest in Tashkent, Russian Empire.{{Cite book |last=White |first=John Albert |title=Transition to Global Rivalry: Alliance Diplomacy and the Quadruple Entente, 1895-1907 |date=27 June 2002 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |publisher=Cambridge University Press |orig-date=1995 |isbn=978-0-521-52665-4 |page=131 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iq-t5EznAKcC&q=the+Russian+railway+workers+of+Tashkent+demonstrated+on |quote=...the Russian railway workers of Tashkent demonstrated on May 1, 1904. |access-date=24 March 2022 |via=Google Books}} The Armenian Social-Democratic Labour Organization organized a strike of between 4,000 and 5,000 Armenian workers in Balakhani, Russian Empire.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} In memory of the Haymarket defendants, 70,000 anarchist workers marched in the streets of La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 18-year-old sailor Juan Ocampo was killed in a crackdown by authorities.{{cite news |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/subnotas/86018-27567-2007-06-04.html |last=Bayer |first=Osvaldo |author-link=Osvaldo Bayer |title=Después de anoche, sólo me queda Marlene |trans-title=After last night, I only have Marlene left |newspaper=Página 12 |department=Opinion |date=4 June 2007 |language=es |access-date=17 March 2022}}

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• The Belgian and French national association football teams made their debuts in the Évence Coppée Trophy, a match at the Stade du Vivier d'Oie in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium. The game ended in a 3–3 draw; therefore, the trophy itself was not awarded.{{cite news |url=http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1980808.html |title=Belgium v France − a 109-year-old rivalry |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612211818/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1980808.html |archive-date=12 June 2018 |department=News |date=13 August 2013 |publisher=UEFA |access-date=22 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/belg-intres.html |last=Stokkermans |first=Karel |title=Belgium - List of International Matches |date=26 January 2022 |publisher=Karel Stokkermans and RSSSF |access-date=22 March 2022}}
• Colonel Ismael Montes was elected President of Bolivia.
• The construction of Orchestra Hall began in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web |url=https://csosoundsandstories.org/125-moments-037-orchestra-hall/ |title=125 Moments: 037 Orchestra Hall |website=CSO Sounds & Stories |date=19 January 2016 |publisher=Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• At a drinking party in Duncan, Iowa, James Banda died after drinking carbolic acid. A coroner's jury concluded that someone handed Banda the acid. It remains unclear whether or not Banda was murdered.{{cite web |url=http://iowaunsolvedmurders.com/the-murders/horse-medicine-murder-james-banda-1904/ |last=Bowers |first=Nancy |title=Horse Medicine: Murder of James Banda 1904 |website=Iowa Unsolved Murders: Historic Cases |date=April 2014 |access-date=21 March 2022}}
• Born:
• John Abt, American lawyer and politician; in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1991){{cite book |last1=Abt |first1=John |author1-link=John Abt |last2=Myerson |first2=Michael |author2-link=Michael Myerson |title=Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9REaIPPh4k4C&q=May+1 |location=Urbana and Chicago |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1995 |page=1 |isbn=0-252-02030-8 |access-date=8 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
• Carlos J. Anderson (a.k.a. Carlos Andreson), American painter and illustrator; in Midvale, Utah (d. 1978){{cite web |url=http://wpamurals.org/wpabios.html |title=New Deal/W.P.A. Artist Biographies |year=2007 |publisher=Nancy Lorance |access-date=8 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.lib.utah.edu/collections/utah-artists/UAP-Carlos-Anderson.php |title=Carlos John Anderson |publisher=J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• José Bonifácio Lafayette de Andrada, Brazilian lawyer and politician; in Barbacena, Brazil (d. 1986){{cite web |url=https://www2.camara.leg.br/a-camara/conheca/historia/Ex_presidentesCD_Republica/bonifacio.html |title=José Bonifácio |website=Portal da Câmara dos Deputados |department=Presidentes da Câmara dos Deputados - República |language=pt |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Emil Augsburg, German SS functionary and war criminal; in Łódź, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1981){{cite web |url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/69282/Augsburg-Emil-Althaus.htm |title=Augsburg, Emil "Althaus" |website=TracesOfWar |publisher=STIWOT |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Wally Downer (born Alfred Wallace Downer), Canadian politician and Anglican priest, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario; in Lefaive's Corners (near Penetanguishene in Simcoe County), Ontario, Canada (d. 1994){{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/whoseservantiams00ontauoft/page/n311/mode/2up |last=Dale |first=Clare A. |title="Whose Servant I Am": Speakers of the Assemblies of the Provinces of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario, 1792-1992 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoseservantiams00ontauoft/page/n311/mode/2up 256-260] |location=Toronto |publisher=Ontario Legislative Library |year=1992 |isbn=0-7729-9343-2 |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}
• Katherine Grant, American actress; in Los Angeles, California (d. 1937, pulmonary tuberculosis with dementia praecox psychosis){{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• M. Donald Grant, Canadian American businessman, chairman and minority owner of the New York Mets; in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (d. 1998){{cite web |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/m-donald-grant/ |last=Edelman |first=Rob |title=M. Donald Grant |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Donn Greenshields, National Football League tackle; in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1961, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning){{cite news |title=RITES FOR GREENSHIELDS |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90618242/rites-for-greenshields/ |newspaper=Daily American |location=Somerset, Pennsylvania |agency=AP |date=30 March 1961 |page=2 |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite web |title=Donn Greenshields Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GreeDo23.htm |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• Anton Janda, Austrian footballer and coach; in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1985){{NFT player|22024|Anton Janda|access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Joel (born Joel de Oliveira Monteiro), Brazilian footballer; in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1990){{cite web |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/joel_3/ |title=Joël |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Sigmund Neumann, German American political scientist and sociologist; in Leipzig, German Empire (d. 1962){{cite dictionary |last=Lösche |first=Peter |title=Neumann, Sigmund, Politikwissenschaftler |trans-title=Neumann, Sigmund, political scientist |dictionary=Neue Deutsche Biographie |volume=19, Nauwach - Pagel |editor-last=Stolberg-Wernigerode |editor-first=Otto zu |location=Berlin |year=1999 |url=https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016337/images/index.html?seite=175 |page=161 |language=de |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Tom Oswald, Scottish Member of Parliament; in Leith, Scotland (d. 1990){{cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-thomas-oswald/index.html |title=Mr Thomas Oswald (Hansard) |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Lucia Pamela, American musician and bandleader; in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2002, cardiac arrest){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pamela_lucia.htm |last=Knudde |first=Kjell |title=Lucia Pamela |encyclopedia=Lambiek Comiclopedia |publisher=Lambiek |date=27 February 2022 |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• M. P. Paul, academic and literary critic of Malayalam; in Puthenpally Varapuzha, Ernakulam district, Kerala, India (d. 1952){{cite news |author=((Our Staff Reporter)) |title=M.P. Paul remembered |newspaper=The Hindu |url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/05/02/stories/2004050211250300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040920075838/http://www.hindu.com/2004/05/02/stories/2004050211250300.htm |archive-date=20 September 2004 |date=2 May 2004 |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• Fred Spencer, American animator (Walt Disney Productions); in Missouri (d. 1938, automobile accident){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/spencer_fred.htm |title=Fred Spencer |encyclopedia=Lambiek Comiclopedia |publisher=Lambiek |date=15 February 2018 |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Paul Sterian, Romanian poet and civil servant; in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1984){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10291848t |title=Notice de personne "Sterian, Paul (1904-1984)" |trans-title=Person notice "Sterian, Paul (1904-1984)" |date=16 August 2013 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Antonín Dvořák, 62, Czech composer, died of a stroke (possibly a pulmonary embolism).{{cite web |url=http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/life |title=Biography |publisher=www.antonin-dvorak.cz |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• William Collett, 64, English cricketer{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/william-collett-11232 |title=William Collett profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Charles N. Fox, 75, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, died of paralysis of the brain.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.31.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PASSES AWAY AFTER ILLNESS OF FEW DAYS Stroke of Paralysis Ends Life of Prominent Jurist. |volume=XCV |issue=154 |date=2 May 1904 |at=Page 4, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MG19040507.2.75&srpos=12&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22charles+n.+fox%22-------1 |title=Death of Judge Fox. |newspaper=Mariposa Gazette |volume=5 |issue=9 |date=7 May 1904 |at=Page 4, column 1 |access-date=8 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Wilhelm His Sr., 72, Swiss anatomist{{cite dictionary |title=Wilhelm His |dictionary=Whonamedit? |url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2606.html |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Andrew Kiefer, 71, German American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.68&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Ex-Congressman Dead. |volume=XCV |issue=154 |date=2 May 1904 |at=Page 11, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/K000166 |title=KIEFER, Andrew Robert 1832 – 1904 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• James Massie, 70, Canadian businessman and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario{{cite news |url=https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2018/02/23/flash-from-the-past-james-massie-and-the-central-prison.html |title=Flash from the Past: James Massie and the Central Prison |newspaper=The Record |department=Waterloo Region |date=23 February 2018 |publisher=Metroland Media Group Ltd. |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Mary McDonald, 32, first victim of the Cumminsville murders{{cite news |title=LURED TO HER DEATH. Mary McDonald Brutally Murdered in a Lonely Railroad Yard. |newspaper=The News-Herald |location=Ohio |date=5 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 6 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038161/1904-05-05/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1904&sort=date&rows=20&words=Mary+McDonald&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=11&state=&date2=1904&proxtext=Mary+McDonald&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=6 |access-date=8 March 2022 |via=Chronicling America}}{{cite news |title=Strange Murder is Terrorizing Cincinnati. Beast in Human Guise Who Probably Lurks in Cemetery. Young Girls Are Slain Without Any Apparent Motive. |newspaper=The Washington Times |date=13 November 1904 |at=Page 4, columns 2-6 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1904-11-13/ed-1/seq-28/#date1=1904&sort=date&rows=20&words=Alma+Steinway+Steinways&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=2&state=&date2=1904&proxtext=Alma+Steinway&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2 |access-date=8 March 2022 |via=Chronicling America}}

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• The horse Elwood, ridden by jockey Frank Prior, won the 1904 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040503.2.80&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ELWOOD TAKES THE KENTUCKY DERBY AFTER A FURIOUS DRIVE THROUGH THE STRETCH |volume=XCV |issue=155 |date=3 May 1904 |at=Page 10, columns 1-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040503.2.80.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=OUTSIDER FIRST IN THE CLASSIC Great Event of Blue Grass Turf Results in Inspiring Duel of Thoroughbreds FAVORITE BEATEN OFF Public Backs Proceeds at Even Money and He Is a Bad Last at the Wire |volume=XCV |issue=155 |date=3 May 1904 |at=Page 10, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |title=Elwood 30th May 2, 1904 |url=http://d3b4lt1s53xf6k.cloudfront.net/sites/kentuckyderby.com/files/charts/1904.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814055304/http://d3b4lt1s53xf6k.cloudfront.net/sites/kentuckyderby.com/files/charts/1904.pdf |archive-date=14 August 2011 |access-date=8 March 2022 |via=CloudFront.net and Internet Archive}}{{cite web |title=1904 |website=Kentucky Derby |url=https://www.kentuckyderby.com/history/year/1904 |publisher=Churchill Downs Incorporated |access-date=8 March 2022}} Elwood was the first Kentucky Derby winner to be owned by a woman, Lasca Durnell.{{cite news |title=4 WOMEN HAVE WON DERBY Mrs. Dodge Sloane Seeks to Duplicate Feat of Mrs. Hertz, Whitney, Durnell and Hoots. |newspaper=Daily Racing Form |date=5 May 1934 |url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1930s/drf1934050501/drf1934050501_2_7 |access-date=8 March 2022 |via=Daily Racing Form Archive}}
• Born:
• Bruno Bianchi, Italian Olympic champion sailor; in Genoa, Province of Genoa, Italy (d. 1988){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/61346 |title=Bruno Bianchi |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt), German-born British photographer; in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1983){{cite book |last=Delany |first=Paul |title=Bill Brandt: A Life |location=Stanford, California |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=2004 |page=14 |isbn=9780804750035 |access-date=24 March 2022 |via=Google Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OuSIJfphQMC}}
• Maurice Estève, French painter; in Culan, Cher, France (d. 2001){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb123116393 |title=Notice de personne "Estève, Maurice (1904-2001)" |trans-title=Person notice "Estève, Maurice (1904-2001)" |date=28 June 2016 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Émile Duclaux, 63, French microbiologist{{cite web |title=Biographical sketch Emile Duclaux (1840-1904) |url=https://webext.pasteur.fr/archives/e_duc0.html |publisher=Service des Archives de l'Institut Pasteur |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Edgar Fawcett, 56, American poet and novelist{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17156850j |title=Notice de personne "Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)" |date=12 October 2017 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Alexander Wade, 72, American educator, died of an obstruction of the stomach.{{cite news |url=https://archive.wvculture.org/history/education/wadealexander01.html |title=Alexander Wade |newspaper=Morgantown Evening Post |date=2 May 1904 |access-date=9 April 2024 |via=West Virginia Archives and History}}

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• The Fairy's Dilemma, the final full-length play by W. S. Gilbert, received its world premiere at the Garrick Theatre in the City of Westminster, London, England.{{cite web |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/05/15/101342243.pdf |title=GILBERT'S NEW PLAY. "The Fairy's Dilemma" Is Brilliantly Nonsensical―Opera at Covent Garden. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 May 1904 |access-date=25 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/other_gilbert/html/other_gilbert.html |title=Gilbert's Plays |publisher=The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive |department=W. S. Gilbert |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509083446/http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/other_gilbert/html/other_gilbert.html |archive-date=9 May 2008 |date=29 April 2008 |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• In Hobart, Oklahoma Territory, lightning struck a farmhouse, killing four sleeping children.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040504.2.85&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Lightning Kills Four Children. |volume=XCV |issue=156 |date=4 May 1904 |at=Page 9, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Roberto Agramonte, Cuban philosopher and politician; in Villa Clara Province, Cuba (d. 1995){{cite web |url=http://www.filosofia.cu/contemp/nere001.htm |last=Nodarse Valdés |first=Nereyda |title=Roberto Agramonte y su labor de rescate en la historia del pensamiento cubano. |trans-title=Roberto Agramonte and his rescue work in the history of Cuban thought. |date=June 1998 |via=Colección Pensadores Cubanos de hoy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404064125/http://www.filosofia.cu/contemp/nere001.htm |archive-date=4 April 2007 |language=es |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• William L. Hendricks, United States Marine Corps Reserve colonel and film producer, founder of Toys for Tots (d. 1992){{cite web |url=https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=104683 |title=Hendricks, William Loomis, Col |publisher=TogetherWeServed |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Died: James Reid, 64, Canadian businessman and politician{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040505.2.16.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Death of a Cariboo Pioneer. |volume=XCV |issue=157 |date=5 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |department=Profile |title=Reid, James |url=https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=1462 |website=Parliament of Canada |publisher=Library of Parliament |access-date=17 March 2022}}

• The German association football club FC Schalke 04 was established as Westfalia Schalke.{{cite web |url=https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/schalke-10-things-you-need-to-know-on-germany-s-coal-mining-heroes-512693.jsp |title=Schalke: 10 things you need to know about Germany's coal-mining heroes |website=bundesliga.com |publisher=DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH |year=2019 |access-date=9 March 2022}}
• Charles Rolls and Henry Royce, the founders of Rolls-Royce Limited, met for the first time in Manchester, England.{{cite web |url=https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/en_US/inspiring-greatness/values/how-rolls-met-royce.html |title=How Rolls Met Royce |publisher=Rolls-Royce Motor Cars |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• While dynamiter John Croft was attempting to demolish the remains of a building destroyed in the Great Fire of Toronto on April 19, a charge that had failed to detonate exploded in his face while he was inspecting it. Croft would die at 9:50 a.m. on May 5, the only fatality caused by the previous month's fire.{{cite web |url=https://torontoist.com/2008/05/historicist_the_4/ |last=Bradburn |first=Jamie |title=Historicist: The Story of Mr. Croft |website=Torontoist |department=News |date=31 May 2008 |publisher=Buzz Connected Media Inc. |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=11 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511144319/https://torontoist.com/2008/05/historicist_the_4/ |url-status=dead }}{{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}}{{cite book |last=Filey |first=Mike |author-link=Mike Filey |chapter=John Croft |title=Mount Pleasant Cemetery: An Illustrated Guide |edition=Second}}, cited in {{cite web |url=https://www.mountpleasantgroup.com/en-CA/General-Information/Our-Monthly-Story/story-archives/mount-pleasant-cemetery/John-Croft.aspx |title=John Croft |publisher=Mount Pleasant Group |department=Mount Pleasant Cemetery |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• The United States Army Corps of Engineers began work on the Panama Canal.{{cite web |title=American canal construction |url=https://pancanal.com/en/american-canal-construction/ |publisher=Panama Canal Authority |access-date=9 March 2022}}
• Born:
• Adele Bei, Italian trade unionist and politician; in Cantiano, Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Italy (d. 1976){{cite web |url=https://storia.camera.it/deputato/adele-bei-19040504 |title=Adele Bei |website=Camera dei deputati - Portale Storico |department=Deputati |language=it |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Antonino Buenaventura, Filipino composer, conductor and teacher; in Baliuag, Bulacan, Philippine Islands (d. 1996){{cite web |url=https://ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/culture-profile/national-artists-of-the-philippines/antonino-r-buenaventura/ |title=Order of National Artists: Antonino R. Buenaventura |publisher=Republic of the Philippines |access-date=24 March 2022 |archive-date=28 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128080703/https://ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/culture-profile/national-artists-of-the-philippines/antonino-r-buenaventura/ |url-status=dead }}
• Joaquín García Morato, Spanish fighter ace; in Melilla, Spain (d. 1939, plane crash){{cite web |url=http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/morato/morato.htm |last=Zhirohov |first=Mihail |title=Joaquin Garcia-Morato - Best Ace of Spanish Civil War. |date=7 September 2003 |publisher=WW II Ace Stories |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126124138/http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/morato/morato.htm |archive-date=26 January 2010 |access-date=9 March 2022}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVa1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |last=Logoluso |first=Alfredo |title=Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War |others=Series edited by Tony Holmes |series=Osprey Aircraft of the Aces |volume=94 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |year=2013 |page=13 |isbn=9781846039843 |access-date=9 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
• Josef Pieper, German Catholic philosopher; in Elte, North Rhine-Westphalia, German Empire (d. 1997){{cite web |url=http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/authors/josefpieper.asp |title=Philosopher of Virtue {{!}} Josef Pieper (1904-1997) |website=IgnatiusInsight.com |location=San Francisco |publisher=Ignatius Press |year=2018 |access-date=17 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814083503/http://ignatiusinsight.com/authors/josefpieper.asp |archive-date=14 August 2022}}
• Umm Kulthum (born Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi), Egyptian singer, songwriter and film actress; in El Senbellawein, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt (date of birth uncertain) (d. 1975, kidney failure){{cite encyclopedia |last=Danielson |first=Virginia L. |title=Umm Kulthūm |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=30 January 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Umm-Kulthum-Egyptian-musician |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Bruno Wolke, German professional road bicycle racer; in Neukölln, Berlin, Germany (d. 1973){{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=9582 |title=Bruno Wolke |website=Cycling Archives |publisher=de Wielersite |access-date=24 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013133127/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=9582 |archive-date=13 October 2023}}
• Died: Ashbel P. Fitch, 55, American lawyer and financier, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, died of apoplexy.{{cite news |title=ASHBEL P. FITCH DIES SUDDENLY OF APOPLEXY; Had Been in Poor Health, However, for Some Time. FOUR TERMS IN CONGRESS Was Elected Controller of New York on Tammany Ticket and Defeated on Republican Nomination -- Business Affiliations. |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/05/05/archives/ashbel-p-fitch-dies-suddenly-of-apoplexy-had-been-in-poor-health.html |date=5 May 1904 |page=9 |access-date=21 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=FITCH, Ashbel Parmelee 1848 – 1904 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/F000157 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=21 March 2022}}

• Hundreds of Tibetans attacked the camp of the British expedition to Tibet at Changlo in Gyantse, holding the advantage for a while before being defeated by superior weapons and losing at least 200 men.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040508.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ATTACK BY TIBETANS ENDS IN SLAUGHTER Two Hundred and Fifty Killed or Wounded by Younghusband's British Column. |volume=XCV |issue=160 |date=8 May 1904 |at=Page 21, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040509.2.17&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=HUNDREDS OF TIBETANS ARE SLAIN Younghusband's British Fight Two Battles With Native Forces and Inflict Heavy Losses Upon the Foe SMALL GARRISON REPELS ATTACK Orientals Take Advantage of a Division of the Invading Column and Charge Upon the Camp at Gyangtse |volume=XCV |issue=161 |date=9 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite book |last=Grant |first=Neil |title=Chronicle of 20th Century Conflict |year=1993 |publisher=Reed International Books Ltd & Smithmark Publishers Inc |location=New York City |isbn=0-8317-1371-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18 18–19] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18}}

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• Thousands of people attended the funeral of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák in Prague.{{cite web |url=http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/funeral |title=ANTONIN DVORAK'S DEATH AND FUNERAL |publisher=www.antonin-dvorak.cz |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Belgian driver Pierre de Caters set a new world land speed record of {{Convert|97.539|mph}}, driving a Mercedes racing car in Ostend, Belgium.{{cite web |url=http://www.racingcampbells.com/content/world.land.speed.record.asp |title=World Land Speed Records |publisher=RacingCampbells.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070831073900/http://www.racingcampbells.com/content/world.land.speed.record.asp |archive-date=31 August 2007 |access-date=23 January 2023}}
• Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05051904.shtml |title=Cy Young Perfect Game Box Score |publisher=Baseball Almanac |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• The Philadelphia City Council passed a resolution providing for the Liberty Bell to be exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. The Bell's departure from Philadelphia was scheduled for early June.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040506.2.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=WILL EXHIBIT LIBERTY BELL. Revolutionary Relic Is to Be Sent to St. Louis Exposition. |volume=XCV |issue=158 |date=6 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• The national convention of the Socialist Party of America nominated Eugene V. Debs and Ben Hanford for President and Vice President of the United States.{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=64 |access-date=16 March 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCpZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT450 |last=Smith |first=Carter |title=Presidents: Every Question Answered |location=San Diego, CA |publisher=Thunder Bay Press |year=2017 |orig-date=First published in 2008 by Hylas Publishing |edition=Updated |page=450 |isbn=978-1-62686-268-5 |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
• Born:
• Alston Scott Householder, American mathematician; in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1993){{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Householder/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson |title=Alston Householder (1904 - 1993) - Biography |work=MacTutor History of Mathematics |date=July 1999 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Robert Kronfeld, Austrian-born gliding champion and Royal Air Force test pilot; in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1948, glider crash){{cite web |url=http://phila-partner.de/Kronfeld%20Robert.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415014636/http://phila-partner.de/Kronfeld%20Robert.htm |archive-date=15 April 2011 |title=ROBERT KRONFELD 1904 - 1948 |website=phila-partner.de |language=de |access-date=24 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=Robert Kronfeld - Segelflieger, Rekordinhaber, Konstrukteur, Testpilot (Einflieger) |trans-title=Robert Kronfeld - glider pilot, record holder, design engineer, test pilot (uniplane) |url=http://www.hermsdorf-regional.de/sport/segelflug/Robert-Kronfeld.html |website=hermsdorf-regional.de |language=de |access-date=24 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013133213/http://www.hermsdorf-regional.de/sport/segelflug/Robert-Kronfeld.html |archive-date=13 October 2023}}
• Gordon Richards, English jockey; in Donnington Wood, Shropshire, England (d. 1986){{cite news |title=Sir Gordon Richards - Racing's greatest jockey? |publisher=BBC |department=Sporting Heroes |date=18 March 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2005/03/18/sport_heroes_gordon_richards_feature.shtml |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Died: Mór Jókai (born Móric Jókay de Ásva), 79, Hungarian novelist, died of inflammation of the lungs.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040506.2.116.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Novelist Jokai Dies in Budapest. |volume=XCV |issue=158 |date=6 May 1904 |at=Page 14, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}

• In Yosemite, California, fire destroyed the residence and studio of landscape photographer George Fiske, along with 30 years' worth of Fiske's negatives.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040507.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=VALUABLE NEGATIVES ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE Studio of George W. Fiske, Pioneer Photographer of the Yosemite, Is Burned to the Ground. |volume=XCV |issue=159 |date=7 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Raymond Bailey, American actor; in San Francisco, California (d. 1980, heart attack){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/raymond-bailey-107569 |title=Raymond Bailey - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Una Cameron, Scottish mountaineer; in West Linton, Peeblesshire, Scotland (d. 1987){{cite web |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/browse |title=Browse in mountaineer |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born Israeli engineer and physicist; in Slavuta, Russian Empire (d. 1984){{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1984-the-father-of-feldenkrais-dies-1.5374676 |last=Green |first=David B. |title=This Day in Jewish History {{!}} 1984: The father of Feldenkrais dies |newspaper=Haaretz |department=Jewish World |date=1 July 2015 |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Catherine Lacey, English actress; in London, England (d. 1979){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb156919145 |title=Notice de personne "Lacey, Catherine (1904-1979)" |trans-title=Person notice "Lacey, Catherine (1904-1979)" |date=17 June 2008 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Max Mallowan, British archaeologist, second husband of Agatha Christie; in Wandsworth, London, England (d. 1978){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12037606g |title=Notice de personne "Mallowan, Max (1904-1978)" |trans-title=Person notice "Mallowan, Max (1904-1978)" |date=19 April 2007 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature; in Jämshög, Blekinge County, Sweden (d. 1978, suicide by sharp instrument){{cite news |last=Hanson |first=Anita |title=Martinson begick harakiri |trans-title=Martinson committed hara-kiri |newspaper=Aftonbladet |date=31 August 2000 |language=sv |url=https://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0008/31/harakiri.html |access-date=10 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=Harry Martinson – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2022 |access-date=10 March 2022 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1974/martinson/facts/}}
• Renzo Minoli, Italian Olympic champion fencer; in Milan, Province of Milan, Italy (d. 1965){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22689 |title=Renzo Minoli |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Montgomery Tully, Irish film director and writer; in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1988){{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef51b17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212124014/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef51b17 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 12, 2018 |title=Montgomery Tully |publisher=British Film Institute |department=Films, TV and people |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Emanuel Vogel Gerhart, 86, American minister of the German Reformed Church{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040507.2.29.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Rev. Samuel [sic] Gerhart Dead. |volume=XCV |issue=159 |date=7 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Gerhart, Emanuel Vogel |year=1920}}
• Franz von Lenbach, 67, German painter{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040506.2.116&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=VON LEMBACH, NOTED ARTIST, DIES IN MUNICH |volume=XCV |issue=158 |date=6 May 1904 |at=Page 14, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14795159x |title=Notice de personne "Lenbach, Franz von (1836-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Lenbach, Franz von (1836-1904)" |date=5 December 2012 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• John B. Sanborn, 77, American lawyer and politician, Union Army general{{cite web |url=https://www.lrl.mn.gov/legdb/fulldetail?id=14641 |title=Sanborn, John Benjamin "Jno., J.B." |website=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library |department=Member Record |access-date=20 March 2022}}
• Alexander William Williamson, 80, English chemist{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Williamson, Alexander William|volume=28|page=684}}

• A human crush during a massive celebration in Tokyo of Japanese war victories caused 21 deaths and 40 injuries.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040509.2.20.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Many Are Killed at Celebration in Tokio. |volume=XCV |issue=161 |date=9 May 1904 |at=Page 3, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• The 1. Spielklasse Bezirk Braunschweig, an association football league, was founded in the Duchy of Brunswick.{{cite web |url=http://www.fussball-historie.de/Nord/Braunschweig.html |title=Braunschweig/Hannover |trans-title=Brunswick/Hanover |website=Hirschi's Fussballseiten |language=de |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• In Woodbridge, California, aeronaut Frank Hamilton unsuccessfully attempted to make a parachute jump from a balloon in a gale, falling {{Convert|100|ft}} and landing on his head, causing him to lose consciousness.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040508.2.153&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DISASTER ENDS AERIAL VOYAGE Oakland Aeronaut Falls One Hundred Feet at Lodi and He May Lose His Life BALLOON STRIKES TREE Doctors Fear That the Man Suffered Internal Injuries in the Parachute Accident |volume=XCV |issue=160 |date=8 May 1904 |at=Page 39, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Elisabeth Grasser, Austrian Olympic fencer; in Neudörfl, Mattersburg District, Austria (d. 2002){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/20515 |title=Elisabeth Grasser |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Val Lewton (born Vladimir Ivanovich Hofschneider or Leventon), Russian American novelist, film producer and screenwriter; in Yalta, Russian Empire (d. 1951, heart attack){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13560655m |title=Notice de personne "Lewton, Val (1904-1951)" |trans-title=Person notice "Lewton, Val (1904-1951)" |date=1 March 2005 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=25 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p99671 |last=Eder |first=Bruce |title=Val Lewton {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• David Sullivan, Irish American labor leader; in Cork, Ireland (d. 1976){{cite web |url=https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/LP001542.pdf |title=David Sullivan Papers |website=Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University |access-date=18 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Manuel Candamo, 62, Peruvian politician, 23rd President of Peru, died of cardiac syncope.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040508.2.138&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PERU MOURNS THE LOSS OF A LOVED SON |volume=XCV |issue=160 |date=8 May 1904 |at=Page 38, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=https://www.congreso.gob.pe/participacion/museo/congreso/presidentes/Manuel_Candamo_d |title=MANUEL GONZÁLEZ DE CANDAMO IRIARTE |publisher=Congreso de la República |language=es |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Émile-Jules Dubois, 50, French physician, deputy in the National Assembly{{cite web |title=Emile, Jules Dubois |publisher=Assemblée nationale |url=https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/%28num_dept%29/2618 |year=2019 |language=fr |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Andrew McNally, 68, Irish-born American publisher, died of heart disease.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040508.2.138.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Death of Well-Known Publisher. |volume=XCV |issue=160 |date=8 May 1904 |at=Page 38, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040621.2.195&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=MAP MAKER HAD VALUABLE ESTATE Andrew McNally Owned Many Ranches A SPECIAL ADMINISTRATOR Richard Egan Will Attend to Interests in California Until Chicago Will Is Put Through Probate Court by McNally's Son |volume=XXXI |issue=266 |date=21 June 1904 |at=Page 12, column 4 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=29 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/andrewmcnally18300mcna/andrewmcnally18300mcna_djvu.txt |title=Andrew McNally, 1836-1904. |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}

• Near Simpatem, on the eastern shore of Lake Liguasan, Mindanao, Philippines, a group of Moros attacked a detachment of the United States Army 17th Infantry Regiment that was searching for insurgent leader Datu Ali. The Moros killed Lieutenants Harry A. Woodruff and Joseph H. Hall and fifteen enlisted men.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040512.2.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=AMERICANS SHOT DOWN BY MOROS Lieutenants Woodruff and Hall Killed in Battle. Ambush Catches Fifteen Men in Fatal Trap Near Simpatem. Two Union Labor Suspects Acquitted of Charges of Insurrection in Province of Luzon. |volume=XCV |issue=164 |date=12 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• The Sugar Museum, the world's first museum devoted to the subject of sugar, opened in Wedding, Berlin, Germany.{{cite web |title=Zucker-Museum im Haus Amrumer Straße |trans-title=Sugar Museum in Amrumer Street House |url=http://www2.tu-berlin.de/~zuckerinstitut/museum.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824035034/http://www2.tu-berlin.de/~zuckerinstitut/museum.html |archive-date=24 August 2007 |date=23 November 2004 |language=de |access-date=24 March 2022}} It would close as an independent museum in 2012.
• Mrs. Amelia F. M. Billingsley of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested after her arrival by train in Washington, D.C., where she said she had intended to call on First Lady Edith Roosevelt at the White House to warn her of "political intrigue directed against the Government". Mrs. Billingsley, who claimed to have been a personal friend of William McKinley and Mark Hanna, had caused a disturbance in her train car.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040509.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DETECTIVE INTERRUPTS HER VISIT Female Crank Tries to See President's Wife. |volume=XCV |issue=161 |date=9 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Half of the town of Utica, Michigan, was destroyed by fire, causing $100,000 in damage.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040509.2.63.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=HALF OF MICHIGAN TOWN IS DESTROYED Heavy Loss Results From Fire and Capitalist Is Probably Fatally Hurt. |volume=XCV |issue=161 |date=9 May 1904 |at=Page 11, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• The Director of Exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition received a cablegram from Saint Petersburg announcing that Russia would place an exhibit at the fair after all. Russia had previously pulled out of the exposition due to the Russo-Japanese War.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040509.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RUSSIA DECIDES TO SEND AN EXHIBIT Announcement From St. Petersburg That Nation Will Have Elaborate Display at St. Louis. |volume=XCV |issue=161 |date=9 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Fredie Blom, South African supercentenarian; in Adelaide, Cape Colony (d. 2020){{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53875675 |title=Fredie Blom: 'World's oldest man' dies aged 116 in South Africa |work=BBC News |department=Africa |date=22 August 2020 |access-date=16 March 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/22/unofficial-worlds-oldest-man-dies-aged-116-in-south-africa |title=Unofficial world's oldest man dies aged 116 in South Africa |newspaper=The Guardian |department=South Africa |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=22 August 2020 |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Paul J. Kramer, American biologist and plant physiologist; in Brookville, Indiana (d. 1995){{cite journal |last=Mooney |first=Harold A. |author-link=Harold A. Mooney |title=Paul Jackson Kramer (8 May 1904-24 May 1995) |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |volume=143 |issue=2 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |date=June 1999 |pages=341–43 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3181944 |jstor=3181944 |access-date=22 March 2022 }}
• Boris Livanov, Soviet actor and theater director; in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1972){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14199852c |title=Notice de personne "Livanov, Boris Nikolaevič (1904-1972)" |trans-title=Person notice "Livanov, Boris Nikolaevich (1904-1972)" |date=6 November 2017 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• John Snagge, British radio personality; in Chelsea, London, England (d. 1996){{cite news |last=Miall |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Miall |title=Obituary: John Snagge |newspaper=The Independent |department=People |date=28 March 1996 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-john-snagge-1344505.html |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Richard Xavier Baxter, 83, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and venerable{{cite dictionary |first=Elinor |last=Barr |title=BAXTER, RICHARD |dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |volume=13 |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval |year=1994 |access-date=10 March 2022 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/baxter_richard_13E.html}}
• Eadweard Muybridge, 74, British photographer and motion picture pioneer, died of prostate cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/muychron05.htm#part5 |title=CHRONOLOGY 1893-1904 |website=The Compleat Eadward Muybridge |access-date=10 March 2022 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240403173612/https://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/muychron05.htm#part5 |archive-date=3 April 2024}}
• Frederick York Powell, 54, English historian and scholar{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Powell, Frederick York|volume=22|page=223}}

• From May 9 to May 11, the Imperial Russian Navy armored cruiser Rossia carried a balloon on a raiding cruise against Japanese ships into the Sea of Japan in the first use by a warship of a balloon on the high seas in wartime. The balloon made 13 successful ascents before it broke its mooring lines and was damaged after landing on the sea.{{cite book |last=Layman |first=R.D. |title=Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels 1849-1922 |location=Annapolis, Maryland |publisher=Naval Institute Press |year=1989 |isbn=0-87021-210-9 |page=93}}
• Great Western Railway of England 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro possibly became the first railway locomotive to exceed {{Convert|100|mph}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.steam-museum.org.uk/aboutus/Pages/Swindon-175.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211090556/http://www.steam-museum.org.uk/aboutus/Pages/Swindon-175.aspx |archive-date=11 February 2016 |title=STEAM Gets Set for Swindon175 Celebrations |department=Swindon 175 |website=STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway |publisher=Swindon Borough Council Civic Offices |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• In Manhattan, New York City, a motorman was killed and five passengers seriously injured in a rear-end crash between two elevated trains.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040510.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ELEVATED TRAINS IN COLLISION Sharp Crash of Cars Over New York Street. Panic Prevails and Passengers Leap Through Broken Windows. Women Rush Frantically About a Platform Where the Mass of Wreckage Is Blazing. |volume=XCV |issue=162 |date=10 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt established rules for the governance of the Panama Canal Zone, granting the Panama Canal Commission legislative powers over the area.
• In Washington, D.C., a wind and rain storm caused a brief panic at a Barnum & Bailey circus performance at which two of President Roosevelt's children, Ethel and Archibald, were present. The panic caused no injuries, and the President's children reportedly were not frightened.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040510.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ROOSEVELT CHILDREN IN A PANIC Storm Causes Great Excitement at a Circus. |volume=XCV |issue=162 |date=10 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Gregory Bateson, English anthropologist, social scientist and cyberneticist; in Grantchester, England (d. 1980){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11890536x |title=Notice de personne "Bateson, Gregory (1904-1980)" |trans-title=Person notice "Bateson, Gregory (1904-1980)" |date=7 July 2009 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Conrad Bernier, French-Canadian musician and teacher; in Quebec City, Canada (d. 1988){{cite encyclopedia |last1=King |first1=Betty Nygaard |first2=Cécile |last2=Huot |title=Conrad Bernier |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=16 December 2013 |publisher=Historica Canada |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/conrad-bernier-emc |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Pol Demeuter (born Leopold Demeuter), Belgian motorcycle racer; in Ganshoren, Belgium (d. 1934, injuries from race crash){{cite web |url=http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ms&n=1296 |title=Pol Demeuter |website=Motorsport Memorial |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• David MacDonald, Scottish film director and producer; in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (d. 1983){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13989014n |title=Notice de personne "MacDonald, David (1904-1983)" |trans-title=Person notice "MacDonald, David (1904-1983)" |date=19 April 2013 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, German composer; in Hanover, Germany (d. 1985){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13927912q |title=Notice de personne "Schwarz-Schilling, Reinhard (1904-1985)" |trans-title=Person notice "Schwarz-Schilling, Reinhard (1904-1985)" |date=12 April 2021 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Grete Stern, German Argentine photographer; in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, German Empire (d. 1999){{cite encyclopedia |last1=Sandler |first1=Clara |first2=Juan |last2=Mandelbaum |title=Grete Stern |encyclopedia=Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women |date=31 December 1999 |publisher=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=24 March 2022 |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stern-grete}}
• Gösta Stoltz, Swedish chess grandmaster; in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1963){{cite web |url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=23856 |title=The chess games of Gosta Stoltz |website=chessgames.com |publisher=Chessgames Services LLC |access-date=25 March 2022}}{{Unreliable source?|date=March 2022}}
• Died:
• George Johnston Allman {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS}}, 79, Irish mathematician, scholar and historian{{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Allman/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |title=George Allman (1824 - 1904) - Biography |work=MacTutor History of Mathematics |date=April 2009 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Aleksandar Bresztyenszky, 60, Croatian writer{{cite web |title=Aleksandar Bresztyenszky |url=http://hosting.unizg.hr/rektori/abresztensztky.htm |website=University of Zagreb |language=hr |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Bonaventura Gargiulo, 61, Italian Capuchin friar and Roman Catholic bishop{{cite dictionary |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonino-gargiulo_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |title=GARGIULO, Antonino |first=Francesca |last=Brancaleoni |dictionary=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |volume=52 |year=1999 |language=it |access-date=10 March 2022 |via=Treccani}}
• Eduard Pleske, 51, Russo-German statesman, Minister of Finance of Russia{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040510.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Minister Pleske Is Dead. |volume=XCV |issue=162 |date=10 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}

• August Horch Motorwagenwerke AG, one of the predecessors of the Audi company, was founded in Zwickau, Germany.{{cite web |title=Horch - Dates in history |url=https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/horch-dates-in-history-2170 |website=Audi MediaCenter |date=2 August 1999 |publisher=AUDI AG |access-date=16 March 2022 |language=en}}
• An iron bar fell from the top of the Ferris Wheel at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, striking a laborer on the head and killing him. 100 of the man's colleagues beat and kicked a doctor who refused to take the dead worker to the hospital and suggested calling the morgue wagon instead.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040511.2.46&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=WORKMEN ATTACK SURGEON WHO REFUSES TO TAKE BODY World's Fair Ambulance Attendant Roughly Handled and Sent to Hospital. |volume=XCV |issue=163 |date=11 May 1904 |at=Page 4, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• The Methodist General Conference, meeting in Los Angeles, California, adopted a resolution presented by Rev. Mr. Hammond of Tennessee condemning the racism shown by some hotels and restaurants in refusing to serve African American conference delegates.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040511.2.57&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=NEGRO DIVINE HAS GRIEVANCE Methodist Colored Delegate Complains of the Los Angeles Hotel Restrictions BOOK CONCERN'S REPORT Sixth Day of Conference Occupied by Speakers on the Welfare of the Church |volume=XCV |issue=163 |date=11 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• James Roy Andersen, United States Army Air Forces general; in Racine, Wisconsin (d. 1945, plane crash){{cite web |url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1748791/james-roy-andersen/ |title=BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES ROY ANDERSEN |website=United States Air Force |department=Biography Display |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• David Brown, English industrialist; in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England (d. 1993){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UnNUiPWfnvQC&pg=PT10 |last=Dowsey |first=David |title=Aston Martin: Power, Beauty and Soul |edition=Second |editor-last=Beaver |editor-first=Robyn |publisher=Peleus Press |year=2010 |page=10 |isbn=978-1-86470-424-2 |access-date=25 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
• Kurt Sucksdorff, Swedish Olympic ice hockey goaltender; in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1960){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/97940 |title=Kurt Sucksdorff |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Sir Henry Morton Stanley {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB}} (born John Rowlands), 63, Welsh American explorer{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040510.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=EXPLORER STANLEY'S LIFE ENDS Famous Man's Career Is Closed in London. |volume=XCV |issue=162 |date=10 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |pages=70–71 |access-date=16 March 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}}{{cite encyclopedia |last=Middleton |first=Dorothy |author-link=Dorothy Middleton |title=Henry Morton Stanley |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=24 January 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Morton-Stanley |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Émile Sarrau, 66, French chemist{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjUoAAAAMAAJ&q=Emile+Sarrau |title=SARRAU, JACQUES ROSE FERDINAND EMILE (1837-1904) |encyclopedia=The New International Encyclopædia |edition=Second |volume=XX |location=New York |publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company |year=1926 |page=475 |access-date=10 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}{{cite book |last1=Brezinski |first1=Claude |last2=Tournès |first2=Dominique |year=2014 |chapter=Biography of Cholesky |title=André-Louis Cholesky |publisher=Birkhäuser, Cham. |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-08135-9_1 |isbn=978-3-319-08135-9 |access-date=10 March 2022 |via=SpringerLink |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-08135-9_1}}

• In Herrin, Illinois, 8 miners were killed or fatally injured in a powder explosion in the shaft of the Big Muddy Coal and Iron Company.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040512.2.55&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=MINERS MEET AWFUL DEATH Powder Explodes in Drift at Herrin, Illinois, and Sends Five Men to Doom |volume=XCV |issue=164 |date=12 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=68 |access-date=16 March 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040518.2.63&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LECTURER JOUBERT SAID TO BE AN IMPOSTOR General Viljoen Says the Man Touring the Northwest Was Not an Officer of Boer Army. |volume=XCV |issue=170 |date=18 May 1904 |at=Page 7, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• In Fresno, California, boxer Johnnie Bryant was fatally injured in the ninth round of a fight with Walter Robinson. Bryant would die of a brain hemorrhage at 1 a.m. on May 12.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040512.2.15&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=YOUNG BOXER MEETS DEATH IN PRIZE RING Johnnie Bryant Dies From Effects of Blows Given by Negro Opponent. |volume=XCV |issue=164 |date=12 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040513.2.90.15&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=No One Blamed for Boxer's Death. |volume=XCV |issue=165 |date=13 May 1904 |at=Page 10, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Salvador Dalí (born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí Doménech), Spanish artist; in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1989, heart failure){{cite magazine |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-surreal-world-of-salvador-dali-78993324/ |last=Meisler |first=Stanley |title=The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí |magazine=Smithsonian |department=Arts & Culture |date=April 2005 |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518170614/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-surreal-world-of-salvador-dali-78993324/ |archive-date=18 May 2014 |url-status=live}}
• Hans Lion, Austrian Olympic fencer; in Vienna, Austria (d. 1969){{cite web |title=Hans Lion |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/21179 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Died:
• William Alexander, 62–63, Scottish architect{{cite dictionary |dictionary=Dictionary of Scottish Architects |url=https://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200003 |title=William Alexander |year=2016 |access-date=31 July 2023}}
• Hans Grisebach, 55, German architect and bibliophile{{cite dictionary |last=Wirth |first=Irmgard |title=Grisebach, Hans |dictionary=Neue Deutsche Biographie |volume=7 |year=1966 |pages=99–100 |edition=Online-Version |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd124637817.html#ndbcontent |language=de |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• David Breakenridge Read, 80, Canadian lawyer, author and former Mayor of Toronto{{cite dictionary |first=John D. |last=Blackwell |title=READ, DAVID BREAKENRIDGE |dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |volume=13 |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval |year=1994 |access-date=August 2, 2022 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/read_david_breakenridge_13E.html}}
• Ante Šupuk, 65, Croatian politician and entrepreneur, mayor of Šibenik{{cite encyclopedia |title=Šupuk, Ante. |encyclopedia=Hrvatska enciklopedija |edition=Online |publisher=Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža |year=2021 |access-date=2 April 2022 |language=hr |url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/supuk-ante}}

• Cavaleiro Fernando de Oliveira was killed fighting the bull Ferrador in the Campo Pequeno Bullring in Lisbon, Portugal.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040514.2.19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=TOREADOR IS KILLED BY MADDENED ANIMAL While Giving Exhibition in Spain [sic] Man Is Trampled to Death and Panic Follows. |volume=XCV |issue=166 |date=14 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |last=Bingham |first=David |title=Death's Garden: Coimetrophobia |url=https://cemeterytravel.com/2016/06/03/deaths-garden-coimetrophobia/ |website=Cemetery Travel: Your Take-along Guide to Graves & Graveyards Around the World |date=3 June 2016 |publisher=Loren Rhoads & Cemetery Travel |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Born: Adolphe Groscol, Belgian Olympic sprinter (d. 1985){{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/65201 |title=Adolphe Groscol |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Isabella Eugénie Boyer, 62, French model{{cite web |last=Atkinson |first=Dorothy |title=Singer and the wigwam |date=22 March 2004 |url=http://www.torbytes.co.uk/op/tm6/lv2/item1399.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050307040310/http://www.torbytes.co.uk/op/tm6/lv2/item1399.htm |archive-date=7 March 2005 |publisher=Torbay Council |access-date=10 March 2022}}{{Better source needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give month and day of death.}}
• Robert Reid, 61, Scottish-born Australian politician, died of a diabetic coma.{{cite dictionary |first=Margaret |last=Steven |title=Reid, Robert (1842–1904) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/reid-robert-8177/text14297 |year=1988 |access-date=23 March 2022}}

• At the Hotel Wolcott in New York City, analytical chemist H. Liebler told a special committee of experts appointed by the United States Secretary of Agriculture that radium would soon replace "deleterious substances" as a food preservative through the use of bottles and cans washed with radioactive water.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040515.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RADIUM'S MARVELS INCREASE Chemist Declares It Will Be a Food Preservative. Perilous Substances Not to Be Used in Cans and Bottles. Recent Discoveries Expected to Revolutionize the Character of Coloring Materials. |volume=XCV |issue=167 |date=15 May 1904 |at=Page 21, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Professor Antoine Danton, a high diver with the J.J. Jones Carnival Co., was killed performing a {{Convert|110|foot|adj=on}} dive while intoxicated in Goldsboro, North Carolina.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/05/14/archives/killed-by-high-dive-spectators-at-goldsborough-carnival-witness-a.html |title=KILLED BY HIGH DIVE.; Spectators at Goldsborough Carnival Witness a Fatality. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 May 1904 |page=1 |access-date=16 March 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=TD19040514.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- |title=A HIGH JUMPER JUMPS TO DEATH His Stunt a Leap 110 Feet With Clothes Blazing Into a Tank. |newspaper=The Times-Dispatch |location=Richmond, Virginia |issue=16,545 |date=14 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 2 |access-date=25 March 2022 |via=Virginia Chronicle}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aL0n5Y-m0jcC&pg=PT214 |last=Lacey |first=T. Jensen |title=Amazing North Carolina: Fascinating Facts, Entertaining Tales, Bizarre Happenings, and Historical Oddities from the Tarheel State |location=Nashville, Tennessee |publisher=Rutledge Hill Press |year=2003 |pages=214–215 |isbn=1-55853-965-4 |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
• A California jury pronounced Anderson Garred, who had shot and killed former Oregon county sheriff Andrew J. McKinnon in Guerneville, California, on September 8, 1903, to be insane.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19031223.2.92&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=MURDERER GARRED TAKEN AFTER DESPERATE BATTLE M'KINNON'S SLAYER LANDED IN JAIL PHOTOGRAPHS SENT OUT BY SHERIFF GRACE GAVE CLUE WHICH LED TO ARREST Man and Woman Recognize in Wood Chopper on a Ranch the Man Wanted for Murder at Guerneville |volume=XXIX |issue=312 |date=23 December 1903 |at=Page 8, columns 1-2 |newspaper=The Press Democrat |location=Santa Rosa, California |access-date=4 April 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040514.2.69&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=SLAYER OF SHERIFF McKINNON IS INSANE Jury Finds That He Is Not of Sound Mind and His Prosecution for Murder Will Be Abandoned. |volume=XCV |issue=166 |date=14 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• José Bello, Spanish intellectual and writer; in Huesca, Aragon, Spain (d. 2008){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16219366g |title=Notice de personne "Bello Lasierra, José (1904-2008)" |trans-title=Person notice "Bello Lasierra, José (1904-2008)" |date=27 July 2010 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=26 March 2022}}
• Louis Duffus, Australian-born South African cricketer and writer; in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (d. 1984){{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/louis-duffus-44728 |title=Louis Duffus profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Neville George (born Thomas Neville George), Welsh geologist; in Morriston, Swansea, Wales (d. 1980){{cite journal |last=Leake |first=Bernard E. |author-link=Bernard Elgey Leake |date=1 November 1991 |title=Thomas Neville George, 13 May 1904 - 18 June 1980 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=37 |pages=198–217 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1991.0010 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1991.0010 |publisher=The Royal Society |s2cid=72887990 |issn=1748-8494 |access-date=20 March 2022}}
• Ernest Henry (born George Ernest Morrison Henry), Australian Olympic freestyle swimmer; in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1998){{cite web |title=Ernest Henry |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/45219 |access-date=26 March 2022}}
• Chishū Ryū, Japanese actor; in Tamamizu, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan (d. 1993){{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-chishu-ryu-1498760.html |last=Kirkup |first=James |author-link=James Kirkup |title=Obituary: Chishu Ryu |newspaper=The Independent |department=People |date=20 March 1993 |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Edoardo Severgnini, Italian Olympic and professional cyclist; in Milan, Province of Milan, Italy (d. 1969){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/16548 |title=Edoardo Severgnini |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Walter Carpenter, 70, British Royal Navy admiral and cricketer{{cite web |url=https://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1322 |title=Biography of Hon. Walter Cecil Carpenter (Walter Cecil Talbot) R.N. |website=pdavis.nl |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Eugen Kumičić, 54, Croatian writer{{cite encyclopedia |last=Biletić |first=Boris Domagoj |title=Kumičić Eugen |url=https://www.istrapedia.hr/it/natuknice/1502/kumicic-eugen |encyclopedia=Istrapedia |date=8 January 2015 |language=it |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Ottokar Lorenz, 71, German genealogist{{cite dictionary |last=Backs |first=Silvia |title=Lorenz, Ottokar |dictionary=Neue Deutsche Biographie |volume=15 |year=1987 |pages=170–172 |edition=Online-Version |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd117216062.html#ndbcontent |language=de |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Gabriel Tarde (born Jean Gabriel de Tarde), 61, French sociologist{{cite encyclopedia |first=John |last=Clute |author-link=John Clute |title=Tarde, Gabriel |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clute |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-link=David Langford |editor3-first=Peter |editor3-last=Nicholls |editor3-link=Peter Nicholls (writer) |editor4-first=Graham |editor4-last=Sleight |editor4-link=Graham Sleight |location=London |publisher=Gollancz |date=31 August 2018 |edition=Web |access-date=21 March 2022 |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tarde_gabriel}}

• Clara Barton resigned as president of the American Red Cross and was succeeded by Mrs. General John A. Logan.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040515.2.29&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RED CROSS HAS A NEW PRESIDENT Miss Barton Resigns and Mrs. John A. Logan Is Advanced. |volume=XCV |issue=167 |date=15 May 1904 |at=Page 24, columns 2-3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Robert McLane, the Mayor of Baltimore, married Mary Van Bibber, a widow 12 years his senior, in Washington, D.C. Newspapers would subsequently report rumors that McLane's family did not approve of the marriage.{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2004/02/07/mayors-death-blaze-still-linked-in-mystery/ |title=Mayor's death, blaze still linked in mystery (page 2) |first=Scott |last=Calvert |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |department=Baltimore |date=7 February 2004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220001610/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-02-07/news/0402070176_1_mclane-committed-suicide-baltimore/2 |archive-date=20 February 2017 |access-date=16 March 2022}} McLane would die of a gunshot wound to the head on May 30; the death would be ruled a suicide.{{cite magazine |url=http://duffywriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/After-The-Fire-Part-2.pdf |title=After The Fire |first=Jim |last=Duffy |magazine=Baltimore |date=February 2004 |via=DuffyWriter.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227060632/http://duffywriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/After-The-Fire-Part-2.pdf |archive-date=27 December 2016 |url-status=dead |page=94 |access-date=16 March 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2004/02/07/mayors-death-blaze-still-linked-in-mystery/ |title=Mayor's death, blaze still linked in mystery (page 3) |first=Scott |last=Calvert |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |department=Baltimore |date=7 February 2004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226183614/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-02-07/news/0402070176_1_mclane-committed-suicide-baltimore/3 |archive-date=26 February 2017 |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Born:
• Léon Dostert, French-born American scholar of languages; in Longwy, France (d. 1971){{cite magazine |url=http://www.oxy.edu/magazine/fall-2015/trials-triumphs-leon-dostert-28 |last=Walker |first=Paul Robert |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504222002/http://www.oxy.edu/magazine/fall-2015/trials-triumphs-leon-dostert-28 |archive-date=4 May 2016 |title=The Trials and Triumphs of Leon Dostert '28 |magazine=Occidental Magazine |publisher=Occidental College |date=Fall 2015 |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss American engineer and educator, son of Albert Einstein; in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1973, heart failure){{cite web |work=1976, University of California: In Memoriam |url=http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9k4009c7&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00013&toc.depth=1&toc.id= |last1=Johnson |first1=J. W. |last2=Todd |first2=D. K. |last3=Wiegel |first3=R. L. |title=Hans Albert Einstein, Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering: Berkeley |date=March 1976 |publisher=The Regents of The University of California |access-date=16 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=Short life history: Hans Albert Einstein |year=2018 |url=https://www.einstein-website.de/biographies/einsteinhansalbert_content.html |language=en |last=Küpper |first=Hans-Josef |website=Albert Einstein in the World Wide Web |department=Biographies |publisher=Hans-Josef Küpper |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=30 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730171656/https://www.einstein-website.de/biographies/einsteinhansalbert_content.html |url-status=dead }}{{Self-published source|date=March 2022}}
• Marcel Junod, Swiss physician; in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (d. 1961, heart attack){{cite web |url=https://www.idref.fr/067297382 |title=Junod, Marcel (1904-1961) |website=IdRef |language=fr |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Lola Todd, American silent film actress; in New York City (d. 1995){{cite dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Lola+Todd%22+actress&pg=PA374 |last=Katchmer |first=George A. |title=Todd, Lola |dictionary=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2002 |page=374 |isbn=978-0-7864-4693-3 |access-date=26 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/lola-todd-p186511 |last=Wollstein |first=Hans J. |title=Lola Todd {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=26 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Rita Barcelo y Pages, 61, Spanish Augustinian religious sister and servant of God{{cite web |url=http://lcctanauan.edu.ph/our-roots/mo-rita.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222155856/http://lcctanauan.edu.ph/our-roots/mo-rita.php |archive-date=22 February 2018 |title=Mother Rita Barcelo y Pages, OSA |website=La Consolacion College Tanuan |access-date=13 March 2022}}
• Fyodor Bredikhin, 72, Russian astronomer{{cite journal |title=Obituary Notice: Associate:- Theodor Bredichin |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=LXV |issue=4 |date=February 1905 |pages=348–349 |doi=10.1093/mnras/65.4.348 |bibcode=1905MNRAS..65..348. |access-date=13 March 2022 |via=SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) |url=https://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0065//0000348.000.html|doi-access=free }}
• Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, 48, French botanist{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13179121m |title=Notice de personne "Drake del Castillo, Emmanuel (1855-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Drake del Castillo, Emmanuel (1855-1904)" |date=5 December 2011 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Walter Henry Wilson JP FICE FRINA, 64, Irish ship designer, partner in Harland & Wolff{{cite dictionary |url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1722 |last=Newmann |first=Kate |author-link=Kate Newmann |title=Walter Henry Wilson (1839 - 1904): Ship designer |dictionary=Dictionary of Ulster Biography |publisher=Ulster History Circle |access-date=23 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/men/wilson.asp |title=Walter Henry Wilson (1839 – 1904) |website=Harland and Wolff - Shipbuilding & Engineering Works |access-date=23 March 2022}}

• The Russian minelayer Amur laid a minefield about {{convert|15|mi|km}} off Port Arthur, and sank the Japanese battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons with 496 crew, and Yashima. On the same day, the Japanese protected cruiser Yoshino sank after being accidentally rammed by the armored cruiser Kasuga, killing over 270 crew, including Captain Sayegi and his second-in-command, Commander Hirowateri.{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/226/mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/226/mode/2up 226-231] |location=Philadelphia |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co. |year=1905 |access-date=13 March 2022 |via=Internet Archive}} Japan would keep the loss of Yashima secret for over a year.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1905/06/02/archives/loss-of-yashima-admitted-japan-announces-that-battleship-struck-a.html |title=LOSS OF YASHIMA ADMITTED; Japan Announces That Battleship Struck a Mine a Year Ago. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 June 1905 |page=2 |access-date=13 March 2022}}
• Documenting atrocities in the Congo Free State, English missionary Alice Seeley Harris took the iconic photograph Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District, showing a Congolese man with the severed hand and foot of his murdered five-year-old daughter.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/kingleopoldsrule00moreuoft/page/444/mode/2up |last=Morel |first=Edmund D. |author-link=E. D. Morel |title=King Leopold's Rule in Africa |location=London |publisher=William Heinemann |year=1904 |pages=444–445 |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}
• In Denver, Colorado, Lyte Gregory, a detective and former police officer, was assassinated in the early morning hours. John Combs, whose wife thought she recognized the murderer's voice as that of her husband, was arrested for the crime. William Wardjon of the United Mine Workers of America had accused Gregory of being one of three men who pistol-whipped him aboard a train car in Sargents, Colorado, on April 29.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=UNION ORGANIZER IS TERRIBLY MALTREATED Now Lies in Precarious Condition at Salida, Colo. |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040516.2.55&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=TEN BULLETS END HIS LIFE Lyte Gregory, an Ex-Policeman of Denver, Is Foully Murdered by an Assassin SLAIN ON WAY HOME John Combs Is Arrested for the Crime on the Statement Made by His Wife |volume=XCV |issue=168 |date=16 May 1904 |at=Page 7, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=69 |access-date=16 March 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}}
• The Dreamland amusement park opened at Coney Island in New York City at 4 p.m., three hours later than scheduled.{{cite web |author=((Staff)) |title=At Hell's Gate: The Rise and Fall of Coney Island's Dreamland |department=History Of Theme Parks |url=http://entertainmentdesigner.com/history-of-theme-parks/at-hells-gate-the-rise-and-fall-of-coney-islands-dreamland/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314193130/http://entertainmentdesigner.com/history-of-theme-parks/at-hells-gate-the-rise-and-fall-of-coney-islands-dreamland/ |archive-date=14 March 2014 |date=4 February 2012 |publisher=EntertainmentDesigner.com |access-date=23 January 2023}}
• Born:
• Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr., Swedish Army officer and Olympic champion equestrian; in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1995){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/11642 |title=Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern, Jr. |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 March 2022}}
• Clifton Fadiman, American intellectual and radio and TV personality; in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 1999, pancreatic cancer){{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078748/ |title=Clifton Fadiman papers, 1966-1970 |publisher=Columbia University Libraries |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023164833/https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4078748 |archive-date=23 October 2023}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2017/summer/feature/clifton-fadiman-didn%E2%80%99t-mind-being-called-schoolmasterish |last=Heitman |first=Danny |title=Clifton Fadiman Didn't Mind Being Called Schoolmasterish |magazine=Humanities |date=Summer 2017 |volume=38 |issue=3 |publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Paul D. Harkins, United States Army general; in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1984){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qh5lffww-KsC&q=%22paul+d+harkins%22+%221904%22&pg=PA458 |last=Ross |first=Rodney J. |title=Harkins, Paul Donal |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History |edition=Second |editor-last=Tucker |editor-first=Spencer C. |editor-link=Spencer C. Tucker |location=Santa Barbara, California, Denver, Colorado, Oxford, England |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2011 |page=458 |isbn=978-1-85109-961-0 |access-date=26 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
• Vladas Jakubėnas, Lithuanian musician and musicologist; in Biržai, Lithuania (d. 1976){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16681391w |title=Notice de personne "Jakubėnas, Vladas (1904-1976)" |trans-title=Person notice "Jakubėnas, Vladas (1904-1976)" |date=13 May 2013 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Georg Knöpfle, German Olympic and professional footballer and coach; in Schramberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1987){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25448 |title=Georg Knöpfle |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Died: Étienne-Jules Marey, 74, French inventor{{cite web |url=https://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/people/data?id=per113 |title=Marey, Étienne Jules |work=Virtual Laboratory |department=People |publisher=Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |location=Berlin |issn=1866-4784 |access-date=13 March 2022}}

• Irish author James Joyce won the third-prize medal at the Feis Ceoil singing competition at the Ancient Concert Rooms in Dublin, Ireland.{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/joyce-s-winning-farewell-1.1393166 |last=Lawler |first=Mark |title=Joyce's winning 'Farewell' |newspaper=The Irish Times |department=Books |access-date=24 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://jamesjoyce.ie/on-this-day-16-may/ |title=On this day...16 May |date=16 May 2014 |website=The James Joyce Centre |access-date=24 March 2022 |archive-date=13 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913153915/https://jamesjoyce.ie/on-this-day-16-may/ |url-status=dead }}
• In his inaugural address as Governor of Louisiana, Newton C. Blanchard said, "No approach toward social equality or social recognition will be ever tolerated in Louisiana. Separate schools, separate churches, separate cars, separate places of entertainment will be enforced. Racial distinction and integrity must be preserved. But there is room enough in this broad southland, with proper lines of limitation and demarcation, for the two races to live on terms of mutual trust, mutual help, good understanding and concord. The South asserts its ability to handle and solve the negro question on humanitarian lines—those of justice and of right. We brook no interference from without."{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040517.2.119&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=SOUTH OPPOSES INTERFERENCE New Governor of the State of Louisiana Speaks of the Solution of Race Question INAUGURATION ADDRESS Negro Must Occupy His Special Sphere and Be Satisfied With Protection |volume=XCV |issue=169 |date=17 May 1904 |at=Page 15, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Hugh Plaxton, Canadian lawyer, Olympic ice hockey champion and National Hockey League player and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada; in Barrie, Ontario, Canada (d. 1982){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/96476 |title=Hugh Plaxton |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 March 2022}}
• Bruno Sorić, Croatian Olympic rower for Italy; in Zadar, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1942, killed in action){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/38498 |title=Bruno Sorich |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 March 2022}}
• Died: Harold Finch-Hatton, 47, British politician and Australian federationist, died of heart failure.{{cite dictionary |first1=D. P. |last1=Crook |first2=David |last2=Denholm |author2-link=David Denholm |title=Finch-Hatton, Harold Heneage (1856–1904) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/finch-hatton-harold-heneage-3515/text5405 |year=1972 |access-date=10 March 2022}}

• The song cycle Shéhérazade by Maurice Ravel received its world premiere at the Salle du Nouveau Théâtre in Paris, France, performed by soprano Jeanne Hatto and conducted by Alfred Cortot.{{cite web |last=Rae |first=Caroline |title=Shéhérazade: Maurice Ravel |website=Philharmonia Orchestra |url=https://mmsf.philharmonia.co.uk/paris/essays/42/sheherazade |department=City of Light :: Paris 1900-1950 |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511144359/https://mmsf.philharmonia.co.uk/paris/essays/42/sheherazade |archive-date=11 May 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sfsymphony.org/Data/Event-Data/Program-Notes/R/Ravel-Sheherazade |last=Keller |first=James M. |title=Ravel: Shéhérazade |publisher=San Francisco Symphony |department=Program Notes |date=April 2018 |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Born:
• Marie-Anne Desmarest (born Anne-Marie During), French novelist; in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France (d. 1973){{cite book |url=https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12601625q |title=Marie-Anne Desmarest (1904-1973) |date=22 November 2021 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=15 March 2022}}
• Fernand Dineur, Belgian cartoonist; in Anderlecht, Belgium (d. 1956){{cite encyclopedia |last1=Schuddeboom |first1=Bas |last2=Knudde |first2=Kjell |title=Fernand Dineur |encyclopedia=Lambiek Comiclopedia |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dineur_f.htm |date=4 October 2020 |publisher=Lambiek |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• Warren B. Duff, American film and television writer and producer; in San Francisco, California (d. 1973, cancer){{cite web |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3n39r9st/entire_text/ |author=((UCLA Library Special Collections staff)) |title=Warren Duff scripts, 1949-1972 |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=26 March 2022}}
• Jean Gabin (born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé), French actor; in Paris, France (d. 1976, leukemia){{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p25439 |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |title=Jean Gabin {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=15 March 2022}}
• Charles Hapgood, American college professor and author; in New York City (d. 1982){{cite web |title=Charles H. Hapgood Papers |publisher=Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library |url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1500 |access-date=26 March 2022}}
• John J. Williams, member of the United States Senate from Delaware; near Frankford, Sussex County, Delaware (d. 1988){{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000518 |title=WILLIAMS, John James 1904 – 1988 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Tomás Cámara y Castro, 56, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop{{cite encyclopedia |last=Rodríguez y Fernández |first=Teodoro |title=Tomás Cámara y Castro |encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |volume=16 (Index) |location=New York |publisher=The Encyclopedia Press |year=1914 |access-date=15 March 2022 |via=New Advent |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16016c.htm}}
• Haynes King, 72, English genre painter, died by suicide.{{cite DNB12|wstitle=King, Haynes|volume=2}}
• James B. Martindale, 68, American attorney, founder of Martindale-Hubbell{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/05/18/archives/death-list-of-a-day-james-boyd-martindale.html |title=DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; James Boyd Martindale |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 May 1904 |page=9 |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 51, died of heart disease.{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/05/18/101236176.pdf |title=GRAND DUCHESS DEAD. Pauline of Saxe-Weimar Expires Suddenly on a Train. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 May 1904 |access-date=25 March 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040518.2.45&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Grand Duchess Pauline Dead. |volume=XCV |issue=170 |date=18 May 1904 |at=Page 4, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}

• An imperial edict opened the Chinese ports of Chinanfu, Weishien and Chantsun to international trade.
• A group of bandits led by Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni abducted Greek American playboy Ion Perdicaris and his stepson, British subject Cromwell Varley, from Perdicaris' summer home, {{Convert|3|mi}} from Tangier, Morocco, beginning the Perdicaris affair. Raisuni would make extensive demands in return for the two men's release, causing the United States to send warships to Tangier to ensure that Sultan Abdelaziz of Morocco met Raisuni's terms.{{cite news |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1904-05-20/ed-1/seq-1/ |title=RICH AMERICAN IS KIDNAPPED BY ARAB BANDITS Perdicaris and Stepson, a British Subject, Residing in Morocco, are Held for Ransom. SUPINE GOVERNMENT BLAMED. Noted Band of Outlaws Led by Famous Bandit, Fraissouli, Who Names His Own Terms. WANTS GOVERNOR'S REMOVAL. Asks Other Political Changes for Release of Prisoners and Sultan May Yield to Protect Captives. |newspaper=The St. Louis Republic |date=20 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 3 |access-date=24 March 2022 |via=Chronicling America}}
• {{cite news |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1904-05-20/ed-1/seq-1/ |title=AMERICAN SQUADRON ORDERED TO TANGIERS. |newspaper=The St. Louis Republic |date=20 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 3 |access-date=24 March 2022 |via=Chronicling America}}
• {{cite news |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1904-05-20/ed-1/seq-1/ |title=PERDICARIS'S FATHER WAS GREEK PROFESSOR. |newspaper=The St. Louis Republic |date=20 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 3 |access-date=24 March 2022 |via=Chronicling America}} Perdicaris and Varley would be released in June 1904.{{cite news |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1904-06-25/ed-1/seq-1/ |title=PERDICARIS FREE AT LAST HE ARRIVES AT TANGIER. Varley with Him―Does Not Blame Raisuli for Hardships Suffered. |newspaper=New-York Tribune |volume=LXIV |issue=21,041 |date=25 June 1904 |at=Page 1, column 6 |access-date=31 July 2022 |via=Chronicling America}}
• Born:
• René Boileau (born Joseph Lorenzo Lionel Boileau), Canadian National Hockey League centre; in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada (d. 1969){{cite web |title=Rene Boileau Stats |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/b/boilere01.html |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Jacob Javits, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of New York, member of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate from New York, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; in New York City (d. 1986){{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000064 |title=JAVITS, Jacob Koppel 1904 – 1986 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• François Marty (born Gabriel Auguste François Marty), French Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Paris; in Vaureilles, Pachins, France (d. 1994, automobile accident){{cite news |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/02/17/1820224-vaureilles-cardinal-marty-est-mort-20-ans.html |title=Vaureilles. Le cardinal Marty est mort il y a 20 ans |trans-title=Vaureilles. Cardinal Marty died 20 years ago |website=ladepeche.fr |language=fr |date=17 February 2014 |access-date=18 March 2022}}
• Frederick Scherger, Royal Australian Air Force officer; in Ararat, Victoria, Australia (d. 1984){{cite dictionary |first=Alan |last=Stephens |title=Scherger, Sir Frederick Rudolph (1904–1984) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/scherger-sir-frederick-rudolph-15055/text26253 |year=2012 |access-date=21 March 2022}}
• Herbert Spiegelberg, American philosopher; in Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire (d. 1990){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120217408 |title=Notice de personne "Spiegelberg, Herbert (1904-1990)" |trans-title=Person notice "Spiegelberg, Herbert (1904-1990)" |date=15 January 2014 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=28 March 2022}}
• Died:
• John Acland, 80, English-born New Zealand runholder and politician{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d3-d4-d7.html |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |author-link=Cyclopedia Company Limited |title=The Hon. John Barton Arundel Acland |encyclopedia=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District] |location=Christchurch |publisher=The Cyclopedia Company, Limited |year=1903 |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library}}{{cite encyclopedia |title=ACLAND, John Barton Arundel |encyclopedia=An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand |editor-first=A. H. |editor-last=McLintock |editor-link=Alexander Hare McLintock |year=1966 |via=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/1966/acland-john-barton-arundel |access-date=23 March 2022}}
• James B. Hume, 77, American lawman{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040519.2.90.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=JAMES BUNYAN HUME DIES AT HIS HOME IN BERKELEY Peaceful Death Ends Stirring Career of Famous Sleuth Who for Many Years Directed the Work of the Wells Fargo Detective Bureau |volume=XCV |issue=171 |date=19 May 1904 |at=Page 14, columns 3-4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}

• In Michigan, Judge Henry Mandell of the Wayne Circuit Court, an unmarried man, advised mechanic A. R. Sobke, who had requested an injunction against his wife, to go home and spank her if her misbehavior continued. A week earlier, Mandell had ruled that husbands should be the sole heads of their households.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040520.2.50&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DECIDES THAT HUSBAND HAS RIGHT TO SPANK WIFE Michigan Jurist, Who Is a Bachelor, Renders Ruling That Will Arouse the Fair Sex. |volume=XCV |issue=172 |date=20 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Gordon Adamson, Canadian architect; in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada (d. 1986){{cite dictionary |url=http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/15 |last=Hill |first=Robert G. |title=Adamson, Gordon Sinclair |dictionary=Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800 - 1950 |publisher=Robert G. Hill, Architect, FRAIC |access-date=23 March 2022}}{{Self-published source|date=March 2022}}
• Nella Maria Bonora, Italian actress and voice actress; in Mantua, Lombardy, Italy (d. 1990){{cite web |url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vocinmb.htm |title=La pagina di NELLA MARIA BONORA |trans-title=NELLA MARIA BONORA's page |website=IL MONDO DEI DOPPIATORI |language=it |publisher=Antonio Genna |access-date=28 March 2022}}{{Self-published source|date=March 2022}}
• Anthony Bushell, English actor and director; in Westerham, Kent, England (d. 1997){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13959121k |title=Notice de personne "Bushell, Anthony (1904-1997)" |trans-title=Person notice "Bushell, Anthony (1904-1997)" |date=3 October 2006 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Daniel Guérin, French anarcho-communist author; in Paris, France (d. 1988){{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/guerin_d_S.pdf |last=Sibalis |first=Michael D. |title=Guérin, Daniel (1904-1988) |encyclopedia=glbtq.com |year=2006 |access-date=18 March 2022 |via=glbtq Archives}}
• Sven Thofelt, Swedish Olympic épée fencer, Olympic champion modern pentathlete and International Olympic Committee member; in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1993){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/23459 |title=Sven Thofelt |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Auguste Molinier, 52, French historian{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Molinier, Auguste|volume=18|page=667}}
• Jamsetji Tata, 65, Indian industrialist{{cite web |title=Did You Know |url=https://www.tatacentralarchives.com/tata-legacy/recollection.html |publisher=Tata Central Archives |department=Recollections |access-date=13 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=Jamsetji Tata |url=https://www.tata.com/about-us/tata-group-our-heritage/tata-titans/jamsetji-tata |publisher=Tata Sons Private Limited |department=Tata Titans |access-date=13 March 2022}}

• Colonel Theodore A. Bingham of the United States engineers had one leg amputated.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040522.2.181&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Consul [sic] Bingham May Recover. |volume=XCV |issue=174 |date=22 May 1904 |at=Page 48, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} A falling derrick had broken both of Bingham's legs on March 19.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040320.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=FALLING DERRICK BREAKS LEGS OF ARMY OFFICER Major Bingham Severely Injured While Superintending Work of Hoisting a Launch. |volume=95 |issue=111 |date=20 March 1904 |at=Page 21, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Margery Allingham, British detective fiction writer; in Ealing, London, England (d. 1966, breast cancer){{cite encyclopedia |first1=David |last1=Langford |first2=John |last2=Clute |title=Allingham, Margery |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clute |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor3-first=Peter |editor3-last=Nicholls |editor4-first=Graham |editor4-last=Sleight |location=London |publisher=Gollancz |date=14 October 2021 |edition=Web |access-date=10 March 2022 |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/allingham_margery}}
• Darwin Teilhet, American author and advertising executive, Newbery Honor winner under pseudonym Cyrus Fisher; in Wyanet, Illinois (d. 1964){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb158014833 |title=Notice de personne "Teilhet, Darwin L. (1904-1964)" |trans-title=Person notice "Teilhet, Darwin L. (1904-1964)" |date=7 October 2008 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=28 March 2022}}

• In Paris, France, seven national associations established the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).{{cite web |url=http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/who-we-are/history/index.html |title=History of FIFA - Foundation |department=Who We Are |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516094922/http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/who-we-are/history/index.html |archive-date=16 May 2015 |publisher=FIFA |access-date=22 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ussoccer.com/history/organizational-structure/fifa |title=FIFA |publisher=U.S. Soccer |department=Organizational Structure |year=2022 |access-date=11 March 2022}}
• At Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York City, teams from Yale University and Princeton University played the first-ever intercollegiate polo match in the United States. During the last half of the game, Princeton player W. G. Devereaux accidentally struck freshman Yale player Henry Denison Babcock, Jr., on the temple with a polo mallet. Babcock laughed off suggestions that the injury might be serious, but would die at his home at 4 a.m. on May 22 as a result of the accident.{{cite news |title=PRINCETON MAN'S BLOW KILLS YALE POLO PLAYER; H.D. Babcock, Jr., Fatally Hurt in Van Cortlandt Park Game. EFFORT TO CONTINUE PLAY W.G. Devereaux, Whose Mallet Inflicted the Injury, Shocked by Result of the Accident. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/05/23/archives/princeton-mans-blow-kills-yale-polo-player-hd-babcock-jr-fatally.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 May 1904 |page=1 |access-date=20 March 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040523.2.65&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=COLLEGE POLO PLAYER KILLED Yale Freshman Dies From Effects of an Accident in Intercollegiate Game |volume=XCV |issue=175 |date=23 May 1904 |at=Page 7, columns 2-3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=https://faithfulreaders.com/2012/05/13/henry-babcock-yale-and-polo/ |last=Winship |first=Kihm |title=Henry Babcock, Yale and Polo |website=Faithful Readers |date=13 May 2012 |access-date=21 March 2022}}
• At a county workhouse in Delaware, 500 people watched the floggings of 16 offenders at the whipping post. Two African American thieves – Samuel Fisher, who was serving a five-year sentence for robbing a woman of $1, and Henry Irons – each stood for an hour in the pillory before being lashed with a cat-o-nine-tails. Fisher received 40 lashes and Irons 30.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040522.2.161.24&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=NEGRO ROBBER IS FLOGGED Given Forty Lashes Across His Bared Back Before Being Placed in a Cell FAINTS AT THE POST Fifteen Other Prisoners Receive Similar Punishment for Crime in Delaware |volume=XCV |issue=174 |date=22 May 1904 |at=Page 40, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• During a track and field competition between the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago at Marshall Field in Chicago, Michigan athlete Ralph Rose set a new world record of {{Convert|48|ft|7.2|in}} in the shot put.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040522.2.137.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ROSE BREAKS THE WORLD'S RECORD IN THE SHOT PUT California Lad Hurls the 16-Pound Weight 48 Feet 7 1-5 Inches in Competition. |volume=XCV |issue=174 |date=22 May 1904 |at=Page 36, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Robert Montgomery (born Henry Montgomery Jr.), American actor and director; in Fishkill Landing, New York (d. 1981, cancer){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/robert-montgomery-53470 |title=Robert Montgomery - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=11 March 2022}}{{cite news |title=Robert Montgomery, actor-producer, dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8324241/robert-montgomery/ |newspaper=The Galveston Daily News |location=Galveston, Texas |date=28 September 1981 |page=6-A |access-date=11 March 2022 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204212908/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8324241/robert_montgomery/ |archive-date=4 December 2018 |url-status=live}}
• Fats Waller (born Thomas Wright Waller), American pianist and comedian; in Harlem, New York City (d. 1943, pneumonia){{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/waller-fats-thomas-wright |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406062100/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/waller-fats-thomas-wright |archive-date=6 April 2009 |last=Tenenholtz |first=David |title=Waller, Fats (Thomas Wright) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians |access-date=11 March 2022 |via=jazz.com}}
• James Crawford, Scottish Olympic footballer; in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1976){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25211 |title=James Crawford |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 March 2022}}
• Died: Ormonde, 21, English Thoroughbred racehorse, died of paralysis.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040523.2.74&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ORMONDE, THE FAMOUS HORSE OF THE CENTURY, IS DEAD |volume=XCV |issue=175 |date=23 May 1904 |at=Page 11, columns 1-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040523.2.74.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ORMONDE DIES AT MENLO PARK Famous English Stallion Which Cost Owner Fortune Succumbs to Old Age PASSES AWAY SATURDAY Attaches of the Ranch Are All Lamenting and a Monument Will Be Erected |volume=XCV |issue=175 |date=23 May 1904 |at=Page 11, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}

• In Findlay, Ohio, the Lake Shore Novelty Works factory was completely destroyed by an explosion that killed 7 workers, some of them teenagers, and seriously injured several others.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040523.2.29&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=EXPLOSION IN FACTORY IS DEADLY Catastrophe at the Lake Shore Novelty Works in Findlay, Ohio, Results in Death and Injury to Many IMMENSE PLANT IS COMPLETELY WRECKED Buildings Are Blown Into Fragments and Bodies of the Dead and Maimed Are Strewn Over Great Area |volume=XCV |issue=175 |date=23 May 1904 |at=Page 3, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, the body of Peter O. Elliott was found hanging from a railroad bridge girder. Elliott, who had been arrested in Washington, D.C., several months earlier on suspicion of planning to kill President Roosevelt, had apparently committed suicide by hanging.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040523.2.21&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PETER O. ELLIOTT ENDS HIS LIFE BY HANGING Man Who Was Suspected of Design to Injure President Is Found Dead. |volume=XCV |issue=175 |date=23 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Anne de Vries, Dutch writer; in Kloosterveen, Netherlands (d. 1964){{cite news |url=http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/1467247/Anne+de+Vries+was+dol+op+bruine+bonen.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530031041/http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/1467247/Anne+de+Vries+was+dol+op+bruine+bonen.html |archive-date=30 May 2012 |last=Wilbrink-Donkersteeg |first=Jeannette |title=Anne de Vries was dol op bruine bonen |trans-title=Anne de Vries loved kidney beans |date=12 March 2010 |newspaper=Reformatorisch Dagblad |language=nl |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Pierino Gabetti, Italian sailor and Olympic champion weightlifter; in Sestri Ponente, Genoa, Italy (d. 1971){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/56125 |title=Pierino Gabetti |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 March 2022}}
• Uno Lamm (born August Uno Lamm), Swedish electrical engineer and inventor; in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1989){{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.nae.edu/19579/19581/51314/51347/188888/AUGUST-UNO-LAMM-19041989 |last=Gould |first=William R. |chapter=AUGUST UNO LAMM 1904-1989 |title=Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering |volume=5 |publisher=National Academies Press |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-309-04689-3 |via=National Academy of Engineering Website |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor; in Tomsk, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1977){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15037127g |title=Notice de personne "Sobolevskij, Pëtr (1904-1977)" |trans-title=Person notice "Sobolevsky, Pyotr (1904-1977)" |date=14 August 2015 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=28 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Georges Gilles de la Tourette, 46, French neurologist, namesake of Tourette syndrome, died of status seizure, apoplexy and/or neurosyphilis.{{cite journal |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022399909003195 |publisher=Elsevier B.V. |journal=Journal of Psychosomatic Research |volume=67 |issue=6 |date=December 2009 |pages=469–474 |title=Gilles de la Tourette: The man behind the syndrome |last1=Rickards |first1=Hugh |last2=Cavanna |first2=Andrea Eugenio |doi=10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.07.019 |pmid=19913650 |access-date=2 April 2022}}{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12002511z |title=Notice de personne "Gilles de la Tourette, Georges (1857-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Gilles de la Tourette, Georges (1857-1904)" |date=18 June 2012 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=2 April 2022}}{{cite journal |first=A J |last=Lees |title=Charcot's capricious scribe |journal=Brain |volume=142 |issue=4 |date=April 2019 |pages=1161–1163 |doi=10.1093/brain/awz047 |url=https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/142/4/1161/5366938?login=false |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=2 April 2022 |via=Oxford Academic |doi-access=free}}
• Charles Elwood Brown, 69, American lawyer and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000907 |title=BROWN, Charles Elwood 1834 – 1904 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Charles Burke, 50, English first-class cricketer{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/charles-burke-10159 |title=Charles Burke profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=23 March 2022}}
• George Walsh, 52, English cricketer{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/george-walsh-22710 |title=George Walsh profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=20 December 2022}}

• At Huffman Prairie, Ohio, the Wright brothers made their first flight attempt in the Wright Flyer II. This attempt and another on May 25 were unsuccessful.{{cite book |last=Renstrom |first=Arthur George |title=Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Reissue of A Chronology Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Orville Wright, August 19, 1871 |url=https://history.nasa.gov/monograph32.pdf |series=Monographs in Aerospace History |volume=32 |others=NASA Publication SP-2003-4532 |publisher=U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration |date=September 2003 |orig-date=1975 |page=8 |lccn=2003051363 |access-date=10 April 2022}}
• Born:
• Johannes Flintrop, German critic of the Nazi Party; in Barmen, Germany (d. 1942 in Dachau concentration camp){{cite web |url=http://www.koelner-maertyrer.de/flintrop.html |title=Kölner Märtyrer/Kaplan Johannes Flintrop |trans-title=Cologne Martyr/Chaplain Johannes Flintrop |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614172258/http://www.koelner-maertyrer.de/flintrop.html |archive-date=14 June 2006 |access-date=17 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.mettmann.de/web/?page_id=10049 |title=Johannes Flintrop |language=de |publisher=Kreisstadt Mettmann |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• Libby Holman (born Elizabeth Lloyd Holzman), American actress, singer and activist; in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1971, carbon monoxide poisoning, ruled suicide){{cite web |url=http://www.paulbowles.org/photosjanebowles.html |last=Lisenbee |first=Kenneth |title=JANE BOWLES, LIBBY HOLMAN REYNOLDS AND BARBARA HUTTON |year=2007 |website=PaulBowles.org |access-date=28 March 2022 |archive-date=16 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216112141/http://www.paulbowles.org/photosjanebowles.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/libby-holman-22947 |title=Libby Holman - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=28 March 2022}}
• Karl Seitz, Austrian Olympic water polo player; in Vienna, Austria (d. 1990){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/53470 |title=Karl Seitz |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 December 2022}}
• Died:
• Augustus Caesar Buell, 56, American author of fabricated biographies{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/05/24/archives/death-list-of-a-day-col-augustus-c-buell.html |title=DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; Col. Augustus C. Buell. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 May 1904 |page=9 |access-date=22 March 2022}}{{cite magazine |last=Hamilton |first=Milton W. |title=Augustus C. Buell Fraudulent Historian |magazine=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=80 |issue=4 |publisher=Historical Society of Pennsylvania |date=October 1956 |pages=478–92 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20088910 |jstor=20088910 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101129/http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/legacy_files/docs/pmhb_article_0.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=22 March 2022 |url-status=live}}
• Robert McLachlan FRS, 67, English entomologist{{cite magazine |author1=A. E. E. |author2=E. S. |title=In Memoriam. ROBERT McLACHLAN. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3307437&view=1up&seq=173&skin=2021 |magazine=The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |volume=40 |pages=145–148 |date=July 1904 |access-date=10 March 2022 |via=HathiTrust}}

• Born:
• Arthur Roy Clapham, British botanist; in Norwich, England (d. 1990){{cite journal |last=Willis |first=A. J. |date=1 February 1994 |title=Arthur Roy Clapham, 24 May 1904 - 18 December 1990 |journal=Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. |volume=39 |pages=71–90 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1994.0005 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1994.0005 |publisher=The Royal Society |s2cid=58968653 |issn=1748-8494 |access-date=22 March 2022}}
• Sefton Delmer (born Denis Sefton Delmer), British journalist and World War II propagandist; in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1979){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12810663k |title=Notice de personne "Delmer, Sefton (1904-1979)" |trans-title=Person notice "Delmer, Sefton (1904-1979)" |date=18 February 2010 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Ding Delong, Chinese National Revolutionary Army general; in You County, Hunan, China (d. 1996){{cite web |url=https://min.news/en/taiwan/c30fa79b870035a01b19a398a20a3fad.html |title=An inventory of senior generals in the Military Cemetery on Wuzhishan, Taiwan Province, China |website=min.news |department=Taiwan |publisher=IMEDIA |access-date=22 March 2022}}
• Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark; in Tatoi Palace, Kingdom of Greece (d. 1955, cancer){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jVE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA71 |title=The Titled Nobility of Europe. An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. |editor=Marquis of Ruvigny |editor-link=Melville Henry Massue |publisher=Burke's Peerage Ltd |year=1980 |orig-date=First published 1914 (London: Harrison & Sons) |page=71 |isbn=0-85011-028-9 |access-date=28 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
• Chūhei Nambu, Japanese Olympic champion track and field athlete; in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (d. 1997, pneumonia){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72553 |title=Chuhei Nanbu |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Myer S. Isaacs, 63, Jewish-American lawyer and judge, died of heart disease.{{cite news |date=25 May 1904 |title=MYER S. ISAACS DEAD. Stricken on Broadway, He Dies a Few Minutes Later of Heart Disease. |volume=LIII |at=Page 7, column 6 |newspaper=The New York Times |issue=16970 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1904-05-25_53_16970/page/n6/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040525.2.81.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Myer S. Isaacs Dead. |volume=XCV |issue=177 |date=25 May 1904 |at=Page 3, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Friedrich Siemens, 77, German entrepreneur{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10485893r |title=Notice de personne "Siemens, Friedrich (1826-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Siemens, Friedrich (1826-1904)" |date=30 December 2015 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}

• Japanese forces bombarded the Russian positions at Kinchau and Nanshan.{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/240/mode/2up |page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/240/mode/2up 240] |location=Philadelphia |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co. |year=1905 |access-date=10 April 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}
• In Tandil, Argentina, Calabrian shoemaker Guido Dinelli flew his "Aeroplano apparatus" glider attached to a bicycle for {{Convert|180|m}}, becoming the second person known to have made a gliding flight in South America.{{cite web |url=http://www.aeroclubsanpedro.com.ar/guido%20dinelli.htm |last=Campos |first=Eduardo |title=8 de Octubre de 2004, Salón de la Sociedad Italiana de San Pedro Charla sobre el primer vuelo de un aparato mas pesado que el aire en Ibero América, el "25 de Mayo de 1904" |trans-title=8 October 2004, Salon of the Sociedad Italiana de San Pedro Talk about the first flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft in Ibero America, the "25 May 1904" |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810202554/http://aeroclubsanpedro.com.ar/guido%20dinelli.htm |archive-date=10 August 2013 |publisher=Aero Club San Pedro |year=2004 |language=es |access-date=10 April 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/guido-dinelli-may-251904 |title=Guido Dinelli - May 25, 1904 |website=National Air and Space Museum |department=Wall of Honor |access-date=10 April 2022}}{{Unreliable source?|reason=Page includes disclaimer: "Wall of Honor profiles are provided by the honoree or the donor who added their name to the Wall of Honor. The Museum cannot validate all facts contained in the profiles."|date=April 2022}}
• In Yazoo City, Mississippi, a fire which started at 8:30 a.m. destroyed 200 buildings, causing losses estimated between $1,600,000 and $2,000,000. One person was killed, and the city's mayor was seriously injured.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040526.2.54&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=FIRE SWEEPS YAZOO CITY |volume=XCV |issue=178 |date=26 May 1904 |at=Page 3, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} Yazoo City legend would later claim that the fire was caused by a witch avenging her death exactly twenty years earlier.{{cite web |url=https://visityazoo.org/witch-of-yazoo/ |title=The Legend of the Witch of Yazoo |publisher=Yazoo County Convention and Visitors Bureau |access-date=23 March 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/10/28/witch-yazoo-still-haunts-town-burned/18093723/ |last=Apel |first=Therese |title=The Witch of Yazoo still haunts the town she burned |newspaper=The Clarion-Ledger |department=News |date=29 October 2014 |access-date=23 March 2022}}

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• The horse Delhi, ridden by jockey George M. Odom, won the 1904 Belmont Stakes at Morris Park Racecourse in the Bronx, New York City.{{cite news |title=DELHI WON ALL THE WAY J. R. Keene's Colt Easily Took the Belmont in Fast Time. MORRIS PARK RACES ENDED A Great Crowd Witnessed the Closing Day's Sport on the Big Westchester Course. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/05/26/101343305.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=26 May 1904 |access-date=22 March 2022}}
• In Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, ten coal miners were asphyxiated by fumes from a locomotive in a tunnel at the Summit Branch Coal Company.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040526.2.25&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEADLY GASES KILL MINERS Ten Are Suffocated by Sulphurous Fumes From Locomotive in a Tunnel MEDICAL AID USELESS Victims Are Overcome While They Are Riding Through the Shaft to Their Work |volume=XCV |issue=178 |date=26 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=76 |access-date=16 March 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}} Nine of the ten men killed were members of a rescue party that entered the mine after the first victim, miner Enoch Morgan, was overcome.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040527.2.77&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=MEMBERS OF RELIEF PARTY LOSE THEIR LIVES Nine of the Victims of the Williamstown Colliery Disaster Were Trying to Save Others. |volume=XCV |issue=179 |date=27 May 1904 |at=Page 4, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Eske Brun, Greenlandic civil servant; in Aalborg, Denmark (d. 1987){{cite dictionary |last=Lidegaard |first=Mads |title=Eske Brun |dictionary=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon |via=lex.dk |access-date=1 April 2022 |url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Eske_Brun |date=14 October 2014 |language=da}}
• Orla Jørgensen, Danish Olympic champion racing cyclist; in Ordrup, Gentofte Municipality, Denmark (d. 1947){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/14976 |title=Orla Jørgensen |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Lucien Lange, French racing cyclist (d. 1982){{cite web |title=Lucien Lange |website=Cycling Archives |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=49842 |publisher=de Wielersite |access-date=24 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223010455/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=49842 |archive-date=23 February 2024}}
• Charles L. Melson, United States Navy vice admiral; in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1981){{cite web |url=https://www.usna.edu/Library/sca/man-findingaids/view.php?f=MS_553#Biographical+Chronology+of+Charles+Leroy+Melson |title=Charles Leroy Melson Papers, 1921-1976: Finding Aid |location=Annapolis, Maryland |publisher=United States Naval Academy, Special Collections & Archives |date=November 2020 |access-date=10 March 2022}}
• Umberto Scarpelli, Italian screenwriter and film director; in Orvieto, Italy (d. 1980){{cite web |url=https://www.mymovies.it/persone/umberto-scarpelli/55916/filmografia/ |title=Umberto Scarpelli filmografia |trans-title=Umberto Scarpelli filmography |website=Mymovies.it |language=it |access-date=28 March 2022}}
• Kurt Thomas, German composer and conductor; in Tönning, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (d. 1973){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920734 |title=Kurt Thomas |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Lizzi Waldmüller, Austrian singer and actress; in Knittelfeld, Styria, Austria (d. 1945, air raid){{cite news |url=https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/film/154883_Operettendiva-Lizzi-Waldmueller.html?em_cnt=154883&em_cnt=154883 |title=Operettendiva Lizzi Waldmüller |trans-title=Operetta diva Lizzi Waldmüller |newspaper=Wiener Zeitung |department=Film |date=13 May 2004 |language=de |access-date=24 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907171159/https://www.tagblatt-wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/film/154883_Operettendiva-Lizzi-Waldmueller.html?em_cnt=154883&em_cnt=154883 |archive-date=7 September 2023}}
• Died:
• David Sime Cargill, 78, Scottish businessman, founder of Burmah Oil{{cite web |url=https://roar.media/english/life/history/the-link-between-supermarket-chain-cargills-and-petroleum-giant-bp |last=Moonesinghe |first=Vinod |title=The Link Between Supermarket Chain Cargills and Petroleum Giant BP |publisher=Roar Media |department=History & Culture |date=8 January 2018 |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Sir John Carstairs McNeill {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|VC|GCVO|KCB|KCMG}}, 73, British Army major general{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/921357 |title=OBITUARY. SIR J. C. McNEILL, V.C. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide, South Australia |date=30 May 1904 |at=Page 7, column 2 |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=Trove}}

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• The Battle of Nanshan ended in victory for Japanese forces, who captured Kinchau and Nanshan from the Russians and drove them back to the vicinity of Port Arthur.{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/240/mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/240/mode/2up 240-246] |location=Philadelphia |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co. |year=1905 |access-date=10 April 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}
• In Saint Petersburg, news of the Japanese victory at Kinchou caused the curtailment of celebrations for the anniversary of Tsar Nicholas II's coronation.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040528.2.31&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DISASTER CLOUDS THE CZAR'S FESTIVAL |volume=XCV |issue=180 |date=28 May 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 1-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040528.2.32&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=CORONATION ANNIVERSARY IS SADDENED Customary Services in St. Petersburg Dispensed With Because of Defeat. General Staff Admits That Port Arthur Siege Is On in Earnest. |volume=XCV |issue=180 |date=28 May 1904 |at=Page 3, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• At 3:30 a.m., {{Convert|4|miles}} from Louisville, Kentucky, the tow boat Fred Wilson was destroyed by an explosion of its boilers, killing 10 people and injuring 16.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040527.2.86&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=TEN MEN DIE IN EXPLOSION Mud in Boilers of the Towboat Fred Wilson Cause of Disaster Near Louisville DEATH COMES SUDDENLY Others of the Crew Badly Injured and One of Them Is Not Likely to Recover |volume=XCV |issue=179 |date=27 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}

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• At Huffman Prairie, Ohio, Orville Wright made the first successful flight in the Wright Flyer II, the first of 105 flights the Flyer II would make during 1904.{{cite web |url=http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/aviation%20timeline/1904.htm |website=Century of Flight |title=Aviation Timeline: World Aviation in 1904 |access-date=10 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303215350/http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/aviation%20timeline/1904.htm |archive-date=3 March 2019 |url-status=dead}}
• Born:
• Vincent Alo, Italian American mobster; in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City (d. 2001){{cite web |title=Jimmy Blue Eyes - by Carole Cortland Russo |url=https://jimmyblueeyes.com/ |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• George Formby (born George Hoy Booth), English singer and comedian; in Wigan, Lancashire, England (d. 1961, heart attack){{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f471218 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324025741/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f471218 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 24, 2018 |title=George Formby |publisher=British Film Institute |department=Films, TV and people |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher; in Kovno, Russian Empire (d. 2002){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12131102f |title=Notice de personne "Perlemuter, Vlado (1904-2002)" |trans-title=Person notice "Perlemuter, Vlado (1904-2002)" |date=10 December 2009 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Frank Ragland, American Major League Baseball pitcher; in Water Valley, Mississippi (d. 1959){{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/raglafr01.shtml |title=Frank Ragland Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Mary Ellen Bagnall-Oakeley, 71, English antiquarian, author and painter{{cite web |title=Bagnall Oakeley |url=http://www.hmsg.co.uk/en/H_Bagnall1 |website=Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls |department=School Houses |year=2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424113913/http://www.hmsg.co.uk/en/H_Bagnall1 |archive-date=24 April 2012 |access-date=8 March 2022}}
• Charlton Thomas Lewis, 70, American lawyer, author and lexicographer, died of cerebrospinal meningitis.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67014592/dr-charlton-t-lewis/ |title=DR. CHARLTON T. LEWIS. Lawyer and Educator Stricken with Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=27 May 1904 |at=Page 9, column 6 |access-date=29 December 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Americana|wstitle=Lewis, Charlton Thomas|year=1920}}
• Ivan, Viscount d'Oyley (born Alastair Ivan Ladislaus Lucidus Evans), 24, American Olympic fencer, shot himself to death.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040527.2.10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=BULLET ENDS THE LIFE OF VISCOUNT D'OYLEY Son of Wealthy American Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances in the French Capital. |volume=XCV |issue=179 |date=27 May 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 2-3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/21838 |title=Ivan, Viscount d'Oyley |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=8 March 2022}}

• By a vote of 427 to 95, the French Chamber of Deputies approved the government's recall of Monsieur Nisard, the French ambassador to the Holy See.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040528.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=APPROVES THE RECALL OF NISARD Ministry Supported by a Heavy Vote. Emphatic Expression Concerning the Rupture With Vatican. French Deputies Suppress the Extremists and Pass Further Action on Subject Until January. |volume=XCV |issue=180 |date=28 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7; page 3, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Concurrent with the 41st anniversary of the siege of Port Hudson, a statue of William Francis Bartlett was unveiled at the Massachusetts State House in Boston.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/arecorddedicati01deptgoog |title=A Record of the Dedication of the Statue of Major General William Francis Bartlett. A Tribute of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 27, 1904 |location=Boston |publisher=Wright and Potter Printing Company |year=1905 |access-date=31 December 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}
• Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of U.S. President Roosevelt, visited the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Because she and her escort, George D. Markham, arrived in a phaeton, the gate inspector, who had been told that they would arrive in an automobile, would not grant free admission to them and the rest of their party. Markham paid the admission fees for the whole group.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040528.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER HAS TO PAY Miss Roosevelt Buys Tickets to Enter Fair. |volume=XCV |issue=180 |date=28 May 1904 |at=Page 1, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Forty-seven dignitaries from the Philippines arrived in San Francisco, California, aboard the steamship Siberia, on their way to the World's Fair. The delegation included Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, Benito Legarda, José de Luzuriaga, Cayetano Arellano and Mariano Trías.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040528.2.47&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DISTINGUISHED FILIPINOS REACH SHORES OF AMERICA AS GUESTS OF THE NATION AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION |volume=XCV |issue=180 |date=28 May 1904 |at=Page 4, columns 1-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040528.2.47.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Eminent Men From Orient Are Welcomed by Committee of Prominent San Franciscans. |volume=XCV |issue=180 |date=28 May 1904 |at=Page 4, columns 2-3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}

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• American artist Katharine Carl's portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi of China arrived aboard the Siberia for exhibition at the World's Fair.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040528.2.47.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Empress Dowager's Famous Picture Arrives. Gold-Framed Exhibit Is China's Star Attraction. |volume=XCV |issue=180 |date=28 May 1904 |at=Page 4, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Also aboard the Siberia, American botanist and mountain climber John Muir returned to San Francisco from a year-long trip around the world.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040528.2.47.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=John Muir Ends Year of Journeying in Many Lands. |volume=XCV |issue=180 |date=28 May 1904 |at=Page 4, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• John C. Bailar Jr., American inorganic chemist; in Golden, Colorado (d. 1991){{cite journal |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/001085459380022W |publisher=Elsevier B.V. |journal=Coordination Chemistry Reviews |volume=128 |issue=1–2 |date=October 1993 |pages=1–48 |title=John C. Bailar, Jr. (1904–1991): father of coordination chemistry in the United States |last1=Kauffman |first1=George B. |author1-link=George Kauffman |last2=Girolami |first2=Gregory S. |author2-link=Gregory S. Girolami |last3=Busch |first3=Daryle H. |author3-link=Daryle H. Busch |doi=10.1016/0010-8545(93)80022-W |access-date=2 April 2022}}
• Tarcisio Fusco, Italian film score composer; in Sant'Agata de' Goti, Campania, Italy (d. 1962){{cite web |url=https://www.mymovies.it/persone/tarcisio-fusco/71260/ |title=Tarcisio Fusco biografia |trans-title=Tarcisio Fusco biography |website=Mymovies.it |language=it |access-date=2 April 2022}}
• Died:
• François Coillard, 69, French missionary, died of haematuric fever.{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15369357k |title=Notice de personne "Coillard, François (1834-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Coillard, François (1834-1904)" |date=28 December 2016 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=17 March 2022}}
• Hannah M. Underhill Isaac, 70, American evangelist{{cite web |url=https://underhillsociety.org/cpage.php?pt=18 |title=Descriptive Inventories |publisher=The Underhill Society of America |access-date=21 March 2022}}

• In New York City, Charles Green, an African American man, was nearly lynched after attacking two girls who were taking photographs in Central Park. Police officers rescued Green from a pursuing crowd.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040529.2.78&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=NEGRO PRISONER NARROWLY ESCAPES BEING LYNCHED Attacks Two Girls in New York Park and Policemen With Difficulty Save Him From Mob. |volume=XCV |issue=181 |date=29 May 1904 |at=Page 26, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• The Ferris Wheel, originally built for Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, opened at the World's Fair in St. Louis.{{cite news |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/history/grandeur-and-tragedy-at-the-great-ferris-wheel-at-the-1904-worlds-fair/collection_9a7e3241-0b9d-57c3-b330-043476c40c87.html |title=Grandeur and Tragedy at the Great Ferris Wheel at the 1904 World's Fair |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=28 May 2021 |access-date=15 March 2022}}
• In Los Angeles, California, the Methodist General Conference voted to amend the church constitution to allow the election of bishops of non-European descent, who would serve as presidents of conferences consisting primarily of ministers of non-European descent.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040529.2.74&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PRELATES MAY BE OF ANY RACE Methodists Take Important Action in Conference. |volume=XCV |issue=181 |date=29 May 1904 |at=Page 26, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• George Beck, British Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Liverpool; in Streatham, London, England (d. 1978){{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbeckg.html |title=Archbishop George Andrew Beck |website=Catholic-Hierarchy |publisher=David M. Cheney |date=8 February 2021 |access-date=10 March 2022}}{{Self-published source|date=March 2022}}
• Giuseppe Gobbato, Italian Olympic racewalker; in Voghera, Province of Pavia, Italy (d. 1990){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72003 |title=Giuseppe Gobbato |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 December 2022}}
• Anne Gillespie Shaw, Scottish engineer and businesswoman; in Uddingston, Scotland (d. 1982){{cite web |title=Anne Gillespie Shaw |publisher=Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame |access-date=24 March 2022 |url=https://engineeringhalloffame.org/profile/anne-gillespie-shaw}}{{cite web |last=Baker |first=Nina C |title=45: Anne Gillespie Shaw |url=https://www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-the-week/45-anne-gillespie-shaw |website=Magnificent Women |date=28 May 2019 |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Kicking Bear, 59, Oglala Lakota artist and band chief of the Miniconjou Lakota{{cite web |url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_12.71 |title=Kicking Bear - Sioux |website=National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution |access-date=16 March 2022}}
• Matthew Quay, 70, American attorney, Union Army officer, Medal of Honor recipient and United States Senator from Pennsylvania, died of chronic gastritis.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040529.2.57&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=QUAY DIES PEACEFULLY AFTER A LONG ILLNESS Senior Senator From Pennsylvania Passes Away at His Home in Beaver After Suffering for Months From Chronic Gastritis and a General Breaking Down of His Vital System |volume=XCV |issue=181 |date=29 May 1904 |at=Page 25, columns 3-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040529.2.57.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PRESIDENT SYMPATHIZES. Sends Message to Mrs. Quay on Learning of Senator's Death. |volume=XCV |issue=181 |date=29 May 1904 |at=Page 25, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040529.2.58&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=NOTED POLITICAL LEADER. Death of Quay Deprives Republican Party of a Skillful Manager. |volume=XCV |issue=181 |date=29 May 1904 |at=Page 25, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/Q000006 |title=QUAY, Matthew Stanley 1833 – 1904 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=8 March 2022}}

• Forty-two men were missing, and four men reportedly had died, after a French Army walking match from the Place de la Concorde to Saint-Germain and back, a distance of {{Convert|28|miles}}. 2000 soldiers participated in the march.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040531.2.60&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Fatal Results of Walking Match. |volume=XCV |issue=183 |date=31 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• In Seelyville, Indiana, 4-year-old Richmond Byers disappeared while walking from his house to a ball game, reportedly after following an "uncouth" man. Byers would never be found, although his father, Dr. Leonard S. Byers, would continue searching for him until his death in 1913.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3800126/the-indianapolis-news/ |title=Disappearance of Byers Boy, Seelyville, Recalled |newspaper=The Indianapolis News |date=3 March 1932 |page=8 |access-date=21 March 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |url=https://www.courierpress.com/story/opinion/columnists/jon-webb/2019/04/05/indiana-missing-boy-mystery-timmothy-pitzen-richmond-byers/3372797002/ |last=Webb |first=Jon |title='Please hunt for me': Indiana had its own bizarre missing-boy mystery |newspaper=Courier & Press |department=Opinion |date=5 April 2019 |publisher=www.courierpress.com |access-date=21 March 2022}}
• Born:
• Abu Bakar of Pahang, Sultan of Pahang; in Istana Hinggap, Pekan, Pahang, Federated Malay States, British Malaya (d. 1974){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7p8CAAAAMAAJ&q=abu+bakar+of+pahang+1974 |title=Who's who in Malaysia and Guide to Singapore |chapter=Obituary |volume=10 |editor-last=Morais |editor-first=John Victor |editor-link=John Victor Morais |publisher=J. V. Morais |year=1975 |page=138 |access-date=13 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
• Grigory Ginzburg, Russian pianist; in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire (d. 1961){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13993082w |title=Notice de personne "Ginsburg, Grigorij Romanovic (1904-1961)" |trans-title=Person notice "Ginzburg, Grigory Romanovich (1904-1961)" |date=29 January 2018 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• Robert Juranic, Austrian international footballer; in Vienna, Austria (d. 1973){{NFT player|43297|Robert Juranic|access-date=2 April 2022}}
• Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician; in Rochester, Victoria, Australia (d. 1996){{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=3198 |title=Hubert Opperman |website=Cycling Archives |publisher=de Wielersite |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301142500/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=3198 |archive-date=1 March 2024 |url-status=live}}
• Marcel Thil, French world champion middleweight boxer; in Saint-Dizier, France (d. 1968){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10256867g |title=Notice de personne "Thil, Marcel (1904-1968)" |trans-title=Person notice "Thil, Marcel (1904-1968)" |date=20 February 2015 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=2 April 2022}}
• Gregg Toland, American cinematographer; in Charleston, Illinois (d. 1948, coronary thrombosis){{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/toland.htm |title=GREGG TOLAND |encyclopedia=Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers |publisher=Albert Steeman Productions |access-date=24 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023140725/http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/toland.htm |archive-date=23 October 2023 |url-status=usurped}}
• Died:
• Pauline Åhman, 92, Swedish harpist{{cite dictionary |title=Maria Paulina (Marie Pauline) Åhman |url=https://www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/PaulineAhman |dictionary=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |first=Ulla |last=Åshede |access-date=9 April 2024 |translator-last=Grosjean |translator-first=Alexia |language=en}}
• Manuel María de Zamacona y Murphy, 77, Mexican politician{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cp50BQAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA1909 |last=Camp |first=Roderic Ai |author-link=Roderic Ai Camp |title=Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934 |location=Austin, Texas |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=1991 |page=1909 |isbn=978-0-292-75603-8 |doi=10.7560/751194 |access-date=13 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}

• The Russians evacuated Dalny after destroying strategic facilities in the city.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040601.2.60&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RUSSIANS EVACUATE DALNY AFTER APPLYING THE TORCH AND MANCHURIAN BRIGANDS INVADE AND PILLAGE THE TOWN UNTIL JAPANESE ARRIVE Modern City on the Coast of Liaotung Now Held by Mikado's Men. Garrison Destroys Gunboat and Fires the Buildings Before Fleeing. |volume=XCVI |issue=1 |date=1 June 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 2-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Eleven women at Syracuse University founded Alpha Gamma Delta, which would become an international women's fraternity.{{cite web |url=https://alphagammadelta.org/about/history/ |title=History |date=18 November 2016 |publisher=Alpha Gamma Delta |access-date=15 March 2022}}
• Workman John Reynolds fell {{Convert|150|ft}} to his death while oiling the axle of the Ferris Wheel at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Reynolds' death was reportedly the third during work on the Wheel in St. Louis.
• Alice Roosevelt again visited the World's Fair, lunching with Exposition President David R. Francis and his family. In the evening the German pavilion held a ball in Alice Roosevelt's honor.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040531.2.88&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=MISS ROOSEVELT VISITS FAIR IN SPITE OF RAIN President's Daughter and Friends Are Entertained at Exposition by President Francis. |volume=XCV |issue=183 |date=31 May 1904 |at=Page 6, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• United States federal authorities arrested four white men in connection with whitecapping in the Piney Woods section of East Texas.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040531.2.67&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=WHITECAPPERS TAKEN BY FEDERAL OFFICERS Uncle Sam Aiding in Putting to an End the Lawless Reign in a Texas District. |volume=XCV |issue=183 |date=31 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• In Salida, Colorado, at least five people, most of them children, were killed when a footbridge over the Arkansas River collapsed during Memorial Day ceremonies. There were reportedly twenty people on the bridge when it collapsed.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040531.2.21&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=FIVE PEOPLE FALL TO DEATH Footbridge at Salida, Colorado, Breaks and Occupants Plunge Into River |volume=XCV |issue=183 |date=31 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Ernesto de la Guardia, Panamanian politician, President of Panama; in Panama City, Panama (d. 1983){{cite web |url=http://www.rulers.org/indexg4.html |title=Index Gr-Gy |website=Rulers |publisher=B. Schemmel |access-date=2 April 2022}}{{Self-published source|date=April 2022}}
• Doris Packer, American actress; in Menominee, Michigan (d. 1979){{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/doris-packer-p54605 |title=Doris Packer {{!}} Movies and Filmography |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=15 March 2022}}
• Archibald Russell, British aerospace engineer; in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England (d. 1995){{cite journal |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.1996.0023 |last=Strang |first=W.J. |author-link=Bill Strang (engineer) |title=Sir Archibald Edward Russell, C.B.E., 30 May 1904—29 May 1995 |journal=Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. |publisher=The Royal Society |date=1 November 1996 |volume=42 |pages=381–384 |issn=1748-8494 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1996.0023 |s2cid=71230353 |access-date=25 March 2022}}
• Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, British public servant and zoologist; in Cape Town, Cape Colony (d. 1993, heart attack){{cite journal |last=Krohn |first=Peter Leslie |date=1 November 1995 |title=Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, of Burnham Thorpe, O. M., K. C. B., 30 May 1904 - 1 April 1993 |journal=Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. |volume=41 |pages=576–598 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1995.0034 |publisher=The Royal Society |pmid=11615365 |s2cid=11499508 |issn=1748-8494 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1995.0034 |access-date=2 April 2022}}
• Feliks Żukowski, Polish actor and theatre director; in Riga, Latvia (d. 1976){{cite web |url=https://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=11935 |title=Feliks Żukowski |website=FilmPolski.pl |publisher=Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. Leona Schillera |date=5 March 2022 |language=pl |access-date=23 March 2022}}
• Died:
• Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 84{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/05/31/100471126.pdf |title=WEALTHIEST GRAND DUKE DEAD Ruler of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Owned More Than Half His Country. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=31 May 1904 |access-date=15 March 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040531.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=GRAND DUKE FRIEDRICH GONE TO REST |volume=XCV |issue=183 |date=31 May 1904 |at=Page 2, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Robert McLane, 36, Mayor of Baltimore, died of a gunshot wound to the head (ruled a suicide).{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040531.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=POPULAR YOUNG MAYOR ENDS LIFE WITH A BULLET Bride of Two Weeks Mourns the Suicide of Baltimore's City Executive. |volume=XCV |issue=183 |date=31 May 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 3-4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Marta Anna Wiecka, 30, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed, died of typhoid.{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/2008/ns_lit_doc_20080524_marta_en.html |title=Blessed Marta Maria Wiecka - Biography |website=vatican.va |access-date=15 March 2022}}

• As the British Parliament resumed following its Whitsun recess, MP and future Prime Minister Winston Churchill crossed the floor of the House of Commons, leaving the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Party.{{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Roy |author-link=Roy Jenkins |title=Churchill |year=2001 |publisher=Macmillan Press |location=London |page=88 |isbn=978-03-30488-05-1}} He would rejoin the Conservatives in 1925.{{cite news |author=Tom Happold and agencies |title=Labour defector asks to return |newspaper=The Guardian |department=Politics |date=6 April 2005 |access-date=29 July 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/apr/06/election2005.uk3}}
• In New Brunswick, Canada, guide and fisherman James Humphreys was killed by a Canadian Pacific train. Humphreys, who had recently married a woman, was discovered after his death to be a trans man.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040601.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=HIDES HER SEX UNTIL LIFE ENDS Noted New Brunswick Guide a Woman. |volume=XCVI |issue=1 |date=1 June 1904 |at=Page 1, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• The Supreme Court of the United States issued its rulings in two of the Insular Cases. In the case of Dorr v. United States, the court held that inhabitants of the Philippine Islands were not guaranteed the right to trial by jury. Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan dissented from the majority's ruling.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040601.2.159&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DENIES APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT Supreme Court Says State Cannot Carry Acquittal to the Higher Tribunal MANILA CASES DECIDED |volume=XCVI |issue=1 |date=1 June 1904 |at=Page 9, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} In the case of Kepner v. United States, the court found that the appeal of a lawyer's acquittal for embezzlement to the Supreme Court of the Philippines violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Associate Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Edward Douglass White, Joseph McKenna and Henry Billings Brown dissented from the majority's ruling.
• The U.S. Supreme Court also issued its ruling in the case of McCray v. United States, upholding the constitutionality of the federal tax on colored oleomargarine. Chief Justice Melville Fuller and Associate Justices Brown and Rufus W. Peckham dissented from the majority's ruling.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040601.2.81&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=HOLDS "OLEO" LAW IS VALID Federal Supreme Court Sustains the Constitutionality of the Statute LOWER COURT UPHELD Applicant Sues to Recover a Penalty for Selling the Article Undertaxed |volume=XCVI |issue=1 |date=1 June 1904 |at=Page 3, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• The Board of Lady Managers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition hosted Alice Roosevelt at a luncheon in the Woman's Building of the fair.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040601.2.16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LADY MANAGERS FETE MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT President's Daughter Entertained at a Luncheon on the Exposition Grounds. |volume=XCVI |issue=1 |date=1 June 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 6-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
• Born:
• Otto Hardwick, American saxophone player; in Washington, D.C. (d. 1970){{cite book |last=Chilton |first=John |author-link=John Chilton |title=Who's Who of Jazz Storyville to Swing Street}}, cited in {{cite web |website=BassSax.com |url=http://www.basssax.com/ottohardwick.htm |title=Otto Hardwick |access-date=2 April 2022}}
• Nancy Welford, British-born American actress; in London, England (d. 1991){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/nancy-welford-64440 |title=Nancy Welford - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=2 April 2022}}
• Died: Alberto Blanc, 68, Italian diplomat and politician{{cite web |url=http://notes9.senato.it/web/senregno.nsf/643aea4d2800e476c12574e50043faad/521771f72c2dc4c54125646f005902da?OpenDocument# |title=Scheda senatore BLANC Alberto |trans-title=Senator Alberto BLANC record |website=Senato della Repubblica |language=it |access-date=2 April 2022}}

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