September 1904

The following events occurred in September 1904:

[September 1], 1904 (Thursday)

Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opened in London with a Western League fixture versus Plymouth Argyle.

John Voss sailed the rigged dugout canoe Tilikum into the River Thames in England after a 3-year voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, westward around the world.
Died:
*James Brady, 29, American criminal, died of tuberculosis.
*Elizabeth Colenso, 83, New Zealander Protestant missionary

Died: William McCallin, 62, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1887 to 1890, died of dropsy.

As a result of the British expedition to Tibet, the Dalai Lama signed the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
Horace Maples, an African-American man who had been accused of murder, was lynched by a mob of approximately 2,000 people in Huntsville, Alabama.
Born: Daniel Prenn, Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player; in Vilna, Russian Empire

A total solar eclipse was visible from northern Chile.
Born: Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player; in Basti Daneshmandan, Jalandhar, Punjab Province (British India)

Born: Lou Moore, American race car driver and team owner; in Hinton, Oklahoma Territory

Born: Gladys George, American stage and screen actress nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie; in Patten, Maine
Died: Surgeon-General James Jameson, 67, British Army surgeon

Born: Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy; in Racconigi, Piedmont

An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease was published in the United States.
Died: Kartini, 25, Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist, died from complications of childbirth.

Died:
*R. W. H. T. Hudson, 28, British mathematician, died in a mountaineering accident.
*José Maria de Yermo y Parres, 52, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and saint, died of a stomach ulcer.

Near New Market, Tennessee, two Southern Railway passenger trains traveling at great speed collided head on, killing between 56 and 113 passengers and crew and injuring 106.
Died:
*Niels Ryberg Finsen, 43, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1903
*Gustav Frank, 71, German-born Austrian Protestant theologian
*Caleb C. Harris, 68, American farmer and physician, former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, died after surgery for peritonitis.

Died: David G. Colson, 43, American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky