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1904
 
   
John Christian Watson becomes Australia's first Labor prime minister, leading a minority government that survives for only four months      
1904
 
    
Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Nostromo, about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver       
1904
 
   
France and Britain sign an Entente Cordiale, resolving several colonial disputes and laying the foundation for a new alliance      
1904
 
    
Helen Keller overcomes deafness and blindness to graduate cum laude at Radcliffe College in the USA       
1904
 
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The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert       
1904
 
    
Henry James publishes his last completed novel, The Golden Bowl       
1904
 
    
An observatory with a 100-inch reflecting telescope is set up by George Ellery Hale on Mount Wilson in California       
1904
 
   
Constantine Cavafy prints fourteen of his poems in a pamphlet for private distribution      
1904
 
    
The US consul in Mexico, Edward Herbert Thompson, begins a very profitable excavation at the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá       
1904
 
    
Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud publishes The Psychopathology of Everyday Life