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| 1903 |
| | | Orville Wright travels 40 yards in the first successful powered flight, at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina | |
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| 1903 |
| | | The annual Prix Goncourt is established in France, in accordance with the will of Edmond de Goncourt | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet in a historic encounter in Manchester and launch their first car, the Rolls-Royde 10 hp, later in this same year. | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, is staged by Stanislavsky just a few months before the author's death | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Leos Janacek's opera Jenufa, based on a play by Gabriela Preissová, has its premiere in Brno | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Finnish architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen wins the competition to build Helsinki's railway station | |
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| 1904 |
| | | J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea has its premiere at the Molesworth Hall in Dublin | |
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| 1904 |
| | | A violent uprising by Herrero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly falls victim at La Scala to claques paid for by rivals | |
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| 1904 |
| | | A surprise Japanese attack on Russian warships in Port Arthur launches the Russo-Japanese War for influence in the Far East | |
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