The following events occurred in April 1904:
April 1, 1904 (Friday) Discovery Expedition: The research vessel RRS Discovery arrived in Lyttelton, New Zealand, from Antarctica, accompanied by the relief ships SY Morning and Terra Nova. A fire in the central business district of Montreal caused $100,000 in damage. Born: Nikolai Berzarin, Soviet general; in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1945, motorcycle accident) Holger Löwenadler, Swedish film actor; in Jönköping, Sweden (d. 1977) Émile Turlant, French centenarian; in Moulins-sur-Allier, France (d. 2013) Died: Otto von Böhtlingk, Russian-German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1815) Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet, aftereffects of exposure (b. 1873) Abby Morton Diaz, American teacher (b. 1821)
April 2, 1904 (Saturday) 31 deaths from acute cerebrospinal meningitis were reported in New York City for the week ending April 2. Born: Karl Ragnar Gierow, Swedish theater director, author and translator; in Helsingborg, Sweden (d. 1982) František Hochmann, Czechoslovak Olympic and professional footballer; in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1986) Died: Charles Jones, English cricketer (b. 1853)
April 3, 1904 (Sunday) On Easter Sunday, Pope Pius X sent his apostolic blessing to the Diocese of Venice by telephone, the first time a Pope had sent such a blessing by phone in the history of the Catholic Church. Gabriel Voisin successfully flew an Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardy, France. 9-year-old Jacques Henri Lartigue, who would later become a well-known photographer, witnessed Voisin's flight. In Albia, Iowa, an explosion at the Citizens' National Bank killed three people. Born: Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti), American actor of Italian descent who falsely claimed Native American ancestry; in Kaplan, Louisiana (d. 1999) Sally Rand (born Helen Gould Beck), American dancer and actress; in Elkton, Missouri (d. 1979, congestive heart failure) Sante Tani, Italian soldier and partisan; in Rigutino, Arezzo, Italy (d. 1944, murdered) Maria Wiłkomirska, Polish pianist; in Moscow, Russia (d. 1995) Russel Wright, American industrial designer; in Lebanon, Ohio (d. 1976) Died: Ernest Monnington Bowden, Irish inventor (b. 1860) Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, acute pneumonia (b. 1827) William Justice Ford, English schoolmaster, cricketer and sportswriter, pneumonia (b. 1853)
April 4, 1904 (Monday) 1904 Kresna earthquakes: Two earthquakes struck near Kresna, Bulgaria, killing at least 200 people. Hundreds of children, including the young children of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, took part in an Easter Monday egg roll on the grounds of the White House in Washington, D.C. Born: Alexander Afinogenov, Soviet playwright; in Skopin, Russian Empire (d. 1941, German air raid) Walter J. Kohler Jr., American politician, Governor of Wisconsin; in Kohler, Wisconsin (d. 1976, myocardial infarction) Käthe von Nagy (born Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser), Hungarian actress and singer; in Subotica, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1973, cancer) Soeman Hs, Indonesian author and educator; in Bengkalis, Riau (d. 1999)
April 5, 1904 (Tuesday) Born: Richard Eberhart, American poet; in Austin, Minnesota (d. 2005) Wool Winder, British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse; in Exning, England (d. 1928, intestinal infection) Died: Emmy Braun (pseudonym for Ida Louise Jacob), German cookbook author (b. 1826) Frances Power Cobbe, Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher and activist (b. 1822) Ernst, Prince of Leiningen, Royal Navy officer (b. 1830)