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British strategist Halford Mackinder releases his "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society, that advances his heartland theory, which later also decided US imperial planning. "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world.
Year 1904

Events

• January 25 – Halford Mackinder presents a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics.
• February 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
• April 8 – The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France.
• April 27 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
• May 4 – United States Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal.
• May 5 – British expedition to Tibet: Hundreds of Tibetans attack the British camp at Changlo, and hold the advantage for a while, before being defeated by superior weapons, and losing at least 200 men.
• June 16 – Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, the Russian Governor-General of Finland, in Helsinki.
• August 3 – British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa, Tibet.
• August 11 – Battle of Waterberg: Lothar von Trotha defeats the Herero people in German South-West Africa, and drives them into the Omaheke desert, starting the Herero and Namaqua Genocide.
• September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
• October 21 – Russo-Japanese War: Dogger Bank incident – The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats, in the North Sea.
• December 6 – Theodore Roosevelt announces his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States will intervene in the Western Hemisphere, should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

 

Events

Event
Pax Brittanica
Dreyfus Affair

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
William Collins Whitney	5 July 1841	2 February 1904	U.S.		Politician Financier
Theodore Herzl	2 May 1860	3 July 1904	Austria-Hungary Edlach	Cardiac sclerosis	Author Journalist Playwright Activist
Marcus Goldman	9 December 1821	20 July 1904	US New Jersey Elberon		Financier	Founder of Goldman Sachs, which has since become one of the world's largest investment banks
Thomas Baring	22 January 1826	15 November 1904	Hampshire Stratton Park

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
William Skardon	1904		1987	Spook	MI5 counterintelligence expert who failed to catch Philby and many others
Paul Chambers	1904		1981	Businessperson	Chairman of ICI. Attended the 1963 and 1968 Bilderbergs.
René Clement-Cuzin	1904		1966		Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Little known
William Schnitzler	1904		June 1983	Labor leader	US single Bilderberg AFL–CIO/Secretary-Treasurer
Johannes Green	1904			Banker	Danish banker who attended the 1969 Bilderberg
Henry Townley Heald	1904		1975	Academic	President of the wealthy Ford Foundation
Ludovic Tron	3 January 1904	France Molines-en-Queyras	24 October 1968	Diplomat
Giorgio La Pira	9 January 1904		5 November 1977	Politician
Seán MacBride	26 January 1904	France Paris	15 January 1988		Prominent Irish and international politician, Nobel laureate
Maurice Bridgeman	26 January 1904		18 June 1980	Businessperson	UK Businessman who attended the 1968 Bilderberg as Chair of BP
Niel Morgan	30 January 1904	Wales Glamorgan Cyncoed	14 September 1985	Propagandist Athlete
George Kennan	16 February 1904	Milwaukee Wisconsin	17 March 2005	Diplomat Historian Deep politician	Suspected US deep politician, member of the Georgetown Set
Hans Morgenthau	17 February 1904	Germany Coburg Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	19 July 1980	Academic
H. Page Smith	17 February 1904	Alabama Grand Bay U.S.	4 January 1993	Mariner
Norman Robertson	4 March 1904	Vancouver British Columbia	16 July 1968	Diplomat	Attended the 1961 Bilderberg as ex-Canadian High Commissioner to the UK
Reinhard Heydrich	7 March 1904	Germany Halle an der Saale	4 June 1942	Soldier
John Sirica	19 March 1904	Connecticut Waterbury	14 August 1992	Judge
Graham Hutton	3 April 1904		14 October 1988	Propagandist
Kurt Georg Kiesinger	6 April 1904	Germany Ebingen	9 March 1988	Politician War criminal?	Five early Bilderbergs, German Chancellor. Possible tool of the BND
Claud Cockburn	12 April 1904		15 December 1981	Journalist
Glen Taylor	12 April 1904	Portland Oregon	28 April 1984	Musician Politician Actor Businessperson
Clifford Case	16 April 1904	New Jersey Franklin Park Franklin Township	5 March 1982	Politician Lawyer	A lawyer cum politician who attended the 1958 Bilderberg as a US Senator from New Jersey
J. Robert Oppenheimer	22 April 1904		18 February 1967	Physicist	Developer of the US atomic bomb.
Jacob Javits	18 May 1904		7 March 1986	Politician Lawyer	Attended the 1964 Bilderberg as United States Senator from New York
Sefton Delmer	24 May 1904	Germany Berlin	4 September 1979	Journalist Propagandist	WWII UK propagandist, single Bilderberger
Henry Grunfeld	1 June 1904		10 June 1999	Banker
Nicholas Bodington	6 June 1904	France Paris	3 July 1974	Spook Journalist
Raymond Cartier	13 June 1904		18 February 1975	Journalist	French journalist
Lawrence Hafstad	18 June 1904		12 October 1993	Physicist Electrical engineer	In 1954, he outlined the principles for export of US nuclear technology. Attended the February 1957 Bilderberg
Alexander Menne	20 June 1904	Germany Dortmund	3 March 1993	Politician	German politician (FDP) who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Louis J. Lefkowitz	3 July 1904	New York Manhattan	20 June 1996	Politician Lawyer	The longest serving New York Attorney General.
Roger Duchet	4 July 1904	France Lyon	6 September 1981	Politician Vetinarian	French politician who attended the first Bilderberg in 1954
Roger Motz	8 July 1904	Belgium Schaarbeek	27 March 1964	Politician Businessperson	Belgian politician who attended 4 Bilderberg meetings in the 1950s, including the first one.
Pinhas Lavon	12 July 1904	Austria-Hungary Kopychyntsi	24 January 1976	Politician
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld	14 July 1904		21 August 1999	Diplomat	German diplomat
James Killian	24 July 1904	South Carolina Blacksburg U.S.	29 January 1988	Academic
Frederick Payne	24 July 1904	Maine Lewiston	15 June 1978	Politician Businessperson
Selwyn Lloyd	28 July 1904	Cheshire West Kirby Wirral England	18 May 1978		British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the Suez Crisis
Erich Dethleffsen	2 August 1904	Kiel	4 July 1980	Soldier	German Nazi general. 1958 Bilderberg
Duncan Oppenheim	6 August 1904	Lancashire St Helens	January 2003	Businessperson	Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s as Chairman of British American Tobacco, and the 1968 Bilderberg as chairman of Chatham House
Terkel Terkelsen	11 August 1904	Denmark Tjæreborg	25 April 1985	Editor	19 time Bilderberg visitor and editor of Berlingske Tidende
John Hay Whitney	17 August 1904	Maine Ellsworth	8 February 1982	Diplomat
Eric Ashby	24 August 1904		22 October 1992	Academic Botanist	Celebrated and much travelled UK academic who advised the 1970 Bilderberg on "The Environmental Problem".
Arthur F. Burns	27 August 1904	Austria-Hungary Stanislau	26 June 1987
Charles Bohlen	30 August 1904	New York Clayton U.S.	1 January 1974	Diplomat
Adolf W. Schmidt	13 September 1904		17 December 2000	Diplomat	Spooky diplomat, Le Cercle, 1965 Bilderberg
Cameron Cobbold	14 September 1904	London England	1 November 1987	Central banker
Graham Greene	2 October 1904	Hertfordshire Berkhamsted England	3 April 1991	Author Spook
Giovanni Malagodi	12 October 1904	London UK	17 April 1991		President of the Italian Senate, Attended the first Bilderberg and 8 others.
Neil H. McElroy	30 October 1904	Ohio Berea U.S.	30 November 1972	Businessperson
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