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Movie history events from 1904
Old whaling station left abandoned. (Antarctica) (Alien Vs. Predator)
San Diego discovered by Germans, and named after a whale's vagina. (Anchorman)
Rick Blaine born. (New York) (Casablanca)
Hercule Poirot resigns from Belgian police. (Belgium) (Evil Under the Sun)
The United States decide to throw some weight around. (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
J.M.Barrie writes Peter Pan. (Finding Neverland)
Clive Candy shoots a warthog. (Sudan) (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Brooks Hatlin enters Shawshank prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
Tuesday 16th February: Howard W. Campbell, Jr. is born. (Schenectady, New York) (Mother Night)
Monday 7th March: Jean Elizabeth Jupp is born. (Darkman II: The Return of Durant)
Monday 14th March: Frieda Eichman registers to become a citizen. (Vandorf, Germant) (The Gorgon)
Wednesday 15th June: Side-Wheeler "General Slocum" catches fire in New York's East River, and over a thousand passengers perish. (East River, New York City, New York) (Manhattan Melodrama)
Thursday 16th June: Stephen Dedelus and Leopold and Molly Bloom experience a day of life and discovery, among other things. (Dublin, Ireland) (Bloom)
Thursday 16th June: James Joyce meets his future wife, Nora. (Nora)
Monday 7th November: 'The Tale of Two Bad Mice' by Beatrix Potter is published. (London) (Miss Potter)
December: Beatrix Potter accepts a marriage proposal from her publisher, Norman Warne, at her parents' Christmas party. (Miss Potter)