Timeline November 1904

Events in November 1904 6

• 1904 1904 Summer Olympics III Olympiad - St. Louis The first Games held outside Europe. Winner: USA.
• 1904 Theodore Roosevelt Elected President Landslide re-election as U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt won a full term as President of the United States in a landslide over Democrat Alton B. Parker, having previously assumed office after McKinley's assassination. The victory affirmed Roosevelt's progressive domestic agenda and assertive foreign policy. He went on to expand the Panama Canal project and articulate the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
• 1904 – 1963 Dick Powell (1904-1963) American singer, actor, director and producer, from Warner musicals to Philip Marlowe and Four Star Television.
• 1904 Dick Powell born in Mountain View, Arkansas Dick Powell is born in Mountain View, Arkansas.
• 1904 Mother dies — Father Francis Morgan becomes guardian Mabel Tolkien dies of diabetes on 14 November 1904, aged 34 — her health undermined, Tolkien always believed, by the stress of her family's rejection after her conversion. Ronald is 12; Hilary 10. Before her death, Mabel entrusts the boys to Father Francis Morgan, a Catholic priest and family friend. Morgan becomes one of the most important figures in Tolkien's life — a warm, generous father-figure who manages a small trust for the boys and supervises their education. Tolkien later wrote that his mother 'was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble.'
• 1904 – 1996 Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996) Died 11 May 1996, aged 91 Nnamdi Azikiwe was a Nigerian statesman who served as the country's first President after independence and is regarded as a founding father of Nigerian nationalism. He was a leading pan-Africanist journalist and politician before assuming the presidency in 1963. He remained an influential elder statesman until his death.