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1904
Events
January
January 7
– The
distress signal
CQD
is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by
SOS
.
January 12
–
Henry Ford
sets a new automobile
land speed record
of .
January 16
– The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America takes place at
Madison Square Garden
in New York City.
January 18
– The
Herero Rebellion
in
German South-West Africa
begins.
January 23
– The
Ålesund Fire
destroys most buildings in the town of
Ålesund
, Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter.
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
.
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