A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021. June 16 Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, the Russian Governor-General of Finland, in Helsinki. The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce first walks out with his future wife Nora Barnacle (whom he first met on June 10), to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. He sets the action of his novel Ulysses (1922) on this date. June 28 Danish ocean liner runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing approximately 627 people, many of whom are Russian-Polish and Scandinavian emigrants. The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan is stolen and subsequently destroyed in Russia. English Association football club Hull City A.F.C. is established. June 29 – The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs. July July – Pavlos Melas enters Macedonia with a small unit of men during the Macedonian Struggle. July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games open in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, as part of the World's Fair. July 23 – A continuous track tractor is patented by David Roberts of Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham in England. August 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. August 14 – Ismael Montes becomes President of Bolivia. August 17 – Russo-Japanese War: A Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur. August 18 – Chris Watson resigns as the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia, and is succeeded by George Reid (Free Trade Party). August 24 – Faroese Association football club Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag is established. Summer – Henri Matisse paints Luxe, Calme et Volupté at Saint-Tropez; it will be considered the starting point of Fauvism. September September – Stuyvesant High School opens in New York City as Manhattan's first manual trade school for boys. September 1 – Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opens in London. September 2 – John Voss sails the rigged dugout canoe Tilikum into the River Thames in England after a 3-year voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, westabout. September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband. September 17 – An early study on the relationship between