May 3 - Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
August 9 - British security forces in Northern Ireland detain hundreds of guerilla suspects and put them into Long Kesh - the beginning of an internment without trial policy. 20 die in riots that follow
November 24 - "D.B. Cooper" hijacks a plane with alleged bomb, demands and gets a ransom of $200,000 and parachutes out over the Cascade Mountains. Never caught.
... - 1904 - 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
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1904 in film
1904 in literature
1904 in music
1904 in sports
Events:
January 7 - The distress signal[?] ...