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April 8, 1904 (Friday) [ edit] The Convention of Istanbul, signed by a number of powers including Germany in 1888, came into force. [58] In Sebastopol, a suburb of Pittston, Pennsylvania, four children burned to death in a 1 a.m. fire. [59] The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed the Entente Cordiale.