2004 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2004?
- January 2, 2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
- January 8, 2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake’s granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
- January 12, 2004 – The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
- January 22, 2004 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- January 26, 2004 – President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
- April 2, 2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
- April 8, 2004 – Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
- May 2, 2004 – Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
- May 26, 2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
- August 3, 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
- August 13, 2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
- August 17, 2004 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
- August 22, 2004 – A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
- September 8, 2004 – NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
- September 15, 2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
- October 29, 2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
- November 11, 2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
- November 26, 2004 – Male Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
- December 21, 2004 – Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
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