2004 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2004?
- 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.
- February 2, 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men’s singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
- February 5, 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
- February 27, 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
- March 15, 2004 – French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the headscarf ban.
- March 19, 2004 – 3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country’s presidential election on March 20.
- March 29, 2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
- April 30, 2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
- May 17, 2004 – Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
- June 21, 2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- August 13, 2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
- 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 29, 2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
- September 30, 2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
- October 23, 2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
- November 23, 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- December 14, 2004 – Cuba and Venezuela found the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.
- 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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