2004 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2004?
- January 1, 2004 – In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is “deemed to be elected” to the office of President until October 2007.
- January 14, 2004 – The national flag of The Republic of Georgia, the so-called “five cross flag”, is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
- 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.
- February 1, 2004 – Janet Jackson’s breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
- February 4, 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
- February 5, 2004 – Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
- February 13, 2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe‘s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star “Lucy” after The Beatles’song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
- February 27, 2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- February 28, 2004 – Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500 km long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
- March 1, 2004 – Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
- March 8, 2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.
- March 31, 2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
- April 24, 2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
- May 6, 2004 – Aslan Abashidze, leader of Georgia’s autonomous republic of Adjara resigns after public protests and months of stalemate with the central authorities.
- May 14, 2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
- September 3, 2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis – day 3: the Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children.
- September 23, 2004 – Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods.
- September 30, 2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
- November 26, 2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
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