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 9, 2004 – An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
- January 12, 2004 – The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
- January 21, 2004 – NASA’s MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
- 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.
- March 12, 2004 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation’s history.
- March 15, 2004 – French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the headscarf ban.
- April 22, 2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
- May 28, 2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq’s interim government.
- June 8, 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
- 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 first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
- October 14, 2004 – A special nine-member council selects Norodom Sihamoni as the new King of Cambodia, replacing his father who abdicated a week earlier.
- October 25, 2004 – Fidel Castro, Cuba’s President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
- October 27, 2004 – Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving the team their first World Series championship since 1918.
- November 22, 2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
- November 30, 2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with US$ 2,520,700, television’s biggest game show winnings.
- December 26, 2004 – A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.
- December 31, 2004 – The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 m.
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