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 4, 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
- January 22, 2004 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- January 25, 2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
- February 4, 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
- February 5, 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
- 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”.
- 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 19, 2004 – Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
- 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 29, 2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
- May 29, 2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
- August 1, 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
- August 3, 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
- 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.
- November 8, 2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
- November 23, 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- December 20, 2004 – A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history.
- December 30, 2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
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