Year 2004 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 2004

The year 2004 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 2004 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
01 May
08 May	Sri Lankan spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan set the record for most Test wickets with 521 wickets.
15 May	Arsenal Football Club became the first team in the English Premier League to become champions without losing a single match.
18 May	Israeli soldiers killed 19 Palestinians in Israel's Rafa displaced camp.
23 May	In Bangladesh, 250 drowned in the Meghna river due to the storm.
24 May	North Korea banned mobile phones.
06 June	Former US President Roland Reagan passed away.
18 June	Chad's troops killed 69 Sudanese militias.
26 June	Shujaat Hussain became the new caretaker Prime Minister following the resignation of Pakistan Prime Minister Jamali.
05 July	The first presidential election was held in Indonesia.
05 July	Greece made history by winning the Euro Cup 2004 football competition.
23 July	King of Hindi films, Mahmud Ali, died.
15 September	Woman of the Year ' honor to British citizen Gurinder Chadha.
17 September	The European Parliament passed a resolution banning the Maldives.
23 September	At least 1,070 people died in the post-hurricane floods in Haiti.
12 October	Pakistan test-fired the Gauri-1 missile.
18 October	The notorious Chandan smuggler Veerappan was killed.
23 October	The earthquake in Japan left 85 thousand people homeless.
24 October	Brazil conducted the first successful rocket test in space.
28 October	4000-year-old mausoleums were unearthed in Beijing, the capital of China. EU negotiations with Iraq on nuclear issue fail.
03 November	US President George Bush was elected President of the United States for the second time on November 3.
06 November	Russia ratified the Kyoto Agreement.
02 August	Lindsay Davenport of America won the women's singles title of San Diago Tennis Championship by defeating Russia's Miscini.
03 August	The American spacecraft Messenger departed for the planet Mercury.
04 August	NASA' named Altix supercomputer Casey as Kalpana Chavna.
13 August	The 28th Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece.
23 August	America's Justin Gatlin became the fastest runner on Earth by winning the 100-meter Ferrata race.
04 December	Maria Julia Mantila Garcia of Peru was voted Miss World 2004.
07 December	Hamid Karzai was sworn in as the first elected President of Afghanistan.
31 December	175 people died in a fire at a nightclub in Buenos Aires Argentina).
03 January	All 148 people aboard were killed in the crash of the Boeing 737 aircraft 604 by Egyptian airline Flash Airlines.
12 January	The world's largest seaplane, the RMS Queen Mary 2, began its maiden voyage.
23 January	In Madhya Pradesh, a complete ban on cow slaughter came into force.
26 January	Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of the country.
31 January	Famous playback singer and actress Suraiya Jamal Sheikh died.
02 February	Swiss tennis player Roger Federer set a record for the first consecutive ranking for 237 weeks.
04 February	Mark Zuckerberg founded the social networking website Facebook.
19 February	Approval by more than 50 countries of the Stockholm Treaty banning pesticides and industrial chemicals.
24 February	Russian President Vladimir Putin removed Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov from his post.
26 February	Macedonia's President Berris Trej Kovski died in a plane crash.
27 February	A terrorist bombed a boat in the Philippines killing 116 people.
29 February	Alexander Kellary of International Space Station passenger Michelle Foley landed in space, but returned to the station again due to a malfunction in the space suit.
01 March	The President of Russia appointed Mikhail Fradkov as Prime Minister. As Haiti's President Bartara Esistade left the country and fled to South Africa.
02 March	During the Iraq War, the terrorist organization Al Qaeda killed 170 people, injured more than 500.
09 March	Pakistan has 2000 km Successfully test-fired the missile to reach a surface with a firepower of.
11 March	A series of bomb blasts on the rail network in Spain's capital Madrid killed 191 people.
14 March	The constitution was amended to provide legal recognition to private property in China.
17 March	NASA's Messenger became the first spacecraft to enter orbit around Mercury.
19 March	The US sued China for the first time at the World Trade Organization.
29 March	Ireland becomes the first country to ban smoking at workplaces.
01 April	Marek Belka became the new Prime Minister of Poland.
13 April	In Antigua, Brian Lara played a historic innings of 400 runs against England.
15 April	LTTE militant V. Muralitharan associated with the Rajiv Gandhi assassination was killed in Colombo.
21 April	68 killed in missile attack in Basra.
25 April	Record a minimum of 35 runs in one day matches against Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe.
30 April	10 US soldiers killed in violence in Fazula Iraq).
04 January	Mikhail Saakashvili was elected President of Georgia.
28 February	Gigli won the 24th Golden Raspberry Award.
01 March	Mohammad Bahr al-Uloom became the President of Iraq.
22 April	150 people died after two fuel trains Ryongchun collided in North Korea.
17 May	Massachusetts became the first US state to legalize gay marriage.
24 June	The death penalty was declared unconstitutional in New York.
03 July	The metro system was officially inaugurated in Bangkok.
13 August	The 28th Olympic Games were played in Athens, Greece.
09 September	A bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
02 October	American Samoa joins the North American numbering scheme.
30 November	Lion Air Flight Surakarta, 26 killed and 538 injured in an accident in Central Java, Indonesia.
21 December	Iraqi rebels attacked an American military base in the city of Mosul, killing 22 people.
01 January	The new team USC Trojans won victory over the team Michigan Wolverines in Rose Bowl.
02 January	The Stardust space probe flew by the comet Wild 2 and collected particle samples from its coma, which were later returned to Earth.
04 January	Spiri, the first of two roversof NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission, landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 Ground UTC.
04 January	Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke, leaving Ehud Olmert as Acting Prime Minister.
08 January	RMS Queen Mary 2 at the time the longest, widestand tallest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake'sgranddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
09 January	Twenty-eight illegal Albanian emigrants died when their inflatable boat installed near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy.
09 January	Mahmoud Abbas was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority to replace Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004.
10 January	Helge Fossmo, the village priest of Knut, Sweden,orchestrated the murders of his wife and his neighbor, a crime that shocked the country.
25 January	Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater onthe Meridiani Planum.
29 January	In the 16th academy awards Oscar ceremonies Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards sweeping all the eleven nominations like Billy Crystal's hosts Lord of the kings. The return of the King.
01 February	During the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, JanetJackson's breast was exposed by Justin Timberlake in what was laterreferred to as a 'wardrobe malfunction', resulting in an immediatecrackdown and widespread debate on perceived indecency in U.S.broadcasting.
02 February	Swiss tennis player Roger Federer became the No. 1 ranked men'ssingles player, a position he held for a record 237 weeks.
04 February	Four Harvard University students launched the popular social networking website Facebook from their dorm room.
05 February	The Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capturedGonaïves, Haiti, starting a coup d'état against the government ofPresident Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
08 February	Major awards of 46th grammy awards are won by cold play, Out Kast, Richard mann, Luther Vandross Christina Aguilera and Justin Timber Lake.
27 February	The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details aboutthe Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, was released.
29 February	In the 16th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron won lead acting awards sweeping all the eleven nominations like Billy Crystals hosts, Lord of the Rings, The return of the King.
11 March	A series of simultaneous bombings on Cercanías commuter train skilled 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in Madrid.
01 April	Google introduced a free web-based service that compulsorily provides users with an unprecedented 1000 megabyte storage for spam.
22 April	Flammical cargo exploded at Yongchen station in Ryongachon, North Korea, killing 160 people.
30 April	The New Yorker magazine posted an article and auxiliary postpaid on 10 May, in which the details of torture and murder were given by American personnel of prisoners in Abu Poor prisoner Baghdad.
01 May	2004 European Union expanded on 1 May as Cyprus, Czech Republic
06 May	The finale episode of the 10th and final season of Television SCCOM friends was aired on NBC in the United States on May 6, 2004. This episode is the sixth most seen overall television series fiance in American television history.
07 May	American businessman Nikark Berg was beheaded by terrorist jihadi group Muntada al-Ansar on 7 May 2004. The terrorist group posted a video titled AB Abu Musab al-Jervi Slaters the America, which was about five and half a minute long, which collapsed.
09 May	The first President of the Chechen Republic, Akhamad Kadirov and around 30 others were killed by a bomb during the World War II memorial Vijay Parade at Grozni.
14 May	On May 14, 2004, the South Korean Constitutional Court reversed the allegations of impeachment on Ro-Mu-Hune as President. He was accused of illegal electrification but the incident made him and the Uri party more popular and the Uri Party became the ruling party.
17 May	Massachusetts became the first US state to issue a single-sex marriage license on 17 May 2004. Massachusetts, Belgium, Ontario, British Columbia and Massachusetts ranks sixth in the world.
28 May	Ayad Allavi was unanimously selected by Iraqi Governing Casel to be the interim Prime Minister of Iraq.
04 June	In Granbi, Colorado, USA, Marvin Hemeir went on a revolt revised bulldozer on a zoning dispute, destroying many buildings and committed suicide.
11 June	Cassini-Hugees, Saturn's Moon makes its nearest flybai to Faebe. Cassini-Husens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn. It is a major category NASA-ESA-Asi robotic spacecraft. Cassini is the fourth space investigation to travel to Shani and is the first to enter class. Its mission still continues till 2015.
21 June	Spaceship became the first privately funded space aircraft to achieve forest spaceflight. Spaceship One is a suborbital air-lanched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight. It was developed and flowed by Mojave aerospace ventures, which was a joint venture between Paul Alan and Scallad Composite, Burt Ratan's aviation company. Alan provided the US $ 25 million money.
21 June	Spaceship One completed the first privately financed human spacecraft.
21 June	Space Ship One completed the first privately funded human spacecraft.
28 June	The coalition was dissolved after handing over the rule of Iraq to the Iraqi interim government.
05 July	Indonesia held its first direct presidential election, after the second round on 20 September, Susilo Bambang was the election of Bambang Yudhoyono.
08 July	After 19 months of trial, American Marine Corps Major Major Brownwasa convicted a court in Nahin, Okinawa for attempting indecency on Philipina Bartender.
16 July	Chicago's Millennium Park, currently the world's largest roof garden, opened.
03 August	The Statue of Liberty is publicly open for the first time since the September 11 incident.
13 August	The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, was displayed worldwide.
13 August	Hurricane Charlie attacked the US State of Florida after Hurricane Charlie damaged the Tropical Storm Bonnie state.
24 August	Nearly 90 people died after suicide bomber attacked the attackers flying out of Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow.
26 August	The US Census Bureau has revealed new figures that have kept the amount of poor people in the US 35.9 million, which is an increase of more than 1 million.
03 September	After two days of deadlock, Islamist terrorists killed about 340 hostages inside a school in Beslan, Russia.
07 September	Hurricane Ivan made a landfall on Granada and destroyed at least 85% of the island.
08 September	Typhoon Songda has been affecting the islands of Japan for 4 days and although it is just considered a tropical storm. It is still a widespread damage.
15 September	Hurricane Ivan Alabama and Florida Hits around 30.
25 September	Chad, Mali, Gambia, Niger and Mauritania, including West Africa, suffer from the worst plague of locusts in 40 years. The grasshoppers are cleaning thousands of acres of land. Due to the vast number of Swar, such high pesticides are unable to keep control.
30 September	Japanese researchers took the first pictures of a living veteran in their natural habitat.
09 October	Afghanistan held its first democratic election with 75 percent estimate of voting of registered voters of the country.
18 October	SPDC Chairman Senior General Than Shwe announced that Bermiceprime Minister Khin Nyant was allowed to retire on 'health basis, but was then arrested.
19 October	Irish aid worker Margaret Hasan was abducted by the kidnappers in Baghdad, who killed him after about four weeks.
27 October	Boston Red Sox completed a sweep of St. Louis Cardinalsto to win the first championship of the club in 86 years.
29 October	Representatives of the member states of European unions represented the European Constitution in Rome.
02 November	The Dutch film director Theo Van Gogge, whose film submission was important for the treatment of women in Islam, was murdered by Mohammad Borori.
06 November	A man who tried to commit suicide parked his car on railway tracks in Ufon Narvat, Berkshire, England, killing seven people after derailing.
22 November	Large scale protests began across Ukraine due to the presidential election allegations between Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych and opposition leader Victor Yushchenko.
14 December	Cuba and Venezuela founded the Bolivarian Alliance for Omerix.
17 December	The President Bush signs the 2004 intelligence reform and terrorism Act that reorganizes intelligence agencies and leads to the National Security Director.
31 December	In Xinyi District, Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan, opened the island as the world's highest skyscraper.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
06 May	China considered Sikkim as part of India.
28 September	The World Bank named India as the fourth largest economy in the world.
08 October	Monsanto's patent on Indian wheat revoked.
03 December	India and Pakistan agreed to restore rail connectivity between Munabav and Khokrapar after 40 years.
23 December	9th Prime Minister of India Narasimha Rao passed away.
26 December	A tsunami caused by a 9.3 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale caused widespread devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and surrounding areas, killing 2,30,000 people.
13 March	Indian sitar maestro Vilayat Khan died.
09 April	The Supreme Court of Portugal requested a re-review of the extradition order of India, the wanted mafia gangster Abu Salem, in several criminal cases in India.
06 June	Tamil was declared as the classical language of India by President APJ Abdul Kalam. This decision was taken after a joint parliamentary meeting in which both houses of Parliament participated- Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
06 June	During the joint meeting of both houses of Indian Parliament, President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil should be made India's legal recognized classical language.
26 December	Earthquake, the largest in 40 years, attacks the Pacific Ocean near Sumatra, triggering a large -scale Indian Ocean tsunami, killing 266,000 people in the coastal areas of Asia and Africa.

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