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2004(MMIV) occurs as leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was intended a:
International Season of Rice (by the United Nations)
International Season to Commemorate a Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO)
Month of the Monkey (per Chinese calendar)
Look at The world in 2004 for a description of the state of the globe therein season.
Events
January
January 1 - Pervez Musharraf gets a vote of confidence from an electoral college consisting of Parliament and the provincial assemblies, confirming him when President of Pakistan until 2007.
January 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing completely 148 aboard.
January 4 - Mikhail Saakashvili wins the presidential elections inside Georgia.
January 4 -NASA's MER-A (Spirit) lands on Mars.
January 8 - Queen Elizabeth II christens the RMS Queen Mary 2 cruise liner, currently a big ocean liner in the world.
January 11 - The notorious Goatse.cx website is shutdown for AUP violations.
January 13 - An Uzbekistan Airways plane crashes in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, killing 37.
January 22 - The European Union bans the import of poultry from Thailand, as bird flu spreads throughout Southeast Asia.
January 24 - NASA's MER-B (Opportunity) lands in Mars.
January 27 - The British government narrowly wins the House of Commons vote on the proposed introduction of tuition top-higher fees around British universities.
January 28 - The findings of the Hutton Inquiry are published in London. A British Government is found not to stand falsified principles in the "sexed up dossier". A report criticises a BBC's role in the death of David Kelly, a weapons good in Iraq.
January 28 - At a hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, it is revealed that a September 11, 2001, terrorists used Mace (a brand of tear gas) or pepper spray in overpowering the flight crew of American Airlines Flight 11.
February
February 1 - A hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 251 pilgrims.
February 3 - The CIA admits that there was no impending threat from either weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
February 6 - A suicide bomber kills 41 people in the metro car in Moscow.
February 7 - Several leaders of Abnaa el-Balad arrested in Israel.
February 10 - At least 50 population flushed within the car bomb attack on the police force enlisting centre to the south of Baghdad.
February 10 - The French National Assembly votes to pass a law banning religious items and clothing from schools.
February 12 - Same sex marriage in the United States: The City and County of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to equivalent-sex couples as an work of civil disobedience.
February 13 - Scientists in South Korea announce the cloning of 30 person embryos.
February 14 - Riots break out between New South Wales Police and Aboriginal residents of Redfern, a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
February 15 - David Chapman opens up a LivingWithStyle website.
February 18 - the train carrying a convoy of petrol, fertiliser, and sulfur derails and explodes inside Iran, killing 32Humans.
February 20 - Conservatives win a majority in the Iranian parliament election.
February 24 - 6.5 Richter shell earthquake within Northern Morocco hits in the Rif mountains near the city of Al Hoceima - over 400 dead. Ait Kamara is destroyed. 517 dead.
February 25- Ash Wednesday. Likewise, a religious docudrama, The Passion of the Christ was released.
February 26 - The United States lifts a ban in visit Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that experienced lasted for Xxiii years.
February 26 - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in the plane crash touching Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
February 29 - 2004 Haiti rebellion: Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as president of Haiti. A chief justice of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, is sworn in when interim president.
February 29 - A film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King directed by Peter Jackson wins 11 Academy Awards in every category it was nominated.
March
March 2 - John Kerry effectively clinches the U.S. Democratic Party presidential nomination, 2004 by winning nine out of 10 "Super Tuesday" primaries and caucuses.
March 2 - NASA announces that the Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity), has confirmed that a front yard of Mars it landed withinside was when drenched in water supply.
March 8 - Dominick Arduin disappears during her attempt to email a North Pole by skiing
March 10 - Five British men freed from either detention at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay land at RAF Brize Norton. 4 come immediately arrested for inquiring.
March 11 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 19Population.
March 12 - Following a terrorist attacks around Madrid in March 11, hundreds to thousands of protesters choose to the streets of Spanish cities against terrorism.
March 14 - Two suicide bombers kill eleven Israeli civilians in Ashdod, Israel.
March 14 - The Spanish parliamentary elections of 2004 take place. A incumbent government led by José MarÃa Aznar is defeated by the Socialist José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero.
March 14 - Presidential elections in Russia are held. Vladimir Putin easily wins a second term.
March 15 - A trio of astronomers announce they use at times found the big trans-Neptunian object, the big object uncovered in the solar system since Pluto was discovered around 1930. At the start intended 2003 VB12, it was known as 90377 Sedna in late September.
March 15 - The fresh Spanish government announces that it might withdraw Spain's 1,300 troops inside Iraq.
March 17 - Organized violence breaks out over 2 years inside Kosovo. Nineteen population come flushed, 139 Serbian homes come burned, schools & businesses come vandalized, & concluded Thirty orthodox monasteries & churches come burned & destroyed.
March 19 - The UN launches a corruption investigation due to the scandal over its Iraqi Oil for Food program.
March 20 - President Chen Shui-bian wins the Taiwanese presidential election by 0.2% of the vote. A day prior to, he & Vice President Annette Lu were 'shot'. Lien Chan refuses to concede and demands the recount. The controversial 'peace referendum' opposed by the People's Republic of China is invalidated.
March 21 - The 2004 Malaysian general election takes place. A incumbent Barisan Nasional party wins 198 out of 219 seats in the Malaysian Parliament.
March 21 - Tony Saca is elected President of El Salvador (inauguration June 1).
March 22 - Palestinians protest in the streets after an Israeli helicopter gunship fires a missile at a suite of Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City, killing Yassin and Septet others.
March 25 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, in return for the disassembly of Libya's WMD programme in December 2003 - a foremost period the major american leader has visited the united states within many decades.
March 28 - In France, the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin suffers a stunning & unprecedented kill within regional elections. A number one ever South Atlantic Hurricane makes landfall in South Brazil touching a city of Santa Catarina, a Hurricane is dubbed Hurricane Catarina.
March 29 - The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all enclosed work wharehouses including: eating place, gin mill & blocks.
March 29 - Largest expansion of NATO to date, allowing Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the organization.
March 31 - Four Western private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are flushed & their bodies mutilated when existence ambushed inside Fallujah, Iraq.
April
April 3 - the bomb explosiin inside the Madrid flat kills a Spanish police officer & 5 terrorists suspected of responsibility for the Madrid train bombings on March 11.
April 4 - Serious fight breaks call at Najaf, Sadr City, & Basra inside Iraq as Shia insurgents supporting Muqtada al-Sadr rise against coalition forces.
April 5 - Queen Elizabeth II begins a state visit to France to celebrate the Centesimal day of remembrance of the Entente Cordiale
April 8 -
Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and ii rebel groups.
3 Japanese citizens are taken hostage in Iraq.
Previous Japanese famous economist, professor at Waseda University graduate school Kazuhide Uekusa was arrested on the escalator of JR Shinagawa station because of trying to peep under high school girl's skirt with his hand mirror.
April 16 - India defeats Pakistan in their first cricket tour in Fourteen years
April 16 - Sandline International officially ceases operations
April 17 - Israeli helicopters fire missiles at the convoy of vehicles in the Gaza Strip, killing the Gaza leader of Hamas, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi.
April 20 - In Iraq, Dozen mortars were fired in Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents. Xxii political detainee were flushed & 92 maimed. [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04-20-iraq_x.htm]
April 21 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed an Israeli nuclear weapons programme in the Eighties, is freed from either prison in Israel after an 18 month term for treason.
April 22 -
Two trains carrying explosives & fuel collide in the North Korean town of Ryongchon, killing 161 people, injuring 1,300 & destroying hundreds to thousands of homes.
A previous coal mine in France closes, ending nearly 300 years of coal mining.
April 25 - Referenda on a United Nations plan, which proposes to re-unite the island of Cyprus, take place inside two a Greek and Turkish parts. Although a Turks vote in favour of, a Greeks reject a proposal.
April 28 - Abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is revealed on the television show 60 Minutes II.
May
May 1 - the big expansion up to now of the European Union takes place, extending the Union by X member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.
May 6 - The final episode of Friends airs on NBC, drawing an estimated 52 million viewers within North America.
May 8 - Would-be "Saudi Princess" "Antoinette Millard" surfaces in New York City and claims that muggers had stolen jewels worth of $262.000 from either her (She in the future proves to become an impostor)
May 9 -
Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by landmine positioned under the VIP stage in the period of the World War II memorial parade in Grozny.
Team of Canada won the World Ice Hockey Championship in Prague.
May 10 - The 2004 Philippine presidential and legislative elections take place. Incumbent president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wins the presidency.
May 11 - An explosion destroys a plastics factory in Glasgow, UK, killing nine people & injuring terminated the hundred.
May 12 - An American civilian contractor inside Iraq, Nick Berg, is shown being decapitated by the class action allegedly linked to al-Qaida on a web-distributed streaming videos.
May 13 -
A Los Angeles Lakers defeat the San Antonio Spurs, 74-73, in Game Five of the NBA Playoffs on a survive 2nd shot by point guard Derek Fisher.
Inside India, a Congress Party wins a surprise triumph in the elections to the Lok Sabha.
May 14 - Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, marries Australian Mary Donaldson in Copenhagen.
May 17 -
Ezzedine Salim, holder of the rotating leadership of the Iraqi Governing Council, is killed withwithin the bomb blast in Baghdad.
Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage in compliance with a opinion from either the state's Supreme Judicial Court (Goodridge et al. v. Department of Public Health).
May 18 - The IOC announces the shortlist of candidates for the 2012 Summer Olympics: London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris. Stillborn cities come Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig and Rio de Janeiro.
May 19 -
Tony Blair is hit with a purple flour bomb in the chamber of the House of Commons during a session of Prime Minister's Questions.
Jeremy Sivits pleads guilty inside the court-martial around connection sustaining alleged abuse of Iraqi captive at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
May 23 -
The subdivision of the ceiling around Terminal 2E at Paris's Charles de Gaulle International Airport collapses, claiming at least six lasts.
Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi visits North Korea to secure a release of the families of the nine abducted Japanese citizens returned earliest.
May 26 - Terry Nichols is convicted by an Oklahoma state court on murder indictment stemming from either a 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
May 29 - Dedication of the National World War II Memorial takes place in Washington, DC.
May 30 - Thousands of humans around Hong Kong take to the streets to commemorate the Fifteenth day of remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
June
June 1 - 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, a Japanese schoolgirl attending Okubo Elementary School around Sasebo, Japan is murdered. Her killer, an 11-month-old schoolfellow identified by Japanese authorities when "Girl A", becomes a basis for the Nevada-tan Internet meme.
June 4 - Marvin Heemeyer destroys many local buildings by owning the page-manufactured tank around Grancby, Colorado
June 5 - Former President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, dies at age 93.
June 6 - The Sixtieth day of remembrance of D-Day is remembered by world leaders.
June 8 -
A number one transit of Venus since 1882 occurs; the next of these might occur around 2012.
A G8 Summit takes place all over a next Deuce years in Sea Island, in Georgia, USA.
A pickled heart of Louis XVII of France is buried in the royal crypt at Saint-Denis.
June 11
Terry Nichols is spared a demise penalty by an Oklahoma state court in murder indictment stemming from either the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. A guide come on the third day of remembrance of the execution of his co-codefendant, Timothy James McVeigh, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
When a number one presidential state funeral since 1973, President Ronald Wilson Reagan is laid to rest at Simi Valley, California, at the places of the Reagan Presidential Library.
June 12 - A One.Tercet kg chondrite type meteorite struck a home inside Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage however there is no injuries.* June 16 - The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (or "9/11 Commission") issues an initial report of its findings.
June 21 - SpaceShipOne becomes the number one privately-funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
June 28 -
A U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq transfers sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government.
Canadian election: The Liberal Party, led by Paul Martin, is reduced to the minority government, fallowing holding a majority since November 1993.
June 30 - The preliminary hearings start out around Iraq in the trial of previous president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
July
July 1 - The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
July 4 -
Innovative of Freedom Tower at Ground Zero in New York City.
A EURO 2004 final between Portugal and Greece takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. Greece wins a match 1:0.
July 15 - 18 - The Open Championship inside golf requires place in Troon, Scotland.
July 25 -
Over 100,000 opponents to Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2004 participate in a human chain from Gush Katif, to the Western Wall, Jerusalem (90 kilometers).
Lance Armstrong of Austin, Texas wins an unprecedented 6th sequentially Tour de France cycling title.
August
August 1 - Supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, kills about 400 population & leaves assibilate Century missing.
August 3 - Statue of Liberty reopens after security improvements.
August 6 - A United Nations report that blames the government of Sudan for crimes against humanity in Darfur is released.
August 12 - Singapore's prime minister Goh Chok Tong hands over his position to Lee Hsien Loong.
August 13 -
A 2004 Summer Olympics begin in Athens. It prevent in August 29.
Hurricane Charley kills 27 humans within Florida after killing four inside Cuba and one within Jamaica. Charley processed landfall touching Cayo Costa, FL as a Category Four hurricane. Charley was a virtually all vivid hurricane to strike a United States since Hurricane Andrew around 1992.
August 18 - In Dublin, Ireland the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works were completed and a final tunnel boring machine breakthrough ceremony took place.
August 21 - the series of blasts rocks a rally of an opposition person inside Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing at least 13 population.
August 22 - Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna and other paintings from either a Munch Museum inside Oslo, Norway.
August 24 - Two airliners around Russia, carrying a amount of 89 rider, crash in minutes of both more fallowing flying away from Domodedovo International Airport, leaving there is no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from either Chechnya to be a induced of the crashes.
August 29 - Around 200,000 protesters demonstrate around New York City against President George W. Bush and his government, ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention.
August 31 -
2 suicide attacks around buses in Beer Sheva, Israel, kill at least Xvi population & injure at least Lx. Hamas claims responsibility for the attacks.
The woman commits the suicide attack touching the subway station inside northern Moscow, Russia, killing at least 10 humans & injuring at least Fifty. Authorities hang on to Chechen rebels responsible.
September
September 1 - Chechen rebels take between 1,000 & 1,500 population surety, mostly babies, around the school inside Beslan, Northern Ossetia. A hostage-takers require a release of Chechen rebels imprisoned within neighboring Ingushetia and the independence of Chechnya from Russia.
September 2 - The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 1559 calling for the removal of all foreign troops from either Lebanon. This measure is largely aimed at Syrian troops.
September 3 -
Russian forces end the military blockade at a school inside Beslan, Northern Ossetia. At least 335 population (among which at least 32 of the or so Forty hostage-takers) keep close at h& been flushed and at least 700 population stand been hurt.
Hurricane Frances makes landfall in Florida. When killing 2 humans in the Bahamas, Hurricane Frances killed ten population within Florida, two in Georgia and one in South Carolina.
September 5 - Future Hurricane Ivan becomes the Hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.
September 7 -
A Scottish Parliament meets in the new Scottish Parliament Building for the first instance.
Hurricane Ivan passes directly over Grenada, killing 37 people. It lives across more Caribbean islands over a next deuce years, killing Five humans within Venezuela, 4 in the Dominican Republic, 1 within Tobago and 20 within Jamaica.
September 8 - In the "Rathergate" affair, the first Internet posts appear pointing out that documents claimed by CBS News to be typewritten memos from the early 1970's appear instead to have been produced using modern word processing systems.
September 9 - A bomb blast outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, kills eleven people & injures as much as 10Population.
September 13 - The Assault Weapons Ban expires.
September 14- Tufts University activists create Project REPEAL to challenge Somerville, MA Anti-loitering Ordinance.
September 15
DavÃð Oddsson prime minister of Iceland steps down after serving when prime minister since April 30 1991. Oddson becomes secretary of state when his foreign minister Halldór Ã?sgrÃmsson becomes prime minister.
Security at a Palace of Westminster is compromised when the Home of Commons is stormed by the little class action of protestors in the period of a debate all about fox hunting.
"Girl A" is sentenced to be institutionalized due to the murder of classmate Satomi Mitarai.
September 16 - Hurricane Ivan strikes Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 3 storm, killing Xxv around Alabama and Florida.
September 17 -
2004 Summer Paralympics commences in Athens, Greece.
Mexico and Japan finish the two month yearn negotiations & sign the Yours free! Trade Agreement within Mexico City.
September 23
Mount St. Helens became active again.
Tropical Storm Ivan, having are in & reformed in the Gulf of Mexico, makes its final landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, to little effect. Around number, a storm flushed 92 humans.
September 25 - Hurricane Jeanne makes landfall near Hutchinson Island, FL. Altogether, Jeanne flushed all over 3,000, virtually all within Haiti.
September 29 - First Ansari X-Prize flight of SpaceShipOne.
October
October 4 - Two car bombs kill at least Xvi humans & injure twelve supplementary inside Baghdad.
October 5 - A fire breaks out on the Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi leaving it stranded without power in the North Atlantic ocean, off the north coast of Ireland. 1 crewmember is flushed.
October 8 -
Jacques Derrida dies in Paris.
Kenneth Bigley, the British surety held by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an Iraqi insurgent, is killed fallowing the failing escape attempt.
Suicide bombers detonate ii bombs at a Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt, killing 34 people, primarily Israeli tourer & Egyptian workers.
October 9 -
Queen Elizabeth II opens the newly Scottish Parliament Building in a ceremony in Edinburgh
Incumbent Prime Minister of Australia John Howard leads a Liberal-National coalition to triumph on top the Labor Person led by Mark Latham in federal elections.
Direct elections for president held for the first time inside Afghanistan. Interim president Hamid Karzai is eventually declared a winner.
October 10 - Abdullahi Yusuf is chosen as a fresh transitional president of Somalia.
October 14 - Prince Norodom Sihamoni is chosen as a fresh king of Cambodia.
October 16 - The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox, 19-8 in Game Three of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series. the game, which pushed the Yankees to a Three games to none series lead, sets a record for hanker nine inning baseball game.
October 17 - A referendum within Belarus approves the lifting of constitutional term restricts for the presidency.
October 18 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the New York Yankees twice in a single day, to pull to inside Three games to Two in the American League Championship Series. A number 1 triumph comes good when 1-thirty in the morning, in a hike-off home run by David Ortiz; the 2nd triumph comes upright when eleven in the evening, in the game-winning Run batted in by Ortiz.
October 18 - Three men attack Greek journalist Philippos Syrigos in Athens and seriously wound him
October 19 - General Khin Nyunt is replaced by Lieutenant-General Soe Win as Prime Minister of Myanmar.
October 20 -
A Boston Red Sox defeat the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, completing an unprecedented comeback from trinity games to none down.
Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Missouri, killing 13 population, & injuring Deuce.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono becomes the number one directly-elected President of Indonesia.
October 21 - The Ministry of Defence approves the deployment of the Black Watch regiment of the British Army to Baghdad, Iraq after a asking for assistance per U.S. government.
October 24 -
A bodies of 49 Iraqi soldiers found when existence ambushed by insurgents.
Brazil successfully launches its first rocket into space.
October 26 - * October 27 -
Details of the discovery of the freshly, recent, metal money of fossil hominid, Homo floresiensis, from a island of Flores, Indonesia are published.
The Boston Red Sox sweep the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series championship for the first time since 1918.
October 29
The videotape of Osama Bin Laden speaking airs on Arabic TV, where he threatens terrorist attacks on the USA, and taunts a president, George W. Bush, over the September 11 Terrorist attacks.
European heads of state check in Rome a Treaty & Final Work establishing the number 1 European Constitution.
October 30 - A 163 metre high radio mast in Peterborough, UK collapsed at a fire
October 31 - Leftist candidate Tabaré Vázquez is elected President of Uruguay.
November
November 2 - U.S. presidential election: President George W. Bush defeats Senator John Kerry. Republicans make gains in the House and Senate.
November 6 -
Ufton Nervet rail crash in Berkshire, England, kills 7 humans.
In Côte d'Ivoire, National Army bombings kill nine people, including French UN soldiers. French UN forces retaliate by destroying a National Army's air force.
November 7 - U.S. forces launch a major assault on the Iraqi town of Fallujah, in an effort to rid the area of insurgents before the Iraqi elections in January
November 9 - a Irel& High Court system that Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan could sue the Revenue Commissioner to have their Vancouver, British Columbia Same-sex marriage recognized for tax purposes. Halo Two for xbox is freed.
November 12 - Jury finds Scott Peterson guilty of murder of his married woman Laci & unborn boy, Connor
November 13 - After half a dozen years of incapacitating battles, Iraqi town of Fallujah fully occupied by U.S. forces.
November 14 - American Secretary of State, Colin Powell submits his resignation. He was replaced by Condoleezza Rice after her confirmation from a United States Congress.
November 16
The European Space Agency probe, Smart 1 passes from orbit of the Earth into orbit of the Moon
A train crash touching Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, injures 15Humans.
The People's Republic of China to invest $20 billion dollars in Argentina, a deal signed days before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum to be held in the City of Santiago in Chile.
NASA's hypersonic jet ScramJet breaks the record by reaching a velocity of about 7,000 mph in an unmanned experimental flight. It found the speed of Mach 9.6, nearly Ten days a speed of sound.
November 21 - Final round of presidential election in Ukraine. Official winner: Viktor Yanukovych. International election observers express severe criticism, & big crowds gather withinside the protest rally in Kiev. Dozen years late, the Supreme Court annuls a effect, & a fresh poll is scheduled.
November 21 - The Nintendo DS is released around North America.
November 26 - A class action of Iraqi political leaders, primarily from either Sunni and Kurdish parties, advocate a sextuplet-year delay inside popular elections scheduled for January 2005.
November 28
Explosion inside coal mine in China. Demise toll potential to exist as above 150.
Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile promises economic compensation to 2800Those of torture when you took Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship.
December
December 3 - The Colombian government extradites Gilberto RodrÃguez Orejuela, one of the virtually all right peddler of the globe, arrested around 1995 & 2003, to the United States.
December 6 - Terrorists attack the U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing several people.
December 8 - The large Chinese PC producer Lenovo announces its plan to choose IBM's global PC business, getting it the title third big globe PC maker when Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
December 11 - Tests show that Ukrainian opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with the big dose of dioxin.
December 13 - Software giants Oracle Corporation and PeopleSoft to merge in the $10.Three billion treat, creating a 2nd big maker of business applications software.
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December 15 -
British Home Secretary David Blunkett resigns following allegations he abused his position by speeding a visa application of his lover's nanny.
Albanian terrorists take a bus and its rider surety within Athens, Greece and demand One million euros in ransom.
December 16 -
The House of Lords rules that the British Government breaches human rights legislation by detaining without test foreign subject suspected of existence terrorists.
IT security company Symantec Corp signs a definitive agreement to merge by owning Veritas Software Corp valued at $13.5 billion around an a lot-futures dealings.
December 21 - Iraqi insurgents attack a U.S. military base in the city of Mosul and kill Xxii population.
December 22 - Armed robbers in Northern Ireland steal over £22 million from either a headquarters of the Northern Bank. Unionist politicians and a PSNI blame the IRA, and stall a peace process.
December 26 -
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A re-rerun of the 2nd around of the Ukrainian presidential election takes place. Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko is declared the victor.
December 27 - A flatulency explosion in the French town of Mulhouse kills 15 humans.
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