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Events on the year of 2004 in history

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01 Jan 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.
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02 Jan 2004 Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
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03 Jan 2004 Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
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04 Jan 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
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04 Jan 2004 Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
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08 Jan 2004 The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
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09 Jan 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.
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12 Jan 2004 The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
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14 Jan 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.
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21 Jan 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.
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26 Jan 2004 A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
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26 Jan 2004 President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
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01 Feb 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.
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01 Feb 2004 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
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02 Feb 2004 Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
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04 Feb 2004 Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
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05 Feb 2004 Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
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12 Feb 2004 The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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13 Feb 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".
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14 Feb 2004 In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
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18 Feb 2004 Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
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27 Feb 2004 The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
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27 Feb 2004 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
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28 Feb 2004 Over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
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29 Feb 2004 Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup.
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01 Mar 2004 Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum becomes President of Iraq.
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02 Mar 2004 War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
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08 Mar 2004 A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
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11 Mar 2004 Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
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12 Mar 2004 The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: The first such impeachment in the nation's history.
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17 Mar 2004 Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
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19 Mar 2004 3-19 shooting incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
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19 Mar 2004 A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
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19 Mar 2004 Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. A total of 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
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22 Mar 2004 Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
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27 Mar 2004 HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
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29 Mar 2004 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
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29 Mar 2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
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31 Mar 2004 Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
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01 Apr 2004 Korea Train Express was opened to traffic from Seoul to –Dongdaegu.
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01 Apr 2004 Google announces Gmail to the public.
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02 Apr 2004 Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted.
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03 Apr 2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
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06 Apr 2004 Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
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08 Apr 2004 War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
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21 Apr 2004 Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.
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22 Apr 2004 Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
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24 Apr 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.
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29 Apr 2004 Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
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29 Apr 2004 Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
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30 Apr 2004 U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
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01 May 2004 Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
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02 May 2004 Yelwa massacre ended. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims attacked the Christians of Yelwa killing more than 78 Christians including at least 48 who were worshipping inside a church compound. More than 630 nomad Muslims were killed by Christians in Nigeria.
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06 May 2004 The series finale of the television sitcom Friends is aired on NBC. The finale attracts 52.46 million viewers, making it the sixth most watched television series finale in U.S. history.
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14 May 2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
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17 May 2004 The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
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22 May 2004 The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) which kills one resident, and becomes the widest tornado on record at 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide; a record that wouldn't be broken until a the El Reno tornado on May 31, 2013.
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23 May 2004 Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
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26 May 2004 United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
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28 May 2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
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29 May 2004 The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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02 Jun 2004 Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
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06 Jun 2004 Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
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08 Jun 2004 The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
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11 Jun 2004 Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
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21 Jun 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
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24 Jun 2004 In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
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26 Jun 2004 Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is re-elected as President of Iceland.
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28 Jun 2004 Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
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01 Jul 2004 Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
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04 Jul 2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
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05 Jul 2004 The first Indonesian presidential election is held.
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16 Jul 2004 Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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01 Aug 2004 A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
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03 Aug 2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
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12 Aug 2004 Mr. Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's third Prime Minister.
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13 Aug 2004 Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida, and devastates the surrounding area.
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13 Aug 2004 One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
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29 Aug 2004 Michael Schumacher wins his 5th consecutive Formula One Drivers' championship (and 7th overall) at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix to beat the 47 year old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio.
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01 Sep 2004 The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
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03 Sep 2004 The Beslan school hostage crisis ends on its third day with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of whom are children.
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07 Sep 2004 Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
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08 Sep 2004 NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
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15 Sep 2004 National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
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23 Sep 2004 Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods.
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29 Sep 2004 The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
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29 Sep 2004 The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
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30 Sep 2004 The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
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30 Sep 2004 The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
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04 Oct 2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
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18 Oct 2004 Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
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19 Oct 2004 Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
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23 Oct 2004 A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
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24 Oct 2004 Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
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25 Oct 2004 Cuban President Fidel Castro announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
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29 Oct 2004 The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
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26 Nov 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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26 Nov 2004 The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
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27 Nov 2004 Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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30 Nov 2004 Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, finally loses, leaving him with US$2,520,700, television's biggest game show winnings.
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30 Nov 2004 Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
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05 Dec 2004 The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
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08 Dec 2004 The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
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14 Dec 2004 The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.
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20 Dec 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, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.
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21 Dec 2004 Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
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25 Dec 2004 Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
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26 Dec 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.
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26 Dec 2004 Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
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27 Dec 2004 Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
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30 Dec 2004 A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
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