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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 Predicted and scheduled events 1.8.1 July 1.8.2 August-November 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.9 January 3.10 February 3.11 March 3.12 April 3.13 May 3.14 June 3.15 July

Events

January

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• January 1 - Joseph Deiss becomes President of the Confederation in Switzerland
• January 1 - Pervez Musharraf gets the vote of confidence from Parliament and provincial assemblies to continue as President of Pakistan.
• January 2 - Several British Airways flights from London Heathrow Airport to Washington D.C and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are cancelled due to security fears.
• January 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
• January 3 - NASA's MER-A (Spirit) lands on Mars.
• January 3 - Tony Blair makes an unannounced trip to Basra, Iraq to give a speech to British troops.
• January 4 - Dr. Mikhail Saakashvili won Presidential Elections in the Republic of Georgia.
• January 5 - Britney Spears's surprise 55-hour marriage to childhood sweetheart Jason Allen Alexander is annulled by a Las Vegas court.
• January 6 - An inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales opens in London held by Michael Burgess, the coroner of The Queen's Household.
• January 8 - Queen Elizabeth II officially names the Queen Mary 2 cruise liner.
• January 13 - An Uzbekistan Airways plane crashes in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, killing 37.
• January 14 - The shock site Goatse.cx was placed on registry lock for violating the AUP
• January 15- The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yoon Young-kwan resigns following his support for American policy towards North Korea.
• January 16 - Goatse.cx is shut down by the Christmas Island Registry
• January 20 - India signs a $1.5 billion deal with Russia to buy the 45,000 tonne aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov along with 28 MiG-29k fighters.
• 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 on Mars.
• January 27 - A House of Commons vote on University tuition top-up fees is narrowly won by the British Government. It is however the worst voting result for Tony Blair since he came to power in 1997.
• January 28- The findings of the Hutton Inquiry are published in London. The British Government is found not to have falsified information in the "sexed up dossier". The report criticises the BBC's role in the death of David Kelly, a weapons expert on Iraq.
• January 28 - At a hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, it is revealed that the September 11, 2001 terrorists used Mace (a brand of tear gas) or pepper spray in overpowering the flight crew of American Airlines Flight 11
• January 29 - A whale explodes in in the town of Tainan, which is situated in Taipei, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is what is claimed to have caused the explosion.

February

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• February 1 - Janet Jackson's right breast is exposed during the live Super Bowl XXXVIII half time show, sparking a controversy in the United States.
• February 1 A hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia kills 251 pilgrims.
• February 2 - An apartment building collapses in Konya, Turkey, killing 92.
• February 3- The CIA admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• February 6- A suicide bomber kills 41 people on a subway train in Moscow.
• February 7- His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales begins a tour of the Middle East, visiting troops in Iraq, the Iranian earthquake zone at Bam and Saudi Arabia.
• February 10 - At least 50 people killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad.
• February 10 - The French National Assembly votes to pass a law banning religious items and clothing from schools.
• February 11 - Up to 47 people are killed in a car bomb attack on an army recruiting centre in Baghdad.
• February 12 - Same sex marriage in the United States: The City and County of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples as an act of civil disobedience.
• February 13 - Scientists in South Korea announce the cloning of 30 human embryos.
• February 18 - A train carrying a convoy of petrol, fertiliser and sulphur derails and explodes in Iran, killing 320 people.
• February 20 - Iranian parliament election was held, with many reformist candidates banned from running, resulting in a win by conservatives.
• February 22 - A suicide bomber kills eight bus passengers in Jerusalem.
• February 22 - Rebels capture Haiti's second-largest city, Cap-Haïtien.
• February 24 - An earthquake in Morocco kills 571 people.
• February 26- Former British cabinet minister, Clare Short reveals that British Intelligence bugged the phonecalls of United Nations officials, including Kofi Annan.
• February 26 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
• February 29 - 2004 Haiti Rebellion: Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as president of Haiti. The chief justice of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, is sworn in as interim president. Aristide later announces that his resignation was forced and that he was abducted by U.S soldiers who forced him to leave the country against his will.

March

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• March 2 - John Kerry effectively clinches the U.S. Democratic Party presidential nomination, 2004 by winning 9 out of 10 "Super Tuesday" primaries and caucuses.
• March 4 - a series of devastating bomb blasts in Iraq threaten to de-stabilise the country.
• March 5 - CBS broadcasts tape recordings of Diana, Princess of Wales as she describes suicide attempts while pregnant with Prince William of Wales.
• March 10 - Five British men released from detention at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay land at RAF Brize Norton. Four are immediately arrested by the Metropolitan Police and taken to Paddington Green high security police station in Central London for questioning.
• March 11 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 190 people.
• March 12 - Following the terrorist attacks in Madrid on March 11, millions of protesters take 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. The incumbent government led by Jose Maria Aznar is defeated by the Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
• March 14 - Presidential elections in Russia are held. Vladimir Putin easily wins a second term.
• March 15 - A trio of astronomers announce they have discovered a large trans-Neptunian object, unofficially named Sedna, the largest object found in the solar system since Pluto was discovered in 1930. Source | Copyright

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