2004: Year

2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar.

It was the 2004th year of both the Anno Domini and the Common Era designations, the 4th year of the 3rd millennium, the 4th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2000s decade.

Millennium: 3rd millennium
Centuries: 20th century21st century22nd century
Decades: 1970s  1980s  1990s  – 2000s –  2010s  2020s  2030s
Years: 2001 2002 200320042005 2006 2007

2004 was the Year of the Monkey in the 12-year Chinese zodiac cycle.

Events

January

February

March

April

May

  • May 1 - An enlargement of the European Union takes place, expanding the Union by 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta, and Cyprus.
  • May 2 - After 3 weeks of captivity, American contractor Thomas Hamill escapes from his captors in Iraq with just a gunshot wound to the arm and makes it to US Military personnel.
  • May 5 - Parliament grounds in New Zealand host 15,000 people protesting about the proposed law that would change the ownership of foreshore and seabed.
  • May 6 - The president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, announces that Adzharian leader Aslan Abashidze has left the country, ending a political crisis there.
  • May 6 - The final episode of Friends airs on NBC. Advertisers pay $2 million for 30 second ads.
  • May 9 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by landmine placed under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
  • May 10 - Canadian Sponsorship Scandal - The RCMP arrest Chuck Guite and Jean Brault in connection with the scandal.
  • May 10 - Final phase of elections to the Lok Sabha in India
  • May 10 - National election takes place in the Philippines for the presidency and almost all other elective positions.
  • May 11 - Explosion destroys a plastics factory in Glasgow, UK, killing nine people and injuring over a hundred.
  • May 11 - A bomb explodes in a crowded market in Iraq. It kills three people and wounds at least 23.
  • May 11 - Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov is buried in his home village.
  • May 12 - An American civilian contractor in Iraq, Nick Berg, is shown being decapitated by a group with links to al-Qaida on a web-distributed video. They state it is retaliation for the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.
  • May 12 - Semi final takes place in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Turkey.
  • May 13 - In India, the Congress Party wins a shock victory in the elections to the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament).
  • May 13 - The season finale for Frasier is aired.
  • May 14 - The editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper in the UK, Piers Morgan, is sacked after the British army proves photographs in the newspaper, allegedly showing British soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees, to be fake.
  • May 14 - Danish Crown Prince Frederik has married Australian Mary Konadson in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • May 15 - FIFA announces that South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament, making it the first African nation to do so.
  • May 20 - A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hits Taiwan. There is no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Nobel prize winners

Births

Deaths

January

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Ingrid Thulin
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Kalevi Sorsa
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Helmut Newton
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Leônidas da Silva
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Fanny Blankers-Koen
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Miklós Fehér

February

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Marco Pantani
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
José López Portillo
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Boris Trajkovski

March

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Mercedes McCambridge
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Paul Winfield
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Juliana of the Netherlands
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Peter Ustinov

April

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
John Maynard Smith
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Estée Lauder

May

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Akhmad Kadyrov
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Tony Randall

June

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Ronald Reagan
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Ray Charles
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Thanom Kittikachorn

July

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Marlon Brando
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Thomas Klestil
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Zenkō Suzuki
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Francis Crick

August

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Godfrey Hounsfield

September

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Brian Clough
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Françoise Sagan

October

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Janet Leigh
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Christopher Reeve
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
John Peel

November

2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Theo van Gogh
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
2004: Events, Nobel prize winners, Births 
Yasser Arafat

December

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Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands

References

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