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January 2004 was the first month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Thursday, ended on a Saturday after 31 days.

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This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from January 2004.

January 1, 2004 (2004-01-01) (Thursday)
Arts and culture
  • Montréal/Dorval International Airport is renamed
    Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
    .
  • MySpace
    has its official launch.

Disasters and accidents

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections
  • The Republic of Ireland takes over the presidency of the European Union, succeeding Italy, whose presidency is widely criticised as having been a failure due to the collapse of efforts to adopt a European constitution. (RTE News)

Religion

Science and technology
  • No leap second is added this year. This is the fifth year in a row without a leap-second after 28 years of adding leap-seconds to compensate for the slowing of the Earth's rotation. (CNN)
January 2, 2004 (2004-01-02) (Friday)
January 3, 2004 (2004-01-03) (Saturday)
January 4, 2004 (2004-01-04) (Sunday)
January 5, 2004 (2004-01-05) (Monday)
January 6, 2004 (2004-01-06) (Tuesday)
January 7, 2004 (2004-01-07) (Wednesday)
  • In the United States, the Bush administration proposes a major reform of immigration law, creating a temporary worker program and giving legal status to both illegal and foreign workers for renewable three-year periods.[36][37]
  • The Supreme Court of
    Bali bomber Amrozi. The 12 October 2002 attacks killed 202 mainly holiday makers on the resort island of Bali.[38] July 1073437329581.html[permanent dead link
    ]
  • George Papandreou. PASOK will be challenged by the New Democracy opposition led by Kostas Karamanlis. See,[39][40][41][42] (Greek) and,[43][44][45][46][47]
    (English).
  • Exploration of Mars: Mars Express failed to hear any signal from the Beagle 2 spacecraft during its first pass over the landing site. This is major blow, but scientists have once again not given up all hope. They will attempt again tomorrow using a different communication mode. The Beagle 2 mission manager, Colin Pillinger, set February 7 as the day to abandon contact efforts. By that time Beagle 2 would have switched into an autotransmit mode after having not received any signal for over a month if it was still alive.[48]
  • A report from the International Monetary Fund expresses alarm regarding mounting budget deficits in the United States due to recession, tax cuts, and spending for the war on terrorism. The report says that the unprecedented level of external debt incurred poses "significant risks" not just for the United States but for the rest of the world. However, many outside economists note that other countries are also running large deficits and that underlying economic conditions in the U.S. are still robust.[49][50]
  • U.S.-led occupation of Iraq: Mortar attacks by Anti-American insurgents wound 35 U.S. soldiers at a military camp west of Baghdad. Six mortar rounds exploded around 6:45 p.m. local time.[51]
January 8, 2004 (2004-01-08) (Thursday)
January 9, 2004 (2004-01-09) (Friday)
  • George Papandreou, junior talks about the possibility to allow private universities in Greece.[61]
    (Greek)
  • Turkey fully abolishes the death penalty.[62]
  • The US lowers the
    terrorism advisory level to yellow (elevated) from orange (high).[63]
  • Bangladesh bans books published by the Ahmadiyya movement, an Islamic sect.[64]
  • Spirit Rover around on its lander after it was found the airbags could not be retracted enough to allow it to move off in a forward direction. It is expected the rover will drive off sometime next week. The Rover has also stood up and deployed its front wheels.[65][6]
  • Two volcanoes erupt: the Piton de la Fournaise on Réunion Island, and the Volcán de Fuego near Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. The eruption in Guatemala is not thought to be serious enough to require evacuations.[66]
  • In Guatemala City, fifteen people die and twenty are hurt when a public bus collides with a crane.[67][68]
  • plea agreement by the deadline. The offer would have allowed her to plead guilty in federal court to lesser charges and serve five months in return for her testimony. Her trial for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion is scheduled to start February 10.[69]
January 10, 2004 (2004-01-10) (Saturday)
January 11, 2004 (2004-01-11) (Sunday)
January 12, 2004 (2004-01-12) (Monday)
  • The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announces the ten top United States patent recipients. For the 11th year in a row, IBM tops the list; the next three in the list are headquartered in Japan. Companies from the Netherlands (Philips) and Korea (Samsung) also make appearances.[81]
  • The
    U.S. State Department concludes that the Israeli attack on USS Liberty in 1967, although probably accidental, was an act of gross negligence and that Israel should be held responsible.[82][83]
  • Canadian federal election, 2004: Stephen Harper announces his entry into the race to lead the new Conservative Party of Canada. Earlier today, Jim Prentice drops out of the leadership contest, citing a lack of funds.[84]
  • Israeli settlements in those areas.[85]
  • The deadline for
    SCO v. IBM
    lawsuit expires
  • IBM and Intel Set Up $10m SCO Defense Fund.[86]
  • Astronauts on board the International Space Station think that a leak in a hose used to stop the fogging of an Earth observation window was causing the slow loss of pressure in the station. Although it would have taken a couple of months for the crew to be in any danger, some equipment on the station was only rated to just below the normal pressure. Although the cause appears to have been located, ground controllers are still getting the crew to close the station into three sections to allow them to get baseline pressure readings and to make sure that there are no more leaks.[87]
  • Guardian Council is reversed.[88]
  • Spirit's air bags that cushioned its landing on Mars have been obstructing the vehicle's path, and this complication has postponed its exit of the launch vehicle until Wednesday or Thursday.[89]
  • The
    oil palm plantations.[90]
  • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, religious leader of Iran, announces that he will not intervene in a growing political confrontation between progressives and hardliners after the Guardian Council, which he controls, barred thousands of candidates from running in upcoming Parliamentary elections (including 80 current members of Parliament).[91]
January 13, 2004 (2004-01-13) (Tuesday)
January 14, 2004 (2004-01-14) (Wednesday)
  • Bank One to create the second-largest bank
    in the United States.
  • Iraq and weapons of mass destruction: Tests performed by American and Danish military experts indicate no chemical agents are present in the "suspicious" mortar shells discovered in Iraq on January 9.[103]
  • Self-confessed killer of Swedish FM
    Mijailo Mijailovic, says during cross-examination in a Stockholm court that he heard voices in his head commanding him to attack Lindh when he encountered her in a Stockholm shopping mall 10 September last year. Lindh died the next day from the many stab wounds she received.[104]
  • Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan said, "It's just a matter of time before we begin to see employment start to pick up quite significantly, as it always has in the past." Greenspan is also not worried about the fall of the dollar or the half trillion dollar U.S. trade deficit.[105]
  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    :
    • Reem El-Reyashi, a
      suicide bomber, kills four border guards at the Erez Crossing. She is the first female suicide bomber used by Hamas. Four months before, Israel targeted Hamas leadership, including Ahmed Yassin, as a result Hamas halted all suicide bombing for four months.[106]
    • Jack Kelley,
      USA TODAY foreign correspondent and a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize just two years ago, was forced to resign after the newspaper determined he repeatedly misled editors during an internal investigation into stories he wrote. Among the stories that are being investigated is one published September 4, 2001, contains an account of an attack on Palestinians by 13 Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Mark Memmott, the reporter asked to investigate Kelley, said he could not find anyone with first-hand knowledge of the attack.[107]
  • A secondary school student in the Netherlands kills a teacher in his school cafeteria.[108]
  • Greek electronic game ban: Greek police raid Internet cafés in Larissa. 80 computers are taken by the police as evidence and three Internet café owners are arrested.[109]
    (in Greek).
  • George Papandreou's positions on private universities and their recognition (anagnorisi).[110]
    (Greek)
  • Jacques Delors referred to Prime Minister of Greece Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker, and former Prime Minister of Belgium Jean Luc Dehaene as the top three candidates for the position of the President of the European Commission.[111]
  • A 45-year-old
    Washington Dulles International Airport to airport Dubai is arrested en route at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of carrying five bullets in his coat pocket.[112][113]
  • U.S. President George W. Bush, in a speech at NASA headquarters, announces a plan to develop a new space vehicle to return humans to the Moon by 2015 and proposes the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet by 2010 along with a $1 billion funding increase for NASA.[114]
  • plea agreement. Andrew Fastow will serve a ten-year prison sentence and forfeit $23.8 million. Lea Fastow will serve a five-month prison sentence and a year of supervised release, including five months of house arrest. Both will provide testimony against other Enron corporate officers.[115]
  • Turkey and Greece: 22 Turkish military aircraft entered into the Greek
    FIR. Five of these aircraft were loaded with ammunition. Greek aircraft intercepted them. Source: Athens News Agency and in.gr.[116]
    (Greek)
January 15, 2004 (2004-01-15) (Thursday)
January 16, 2004 (2004-01-16) (Friday)
January 17, 2004 (2004-01-17) (Saturday)
January 18, 2004 (2004-01-18) (Sunday)
  • Assassin's Gate." Early reports said that about 18 people, including 16 Iraqi civilians and two United States Department of Defense workers were killed, while another 56 Iraqi civilians were wounded.[138]
  • Israeli Prime Minister
    suicide bomber in a pool of blood-coloured water. Mazel was caught on surveillance video disconnecting the electric power from the display and throwing a lamp into the water. Mazel says, "This exhibit was the culmination of dozens of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish events in Sweden."[139]
January 19, 2004 (2004-01-19) (Monday)
January 20, 2004 (2004-01-20) (Tuesday)
  • 2004 Canadian Federal Election: Belinda Stronach officially announces her run for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. [18]
  • ImClone stock in 2001. Conviction on any of the charges against her could put Ms. Stewart in federal prison. The five counts carry a total prison term of 30 years and a $1.25 million fine.[19]
  • Colonel Rashid Abu Shbak of the Palestinian Authority, said that information was still coming in and the investigating team had been upgraded, but he had no new leads on who was behind the bombing attack of an American diplomatic convoy on October 15, 2002. Three people died in the attack. U.S. officials have been stopped from going to Gaza since the attack. No decision has been made yet on when they might be allowed to return. Col. Shbak blamed Israel for the lack of progress in the investigation.[20] Archived 2005-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
January 21, 2004 (2004-01-21) (Wednesday)
January 22, 2004 (2004-01-22) (Thursday)
  • safe mode. The cause of this is unknown but the rover is still able to send back a simple acknowledgement tone.[154]
  • Staff members of the
    Democratic Party computers and making copies of confidential files stored on the compromised computers. The infiltrations reportedly began in early 2002.[155]
  • Maher Arar sues the United States government for having deported him to Syria and not Canada, his country of citizenship. He was reportedly tortured in Syria.[156]
  • Houston, Texas, on federal charges of securities fraud and conspiracy for his role in masking Enron's faltering fiscal health in late 2001. He has pled not guilty.[157]
  • Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper resumes publishing.[158]
January 23, 2004 (2004-01-23) (Friday)
  • Charles Duelfer to succeed Kay.[159]
  • The International Monetary Fund has joined the World Bank in forgiving US$4 billion of the $6.5bn debt owed by Nicaragua, sharply reducing the nation's overall debt payments.[160]
  • The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter directly detects water ice in the southern polar region of the planet Mars.[161][162]
  • Madrid, Spain, at 12:34 Universal Time (4:34 am PST) this morning. The transmissions came during a communication window about 90 minutes after Spirit woke up for the morning on Mars. The signal lasted for 10 minutes at a data rate of 10 bits per second. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, plan to send commands to Spirit seeking additional data from the spacecraft during the subsequent few hours.[163] The flight team for NASA's Spirit received data from the rover in another communication session that began at 13:26 Universal Time (5:26 am PST) and lasted 20 minutes at a data rate of 120 bits per second.[164]
  • A
    bird flu died, according to the Public Health Ministry.[165]
  • At least 51 people, including a
    bridegroom, were killed on Friday when a fire ripped through a makeshift wedding hall in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu during a marriage ceremony.[166]
  • An explosion has killed two people at Zhengzhou railway station, one of the People's Republic of China's biggest transport hubs.[167]
January 24, 2004 (2004-01-24) (Saturday)
January 25, 2004 (2004-01-25) (Sunday)
January 26, 2004 (2004-01-26) (Monday)
January 27, 2004 (2004-01-27) (Tuesday)
January 28, 2004 (2004-01-28) (Wednesday)
January 29, 2004 (2004-01-29) (Thursday)
  • A 60-ton
    Tainan, Taiwan, causing traffic delays and showering vehicles and pedestrians with blood and entrails.[208]
  • A report submitted today to the State of
    Diebold Election Systems "have such poor computer security and physical security that an election could be disrupted or even stolen by corrupt insiders or determined outsiders". The machines have been purchased by a number of states in the United States.[209] This is the third report to state that the machines do not meet the security requirements of an election. Previous reports are available online.[210][211]
  • Hutton Inquiry: The BBC Director-General, Greg Dyke, resigns in the continuing fall-out from the report. Mr Dyke is the second high-ranking BBC official to resign. Mark Byford is appointed Acting Director-General.[212] The UK media in general condemns the report as a whitewash.[213]
  • The
    Palestinian police force, kills 10 Israelis and wounds more than 50, outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem. Simultaneously with the bombing, Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Defense Minister, is meeting with American envoys Wolfe and Sauterfield, who have requested an easing-up of conditions for the Palestinians. The explosion also coincides with a German-brokered prisoner swap between Israel and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah.[214][215][216]
January 30, 2004 (2004-01-30) (Friday)
January 31, 2004 (2004-01-31) (Saturday)
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Ongoing events
  • 2004 Canadian Federal Election
  • Conservative leadership race
  • 2004 Taiwan Presidential Election
  • 2004 U.S. Presidential Election
  • Democratic Presidential Primary
  • Bloody Sunday Inquiry
  • Exploration of Mars
  • Mars Exploration Rovers
  • Mars Express Orbiter
  • Bird flu
  • Hutton Inquiry
  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Road Map to Peace
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • North Korean Crisis
  • Same-sex Marriage
  • SCO v. IBM
  • War on Terrorism
  • Occupation of Iraq
  • Iraqi Insurgency
  • Iraq Timeline

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