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This article covers breaking news and events in June 2004.

Daily events

Tuesday June 1, 2004

• Baghdad / Iraq : Shiite religious leaders in Iraq sharply criticize the appointment of the Sunnis Ghazi al Jawar as the country's new president .

Wednesday June 2, 2004

• Badghis / Afghanistan : Five employees of the aid organization Doctors Without Borders are murdered on a journey between Khairkhana and Qala-I-Naw. The organization then again complained about the instrumentalisation of its helpers by the US- led coalition troops. B. distributed leaflets making humanitarian aid conditional on the delivery of information about the Taliban and Al-Qaeda .
• Baghdad / Iraq : According to police, at least four people are killed and around 20 people injured when a car bomb explodes.

Thursday June 3, 2004

• Langley / United States : The head of the secret service CIA George Tenet resigns, according to US President George W. Bush the step is due to personal reasons.
• Palo Alto / United States : Sun Microsystems announces that it will publish the Solaris operating system under an open source license.
• Stresa / Italy : 50 years after the first meeting of the “Bilderbergers”, the 49th Bilderberg Conference begins . Until July 6th, representatives from business and politics will hold talks about which the public will not be informed.

Friday June 4, 2004

• Geneva / Switzerland : A report by the United Nations Human Rights Commission shows that Iraqi witnesses were members of the British and US armed forces and the like. a. Accused of murder, ill-treatment and theft.

Saturday 5th June 2004

Pope John Paul II

• Bern / Switzerland : Pope John Paul II, who has Parkinson's disease, is visiting Switzerland for the third time. It is the 84-year-old pontiff's first trip abroad this year.

Sunday June 6, 2004

• Arromanches-les-Bains / France : German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder takes part in the first German head of government at the celebrations to commemorate the landing of the western Allied powers of the Second World War in Normandy 60 years ago on the " date " of under US standing -Führung attack the Allies from the west on the National Socialist rulers of the Greater German Reich .

Monday June 7, 2004

• Germany : For the first time a person is convicted in the Federal Republic of Germany for making pieces of music available to other people in a music exchange in violation of copyright .
• Washington, DC / United States : The Spaniard Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo becomes Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund .

Tuesday June 8, 2004

• Basel / Switzerland : In the late evening there is a shooting in the Horburg district, in the course of which two people are killed. A wine merchant runs amok in his house and kills a police officer, immediately after he is shot by the police.
• Bøur / Faroe Islands : 480 pilot whales are killed at the Grindabóð ( German  pilot whale alarm ). It's a relatively big catch.
• Germany : The first Venus transit since 1882 can be observed from Germany between 7:20 a.m. and 1:23 p.m.
• Java / Indonesia : The Bromo volcano erupts, several people are injured by lumps of lava flying around.
• Sea Iceland / United States : The G8 - summit 2004 starts. While at the previous meetings mainly economic issues were combined with strategic considerations of politics, this time security policy is in the foreground after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq revealed the vulnerability of the so-called " world power " USA. In preparation for the summit, the justice and interior ministers of the G8 countries therefore formulated their recommendations for combating international terrorism .

Wednesday June 9, 2004

• Cottbus / Germany : The Brandenburg State Office for Mining approves the expropriation of the last residents of the small town of Horno . However, the residents want to sue the decision at the Cottbus Administrative Court.
• Garching / Germany : The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz research neutron source goes into operation in Garching. The full output of 20 megawatts is to be achieved in autumn .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has ruled that the shop closing law is constitutional.
• Cologne / Germany : 22 people are injured, some seriously, in a suspected bomb attack in Cologne-Mülheim . The bomb was equipped with carpenter nails about 10 cm long and detonated in a district mainly inhabited by Turks.

Thursday June 10, 2004

• Basel / Switzerland : Another shooting in Basel claims a fatality. The victim's husband fired shots that morning on Basel's market square, which hit his wife in the head. The shooter was arrested; both parties were Turkish citizens .
• Netherlands , United Kingdom : The European elections are starting in the Netherlands and the British Isles and will last until Sunday.
• Washington, DC / United States : The United States files a complaint with the World Trade Organization against subsidies from the European Union in favor of the aircraft manufacturer Airbus . These would violate the contracts of the trade organization and disadvantage the American manufacturer Boeing .

Friday June 11, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Council approves the law on taxation of pensions . It will therefore come into force on January 1, 2005 as planned and then be implemented in stages by 2040.
• Hanover / Germany : The Heinz Heise publishing house places its publications under a license drawn up by Creative Commons and offers them for free download.

Saturday June 12, 2004

• Auckland / New Zealand : A 1.3 kg meteorite hits a house in a suburb of Auckland, people are not harmed.
• Baghdad / Iraq : Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Bassam Salih Kubba is murdered early in the morning on his way to work.
• Porto / Portugal : The 2004 European Football Championship begins in Portugal . In the opening game Portugal - Greece , the Greek national team, coached by former German Bundesliga coach Otto Rehhagel , wins 2-1.

Sunday June 13, 2004

• Belgrade / Serbia and Montenegro : Around 6.5 million Serbs are called to the presidential election. Since no candidate gets an absolute majority in the first ballot, a runoff election on June 27th will be necessary.
• Erfurt / Germany : In the state elections in Thuringia , the CDU defends the absolute majority of the seats in the state parliament, but again falls below 50% of the vote. Almost every second eligible voter does not participate.
• Europe : European elections in 18 countries.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : With a 7-2 win at 1. FFC Frankfurt , 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam secured their first overall German championship .
• Hamburg / Germany : Citizens vote in a referendum for a new right to vote in Hamburg .

Tuesday June 15, 2004

• Detroit / United States : The Detroit Pistons win the National Basketball Association championship .

Wednesday June 16, 2004

• Kirkuk / Iraq : The security chief of the Iraqi oil company Nord, Ghazi Talabani , was in a bombing killed. Talabani belongs to the family of Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani .
• Kunduz / Afghanistan : In the morning in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz there was a bomb attack on an ISAF military convoy as it passed a bazaar in the provincial capital . Three passers-by and the Afghan driver died in the attack. There were two German soldiers in the vehicle.
• Ulm / Germany : The 95th German Catholic Day under the motto "Life from God's power" begins.

Thursday June 17, 2004

• Arlon / Belgium : The Belgian sex offender Marc Dutroux is found guilty by a jury of kidnapping, raping and murdering several girls. The sentence is expected to be determined in about a week.
• Baghdad / Iraq : There were several attacks in Iraq during the day . A car bomb exploded outside a recruiting station in Baghdad. 35 people are said to have been killed and more than 170 injured. There was an attack on a power station south of Baghdad with mortar shells and a car bomb. Two people died.
• Basel / Switzerland : For the third time within eight days there was a shooting in Basel: In the city center, a person armed with a large knife was shot by a police officer after a crowd in self-defense.
• Berlin / Germany : Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily was able to agree on a compromise draft on the German immigration law in a top-level meeting with Günther Beckstein and Peter Müller . This draft was welcomed by all parliamentary groups . The law currently lies with the mediation committee , the draft has yet to be confirmed by the Bundestag and Bundesrat .
• Brussels / Belgium : The heads of state and government of the 25 states of the European Union meet for a summit in the Belgian capital . Topics are on the one hand the adoption of the European Constitution and the appointment of the successor to Commission President Romano Prodi , whose term of office ends on October 31.
• Lisbon / Portugal : In the football - European Championship which blocks UEFA -Disziplinarkommission the Italian player Francesco Totti for three matches because of his "spitting attack" on June 14 against the Danes Christian Poulsen .

Friday June 18, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag has adopted the controversial genetic engineering law with the votes of the red-green coalition . It regulates u. a. the compensation obligations of farmers who use genetically modified plants .
• Berlin / Germany : The German Film Prize in Gold is awarded to Gegen die Wand by director Fatih Akin .
• Brussels / Belgium : At the EU summit in Brussels, the heads of state and government of the 25 EU countries agree on a joint text for the planned EU constitution . This text now has to be ratified by the 25 member countries.
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Council decides to start negotiations on accession to the European Union with Croatia, with the proviso that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia does not raise any objections.
• Israel , Palestinian Territories : Palestinian President Yasser Arafat first recognized the Jewish character of Israel in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz . In doing so, he waived the right of return for all Palestinian refugees that had been demanded so far .
• Kiel / Germany : On the eve of the official opening of the 110th Kiel Week , the first celebrations begin in Kiel. A total of 3 million visitors are expected for the world's largest sailing event and the largest folk festival in Northern Europe. For the sailors from 50 nations it will be the last test run before the Olympics in Athens .
• Saudi Arabia : The by radical Muslims of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda as a hostage taken US Nationals Paul M. Johnson has been beheaded. The kidnappers had demanded the release of all Al Qaeda fighters detained in Saudi Arabia. Johnson was an employee of the US defense company Lockheed Martin . Later that day, Al Qaeda chief Abdulasis Issa Abdul Mohsin al-Mokrin, suspected of the crime, was killed in a firefight with security forces in Saudi Arabia . Three other people were killed with him.
• Stuttgart / Germany : Because of a controversial donation from PR consultant Moritz Hunzinger , Walter Döring resigns from his offices as Baden-Württemberg Minister of Economics, State Chairman of the FDP and Deputy Federal Chairman of the party.
• Washington, DC / United States : The human rights organization Human Rights First presents a report after the US u. a. operate more than two dozen top secret prisons in countries such as Iraq , Jordan , Pakistan and on US Army warships in which terrorist suspects are held without contact with the outside world.
• Washington, DC / United States : US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted personally ordering the secret detention of a terrorist suspect Iraqi . This violates the Third Geneva Convention on Handling Prisoners of War .

Sunday June 20, 2004

• Baghdad / Iraq : In a bomb attack near the Iraqi Central Bank in Baghdad, three Iraqis died in the morning and seven other people were injured. Nothing is known about the motifs so far.
• Lugano / Switzerland : Jan Ullrich wins for the first time, and as the third German , the cycling tour Tour de Suisse .

Monday June 21, 2004

• Mojave / California : The spacecraft SpaceShipOne carried out the first private space flight. It took off at 14:45 UTC about 160 kilometers north of Los Angeles , carried by the White Knight carrier aircraft . At an altitude of about 15 kilometers, it continued the flight alone, controlled by the pilot Michael Melvill from the USA, up to an altitude of 100 kilometers, where it spent about three minutes in weightlessness . About an hour and a half after take-off, Melvill landed the plane unharmed in the Mojave Desert .
• Nazran / Russia : Around 11 p.m. local time, around 200 presumably Chechen terrorists attacked several locations in the autonomous Russian republic of Ingushetia . In Nazran, men armed with submachine guns and grenade launchers stormed the Ministry of the Interior and the headquarters of the health police. According to initial estimates, at least 46 people were killed in the attack, which is considered one of the most violent in recent years, including Interior Minister Abukar Kostoyev , his deputy and the Minister of Health.
• Okinawa / Japan : In the west and south-west of Japan, the severe typhoon Dianmu killed three people and two more are missing. The storm reached wind speeds of up to 200 km / h. Dianmu is already the sixth typhoon of the season, although these typically don't appear until August or September.

Tuesday June 22, 2004

• Nuuk / Greenland : After yesterday's celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of Greenland's autonomy within the Kingdom of Denmark and the conclusion of an agreement between the two countries to further shape self-government, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Crown Princess Mary are visiting the country on their honeymoon. Mary appears in traditional Inuit costume, like Queen Margrete the day before .
• Rome / Italy : Silvio Berlusconi doubts the legality of the counting of votes in the last European elections , in which the center-left alliance led by Romano Prodi in Italy emerged victorious. He speaks of " hosts of leftists, true professionals, who cancel the ballot papers, which would be favorable for us amateurs, and cast the votes themselves ".
• Yaren / Nauru : President René Harris is deposed in a vote of no confidence by parliament and replaced by Ludwig Scotty .

Wednesday June 23, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : From today the best beach volleyball teams in the world will compete against each other in the Grand Slam of the World Series of the FIVB in Berlin (Schlossplatz). The tournament is one of the most important tournaments of the year because, in addition to a high bonus, many points are awarded for Olympic qualification.
• Bielefeld / Germany : According to the opinion research institute TNS Emnid, more than half (53%) of Germans now have access to the Internet . In a country comparison, Berlin shows the most pronounced use of the Internet, while in Saarland , Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the fewest people are online.
• Lisbon / Portugal : In their final group game in the football - European Championship which meets German national team to a "B selection" of qualified already for the next round Czechs and separates with a 1: 2 defeat from the tournament.
• Micheln , Trebbichau / Germany : In the two villages of Micheln and Trebbichau in Saxony-Anhalt, a storm causes severe devastation, which meteorologists classify as a tornado . Storm damage occurs in large parts of Germany. Tornadoes are also observed in Marne ( Schleswig-Holstein ) and on Borkum .

Thursday June 24, 2004

• Brussels / Belgium : The members of the Council of the European Union (EU) agree on the Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso as an election proposal to the EU Parliament for the post of President of the EU Commission . The candidates who were not nominated due to reservations from individual states include the Frenchman Michel Barnier , the British Chris Patten and the Belgian Guy Verhofstadt .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Rudolf Völler is stepping down from his position as coach of the German men's national soccer team . At the European Championship yesterday, the team was eliminated after the third preliminary round match.
• Iraq : Iraqi insurgents kill over 100 people and wound more than 320 others in six cities in a large-scale operation.
• Strasbourg / France : In its Caroline ruling on the occasion of media coverage of Princess Caroline of Monaco, the European Court of Human Rights sets limits to the rights of free reporting on prominent people.

Friday June 25, 2004

• Saturn : The Cassini-Huygens space probe has taken new images of Saturn's moon Titan , which show its surface structures more clearly than before.

Saturday June 26, 2004

• Islamabad / Pakistan : Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali resigns after seven months in office.
• Prague / Czech Republic : The Czech Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla declares his resignation. Confidence in the social-liberal government had been shaken, according to own statements, in the lost European elections.
• Reykjavík / Iceland : In the Icelandic presidential elections, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson received a clear majority with 85.6%.

Sunday June 27, 2004

• Belgrade / Serbia and Montenegro : In the second round of the election of the President of the Republic of Serbia , the pro- Western candidate Boris Tadić from the Democratic Party prevails.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Three of the new EU countries have joined Exchange Rate Mechanism II and are expected to join the euro zone in two years . Estonia , Lithuania and Slovenia set the central rates of their currencies against the euro and are now committed to keeping fluctuations below ± 15 percent. The central rates are: Estonian kroon 15.6466 per euro, litas 3.45380 and tolar 239.640 per euro. Furthermore, Estonia and Lithuania are committed to sustainable budget policies and Slovenia to lowering inflation . With Denmark , 4 countries now belong to ERM II ( European Monetary System ).
• Vilnius / Lithuania : Valdas Adamkus wins the Lithuanian presidential elections against Kazimiera Prunskienė with 52.1% to 47.8%.

Monday June 28, 2004

• Baghdad / Iraq : Iraq regained its sovereignty two days earlier than planned . US civil administrator Paul Bremer and Iraqi Prime Minister Ijad Allawi are exchanging documents that seal the transfer of power from the US-led coalition interim administration to the interim government .
• Berlin / Germany : The Spiel des Jahres jury presents this year's main prize winners at its press conference in Berlin: Alan Moon's game of the year will be step by step . Children's Game of the Year is Geistertreppe of Michelle Schanen .
• Ottawa / Canada : The Liberal Party of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin loses its government majority, but Martin remains in office as head of a minority government.
• Ulaanbaatar / Mongolia : The ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party suffers heavy losses in the elections in Mongolia .
• Washington, DC / United States : The US Supreme Court has upheld the jurisdiction of the US courts over the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba . According to the Supreme Court ruling , prisoners can have the legality of their detention reviewed by US courts.

Tuesday June 29, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : After a five-year term in office, Federal President Johannes Rau is retired from his post with a major tattoo by the Bundeswehr . At the request of the President, the Yorck March can be heard .

Wednesday June 30, 2004

• Baghdad / Iraq : Saddam Hussein was formally handed over to a special tribunal of the Iraqi judiciary. However, he remains under the guard of the USA .
• Manila / Philippines : The Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is sworn in for a further six-year term.
• Tel Aviv / Israel : Israel has to change the planned route of the barrier to the West Bank in some sections in favor of the Palestinians after a ruling by the country's Supreme Court .

See also

• Nekrolog June 2004 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in June
• Category for memorial days, holidays or action days in June

Web links

Faroe Islands in June 2004

Commons : June 2004  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Explosions after the appointment of the new president. In: faz.net . June 1, 2004, accessed September 17, 2016 . 
2. ↑ CIA chief George Tenet resigns. In: berliner-zeitung.de . June 4, 2004, accessed September 17, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Former opponents celebrate D-Day together. In: lr-online.de . June 7, 2004, accessed June 14, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo. In: imf.org . July 28, 2017, accessed September 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ International Fight against Terrorism and Human Rights. In: institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de . August 2005, accessed September 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ US Files WTO Case Against EU Over Unfair Airbus Subsidies. In: ustr.gov . June 10, 2004, accessed on September 23, 2016 . 
7. ↑ heise.de/tp : Mix, Burn & RIP ( Memento from June 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Free networks. In: heise.de . 2004, accessed February 9, 2018 . 
9. ↑ State election: Thuringia. In: wahlen-in-deutschland.de. Retrieved October 31, 2016 . 
10. ^ German Film Prize, 2004. In: deutscher-filmpreis.de . Retrieved October 19, 2016 . 
11. ↑ European report 13/2004. In: bayern.de . June 25, 2004. Retrieved July 11, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Ullrich triumphs in the last few meters. In: spiegel.de . June 20, 2004. Retrieved May 29, 2017 . 
13. ^ British before Brussels. In: The time . July 1, 2004, accessed July 13, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Rudi Völler resigns. In: welt.de . June 24, 2004, accessed February 14, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Big tattoo for Johannes Rau. In: faz.net . June 30, 2004, accessed March 18, 2017 .