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2004
The December 2004 tsunami in Thailand
A tsunami in the Indian Ocean on December 26th killed over 200,000 people.
European Union (EU 25)
As a result of the EU's eastward expansion , the European Union will be enlarged by ten member states - most of them from the former Eastern Bloc - on May 1st.
John Kerry
John Kerry is defeated in the US presidential election on November 2nd against incumbent George W. Bush
Annual dedications
Initiatives
Initiative Wissenschaft im Dialog of the BMBF : "Year of Technology"
UN : "International Year of Rice "
UNESCO : " International year to commemorate the fight against slavery and its abolition"
European Union : " European Year of Education through Sport "
European Capitals of Culture : Genoa , Lille
Nature and species protection
Medicinal Plant of the Year : peppermint
Tree of the year : Silver fir
Biotope of the year : Pasture
Flower of the year : Alpine bells
Fish of the year : Allis shad
Lichen of the year : Common yellow lichen
River landscape of the year : Havel
Vegetables of the year : Kidney bean
Pet of the year : Leutstetten horse , dark bee
Medicinal plant of the year : Common yarrow , common centaury
Insect of the year (Germany) : Grove hover fly
Landscape of the year : Lubusz Land
Orchid of the year : Green hollow tongue
Mushroom of the year : Real dry rot
Butterfly of the year : Aurora butterfly
Spider of the year : Green hoof spider
Perennial of the year : Cranesbills
Fruit variety of the year : Luikenapfel
Animal of the year : Dormouse
Bird of the year (Germany) : Wren
Bird of the year (Switzerland) : Barn swallow
Aquatic Plant of the Year : Southern hose
Mollusc of the year : Common boat snail
Invertebrate of the year earthworm
Tags
Word of the year (Germany): Hartz IV
Unword of the year (Germany): Human capital
Stock exchange news of the year : Sideways movement
Word of the year (Austria): Pension harmonization
Unword of the year (Austria) Boyish stupidities
Word of the year (Liechtenstein) Reading bags
Unword of the year (Liechtenstein) Paper Liechtensteiner
Rate of the year (Liechtenstein) "Is it still going?"
Word of the Year (Switzerland) Meh Dräck
Unword of the year (Switzerland) Eco-terror
Rate of the year (Switzerland) "Switzerland - zero points."

Events

Politics and world events

See also: List of UN Security Council Resolutions (2004)

January

February

Ole von Beust

March

The Dutch Embassy in Berlin

April

Thabo Mbeki 2003

May

June

July

Horst Köhler, 2007

August

September

October

Hamid Karzai

November

George W. Bush

December

Viktor Yushchenko

Terrorist attacks and wars

  • January 29 : In a terrorist attack on bus number 19 in Jerusalem ( Israel ) die eleven Israelis. 50 people are injured. The assassin was a 24-year-old Palestinian from Bethlehem and a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
  • February 22 : Eight people died in a suicide bombing on bus number 14A in Jerusalem, Israel. Over 60 are wounded. The Palestinian assassin was a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and came from Bethlehem
  • March 11 : Serious terrorist attack in Madrid , 191 dead, 1,500 injured
  • March 22 : The Israeli army kills Hamas leader Ahmad Sheikh Yasin
  • April 28 : Terrorist attack in the diplomatic quarter of Damascus , killing four
  • April 28: In the conflict in southern Thailand , the army storms the Krue-Se mosque in Pattani after fighting between security forces and suspected separatist rebels . Five security forces and 106 suspected insurgents die.
  • June 2 : Five employees of the aid organization Doctors Without Borders are murdered in an ambush in Afghanistan
  • July 11 : A suicide bomber blows himself up at a bus stop in Tel Aviv, Israel. One Israeli is killed and 33 injured
  • July 28 : A car bomb exploded in Bakuba, Iraq, killing 68 people and injuring around 40
  • August 2 : Bomb attacks on five Christian churches in Baghdad and Mosul in Iraq kill eleven people and injure around 50
  • August 15 : Hutu rebels attacked a UN refugee camp in Gatumba ( Burundi ), killing 189 people and injuring around 70
  • August 24 : As a result of a Chechen terrorist attack, two aircraft with 89 people on board crash almost simultaneously in Russia
  • August 30 : At least 39 people are killed and around 130 injured in an attack by a Chechen suicide bomber in the north of Moscow near a subway station
  • August 31 : Two suicide bombers kill 16 people in Beersheba, Israel. Over 100 Israelis are injured when the Palestinians blow themselves up within minutes. Target of the attack: city buses number 6 and number 12
  • August 31: Twelve Nepalese hostages are murdered in Iraq by Islamist extremists from the Ansar el Sunna group
  • September 4 : A car bomb explodes in front of a police school in Kirkuk , northern Iraq , killing 15 people and injuring another 20
  • September 6 : A car bomb explosion in northern Iraq kills seven American soldiers and three Iraqis
  • September 7 : 1,000 American soldiers have died since the beginning of the Iraq war. The far higher number of Iraqis killed is unknown
  • September 9 : A bomb attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta kills 11 people
  • September 14 : At least 47 people are killed and 114 injured in a car bomb explosion outside a police station in Baghdad
  • September 14: Twelve police officers are ambushed and killed in Baquba
  • September 16 : American air strikes near Fallujah kill up to 60 Iraqis
  • September 25 : Nine soldiers are killed by (presumably) Taliban fighters in several attacks in southern Afghanistan
  • September 30 : In three car bomb attacks in Baghdad, more than 42 people (mostly children) die and 139 are injured
  • October 1 : 31 people die and more than 45 are injured in a suicide attack on the Zainabia mosque in Sialkot / Pakistan
  • October 2 : On the 135th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, there are several bomb attacks in northeastern India (Dimapur in the state of Nagaland and Kokrajhar in the state of Assam) with at least 44 dead and 93 injured
  • October 2: At least 100 people are killed and more than 100 injured in an offensive by American troops and Iraqi national guards in Samarra
  • October 3 : More than 50 people are killed in an offensive by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip , which the Israeli army has launched after rocket attacks by Hamas
  • October 4 : More than 30 people died and more than 100 were injured in three bombings in Baghdad and Mosul and American air strikes in Fallujah
  • October 7th : 17 people die in Iraq in an offensive by the US armed forces and Iraqi security forces and a series of attacks. Seven people died in an attack in Diwaniyya
  • October 7th: In the suicide attacks in Taba and Ra's Schaitan ( Moon Island Village ) on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt 32 people are killed and more than 150 injured
  • October 7: At least 39 people are killed and more than 80 injured in a suicide attack in the city of Multan , Pakistan
  • October 8 : 11 people are killed in a US Air Force bombing in Fallujah
  • October 18 : At least six people are killed and 27 injured in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad
  • October 23 : 49 police recruits are murdered in northern Iraq. Over the weekend, around 100 people die in attacks and bombings
  • October 25 : As part of the conflict in southern Thailand , police break up a demonstration by Muslims in Tak Bai . She uses firearms and tear gas. 86 protesters are shot, suffocated or crushed while being transported to a prison camp. Others are seriously injured.
  • November 2 : Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh is stabbed and shot dead by an Islamic extremist on the street in Amsterdam . As a result, several mosques and Islamic schools in the Netherlands are set on fire
  • November 6 : Ivory Coast government soldiers kill nine French soldiers in an attack. The government had previously also broken the peace agreement with the rebels
  • November 6: At least 30 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks on police stations in the Iraqi city of Samarra
  • November 7th : At least 50 people are killed in attacks and attacks by insurgents in Iraq over the entire weekend
  • November 8 : The US military launches Operation Phantom Fury to combat the resistance in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah
  • November 12th : A video becomes known in which an American soldier shoots an injured, unarmed prisoner in Fallujah. The United Nations , Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch complain about human rights violations and violations of the Geneva Conventions by both parties to the conflict
  • November 14 : The offensive by American and Iraqi troops in Fallujah is said to be over. Balance: Approx. 25 dead soldiers, approx. 1,000 insurgents killed and an unknown number of civilian victims. However, the fighting continues
  • November 16 : A video becomes known that shows the murder of the kidnapped Care boss Margaret Hassan by unknown perpetrators. Even the Islamic terrorist group of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had demanded their release
  • November 18 : Israeli soldiers accidentally shoot three Egyptian border guards near Rafah on the border with Egypt. The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon apologizes for this
  • November 24 : In Israel, radio communications between an Israeli commander and his soldiers in the Gaza Strip are made public. The soldiers shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in a restricted area near Rafah on October 5
  • November 27 : Three German soldiers are slightly injured in an attack in Kunduz (Afghanistan)
  • December 3 : ETA detonates bombs at five petrol stations in the Madrid area. Five people suffer minor injuries
  • December 4 : Two car bombs explode in Baghdad and a suicide attack in Mosul kills at least 15 people and injures around 60
  • December 24 Muslim extremists grenade two people and injure forty in Kashmir
  • December 25 A gas tank truck explosion kills nine people and injures 14 in western Baghdad

economy

Mark Zuckerberg

science and technology

Mars Rover Spirit (MER-A), artist's impression
The brown dwarf 2M1207 with the exoplanet 2M1207 b (bottom left)

Culture

Saatchi Gallery

music

See also: 2004 number one hits in Australia , Belgium , Denmark , Germany , Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Canada , Mexico , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Sweden , the Switzerland , Singapore , Spain , Hungary , the United States and the United Kingdom .

See also: Category: Music 2004

society

religion

Sports

Weather

The annual mean temperature in Central Europe was about 0.5 ° above the long-term average, which made large parts of the population aware of the consequences of anthropogenic climate change for the first time . The average duration of sunshine also increased by around 100 hours per year (to around 1,550 hours), but this is currently not viewed as a longer-term effect. The precipitation , however, remained within the normal range.

2004: Cyclone Catarina on March 26, 2004

Disasters

Others

  • August 5th : The first three of 42 graves are opened in the Allgäu . This marked the beginning of the largest exhumation campaign in the Federal Republic of Germany after the war. The police and public prosecutor in Kempten want to use it to clear up a series of deaths in the Sonthofen hospital. A nurse had confessed to having killed patients by injections
  • December 11th : Probably the most expensive pirate station is excavated at the German-Dutch border . The system, which was set up exactly on the border, transmits with an output of 10 kilowatts from a 100 meter high transmission mast

Born

Date unknown

Died

This is a list of the most eminent people who passed away in 2004. For a more detailed list see Nekrolog 2004 .

January

February

Peter Ustinov († March 28)

March

Queen Juliana, 1960

April

May

Marika Rökk , 1940

June

Ronald Reagan († June 5)
Ray Charles († June 10)

July

August

September

Luis E. Miramontes

October

Alice Duchess of Gloucester

November

Yasser Arafat, 2001

December

Julius Axelrod

Exact date unknown

Nobel Prizes

See also

Web links

Commons : 2004  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: 2004  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Short report of the FAZ , December 31, 2004.
  2. Madagascar storm death toll rises . BBC, March 10, 2004, accessed October 29, 2018.