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This article covers breaking news and events in April 2004.

Daily events

Thursday April 1, 2004

Friday April 2, 2004

Saturday April 3, 2004

Sunday April 4, 2004

Residential house in Leganés after the terrorists' suicide

Monday April 5, 2004

Tuesday April 6, 2004

Rolandas Paksas

Wednesday April 7, 2004

Thursday April 8, 2004

Friday April 9, 2004

  • Sofia / Bulgaria : At least 49 people were injured, some seriously, in a poison gas attack in Sofia. A 51-year-old man was arrested in connection with the attack on the headquarters of the traffic police. The man said he had a ballpoint pen filled with a warfare agent with him. It accidentally fell out of his jacket pocket and broke. According to experts, this is the chemical agent chloropicrin .
  • Iraq : Another six foreigners were abducted as hostages in Iraq. There were four Italians and two Americans. A brief ceasefire in Fallujah was ended again, and the Shiite uprising continued on that day.

Saturday April 10, 2004

  • Iraq : Two Germans are now missing in Iraq. The two are employees of GSG 9 and were deployed to guard the German embassy. According to unconfirmed news, an eyewitness reportedly saw their vehicle being hit by a missile and exploding. There is still no official statement from the government.
  • South Siberia / Russia : Mine accident in the Taijina coal mine due to a violent methane gas explosion. 40 people lost their lives in the process. Another 12 missing persons are still being searched for. About 150 helpers are involved in the rescue operation.
  • Chechnya / Russia : Nine bodies with gunshot wounds have been found in southeast Chechnya. As the RIA-Novosti news agency reported, citing a representative from the Chechen Ministry of the Interior, the bodies were discovered in a canal bed in the village of Serjen-Yurt.

Sunday April 11, 2004

  • Fallujah / Iraq : Seven Chinese have been kidnapped in Fallujah ; the 18 to 49 year old men had entered Iraq by car from Jordan . Three American soldiers were killed in the fighting for Fallujah.
  • Iraq : The two missing GSG 9 employees are dead, claims a British reporter in the Sunday Telegraph. The Foreign Office is also of the opinion that the people are "with a high probability" dead.
  • Las Vegas / United States : Tonight, Wladimir Klitschko lost the boxing match against his opponent Lamon Brewster through a technical knockout at the end of the fifth round.

Monday April 12, 2004

Tuesday April 13, 2004

  • Tel Aviv / Israel : According to media reports, the Israeli secret service prevented a Palestinian attack in which the injured were supposed to be infected with the HI virus .

Wednesday April 14, 2004

  • Baghdad / Iraq : The Al Jazeera TV station reports that an Italian hostage was killed by her kidnappers.
  • Berlin / Germany : A spokeswoman for the organizers announced that the Love Parade will not take place in 2004, at least in Berlin.
  • Moscow / Russia : Russia flies 553 Russian citizens out of Iraq . Due to the wave of kidnappings, relatives from the former Soviet republics are also being brought out of the country.
  • Pretoria / South Africa : In South Africa, 20 million people were called for the third democratic election since the end of apartheid . The African National Congress Party (ANC) was expected to win .
  • Skopje / Macedonia : In Macedonia, the early presidential elections began today. There were four candidates to choose from, but there was no clear favorite.

Thursday April 15, 2004

  • Hamburg / Germany : It is reported that the television station al-Arabija is said to have published a tape discussed by Osama bin Laden . The content is a kind of ceasefire offer to the European states. The German federal government has rejected bin Laden's "offer". One does not want to negotiate with terrorists.
  • Seoul / South Korea : General elections are being held in South Korea. The winner of the election is the Yeollin Uri Party, which supports the incumbent President Roh Moo-hyun , against whom impeachment proceedings were unsuccessful in March.
  • Rotterdam / Netherlands : Chancellor Gerhard Schröder arrives on a state visit to the Netherlands.

Friday April 16, 2004

  • Munich : Max Strauss pleads guilty in his trial for harming shareholders in the millions. He justifies this with a progressive illness on his part. He was subsequently sentenced to a fine of 300,000 euros.
  • Washington, DC / United States : The US State Department has urged all US citizens to leave Saudi Arabia immediately. There are fears of kidnappings and terrorist attacks in the country.
  • Jakarta / Indonesia : The world's tallest building at 558 meters is to be built in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. The Jakarta Tower should become a symbol of pride and cost the equivalent of 266 million euros.
  • Frankfurt am Main : The Frankfurt Lions become German ice hockey champions for the first time .

Saturday 17th April 2004

Sunday April 18, 2004

Monday April 19, 2004

  • Berlin / Germany : With only two votes against and one abstention, the SPD party council calls for the introduction of a training tax .
  • Stuttgart / Germany : Thousands of GM food opponents and farmers demonstrate in Stuttgart. More than 300 tractors block the streets around the Baden-Württemberg state parliament.
  • Kabul / Afghanistan : Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer travels to Afghanistan.

Tuesday April 20, 2004

Wednesday April 21, 2004

  • France : The Republic of France has expelled an imam who cited the Koran as a justification for violence against women .
  • Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : Several people were killed and injured in a bomb attack on the headquarters of the security forces in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh. A car bomb exploded in front of the seven-story building in the El Waschm district.
  • Dominican Republic : After Spain and Honduras , the Dominican Republic has also announced the immediate withdrawal of its troops from Iraq. 302 Dominican soldiers would return in the next week or two.
  • Warsaw / Poland : Poland is also considering withdrawing its troops from Iraq , as Prime Minister Leszek Miller said in the evening.
  • Eiderstedt / Germany : Two Bundeswehr pilots were killed and two others were injured in the crash of two “ Tornado ” fighter jets after a collision .
  • Basra / Iraq : At least 55 people were killed and 200 injured in several bomb attacks in the southern Iraqi city. Several school children are said to be among the victims.
  • Tel Aviv / Israel : After 18 years, the Israeli nuclear engineer Mordechai Vanunu , arrested for treason, is released.

Thursday April 22, 2004

  • Ryongchon / North Korea : In the station of Ryongchon 50 km south of the border with China it comes to the collision of two trains loaded with fuel. As a result of the resulting explosion, according to initial information from locations outside North Korea, 61 people die and around 1,300 other people are injured.

Friday April 23, 2004

  • Yaren / Nauru : At the international airport there are violent protests against the government's policy with regard to the Afghan asylum seekers in the Australian internment camp and against the “deadlock” of parliament . The parliamentarians David Adeang , Baron Waqa , Kieren Keke and Fabian Ribauw face up to 14 years imprisonment for participating.
  • Darfur / Sudan : In the country plagued by civil war, there are now increasing indications that a genocide similar to that of Rwanda ten years ago is looming. The German Interior Minister a. D. Gerhart Baum speaks of the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe at present . His statements, according to which a million people are on the run, are, however, controversial and the world community does not agree on an intervention in Darfur.
  • Stuttgart / Germany : The supervisory board of the automotive group DaimlerChrysler has decided that the company does not want to participate in the planned capital increase at Mitsubishi Motors . The CFO Manfred Gentz ​​announced on a conference call that no buyer is being sought for the share package at the moment.
  • Ryongchŏn / North Korea : One day after the serious train accident in Ryongchŏn , North Korea asked the Red Cross for help and confirmed reports of the disaster for the first time. According to media reports, 150 dead have already been recovered.
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : The Pforzheim runner who killed a woman with a samurai sword and injured three others in September 2003 has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The Karlsruhe Regional Court also certified the 24-year-old as being particularly guilty. This means that early discharge after 15 years is excluded.
  • Berlin / Germany : At around 9:40 a.m., a gas storage facility in the Spandau district exploded containing six million cubic meters of natural gas - the city's annual requirement. A 30 meter high jet of flame shot into the sky. Gas was still leaking into the afternoon. The police had cordoned off the area around the camp and the air space above due to the risk of explosion. The tank was built at a depth of 800 m to make Berlin independent of Russian gas supplies during the Cold War. Because of the lack of oxygen in the depths, the tank cannot explode, only the connections above ground.

Saturday April 24, 2004

  • Nicosia / Cyprus : The reunification of the divided Mediterranean island failed after separate referendums in the Greek and Turkish parts. Almost 76 percent of the Greek population rejected the United Nations (UN) peace plan . The Turkish population, on the other hand, voted 65 percent of the vote for the UN plan. This means that only the Greek part of Cyprus will be accepted into the European Union (EU) on May 1st , because a reunified Cyprus would only have come about if both sides of the demarcation line agreed. The result of the vote was particularly sharply criticized and regretted by representatives of the EU.
  • Ryongchŏn / North Korea : According to official information from the North Korean authorities published today , 154 people were killed in the train accident on April 22nd . Around 1,300 were injured, many of them seriously.
  • Baghdad / Iraq : Attacks in Iskandarija and Baghdad killed at least 22 people, almost all of them Iraqis.
  • Los Angeles / United States : Vitali Klitschko defeated the South African Corrie Sanders in a tough boxing match for the WBC ( World Boxing Council ) world championship . The title was vacant after World Champion Lennox Lewis resigned in summer 2003 .

Sunday April 25, 2004

Heinz Fischer

Monday April 26, 2004

  • Berlin / Germany : The Berlin Hilton Hotel on Gendarmenmarkt was vacated in the early evening due to a bomb threat. As a precaution, all hotel guests were evacuated. After a search of the hotel with explosive dogs, the threat turned out to be a false alarm. During the incident, the U2 underground line, which runs directly under the Gendarmenmarkt, had to be interrupted for two hours as a precaution.
  • Paris / France : After an improved offer and massive intervention by the French government, the German pharmaceutical company Aventis has accepted the takeover by the smaller French rival Sanofi-Synthélabo .

Tuesday April 27, 2004

  • Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission has assessed the German postal law , which guarantees German postal services a monopoly until 2007, as a violation of EU competition law. It is specifically about the prohibition on delivering the letters (bulk mail) to the post office in a presorted manner in order to save postage. Swiss Post only allows certain major customers to do this.
  • Damascus / Syria : Several explosions occurred in the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday evening. Most of them were apparently in the vicinity of diplomatic institutions. Other reports report skirmishes between terrorists and security forces.
  • Brussels / Belgium : The Libyan head of state Muammar al-Gaddafi is visiting Europe for the first time in 15 years. He said his country was determined to take a leading role in working for world peace.
  • Fallujah / Iraq : In the evening, US warplanes and artillery fired at the revolting Iraqis in the city. The attack was the first after a ceasefire period that had expired on April 22nd .
  • Pretoria / South Africa : Thabo Mbeki , re-elected on April 14th, will be sworn in for a further term as President of South Africa.

Wednesday April 28, 2004

Image of Satar Jabar, a prisoner tortured in Abu Ghuraib
  • Berlin / Germany : The British “cheap” airline easyJet is trying to gain a foothold on the German market with connections to and from Schönefeld Airport . Observers anticipate fierce cutthroat competition between easyJet and competitors who have been active for a long time, such as B. Ryanair , Germanwings and Hapag-Lloyd Express .
  • Bucharest / Romania : The German national soccer team lost a test match for the 2004 European Championship in Portugal against Romania with 1: 5. The goal scorer for the selection of DFB team boss Rudi Völler was Philipp Lahm from VfB Stuttgart .
  • Iraq : The US television broadcaster CBS reports on its program 60 Minutes that US soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghuraib prison west of Baghdad . The images of the relevant incidents, showing how prisoners were exposed to degrading sexual practices, smeared with feces or threatened with electric shocks, while US soldiers can be seen laughing next to them, cause indignation worldwide. The US government condemns the acts and promises that the perpetrators will be brought to justice, and six soldiers will be charged.
  • Thailand : Thai security forces have repulsed a coordinated attack by Muslim separatists on police stations and civil defense posts in the south of the country, causing a bloodbath among the attackers. At least 112 people, including 107 insurgents, were killed according to the military. Most of the victims are Muslim youth between 15 and 20 years of age.
  • Vienna / Austria : At the Amadeus Awards , Peter Kraus is honored for his life's work.

Thursday April 29, 2004

Friday April 30, 2004

See also

Web links

Hungary in April 2004
Commons : April 2004  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fragile Progress. In: fes.de . May 2005, accessed July 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ La noche de los suicidas en Leganés. In: elpais.com . April 5, 2004, Retrieved May 19, 2019 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Collect on the demo for the demo. In: tagesspiegel.de . September 13, 2004, accessed on November 27, 2018 : "On April 3, 250,000 [...] in Berlin"
  4. ↑ Bloody clashes in Najaf. In: stern.de . April 4, 2004, accessed August 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Blackwater, Najaf - take two. In: cato.org . May 16, 2008, accessed August 5, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Switzerland Cup 2003/04. In: rsssf.com . Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  7. ^ First human gene map on the Internet. In: scinnex.de, MMCD New Media GmbH, material from the German Cancer Research Center . April 21, 2004, accessed August 2, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Chronicle of the worst train accidents worldwide. In: dw.com . Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Darfur. In: ngo-online . Retrieved September 24, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Abuse at Abu Ghraib. In: cbsnews.com . May 5, 2004, accessed September 24, 2016 .