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This article covers breaking news and events in February 2004.

Daily events

Sunday February 1, 2004

• Houston / United States : In the 38th Super Bowl in American football to win the New England Patriots with 32:29 against the Carolina Panthers . An appearance by Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson at the halftime show causes a stir when a Janet Jackson nipple is shown for a moment. The incident is called " Nipplegate " in allusion to the Watergate affair .
• Ljubljana / Slovenia : In Handball - European Championship Men who wins German national team under coach Heiner Brand in the final against hosts Slovenia with 30:25.
• Mars : The landing vehicle Opportunity rolls from its landing platform onto the surface of the planet. Over the next few months, it will explore the geological details of the Meridiani Planum , a lowland plain near the Martian equator.
• Mina / Saudi Arabia : A panic occurred during this year's Hajj of Muslims at the Jamarat Bridge near Mecca . In the crowd, 244 pilgrims are kicked or crushed to death.
• The Convention for the Protection of Albatrosses and Petrels comes into force in five of the eleven signatory states to date . Australia , Ecuador , New Zealand , Spain and South Africa ratified the agreement between 2001 and 2003.

Monday February 2, 2004

Roger Federer

• London / United Kingdom : With Roger Federer a standing first Swiss on rank 1 of the tennis world rankings of the Association of Tennis Professionals  (ATP).

Tuesday February 3, 2004

• Darwin / Australia : In Australia, the first transcontinental north-south passenger train , called The Ghan , ends its 3,000 km maiden voyage from Adelaide via Alice Springs to Darwin on the north coast. He left Adelaide on February 1st.
• France : When evaluating recordings from the Hubble Space Telescope's spectrometer, European astronomers discover for the first time evidence of carbon and oxygen deposits in the atmosphere of an exoplanet , i. H. a short distance from the solar system distant planet . The same has been known for a long time and bears the name Osiris .
• Washington, DC / United States : Secretary of State Colin Powell admits in an interview with the newspaper The Washington Post one that the in on 5 February 2003 Security Council of the United Nations presented evidence for the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have proved to be forgeries. At that time, he gave a lecture on mobile Iraqi chemical weapons laboratories using satellite images. When asked if he would have advocated an attack on Iraq at the time without evidence of weapons of mass destruction, Powell says, "I don't know."

Wednesday February 4, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : The historian Guido Knopp is awarded the Golden Camera for his TV documentary programs on historical events .
• Cambridge / United States : Students from Harvard University set up Facebook . It is intended to encourage World Wide Web users to create a personal profile, make virtual contacts with other users or join virtual groups in order to then interact, e.g. As photos of meals spread .
• London / United Kingdom : The space agency ESA has announced that it will undertake manned flights to the moon and Mars within the next three decades .

Thursday February 5, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : The 54th Berlin International Film Festival opens with the film On the Road to Cold Mountain by British director Anthony Minghella .
• Moscow / Russia : The liberal candidate Ivan Rybkin , supported by the oligarch Boris Berezovsky , disappears without a trace in the Russian presidential elections .
• Riga / Latvia : Prime Minister Einars Repše resigns.

Friday February 6, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) announces that he will resign from the party chairmanship at a special SPD party conference in March and propose Franz Müntefering as his successor. SPD general secretary Olaf Scholz had previously announced that he would resign during the special party conference.
• London / United Kingdom : After almost 15 years of professional career, boxer Lennox Lewis declares his resignation. He is the reigning world heavyweight champion.
• Morecambe / United Kingdom : 19 mussel collectors from Asia are killed in Morecambe Bay on the Lancashire coast when the incoming tide surprises them.
• Moscow / Russia : 40 people are killed and around 100 other people are injured in a serious bomb attack in the Moscow subway .
• Papua New Guinea : 37 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 7.0 M _w .

Sunday February 8, 2004

• Bern / Switzerland : In a referendum , the counter-proposal to the Avanti initiative and the revision of tenancy law is rejected, the initiative to keep dangerous criminals in custody for life is accepted. In addition, a second tube for the Gotthard road tunnel in central Switzerland is clearly rejected.
• Italy : Due to the high pollution of the air with emissions , a car-free Sunday is ordered for cities like Milan and Rome . The roadways are filled with walkers and cyclists.
• Lansing , Seattle / United States : Senator John Kerry wins the US states Michigan and Washington primaries for the party convention to nominate the candidate of the Democratic Party in the presidential election in November . Kerry has won nine of the eleven completed Democratic primary elections.

Monday February 9, 2004

• Augusta / United States : Senator John Kerry wins the tenth of twelve primary elections for the party congress to nominate the candidate of the Democratic Party in the presidential election in November in the US state of Maine .
• Brunei : The Swedish King Carl XVI. Gustaf praised the dictatorial sultan of the host country during his state visit, which, however, led to critical comments in Sweden.
• Genshagen / Germany : Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac meet for consultations in the Brandenburg city.

Tuesday February 10, 2004

• Iskandariya / Iraq : 53 people die in a car bomb in front of a police station in Babil Governorate .
• Paris / France : The National Assembly passes a clear majority to ban headscarves in French schools.
• United Arab Emirates : When a Fokker 50 of the Iranian airline Kish Air crashes 3 km from the destination Sharjah airport , 43 of the 46 occupants are killed.

Wednesday February 11, 2004

• Baghdad / Iraq : Around 50 people die in a car bomb explosion near a police station in the south of the Iraqi capital.

Thursday February 12, 2004

• Hamburg / Germany : During an election campaign event of the CDU in the Neugraben district, a woman attacked Hamburg's Justice Senator Roger Kusch with a knife. Kusch suffers a flesh wound.
• Pforzheim / Germany : In the collective bargaining dispute between IG Metall Baden-Württemberg and the employers' association Südwestmetall , a pilot agreement is reached for the metal and electrical industry in the state of Baden-Württemberg . It provides for income increases in two steps, from March 2004 by 2.2% and from March 2005 by 2.7%.
• Seoul / South Korea : A team of Korean researchers under Hwang Woo-suk explains that they have succeeded in extracting stem cells from a cloned human embryo . The precursors of various tissue cells were grown from these stem cells , which would represent a breakthrough for therapeutic cloning.

Friday February 13, 2004

• Doha / Qatar : Former Chechen ruler Selimchan Abdumuslimowitsch Jandarbijew is killed in a bomb attack.
• Madison / United States : The top candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the United States, John Kerry , is getting support from a previous competitor. The who quit from the race Ex- NATO - Commander Wesley Clark now is Senator Kerry at hand. Kerry has the right experience, the right values, the right character and the right message. Clark said this when he appeared together with Kerry in Madison, Wisconsin . There will be an area code there on Tuesday.
• Washington, DC / United States : A US National Guard soldier has been arrested for attempted espionage for the al-Qaeda terrorist network . As the military authorities in Washington confirmed on Friday, the 26-year-old soldier tried - albeit in vain - to contact the terrorist organization via the Internet in order to divulge secrets about the equipment of armored vehicles . His tank brigade should be relocated from Fort Lewis , Washington state to Iraq shortly , it said. In addition to the army, the FBI and the Ministry of Justice are also involved in the investigation. The news channel CNN reported that the soldier converted to Islam five years ago .
• In Internet parts of the illegal source code of Windows NT and Windows 2000 releases.

Saturday February 14, 2004

• Fallujah / Iraq : More than 20 people die in an attack by Iraqi rebels.
• Pakistan : An earthquake measuring 5.5 M _w kills 24 people.
• Radès / Tunisia : Host Tunisia wins the final of the 24th African Cup of Nations 2-1 against Morocco .
• Rimini / Italy : The Italian cycling poker pro Marco Pantani consumed an overdose of cocaine and is later found dead in a hotel in Rimini.

Sunday February 15, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : The jury of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival honors the film Gegen die Wand by director Fatih Akin as the best contribution of the festival with the Golden Bear .
• China : 90 people were killed in two fires in eastern China. 51 people died in a shopping mall in Jilin City in northeast China and 39 people died in a village temple in Zhejiang Province.

Monday February 16, 2004

• India , Pakistan : After more than two and a half years, the warring neighbors India and Pakistan have resumed peace talks. In Islamabad brought together representatives of the two foreign ministries for a three-day meeting. The main topic is the Kashmir region .
• London / United Kingdom : Russian presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin reappears after five days . He claims to have been lured to Ukraine on false pretenses . There he was drugged and filmed for a compromising video. He was passed out for four days.

Tuesday February 17, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : After much back and forth, Federal Transport Minister Manfred Stolpe has canceled the contract to introduce a truck toll in Germany with the previous operator consortium Toll Collect .
• Washington, DC / United States : US astronomers discover a new asteroid at the edge of the solar system. With an estimated diameter of 800 km, it is the largest object detected since the discovery of the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930.

Wednesday February 18, 2004

• Nishapur / Iran : More than 300 people are killed and at least 400 others are injured in the explosion of a freight train .

Thursday February 19, 2004

• Schkölen / Germany : In the evening in the Thuringian town of Schkölen, the police arrested a man who threatened someone with a knife. During the interrogation, the man claims to have murdered at least four people in the past few days, three of them in Bad Langensalza and one in Hainspitz .

Friday February 20, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : The MoMA opens in Berlin. In the New National Gallery, 200 of the most important masterpieces of the 20th century from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, are on display. The exhibition is exclusive in Europe and ends on September 19, 2004.
• New York / United States : The Canadian Louise Arbor is nominated for the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ; she succeeds Sérgio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in an attack in Baghdad .
• Riga / Latvia : Latvian President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga appoints Indulis Emsis from the Greens as the new head of government. The previous incumbent Einars Repše resigned on February 5.
• Tehran / Iran : There are parliamentary elections in Iran. Numerous liberal or reform-oriented candidates were not admitted by the conservative Guardian Council, so that the election is criticized as not fair.

Saturday February 21, 2004

• Offenburg / Germany : The 100th program Do you understand fun? , moderated by Frank Elstner , looks back on the past 23 years.

Sunday February 22, 2004

• Cap-Haïtien / Haiti : After taking the second largest city of Cap-Haïtien, the rebels are now planning to take the capital Port-au-Prince , as rebel leader Guy Philippe announced.
• Jerusalem / Israel : 8 Israelis are killed and 60 injured in a suicide attack on a Jerusalem bus. The attack was caused by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
• Rome / Italy : The European Green Party is founded in Rome, an amalgamation of 35 green parties and the first pan-European party ever.
• Uganda : Rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army wreaked havoc in a refugee camp in northern Uganda and killed 192 people.

Monday February 23, 2004

• The Hague / Netherlands : Representatives of Palestine protest at the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the construction of the Israeli barricades , which run along the so-called Green Line between Israel and the West Bank, but sometimes far within the occupied territory. In an opinion in July, the Court of Justice found the plants to be illegal if they deviate from the Green Line.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : With the new version of their pollutant emissions register (EPER), the European Commission and the European Environment Agency are making the emission data of a total of 9,256 industrial plants accessible online.

Tuesday February 24, 2004

• al-Hoceima / Morocco : More than 550 people die in an earthquake near the coastal city of al-Hoceima.
• Moscow / Russia : President Vladimir Putin dismisses the entire government. Except for Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov , however, all members of the government will remain in their function. Viktor Khristenko will be the new Prime Minister .
• Pfarrkirchen / Germany : Daniel Küblböck - known from the TV show " Deutschland sucht den Superstar " - causes a traffic accident while driving without a driver's license . According to the police, he suffers severe cuts and bruises.
• The Rotterdam Convention enters into force.

Wednesday February 25, 2004

• Kloten / Switzerland : In Kloten near Zurich, the father of a boy who was killed in the plane collision in Überlingen stabs the air traffic controller who was responsible for air traffic control that day. At that time, a Russian Bashkirian Airlines plane and a DHL cargo plane collided over Lake Constance .

Thursday February 26, 2004

• Mostar / Bosnia-Herzegovina : The Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash.
• New York / United States : The United Nations convenes an emergency meeting on the situation in Haiti .
• London / United Kingdom : According to former British Development Aid Minister Clare Short , UN employees, including Secretary General Kofi Annan , were bugged by the British secret service GCHQ .

Friday February 27, 2004

• Tokyo / Japan : Asahara Shōkō , founder of Ōmu Shinrikyō , is sentenced to death in connection with the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway on March 20, 1995 .

Saturday February 28, 2004

• Atlantic / United States : The tanker Bow Mariner sinks off the coast of Virginia after an explosion . At least three of the 27 seafarers are killed. The tanker carried 13 million liters of ethanol , which caught fire.
• Taiwan : At the 228 hand-in-hand rally on the island, more than a million participants form a human chain that is more than 500 km long.

Sunday February 29, 2004

Peter Jackson

• Hamburg / Germany : With the incumbent mayor Ole von Beust , the CDU wins around 20% of votes (47.2%) and thus the absolute majority of the seats in the Hamburg state election . The Hamburg SPD with challenger Thomas Mirow achieved 30.5%, their worst result after the Second World War .
• Los Angeles / United States : For the 76th time finds the Oscars instead. The third part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy by New Zealand director Peter Jackson , The Return of the King , wins eleven Oscars. Previously, only the films Ben Hur and Titanic received an equally great response .
• Port-au-Prince / Haiti : The President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide , is leaving the country following the advance of the rebels on the capital.

See also

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

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Full list of NFL champions. In: si.com . February 5, 2017, accessed November 21, 2018 . 
2. ^ Nipplegate incident. In: nipplegate.com. Retrieved November 21, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Germany European champion for the first time. In: spiegel.de . February 1, 2004, accessed February 12, 2018 . 
4. ^ Mars Exploration Rovers Mission. In: nasa.gov . Retrieved February 18, 2018 . 
5. ^ Hadj Pilgrimage 2004, Stampede. In: princeton.edu . Retrieved February 18, 2018 . 
6. ^ Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. In: acap.aq. June 19, 2001, accessed July 30, 2018 . 
7. ↑ February 2nd is a public holiday for Roger Federer. In: 20min.ch . February 2, 2016, accessed July 17, 2017 . 
8. ↑ aarail.com.au: First Train ( Memento from March 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
9. ↑ Colin Powell doubts decision to go to war in Iraq. In: stern.de . February 3, 2004, accessed August 5, 2018 . 
10. ↑ 39th award. In: goldenekamera.de . Retrieved March 22, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Facebook - information about the company. In: facebook.com . Retrieved September 18, 2016 . 
12. ^ Berlinale - The Golden Bears since 1951. In: berlin-die-hauptstadt.de, Brigitte Ferlet. Retrieved March 9, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Series of attacks shakes the country. In: rundschau-online.de . March 2, 2004, accessed June 3, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Jandarbiev killed in Qatar. In: n-tv.de . February 13, 2004, accessed September 18, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Africa Cup 2004 in Tunisia. In: weltfussball.de. Retrieved November 10, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Golden Bear - The Best Films from Berlin (Berlinale). In: moviepilot.de . Retrieved March 10, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Nadja Podbregar, Dieter Lohmann: In focus: solar system . Springer Spectrum , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-41894-5 , p. 250 .
18. ↑ Chronicle of the worst train accidents worldwide. In: dw.com . Retrieved October 2, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Do you understand fun? In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved January 20, 2018 . 
20. ^ European Commission and EEA launch first Europe-wide industrial pollution register. In: europa.eu . February 23, 2004, accessed January 20, 2018 . 
21. ↑ UK 'spied on UN's Kofi Annan'. In: bbc.co.uk . February 26, 2004, accessed December 16, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Hamburg state elections. In: Wahlen-in-deutschland.de, Valentin Schröder. Retrieved November 2, 2016 . 
23. ^ The 76th Academy Awards. In: oscars.org . Retrieved February 1, 2017 .