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This article covers breaking news and events in July 2004.

Daily events

Thursday July 1, 2004

• Baghdad / Iraq : The trial against President Saddam Hussein , who ruled dictatorially from 1979 to 2003, begins.
• The Hague / Netherlands : The Netherlands take over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from Ireland . The office of head of government of the EC is given to Jan Peter Balkenende .
• Saturn : The Cassini-Huygens space probe of the space organizations NASA and ESA reaches the orbit of Saturn after seven years of flight . The critical maneuver to pivot into orbit succeeds.

Friday July 2, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag resolves the labor market reform according to the so-called Hartz concept , which u. a. includes the introduction of unemployment benefit II (ALG 2). Those who are capable of work and in principle all those who are partially able to work without sufficient income or assets to secure their livelihood will receive ALG 2 for the entire period of their unemployment . The basic security of fully disabled people will usually be provided through social assistance . In detail, the financial circumstances of relatives or roommates can also have an impact on eligibility.

Saturday 3rd July 2004

• London / United Kingdom : The 17-year-old Russian Marija Sharapova wins the women's singles tournament of the Wimbledon Championships in tennis against defending champion Serena Williams from the USA .

Sunday 4th July 2004

Greek joy about winning the European Football Championship tournament

• Donchery / France : The serial killer Michel Fourniret and his wife lead the police to the graves of two people who have been missing for 15 years. Fourniret admits the murder of eight women and one male.
• Lisbon / Portugal : The game between Portugal and Greece ends the European Football Championship in Portugal. Greece defeated Portugal with a goal from Angelos Charisteas in the 57th minute and are European champions for the first time. All over Greece and in a number of large cities in Germany , the party continues until the early hours of the morning.
• London / United Kingdom : Defending champion Roger Federer from Switzerland wins the men's singles tournament of the Wimbledon Championships in tennis by beating Andy Roddick from the USA in four sets.
• New York / United States : At Ground Zero , the site where up to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 , the twin towers of the World Trade Center towered into the sky, is the cornerstone of a new skyscraper designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind set .

Monday 5th July 2004

• Vienna / Austria : Federal President Thomas Klestil is admitted to the General Hospital of the City of Vienna as a result of a cardiac arrest . The official handover to his successor Heinz Fischer is to take place in three days , so that, in accordance with the Federal Constitution, Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel receives the Federal President's agenda on an interim basis .

Tuesday July 6, 2004

• Germany : Employees of the Tafel organization now supply over half a million people in Germany with donated food .
• Thailand : H5N1 avian flu has returned. As a result , more than 8,000 chickens have been slaughtered in the provinces of Ayutthaya and Pathumthani . According to Thailand's deputy agriculture minister, Newin Chidchob , it is the same strain of virus that epidemically infected birds in Asia at the beginning of the year .
• Vienna / Austria : Federal President Thomas Klestil ( ÖVP ) succumbs to the General Hospital of Vienna two days before the swearing-in of his successor shortly before midnight his severe heart disease.

Wednesday July 7, 2004

• Berlin / Germany : The Berlin public prosecutor has initiated proceedings against former state secretaries and CDU members Volker Liepelt and Hugo Holzinger on suspicion of misappropriating public funds in connection with the Tempodrom affair.
• Berlin / Germany : The Ministry of Justice is planning a change in the law that will extend the so-called “ great eavesdropping ” to the previously protected professional group of doctors, lawyers, tax advisors, drug advisors and journalists. Furthermore, the large eavesdropping attack should only be allowed in the future for serious crimes with a minimum sentence of 5 years or more. The Federal Constitutional Court had called for a corresponding change. After protests by the affected professional groups as well as by the FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Minister Brigitte Zypries withdrew the draft.
• Kiel / Germany : The first conference of interior ministers this year is about a. the introduction of an Islamist file .

Thursday July 8, 2004

Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi arrives for the G8 summit

• Erfurt / Germany : Dieter Althaus is officially re-elected as Prime Minister by the Thuringian state parliament and the new cabinet presented on Wednesday is sworn in. Jens Goebel , Harald Schliemann and Gerold Wucherpfennig are new to the cabinet . Michael Krapp and Hans Kaiser left the state government, Andreas Trautvetter and Karl Heinz Gasser received new departments, Dagmar Schipanski became the state parliament president .
• Glynn County / United States : The heads of state of the Group of Eight (G8) and two representatives of the European Union meet for the 30th World Economic Summit on Sea Island near Brunswick , Georgia .
• Houston / United States : The former CEO of Enron Kenneth Lay faces the federal agency FBI . He had been charged with falsifying accounts in connection with the collapse of the group . Lay was also known as the "shadow advisor" to President George W. Bush , on whose behalf he helped form the government.
• Vienna / Austria : The new Federal President Heinz Fischer ( SPÖ ) is sworn in.

Friday July 9, 2004

• Baghdad , Samarra / Iraq : three US soldiers and one Iraqi die in an attack by insurgents in Samarra; 18 other men are injured. A car bomb kills an ex- Ba'ath official in Baghdad .

Saturday July 10, 2004

• Moscow / Russia : Paul Klebnikov , editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes Magazine and author of a book about Boris Berezovsky , which explained the machinations of Russia's oligarchs , is shot dead by two unknown perpetrators in Moscow.
• Vienna / Austria : The Austrian Federal President Thomas Klestil was solemnly buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery in the presence of over twenty presidents, kings and thousands of people.

Sunday 11th July 2004

• Bangkok / Thailand : The “15. international AIDS conference "opens. Thousands of experts have gathered to discuss the global fight against the immunodeficiency disease.
• Belgrade / Serbia and Montenegro : After winning the election as President of the Republic of Serbia on June 27, Boris Tadić , who comes from the region of Montenegro and is considered liberal, is sworn in by the Democratic Party as the new President of Serbia.
• Mediterranean region : After a three-week dispute, Italy has allowed the German rescue ship Cap Anamur with 37 Sudanese refugees on board to enter Italian waters. The refugees have asked for asylum in Germany.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Democratic US presidential candidate-designate John Kerry accuses incumbent George W. Bush of deception and breach of word with unprecedented clarity in Iraq policy. Bush misled the American public on the question of alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and Iraq's links with al-Qaeda .

Monday July 12, 2004

• Rome , Palermo / Italy : The Cap Anamur is no longer viewed as confiscated by the Italian authorities. The crew remains in custody.
• Lisbon / Portugal : President Jorge Sampaio appoints Pedro Santana Lopes as the new Portuguese head of government. He replaces José Manuel Barroso , who becomes President of the European Commission.

Tuesday July 13, 2004

• Paris / France : The former German State Secretary and President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Holger Pfahls , who had been wanted for a long time because of a bribery affair, has been arrested in Paris. The Augsburg public prosecutor's office hopes that the arrest will provide new information in connection with the CDU donation affair and in the trial against the son of Franz Josef Strauss , Max Strauss .

Wednesday July 14, 2004

• Manila / Philippines : To save the life of a hostage , the Philippine government announced that it would withdraw its 51 soldiers from Iraq . The withdrawal was originally planned for August 20th .
• Berlin / Germany : The federal government demands that Italy release the three German employees of the rescue ship Cap Anamur , who were arrested for aiding and abetting illegal entry.
• Berlin / Germany : Representatives of the SPD , CDU / CSU and FDP rejected the reinstatement of a parliamentary committee of inquiry after Holger Pfahl 's arrest in connection with the CDU donation affair , as requested by Hans-Christian Ströbele ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) was.
• Paris / France : On the occasion of the national holiday , the French President Jacques Chirac announced that he would hold a referendum on the European Constitution .
• Cairo / Egypt : Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak appoints Ahmad Nazif as new Prime Minister; he replaces Atif Abaid .

Thursday July 15, 2004

• New York / United States : UNDP presents the Human Development Report 2004. According to the new Human Development Index , nowhere is life as good as in Norway (front runner for two years), followed by Sweden and Australia . Germany is in 19th place, with Sierra Leone bringing up the rear for the seventh time in a row . Factors such as average income, educational level and life expectancy are used for this. UNDP homepage
• Augsburg / Germany : Max Strauss was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for tax evasion. Strauss worked for the armaments lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber and brought millions into his Swiss account as commission , circumventing tax law .
• Gdansk , Warsaw / Poland : Horst Köhler is setting out on his first trip abroad as German President to Poland and France . The first visit to Poland is intended to highlight the special connection between Poland and Germany and the origins of Horst Köhler. Today he is meeting with the Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski in Warsaw, where he rejects alleged claims by displaced persons. At a wreath-laying ceremony in Gdansk for the victims of World War II, he meets Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa .
• California / United States : The environmental satellite aura of NASA launched aboard a Delta 2 carrier rocket successfully into orbit .
• Saturn : The Cassini-Huygens space probe observed the Saturn moon Iapetus , the surface of which appears to be divided into two parts.
• Phnom Penh / Cambodia : The Cambodian parliament ends the 11-month constitutional crisis by recognizing Hun Sen as the country's head of government.

Friday July 16, 2004

• Dublin / Ireland : The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has solved the so-called black hole paradox according to his own statements. In a lecture at the 17th international conference on general relativity and gravitation (GR17) he wants to explain his new theory.
• Manila / Philippines : Two days after the government's announcement, the Philippines began to withdraw 51 soldiers who were stationed in Iraq as reconstruction workers . Such a request from the hostage takers was met.
• Paris / France : With a visit to the French President Jacques Chirac at the Elysee Palace ended Horst Koehler his first foreign trip as German Federal President .
• India : Over 80 children are killed in a school fire in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu .

Saturday 17th July 2004

• Moscow / Russia . The from Armenia originating journalist Pail Pelojan was found (presumably by stab wounds) murdered in the street.
• Rome / Italy . Italy has rejected the asylum applications of the 37 Cap Anamur refugees.
• Kourou / French Guiana . With an Ariane 5 - launcher of 5,950 kg to today heaviest was telecommunications satellite Anik F2 in an earth orbit accommodated.

Sunday July 18, 2004

• Shanghai / People's Republic of China . In a race of the DTM that is not part of the official championship , Gary Paffett wins in a Mercedes-Benz from Bernd Schneider (Mercedes-Benz) and Mattias Ekström ( Audi ).
• Euskirchen / Germany . On the highway A1 between Euskirchen and the cross Bliesheim accident in the morning at 8:15 a Danish coach, who from a youth camp in northern Spain is on the way home. 2 young people die, 57 are injured - 6 of them seriously.
• Lower Rhine , western Ruhr area / Germany . In the course of a thunderstorm, one or more tornadoes form and cause property damage in the millions.
• South asia. Heavy monsoon rains with flooding in India , Bangladesh , Nepal and the People's Republic of China result in around 800–1000 deaths and millions of homeless people.

Monday July 19, 2004

• Hamburg / Germany : The world's largest and most expensive passenger ship “ Queen Mary II ” arrives in Hamburg
• Rome / Italy : The head of the right-wing Italian party Lega Nord , Umberto Bossi , is leaving Silvio Berlusconi's government to join the European Parliament as a member of the European Parliament . Due to his resignation in 1994 , Berlusconi's first government failed. Bossi, who is recovering from a heart attack , cites health reasons solely responsible for his decision.
• Tel Aviv / Israel : In an attack in the Israeli city, a judge is murdered for the first time. 49-year-old Adi Azar was shot dead by a man on a motorcycle. Despite confessions from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades , Justice Minister Yosef Lapid rules out a terrorist background.
• Kiev / Ukraine : At least 25 miners are killed in a severe mine gas explosion in the east of the country. The disaster occurred in the Krasnolimanskaya mine in the Donets Basin .
• Munich / Germany : The premiere of the film (T) Raumschiff Surprise - Period 1 , announced with a major marketing campaign , will take place in the Mathäser -Filmpalast in Munich . Director , producer and leading actor is the comedian Michael Herbig .

Tuesday July 20, 2004

Boris Tadić visits the USA

• Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates : The EADS subsidiary Airbus receives a major order worth more than 3.6 billion euros for 24 aircraft and at the same time another customer for its A380 wide-body aircraft .
• Arlington County / United States : In the Pentagon , Donald Rumsfeld , Secretary of Defense of the United States , and the new President of the Republic of Serbia in Serbia and Montenegro Boris Tadić discuss the prospects of a lasting pacification of the Western Balkans . The military alliance NATO fears that the Serbs will deepen their relations with Russia .
• Baghdad / Iraq , Manila / Philippines . After the last Filipino soldiers withdrew from Iraq, the Filipino truck driver held hostage was released.
• Berlin / Germany . 60 years after the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, the federal government commemorates the resistance against the Nazi dictatorship with a ceremony, wreath-laying ceremony and a solemn vow . There were disruptions by opponents of the event.
• Athens / Greece . The NOK is sending 452 athletes to the Olympic Games for Germany . It is hoped for 3rd place in the nations ranking.
• Strasbourg / France . The European Parliament meets for its constituent session. 732 MPs from 25 countries are to appoint the new EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso . Josep Borrell was elected as the new President of Parliament.
• Berlin / Germany . Federal Minister Otto Schily calls for the creation of an asylum seeker camp in North Africa. He takes on such a request from Great Britain .
• Wiesbaden / Germany . Martin Hohmann was expelled from the party by the CDU regional association of Hesse. In a sensational speech on October 3, 2003 , he used the term perpetrator people in connection with the Jews .
• Rome / Italy . The Vorarlberg bishop Klaus Küng , who belongs to Opus Dei , was appointed by the Pope to be the apostolic visitor for the diocese of St. Pölten to clarify the situation in the diocese and in the seminary after photos and evidence of child pornography became known.

Wednesday July 21, 2004

• Jerusalem / Israel , New York / United States . The UN General Assembly calls for the demolition of those Israeli barriers that were erected on Palestinian soil. Almost all member states including the EU countries had voted for the negotiated resolution text, only the USA and three Pacific island states voted against. The Israeli government then declared that it did not want to adhere to the UN majority decision and that it would continue building the barrier in the West Bank .

Thursday July 22, 2004

José Manuel Barroso

• Stuttgart / Germany . The Baden-Württemberg Justice Minister Corinna Werwigk-Hertneck resigns after the public prosecutor's office has started investigations against her. Werwigk-Hertneck had informed her party colleague Walter Döring of ongoing investigations against him and thus acted illegally.
• Strasbourg / France . The European Parliament has confirmed the former Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso as the new EU Commission President with a clear majority . Barroso received 413 of the 723 votes in the secret ballot, 251 MPs voted against him, 44 abstained. He now has to form a 25-person commission, which must be confirmed again by the EU Parliament and the EU governments before taking office on November 1, 2004.
• Turkey . In a train accident near the Anatolian city of Sakarya , 150 km east of Istanbul , around 36 people were killed and 79 people injured. Four wagons rolled over in the open. There were 230 passengers on board. The high-speed train only went into operation in June. It should shorten the travel time on the almost 600 kilometers long route to just five hours. Experts warned that the route had not yet been developed for this.

Friday July 23, 2004

"Old Bridge" in Mostar

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Severe storms in the Rhine-Main area . Rail traffic was partially paralyzed by lightning strikes and floods. The worst storm damage occurred in the south of Frankfurt.
• Mostar / Bosnia-Herzegovina : In Mostar, the historic " Old Bridge " ( Bosnian Stari Most ) was re- inaugurated under strong security precautions . The stone arch bridge, built in the 16th century during the Ottoman Empire , was destroyed by Croatian shells in 1993 during the Bosnian War . The new building, which cost 15 million euros, was carried out with international aid, and the bridge is now a symbol of peace .

Saturday July 24, 2004

• Karachi / Pakistan . A bomb explodes on a street, killing an electrician and injuring six other occupants of a vehicle. The victims were all students and staff of an Islamic seminary and appear to have been the targets of the attack.

Sunday 25th July 2004

• Israel . Around 130,000 Israelis demonstrated against the plans of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a huge human chain . Sharon had intended to permanently remove all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip .
• Paris / France . The US-American Lance Armstrong , captain of the US Postal team , won the Tour de France for the sixth time . Thus, he is the tour win record holder.
• Hockenheimring / Germany . Michael Schumacher won the German Grand Prix for the eleventh time in the twelfth race during the 2004 Formula 1 season and is therefore not far from his seventh world title.

Tuesday July 27, 2004

• Schleswig / Germany . The city of Schleswig celebrates its 1200th anniversary. Federal President Horst Köhler , who is currently on vacation in Schleswig-Holstein with his wife , meets with Queen Margrethe of Denmark in Schleswig and recalls the "exemplary worldwide" policy of both countries towards their respective minorities in the other country. ( German-Danish relations excellent ( Memento from February 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Toast from Federal President Horst Köhler on the visit of Queen Margrethe II on the occasion of the 1,200th anniversary of the city of Schleswig).
• Karlsruhe / Germany . The federal government was not allowed to introduce the junior professorship alone. The Federal Constitutional Court decides the 5th Amendment Act for Higher Education Act was "because it exceeded the framework legislation of the covenant with Article 70, Article 75 in conjunction with Article 72, paragraph 2 of the Constitution inconsistent and void." ( Judgment )
• New York / United States , Berlin / Germany . The US and Germany are increasing diplomatic pressure on the Sudanese government in Khartoum to tackle the ongoing human rights violations in the Darfur region . The United States submitted a draft UN resolution to the UN Security Council threatening sanctions after a 30-day period . The German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer increased the sanctions threats: "If Khartoum does not end the killing in Darfur and the planned resolution of the UN Security Council does not implement satisfactorily, the international community will draw the consequences."

Wednesday July 28, 2004

• Kabul / Afghanistan . The aid organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is ceasing its activities in Afghanistan after 24 years. MSF accuses the coalition under US leadership of endangering aid workers through the instrumentalization and abuse of humanitarian aid . So were z. For example, Afghans have been asked by leaflets to provide information about the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in order to continue receiving humanitarian aid. As recently as June , five MSF employees were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan.
• Bakuba / Iraq . In the market square of Bakuba, a small town 65 km north of Baghdad , at least 68 people are killed and at least 30 more injured in a suicide bombing. The assassin blew up his vehicle in front of a police station, in front of which around 250 job seekers were lined up to be recruited into the police service. This attack, which resulted in only civilian casualties, is the bloodiest since the formal handover of power to the interim government on June 28th .

Thursday July 29, 2004

Logo of the Iraq war documentary by Michael Moore

• Boston / United States : About 99% of the delegates vote for the senator for Massachusetts , John Kerry as the candidate of the Democratic Party 's presidential election in November.
• Germany : The critical film - documentary about the Iraq war Fahrenheit 9/11 of the director Michael Moore runs with 200 copies in Germany. In the United States , it is now the best-attended documentary in cinema history.
• Sønderborg / Denmark : When Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary visit Sønderborg near the German border, Günter Grass, the German Nobel Prize winner for literature, unveils his large sculpture Butt im Griff . An identical bronze sculpture is already in Lübeck , the artist's adopted home.

Friday July 30, 2004

• Ghislenghien / Belgium : A devastating gas explosion in Ghislenghien, Belgium, 30 km south-east of Brussels , caused damage in a wide area and cost the lives of at least 15 people. According to official information, 200 people were injured, 30 of them seriously. The explosion occurred after construction workers accidentally leaked a gas pipeline. Huge orange-red flames rose over the scene of the accident and scorched vehicles that were several hundred meters away. Two nearby factories also caught fire.
• New York / United States : The Security Council of the United Nations requested in its resolution 1556 by the Sudanese government to end violence in the troubled region of Darfur . The resolution passed with 13 out of 15 votes threatens to have unspecified consequences after a 30-day period. According to estimates by the US Agency for International Development, up to 80,000 people have already died in the crisis region.

Saturday July 31, 2004

• Paris / France : France relocates 200 soldiers stationed in Chad to the Sudanese border in order to be able to provide humanitarian aid to refugees from the crisis region of Darfur . In addition, transport aircraft are to be made available for the delivery of relief supplies.

See also

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

Web links

Tanzania in July 2004

Commons : July 2004  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
3. ↑ The text only describes the basic separation of ALG 2 and social assistance.
4. ^ Hartz IV as a law. In: The Parliament . July 2, 2014, accessed May 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Pretty best enemies - why Maria Sharapova rubs so hard on Serena Williams. In: watson.ch . June 4, 2018, accessed May 19, 2019 . 
6. ^ Wimbledon 2004. In: cbsnews.com . Retrieved May 19, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Greece defeated Portugal 1-0 and was crowned European champion in 2004. In: athlet.org. July 4, 2004, accessed May 19, 2019 . 
8. ^ Draws Archive - Gentlemen's Singles 2004. In: wimbledon.com . Accessed February 17, 2017 . 
9. ^ Silverstein and Port Grapple to Deadline On Ground Zero Specs. In: observer.com . March 20, 2006, accessed May 19, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Thomas Klestil is dead. In: oe-journal.at, Michael Mössmer. August 3, 2004, accessed July 16, 2019 . 
11. ↑ 2004 Sea Island Summit. In: g8.utoronto.ca, University of Toronto . Retrieved April 3, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Fischer is sworn in for the second time today. In: news.at . July 7, 2010, accessed January 16, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Devastating attack in Bakuba. In: derstandard.at . July 29, 2004, accessed December 12, 2017 . 
14. ^ Democratic National Convention. In: p2004.org, Eric M. Appleman. 2004, accessed June 14, 2018 . 
15. ↑ derstandard.at : Regime wants to adhere to UN resolution ( memento from October 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ derstandard.at : British soldiers available on demand ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )