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This article covers breaking news and events in September 2004.

Daily events

Wednesday September 1, 2004

• Abuja / Nigeria : With the mediation of the African Union , the Sudanese government and the rebel groups Sudanese Liberation Army and Movement for Justice and Equality agree on a joint plan to protect refugees in the crisis region of Darfur . The humanitarian question is now closed; the next point is the question of security.
• Beslan / Russia : According to initial information, terrorists are taking 1,200 hostages , including more than 800 children, in a school in North Ossetia-Alania and threatening to blow up the school if Chechen fighters detained in Ingushetia are not released.
• Darfur / Sudan : The United Nations employees kidnapped on August 28 by fighters of the Sudanese Liberation Army , who came to the country as part of the World Food Program , and three kidnapped Red Crescent employees are released.
• Kathmandu / Nepal : After the killing of twelve Nepalese hostages in Iraq yesterday , serious unrest broke out in the Nepalese capital. a. a mosque is stormed. A total of up to 100 people are injured. The authorities are imposing a curfew in the afternoon .
• Paris / France : The judicial authorities inform the press that three escape tunnels under construction and supporting pillars have been discovered under the Santé prison in Paris. The appropriate hand tools were also in the tunnels. In early August, prisoners pointed out "noises in the ground" to the prison staff .

Thursday September 2, 2004

Sympathizers of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

Inventory item in the Anna Amalia library with fire damage

• Beslan / Russia : On the second day of the hostage-taking in a school in North Ossetia-Alania , two explosions occur near the school around, the cause remains unclear. Meanwhile, the hostage-takers release three women and their babies.
• Kashmir / India : In Kashmir, Indian troops kill four men on the Indian- Pakistani border who they see as Islamist separatists .
• New York , United States : Delegates to the Republican Party nomination convention vote for incumbent George W. Bush as their party's candidate in the November presidential election .
• New York / United States : The Security Council of the United Nations adopted the Resolution 1559 that the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon calls and the disarmament of armed units active in Lebanon. Specifically, the Syrian troops and Hezbollah are meant.
• Rostov / Russia : The journalist Anna Politkowskaja is admitted to a hospital. The Chechnya correspondent for the opposition daily Novaya Gazeta could be the victim of a poison attack because of her critical reporting on Chechnya and the hostage-taking of Beslan , according to initial considerations of her employer.
• Weimar / Germany : A fire severely damages the Duchess Anna Amalia Library of the Classic Foundation . The fire destroyed around 30,000 volumes and around 40,000 more volumes were damaged by extinguishing water.

Friday 3rd September 2004

• Beslan / Russia : Russian security forces storm the school, which has been in the hands of hostage-takers for several days and where around 1,200 people are stuck. The hostage-takers shoot at random from the school, including fleeing children, and set off several explosive devices. At least 331 people are killed and over 700 more are hospitalized after the liberation, including more than 250 children. Most of the hostage-takers are killed and some are arrested. According to official statements after the storm, this was not included in the operational plan and was probably triggered by the escape attempt by some hostage-takers.

Sunday 5th September 2004

• Florida / United States : Hurricane Frances claims two lives in Florida after two people were killed in the Bahamas in the past few days . The property damage is estimated at several billion US dollars .
• Saarbrücken / Germany : In the state elections in Saarland , the CDU is expanding its absolute majority of the mandates from the previous legislative period . The turnout of only 55.5% is low for a West German state . The Christian Democrats under Prime Minister Peter Müller received 47.5% of the vote, the SPD fell to 30.8% of the vote. Both the Greens with 5.6% and the FDP with 5.2% succeed in re-entering the state parliament. The NPD receives 4% of the votes cast and the PDS triples its share of the vote from 0.8% to 2.3%.

Monday September 6, 2004

Scene in Darfur with Janjawid fighters (left)

• New York / United States : The United Nations (UN) is examining new reports that between 3,000 and 4,000 people have been displaced again in the recent days in the Sudanese crisis region of Darfur . Since the Sudanese government is not determined enough against the Janjaweed - fighters impose happening, like the US and many European governments sanctions against the government.
• Villach / Austria : Two 100 euro banknotes obtained from an ATM , which triggered the “ counterfeit money alarm” at the weekend , are identified as real banknotes on closer inspection. According to Günter Willegger , Director of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank , the notes were apparently washed once in a washing machine and had lost some paint in the process.

Tuesday September 7, 2004

• Baghdad / Iraq : In Iraq, two Italian employees of the aid organization Un Ponte per ... ( German  A bridge for ... ) and two Iraqi citizens are kidnapped.
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Employment Agency's deficit in August was just under 4.8 billion euros . The total of the federal grant of 5.2 billion euros granted for 2004 was almost reached.
• Gaza City / Palestinian Territories : At least 14 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli rocket attack on a Hamas training center in Gaza City. The Israeli attack is a reaction to the double attack in Beersheba that killed 16 Israelis the week before.
• Moscow / Russia : President Vladimir Putin is against a public investigation into the hostage-taking of Beslan and announced an "internal investigation". Meanwhile, three journalists reporting on the hostage drama were arrested, among other things for lack of valid travel documents, and the editor-in-chief of the Russian newspaper Izvestia had to resign because of "too emotional and gaudy reporting" at the instigation of the authorities.
• Moscow / Russia : President Vladimir Putin cancels his visit to Germany due to the situation in his country. A visit to Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein at the side of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was announced . Topics should be terrorism and cooperation between the two states.
• New York / United States : The United Nations Special Representative for Darfur Jan Pronk calls for several thousand additional observers for the East African crisis region, who are to support the 120 African Union observers already on site in their work.
• Vienna / Austria : The Austrian federal government makes a rumored hostile takeover of VA Tech AG by Siemens AG impossible by stipulating the "uniformity of the company" in the privatization mandate of ÖIAG .

Wednesday September 8, 2004

• Espenhain / Germany : The world's largest solar power plant with a capacity of 5  MW is put into operation in Espenhain, Saxony, by the Federal Minister for the Environment Jürgen Trittin .
• Moscow / Russia : According to an agency interview with Chief of Staff Yuri Balujewski , Russia 's armed forces are considering global preventive strikes against suspected terrorist bases .
• New York / United States : The United States bring the Security Council of the United Nations a draft resolution which corresponds with the Sudan threatens sanctions v. a. in the oil sector if the security situation in the crisis region of Darfur does not improve noticeably.
• Salt Lake City / United States : The space probe Genesis strikes near a vertex of the United States Armed Forces in the desert of Utah and suffers irreparable damage after the landing parachutes did not open as planned.
• Sichuan / China : In severe storms, at least 172 people have died from floods and landslides since September 2 .
• Turkey : At least 19 workers die in a mine disaster in northern Turkey.

Thursday September 9, 2004

• Jakarta / Indonesia : Nine people die and over 180 are injured in a bomb attack on the Australian embassy in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
• Seoul / South Korea : According to the Yonhap news agency, a huge explosion shook northeast North Korea . Satellite images show a mushroom-shaped cloud 4  km in diameter. It is unclear whether it was a nuclear test . Missile silos also exist in the affected region in the remote Yanggang province.
• Yaren / Nauru : With 21 refugees from the Nauru Detention Center in New Zealand being granted asylum, the northern refugee camp called Top Side is being closed. Meanwhile, ex-President René Harris is returning to Nauru after four months, who was deposed by Ludwig Scotty during his absence .

Friday September 10, 2004

• Scheveningen / Netherlands . The EU - Finance Minister meeting in Scheveningen to discuss a reform of the Euro stability pact advise. Some sides are calling for the pact to be relaxed.
• San José / Costa Rica . Costa Rica will withdraw from the Iraq war coalition. The government is responding to a decision by the Constitutional Court, which interpreted support for the war as a violation of the constitution and international treaties.
• London / Great Britain . According to the British daily The Guardian , the Iraq Survey Group has come to the conclusion that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq . The Commission's final report is due to be published in two weeks.
• Jakarta / Indonesia . The terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah is committed to the bomb attack on the Australian embassy.
• Vatican city . According to reports from Kathpress (Catholic press agency in Austria), the Vatican advises St. Pölten Bishop Kurt Krenn to announce his resignation for health reasons in the next few days . The seminary of the St. Pölten diocese was recently closed by the papal visitor Klaus Küng because of various sexual affairs, including a child porn scandal.

Saturday September 11, 2004

• Greece : Petros VII , the Patriarch of Alexandria , spiritual head of the approximately 250,000 Orthodox Christians in Africa , dies together with 16 other people in a helicopter crash off the Greek peninsula of Chalkidiki .
• New York / United States : A memorial service for the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 is taking place on the site of the former World Trade Center .
• Venice / Italy : The film Vera Drake by British director Mike Leigh wins the Leone d'Oro at the 61st  Venice International Film Festival .

Sunday September 12, 2004

• Germany : On the day of the open monument , organized like every year under the direction of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , numerous monuments that are usually not accessible were opened with free admission. Internationally, this event is carried out as European Heritage Days .
• Baghdad / Iraq : In the morning there was heavy fighting between US soldiers and insurgents in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. At least 11 people were killed and 40 others injured.
• Hong Kong / China : Parliamentary elections were held in Hong Kong. The Democrats hoped for success to get more concessions from the central government in Beijing in the future . In fact, however, they lost seats and now have only 18. The turnout was unusually high at 55.6%.
• New York / United States : 19-year-old Svetlana Kuznetsova from Russia wins the women's final at the US Open 6-3 and 7-5 against Jelena Dementjewa .
• Gelsenkirchen / Germany : In the opening game of the men's German handball league in the AufSchalke arena , TBV Lemgo is defeated 26:31 against THW Kiel in front of 30,925 spectators. This number of spectators represents a new world record in handball.
• Baltimore / United States : When the Siamese twins Lea and Tabea separated, one of the girls developed "irregular signs of life", so the separation will initially be interrupted and will continue within the next few weeks if the two remain stable.
• Jerusalem / Israel . Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem against the proposed evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip .

Monday September 13, 2004

• North Korea : The North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun describes the explosion observed by satellites on September 9 in the remote province of Yanggang as a controlled demolition as part of a hydropower project .
• Venice / Italy : British director Mike Leigh is awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival . His film Vera Drake describes the working environment in London in the 1950s.
• Moscow / Russia : President Vladimir Putin wants to exert greater influence on the politics of the republics again in response to the Beslan hostage situation . He is also considering reintroducing the death penalty .
• Samarra / Iraq : Islamic extremists have captured two Australians and two Asians. They were traveling on a road between Baghdad and Mosul . The group called the Islamic Secret Army gives the Australian government 24 hours to end its military operation in Iraq, otherwise the hostages would be killed.
• Vienna / Austria : After an expert opinion put the value of Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser's homepage at at least 220,000 euros, the public prosecutor's office now has to deal with the affair.
• Brussels / Belgium : The foreign ministers of the member states of the European Union want to clarify the " genocide question" in the Sudanese crisis region of Darfur and are increasing the pressure on the Sudanese government with a concrete threat of sanctions. Meanwhile, Khartoum has agreed to send an Amnesty International delegation to Darfur for the first time .
• Berlin / Germany : After a year of intensive consultation, the German Ethics Council speaks out against the cloning of human embryos for research purposes.

Tuesday September 14, 2004

• London / Great Britain . Divorced fathers are banned from seeing their children in the kingdom because of a ban. As a result, a group of fathers "Fathers for Justice" ("Fathers for Justice") caused a stir in London. A man in a Spiderman costume hung on the London Eye ferris wheel . Another father in a Batman costume climbed a ledge at Buckingham Palace .
• Geneva / Switzerland . The European Union (EU) has its subsidies for sugar - exports because of "indirect subsidies significantly reduce". A committee of the World Trade Organization (WTO) thus confirms a preliminary WTO decision in the dispute between the EU and some developing countries under the leadership of Brazil .
• Baghdad / Iraq . At least 47 people died and over 110 were injured in a bomb attack on a police station in the Iraqi capital. The exact course of events is still unclear: the armed forces of the United States and the Iraqi Interior Ministry speak of a car bomb , eyewitnesses report that a grenade has exploded .
• Bakuba / Iraq . In Buhriz near Bakuba, twelve police officers who were just about to set up a checkpoint were killed by an explosive device .

Wednesday September 15, 2004

• Cairo / Egypt . A modified version of a UN resolution for the crisis region of Darfur is also rejected by the Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail , as it is still subject to economic sanctions, e.g. B. against the oil industry , if the government does not immediately end the evictions and killings in the western Sudanese region. Furthermore, this resolution should also strengthen the monitoring forces of the African Union .
• Berlin / Germany . German Interior Minister Otto Schily plans to eliminate the for 1. - 3. October scheduled Islam congress in Berlin.
• Jerusalem / Israel . Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says the newspaper Yediot Ahronot , following the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip , which for 2005 is planned "for a long time nothing happen" will. In doing so, he rejects the goals of the roadmap , the joint peace plan of the so-called Middle East Quartet, consisting of the EU, the USA, Russia and the United Nation.
• London / Great Britain . After a heated debate in London's House of Commons on the age-old subject of fox hunting , five protesters stormed the house, causing the second major security disaster in a week.
• Los Angeles / USA . Johnny Ramone , guitarist and co-founder of the US punk band Ramones , died at the age of 55 as a result of his cancer.

Thursday September 16, 2004

• London / Great Britain . New negotiations between the strongest parties (of each denomination ) in Northern Ireland begin in the heavily secured moated castle Leeds Castle near London . Gerry Adams , chairman of the (Catholic) party Sinn Féin , offered to dissolve the IRA if the (Protestant) DUP agreed to form a coalition . DUP Vice President Peter Robinson, on the other hand, calls for "actions instead of words" - the IRA must first be dissolved before commitments are made. Prime Minister Tony Blair describes the negotiations as a "last chance" because there is no point in negotiating again and again if no one moves.
• USA - Canada . Due to differences between the team owners and the National Hockey League Players' Association , the National Hockey League is locked out . It is still unclear whether the Stanley Cup can take place this season.
• Baltimore / USA . One of the two girls died during the separation operation of the Siamese twins from Lemgo ( Germany ). The other is doing well according to the circumstances.
• London / Great Britain . In a BBC interview referred to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the invasion of Iraq led by the United States as " illegal " against the UN Charter . In his opinion, it would have been a second resolution of the UN Security Council must give to allow a "legal" invasion.
• Baghdad / Iraq . Three British people are kidnapped in the Iraqi capital .
• Germany . The film Der Untergang, produced by Bernd Eichinger , starts in German cinemas . The film, which was already controversially discussed in advance, describes the last days of the Second World War in the Führerbunker .
• USA . Hurricane Ivan hits the US Gulf Coast near Mobile, Alabama . He claims 54 dead in the USA after 67 people had fallen victim to Ivan in the Caribbean. The material damage for the USA alone amounts to almost 15 billion US dollars.

Friday 17th September 2004

• Russia . The Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev assumes responsibility for the taking of Beslan hostage and also for the plane attacks at the end of August by brigades of the " Rijadus-Salichin " group he led . Basayev, however, rejects ties to al-Qaeda .
• Baghdad / Iraq . Another bomb attack near an Iraqi police checkpoint in the center of the city kills at least 13 people and injures 20 others.

Saturday September 18, 2004

• New York / USA . The Security Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution on the situation in the troubled region of Darfur , which the Sudanese government with sanctions in the oil sector threatened if they do not end the expulsions and killing in the western Sudanese region; which is referred to by many as " genocide ". The resolution was passed with 11-0 votes, with abstentions from China , Russia , Pakistan and Algeria . This resolution could only be passed at the third attempt, as China had previously made use of its veto .

Sunday September 19, 2004

• Bregenz / Austria : In the state elections in Vorarlberg , the ÖVP was able to defend its absolute majority. The FPÖ incurs huge losses and is only the third strongest force behind the SPÖ . The Greens, on the other hand, achieved a double-digit result.
• Dresden / Germany : In the state elections in the Free State of Saxony , the CDU under Prime Minister Georg Milbradt loses two-digit numbers and cannot hold its absolute majority with only 41.1%. With slight increases to 23.6%, the PDS becomes the second strongest force, far ahead of the SPD , which achieved its worst post-war result in a state election with 9.8% and is just ahead of the right-wing radical NPD , which is in the Saxon with 9.2% Parliament could move in. The FDP was also able to move into the state parliament with 5.9%. With 5.1%, the Greens barely exceeded the 5% hurdle.
• Los Angeles / United States : At the 56th Emmy TV award ceremony , u. a. Sarah Jessica Parker excellent.
• Potsdam / Germany : In the state elections in Brandenburg , the two big parties SPD and CDU lose a lot . The PDS , on the other hand, succeeded in making gains and achieved the best result ever in a state election. Despite the loss of votes, the SPD became the strongest force with 31.9%, followed by the PDS (28.0%). With 19.4%, the CDU finds itself behind in third place. The DVU can move in a row for the second time in the Potsdamer parliament with 6.1%. The Greens and FDP fail at the five percent hurdle .
• Europe wins the Ryder Cup with the captain Bernhard Langer against the USA .
• The new Bishop of Würzburg Friedhelm Hofmann is introduced into his office.

Monday September 20, 2004

• Hyderabad / India : Bianca Jagger , Swami Agnivesh , Asghar Ali Engineer , Raúl Montenegro and the human rights group Memorial received the Right Livelihood Award .
• Indonesia : Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wins the second round of elections for the office of Indonesian President, ahead of his challenger Megawati Sukarnoputri .
• Iraq : The terrorist group Tawhid and Jihad of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi beheaded the US hostage Eugene Armstrong. In the next few days, she also kills two other hostages, the American Jack Hensley and the British Kenneth Bigley
• New York / United States : At a summit meeting of more than 50 heads of state and government at the UN headquarters, the French President Jacques Chirac and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva advocate a plan to combat poverty, accordingly annually 50 billion USD more are to be raised for this. While the final declaration is supported by 110 countries, the US rejects it for fear of new taxes.
• New York / United States : The newspaper The New York Times reported that the United States of, according to the Research Service Congressional arms deals with developing nations with a value of 14.5 billion US dollars actuated, representing 56.7% of the total volume. The USA is followed by Russia (4.6 billion US dollars) and Germany (1.4 billion US dollars). According to the research service, demand from developing countries declined due to a lack of funds.

Tuesday September 21, 2004

• Athens / Greece . The Greek government is said to have reported incorrect figures on the Greek public deficit since joining the monetary union . This became known after the replacement of the former socialist government in March 2004. Instead of the reported 3%, the deficit is said to be around 5% in each case, the forecast for the next budget is set at around 5.3% by the economics minister of the new conservative government, Georgios Alogoskoufis . The new government has also announced a tough austerity program.
• Gonaives / Haiti . The hurricane Jeanne leads Haiti devastation. Overall, the hurricane kills over 3,000, mostly in Haiti; most of the victims are counted in the 80% flooded city of Gonaïves in the north of the Caribbean state .
• Washington, DC / USA . The National Museum of the American Indian, the largest museum in the world for Indian culture, opens in Washington DC .
• Paris / France . Tyler Hamilton , winner of the 2004 Summer Olympics in the individual time trial , tested positive for doping (illegal blood transfusion) after winning the 8th stage of the Vuelta a España . Tyler Hamilton himself denies this and expressed doubts about the new detection method used.
• New York / USA . At the start of the general debate at the 59th UN General Assembly, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan once again criticized the US invasion of Iraq : "If you want to ensure legality, you have to embody it yourself, and whoever invokes international law must submit to it" .
• New York / USA . On the sidelines of the general debate at the 59th UN General Assembly , Brazil , India , Japan and Germany declare that they want to support each other in obtaining a permanent seat on the UN Security Council . The German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer emphasized the "common ground" of this action, with another African state also belonging to the Security Council for the purpose of reforming the UN bodies.
• London / Great Britain . After a visit to the Sudanese crisis region of Darfur, Amnesty International General Secretary Irene Khan draws a devastating conclusion: "An end to the Darfur crisis is not in sight. The cavalry militias continue to murder, rape and pillage. The flow of refugees is not ending ." A solution can only be achieved through increased international pressure.
• Vienna / Austria . The Erasmus Advisory Board is using the savings pillar in the international student exchange program Socrates / Erasmus . From 2005/06 the subsidies are to be "capped" for a maximum of 6 months, up to now up to 12 months were possible. The aim is to increase the number of study places on offer, but critics believe that the quality of the semester abroad will suffer as a result in terms of language skills, study progress and social integration. There are also z. B. at French universities an "annual system". The EU Commission , however, plans to triple spending on international education programs from 2007 onwards.
• Bangor / USA . Former singer Cat Stevens , who converted to Islam 20 years ago and now calls himself Yusuf Islam , was denied entry to the United States. Yusuf Islam is on the so-called " watch list " as a terrorist suspect . His flight from London to Washington, DC was in Bangor in the US state of Maine interrupted and deported Yusuf Islam to Europe.

Wednesday September 22, 2004

• Vienna / Austria . The ÖVP lists a number of laws to be changed in which same-sex relationships are discriminated against mixed-sex couples, e.g. B. in relation to "care leave" or "rent allowance". However, the "right of adoption " or the "right to information in the event of illness" should not be changed . The ÖVP continues to speak out against "registered partnerships" and thus against equal treatment of same-sex partnerships with marriage .
• Washington, DC / United States . The US Senate approves the nomination of Porter Goss as the new head of the CIA .

Thursday September 23, 2004

• Brussels / European Union . After the assurance of the Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan that the Turkish criminal law reform will take place without the recently much discussed punishment of adultery , nothing stands in the way of starting accession talks , according to the EU commissioner for EU enlargement , Günter Verheugen . Even on a visit lasting several days, he was convinced that it was not justified to accuse Turkey of "systematic torture ".
• Washington, DC / USA . After a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Ijad Allawi , US President Bush declared that he was expecting an "escalation of violence" before the elections in January 2005 because extremists and insurgents want to prevent them. Presidential candidate John Kerry criticizes Allawi, who before the US Congress describes the politics in his country as a "success" and thus contradicts earlier statements. US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is considering excluding "strongholds of violence" in Iraq from the January 2005 elections.

Friday September 24, 2004

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany . The fire of an oil tanker on the federal highway 3 causes a huge cloud of smoke over Frankfurt. Two days earlier, a dangerous goods transporter had an accident on federal motorway 5 and contaminated the Nidda .
• Rome / Italy . In order to avert impending bankruptcy , the Italian airline Alitalia will be split into two companies ( AZ Fly for flight operations and AZ Service for service business). Rationalization measures will fall victim to around 3700 employees.
• Vienna / Austria . The President of the Austrian Constitutional Court (VfgH), Karl Korinek , sees the obligation to set up bilingual place-name signs in the Carinthian Völkermarkt district . This is justified by a valid VfGH decision from 2001. At the end of 2001, the Constitutional Court repealed the unconstitutional " Ethnic Groups Act " and granted the government a one-year period to enact a constitutional regulation; however, this deadline passed unused. See also: Place sign dispute .

Sunday September 26, 2004

• London / United Kingdom : A few days before the IMF and World Bank meeting in Washington ( USA ), the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the London government wants to cancel 10% of the outstanding debts of more than 30 countries. The scope of debt is about 100 million pounds (about 147 million euros ). Oxfam Director Adrian Lovett speaks of a "challenge" from Great Britain to the other G8 countries.
• Local elections are held in North Rhine-Westphalia .
• This Sunday a "SLOWUP" day will be held near Zurich , on the Seestrasse between Zurich Bellevue and Rapperswil, that is, along Lake Zurich. From morning to evening not a single motor vehicle drives this route and pedestrians, cyclists, skaters, etc. are allowed to drive the attractive route as they please.
• Bern / Switzerland : The voters who took part in today's referendum reject the proposals for naturalization and for a nationwide network of post offices. It is assumed u. a. a change in the law that seals the introduction of maternity leave.
• Rome / Italy : Rudi Völler resigns as coach at AS Roma after almost four weeks in office . In doing so, he draws the conclusions from a failed start to the season and severe communication problems with the club's management.
• Nawabshah / Pakistan : Top Pakistani terrorist Amjad Farooqi is killed by Pakistani security forces in a shooting in Sindh province.
• Damascus / Syria : Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil , a leading Hamas activist, is killed in a car bomb in Damascus. Israel acknowledges the act as part of its targeted killings policy.

Monday September 27, 2004

• Washington, DC / United States . US investigators seize 27 tons of cocaine off Mexico and the Galápagos Islands . There were 18 arrests.
• Germany . About three months before the planned start of Hartz IV, the demonstrations against the labor market reform continue to ebb. In total, only a few thousand people took to the streets. The number of demonstrators was only 1,000-3,000 people. One will no longer call for the "Monday demonstration".

Tuesday September 28, 2004

• Washington State / USA . Several earthquakes shook the area around the Mount St. Helens volcano . Scientists say the volcano could erupt again soon.
• California / USA . At 10:15 a.m. local time, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook the central California region between Los Angeles and Sacramento .
• Hanover / Germany . Christian Wulff (CDU) announced that Lower Saxony wanted to withdraw from the Standing Conference of Education Ministers of the Länder (KMK) and thus force a reform of it. The KMK has existed since 1948 .
• Baghdad / Iraq . The two Italians kidnapped on September 7th by the aid organization Un Ponte per… , as well as an Iraqi employee and an Iraqi engineer, are released again. The Italian government denies having paid ransom .
• London / Great Britain . According to a report in TIME magazine , the US Department of Defense was planning to manipulate the upcoming elections in Iraq with the help of the CIA .
• Assassination of Fanny Ann Eddy , a human rights activist from Sierra Leone .

Wednesday September 29, 2004

• Berlin / Germany . The representatives of the federal and state governments in the "Capital" project group of the Federalism Commission have unanimously agreed on a capital city clause in Article 22 of the Basic Law .
• Cologne / Germany . A supply shaft for the planned north-south subway collapses, causing the tower of the St. Johann Baptist Church to partially sag.
• Vienna / Austria . Martina Krones-Taurer , the former president of World Vision Austria - Christian relief organization , was after six years of judicial preliminary investigation and criminal proceedings in the donations affair - "World Vision Austria Christian relief organization to three years of unconditional imprisonment for" misappropriation of 650,000 euros in donations sentenced . She had used the money to pay for Concorde flights , vacations and parking fines. Her former project manager and husband Wolfgang was sentenced as an accomplice to "two years conditionally".
• St. Pölten / Austria . The St. Pölten diocesan bishop Kurt Krenn has confirmed his resignation, but "I did not resign for health reasons, as I am completely healthy. I definitely did not resign because of public pressure. I would have endured that even longer. But I always have said I will do what the Pope says. "
• New York / United States . With the judgment of a district judge, there is the second decision against the so-called USA Patriot Act in the USA . Judge Victor Marrero prohibits the FBI from filing any further requests for personal information from internet and telephone customers. According to the judgment, the collection of this personal data violates the first and fourth amendments (freedom of speech and no search without a judicial search warrant) of the constitution. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that he would appeal .
  Meanwhile, the New York Times brought a new lawsuit against the Justice Department under John Ashcroft. The telephone surveillance of some journalists from the New York Times is unconstitutional, according to the newspaper.
• United States . The civilian rocket aircraft SpaceShipOne reaches an altitude of 100.6 km as part of the X-Prize . The pilot Michael Melvill returns unharmed. However, unexpected technical difficulties arose during the flight. After take-off, the rocket plane started rotating around its own axis - according to Melvill due to a pilot's error - and then had to be stabilized again by engines on the wing tips. The next flight is scheduled for Monday October 4th.

Thursday September 30, 2004

• USA . From now on, all travelers to the USA must take a digital photo and have two digital fingerprints taken for security reasons . This also affects tourists and business travelers from the so-called "Visa Waiver" countries, who can enter the country for up to 90 days without a visa, and who were previously able to enter the country without these checks. Travelers who already have a visa, e.g. B. students or journalists required, have already been recorded in this way.
• Kunduz / Afghanistan . Five soldiers - three Germans and two Swiss - are injured in a grenade attack on the German camp in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the German Bundestag is extending the deployment of ISAF soldiers from the Federal Republic for a further year until October 2005 .
• With Russia's approval , the Kyoto Protocol can come into force worldwide despite its rejection by the USA . It just has to be ratified by the Duma .
• Chancellor Gerhard Schröder accuses Karstadt of making mistakes. It is "management failure in the most classic case".

See also

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

Web links

Thuringia in September 2004

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ George W. Bush : Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in New York City. In: ucsb.edu , The American Presidency Project. September 2, 2004, accessed July 22, 2018 . 
2. ^ Security council declares support for free, fair Presidential election in Lebanon; calls for withdrawal of foreign forces there. In: un.org . September 2, 2004, accessed September 27, 2016 . 
3. ↑ profil.at : Alone against the Kremlin ( Memento from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ State elections: Saarland. In: Wahlen-in-deutschland.de, Valentin Schröder. Retrieved October 31, 2016 . 
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