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Year 2004 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It is the first leap year in the 21st century.
Events
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- January 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
- January 4 - NASA's MER-A (Spirit) lands on Mars at 04:35 UTC
- January 24 - NASA's MER-B (Opportunity) lands on Mars at 05:05 UTC
- February 1 - A hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 251 pilgrims.
- February 2 - An 11-story apartment building collapses in Konya, Turkey, killing more than 90 people.
- February 13 - Scientists in South Korea announce the cloning of 30 human embryos
- March 2 - NASA announces that the Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) has confirmed that its landing area was once covered with water
- March 28 - The first ever South Atlantic hurricane makes landfall in South Brazil on the state of Santa Catarina
- July 1 - The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
- July 4 - Groundbreaking for the Freedom Tower begins at Ground Zero in New York City.
- August 13–August 29 - The 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens, Greece.
- September 23 - Mount St. Helens becomes active again.
- December 26 - One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake created giant tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.
Births
Deaths
- January 5 - Dorota Terakowska, Polish writer
- January 5 - Tug McGraw, major league pitcher, father of Tim McGraw
- January 6 - Charles Dumas, American high jumper
- January 7 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress
- January 10 - Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (born 1941)
- January 13 - Doctor Harold Shipman, the United Kingdom's most prolific serial killer (by suicide)
- January 16 - Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician
- January 27 - Jack Paar, television show host
- January 29 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer
- January 29 - Mary Margaret Kaye, British writer
- February 14 - Marco Pantani, Italian bicyclist and Giro d'Italia and Tour de France winner
- February 15 - Jan Miner, American actress
- February 26 - Boris Trajkovski, president of Macedonia
- March 2 - Marge Schott, former owner of the Cincinnati Reds
- March 7 - Nicolae Cajal, member of the Romanian Academy, president of the Jewish Communities Federation of Romania
- March 9 - Abu Abbas, terrorist
- March 18 - Harrison McCain, A Canadian billionaire
- March 20 - Juliana of the Netherlands, Queen
- March 23 - Rupert Hamer, Australian politician
- March 28 - Robert Merle, novelist
- March 29 - Alistair Cooke, television and radio broadcaster
- March 30 - Michael King, popular New Zealand historian (born 1945)
- April 4 - George Bamberger, former major league manager and player, aged 80
- April 8 - Bruce Edwards, longtime caddy for golfer Tom Watson, aged 49
- April 23 - Pat Tillman, American football player (born 1976)
- April 24 - Estée Lauder, cosmetics pioneer (born 1906)
- April 30 - Kioumars Saberi Foumani, aka Gol-Agha, Iranian satirist, (born 1941)
- May 9 - Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president
- May 9 - Alan King, American comedian
- June 5 - Ronald Reagan, US President
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