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2004 was a year marked by many popular and highly grossing film releases such as Shrek 2, Spider Man 2, The Incredibles, The Passion of the Christ and Howl's Moving Castle. 2004 was also the year where Toho Studios would release Godzilla's 50th anniversary movie, Godzilla: Final Wars, the last Godzilla movie until Legendary Entertainment's ...
The U.S. Geological Survey sees no evidence of a causal relationship between these events. [45] The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is thought to have triggered activity in both Leuser Mountain [46] and Mount Talang, [47] volcanoes in Aceh along the same range of peaks, while the 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake sparked activity in Lake Toba, a ...
The 2004 Formula One championship gets under way with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. Michael Schumacher wins. In Sweden some 15,500 skiers compete in the 80th installment of Vasaloppet, the oldest and longest cross-country ski race in the world. Norwegian Anders Aukland wins. (Sports Illustrated) (Vasaloppet press release)
(Very partial list of politicians who died in 2004) January 6 – Dominica prime minister Pierre Charles dies of heart problems. January 15 – Maaruf al-Dawalibi, former Prime Minister of Syria. January 16 – Kalevi Sorsa, former Prime Minister of Finland. February 11 – Jozef Lenárt, former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.
International relations State papers released under Britain's Thirty Year Rule suggest that the United States considered using force to seize oil fields in the Middle East during an oil embargo by Arab states in 1973. (BBC) State papers also released reveal that, contrary to what was believed at the time, Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom would not have lost her title and Civil List ...
Norway becomes the world's second nation after Ireland to ban smoking in all bars and restaurants. Archived 2004-06-03 at archive.today; Jennifer Hawkins, a twenty-year-old Australian, wins the Miss Universe contest, held in Quito, Ecuador. Dr. Jiang Yanyong disappears days before the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
World Vision, one of the last aid agencies left in Iraq, announces it will pull its staff out of the country following the murder of its senior manager. (BBC) In Baghdad , two people are killed when clashes break out as Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops enter a popular Sunni mosque to arrest dozens of members reportedly including the imam .
This is a medical rarity, as human rabies infections in the developed world are extremely rare. A Qatari court sentences two Russian intelligence officers to 25 years in prison for assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a suspected terrorist and leader of Chechen separatists, on February 13, 2004. (Washington Times)