Major Events During year 2004?

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- A. Q. Khan, founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, admits he sold nuclear-weapons designs to other countries, including North Korea, Iran, and Libya (Feb. 4).

- Armed rebels in Haiti force President Aristide to resign and flee the country (Feb. 29).

- Spain is rocked by terrorist attacks, killing more than 200. Al Qaeda takes responsibility (March 11).

- U.S. troops launch offensive in Falluja in response to killing and mutilation on March 31 of four U.S. civilian contractors. (April 5鈥揗ay 1).

- U.S. hands over power to Iraqi interim government; Iyad Allawi becomes prime minister (June 28).

- Summer Olympics take place in Athens, Greece (Aug. 13鈥?9).

- Chechen terrorists take about 1,200 schoolchildren and others hostage in Beslan, Russia; 340 people die when militant detonate explosives (Sept. 1鈥?).

- Yasir Arafat dies in Paris (Nov. 11).

- Ukraine presidential election declared fraudulent (Nov. 21).

- Enormous tsunami devastates Asia; 200,000 killed (Dec. 26).

- U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. Images spark outrage around the world (April 30).

- George W. Bush is reelected president, defeats John Kerry (Nov. 2).

- Martha Stewart, diva of domesticity, was sentenced to five months in prison in July after being found guilty on four counts of obstruction of justice and lying to federal investigators. She began serving her sentence in October. She was also fined $30,000. The charges stem from her December 2001 sale of 3,928 shares of the biotech stock ImClone. She made the trade the day before the FDA announced it had declined to review ImClone's new cancer drug-news that sent shares tumbling.

- Dan Rather found himself at the center of a media storm in September, when he and his network, CBS, admitted that they could not definitively prove the authenticity of documents they used in a 60 Minutes segment, which suggested President Bush received preferential treatment when he joined the National Guard and later when he served in it. He announced in December that he would step down in early 2005.

- Death of Ray Charles, Ronald Reagan, Christopher Reeve, Jerry Orbach, Marlon Brando, Julia Child, Yasir Arafat

Major Events During year 2004?theatre tickets opera theater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004

Hopefully this will be of some help :)
The U.S. Election - Bush vs. Kerry - disputed election results. This is probably the most important event. You can also go to the link that I am going to post to check out the year's events in summarize format.