Biggest Events of the Year 2004
The Top Ten
1 Indian Ocean earthquake
Measuring 9.3 on the Richter Scale creates tsunami waves that sweep across much of the coastlines of India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia. At least 290,000 people are killed
2 Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia join the European Union
3 George W. Bush gets reelected president of USA
4 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded craft to achieve space flight
5 First democratic elections held in Afghanistan
6 Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released
The popular browser has born
7 The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper in the world standing 1,676 feet (508 metres)
8 Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
9 Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board
10 Beslan school hostage crisis
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11 Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy
12 2004 Summer Olympic Games, in Athens
13 Geim and Novoselov at Manchester University discover the strongest material - graphene
14 Stephen Hillenburg resigned as the series' showrunner for Spongebob Squarepants
He originally wanted the show to end after the movie because he didn't want the show to "jump the shark".
His prediction eventually came true now that we've got all these awful modern SpongeBob episodes like The Splinter, One Coarse Meal, and A Pal for Gary.
15 The Nintendo DS is released in the USA and Canada
16 Pantera's guitarist, Dimebag Darrell murdered live in Columbus Ohio in Alrossa Villa Nightclub
17 Ronald Reagan dies
18 Tentacolino was released
The sequel to The Legend Of The Titanic.
19 The Passion of the Christ was released
20 Transit of Venus
21 Volcanic activity of Mount St. Helens starts
22 Murder of Theo van Gogh
23 The iPod Mini is released
24 Naomi Shemer dies
25 The Angry Video Game debuts
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