WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 2004
Find out what all happened April to October 2004

The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government. (28. May 2004)

The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks. (3. August 2004)

Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe. (11. June 2004)

Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups. (8. April 2004)

The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth. (29. September 2004)

2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people. (9. September 2004)

Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq. (19. October 2004)

The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country. (17. August 2004)

NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. (8. September 2004)

The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize. (29. September 2004)

Beslan school hostage crisis – day 3: the Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children. (3. September 2004)

156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi. (13. August 2004)

Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. (22. August 2004)

The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. (4. July 2004)

Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160. (21. April 2004)

The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882. (8. June 2004)

Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people. (22. April 2004)

SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space. (4. October 2004)

Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods. (23. September 2004)

The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts. (17. May 2004)