WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 2004
Find out what all happened June to October 2004

Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned. (25. October 2004)

Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation. (28. June 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)

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

Michael Schumacher wins his 5th consecutive Formula One Drivers' championship (and 7th overall) at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix to beat the 47 year old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio. (29. August 2004)

Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament. (6. June 2004)

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

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

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

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

Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption. (18. October 2004)

Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League. (24. October 2004)

The first Indonesian presidential election is held. (5. July 2004)

Marvin Heemeyer's eventually suicidal protest rampage with an improvised bulletproofed bulldozer destroys 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, including the town hall. (4. June 2004)

National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office. (15. September 2004)

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

The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. (29. October 2004)

A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated. (23. October 2004)