WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2004
Find out what all happened August to December 2004

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

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

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

Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26. (30. November 2004)

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

Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China. (26. November 2004)

The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia. (1. 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)

Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida, and devastates the surrounding area. (13. August 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)

A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194. (30. December 2004)

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

The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt. (21. November 2004)

An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150. (6. November 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)

Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church. (27. November 2004)

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