WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 2004
Find out what all happened January to April 2004

President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan. (26. January 2004)

In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. (1. January 2004)

The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history. (12. March 2004)

Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars. (25. January 2004)

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

Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted. (2. April 2004)

Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes. (18. February 2004)

The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage. (12. January 2004)

Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq. (1. March 2004)

Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment. (6. April 2004)

Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup. (29. February 2004)

3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. (19. March 2004)

War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500. (2. March 2004)

Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production. (29. April 2004)

Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office. (29. April 2004)

Over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947 (28. February 2004)

Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles. (22. March 2004)

Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people. (11. March 2004)

A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116. (27. February 2004)

U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. (30. April 2004)