WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO AUGUST 2004
Find out what all happened March to August 2004

Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured. (19. March 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)

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

Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others. (23. May 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)

A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council. (8. March 2004)

The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. (26. May 2004)

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

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

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

Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members. (29. March 2004)

A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations. (19. March 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)

Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed. (17. March 2004)

The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. (29. May 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)

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

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

American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet. (7. May 2004)