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Significant Events of 2004

This quiz covers significant events that occurred in 2004, including notable disasters, legal milestones, and political developments.

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1 December 30 – A fire in a ________ night club (República Cromagnon) kills 194 people during a rock concert.

2 International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against ________ and its Abolition (by UNESCO)

3 What does the following picture show?  The tsunami caused by the December 26, 2004 earthquake strikes Ao Nang, Thailand.   Christopher Reeve   Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

4 November 28 – Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile, promises economic compensation to 28,000 torture victims of ________'s military dictatorship.

5 September 3 – Russian forces end the siege at a school in Beslan, ________.

6 May 17 – Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage, in compliance with a ruling from the state's Supreme Judicial Court (________).

7 December 14 – The world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, ________, is opened by President Jacques Chirac.

8 January 22 – ________, Canadian wrestling promoter (b.

9 November 14 – ________, Irish-born aid worker (b.

10 May 15 – South Africa is awarded the ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the American composer Paul Moravec won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2004 for his Shakespeare-inspired chamber piece Tempest Fantasy.
  • the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling.
  • in 2004, the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures.
  • the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2004.
  • the Barack Obama Muslim rumor has been circulating on the Internet since 2004.
  • the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's 2004 collective bargaining agreement with the Mt. Olive Pickle Co. marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers.
  • the Calayan Rail flightless bird is a significant recent species discovery, announced on 16 August 2004.
  • at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004.
  • an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day.
  • Evan Taubenfeld was Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004.
  • Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm survived a brain tumor in 1997 and completed a tour with his new band in 2004.
  • Hubie Brown resigned as coach from the Memphis Grizzlies on Thanksgiving Day 2004.
  • Rumaisa Rahman, born prematurely in Chicago on September 19, 2004, was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g) at birth.
  • a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was used in the 2004 movie The Flight of the Phoenix.
  • Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004.
  • 1985's only super typhoon, Super Typhoon Dot, is the sixth-most intense tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed to affect Bicol Region, Philippines between 1947 and 2004.
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