2 January 2004Mayor of HoustonBill White
Appointed Mayor of Houston
Historical records for United States in 2004, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Appointed Mayor of Houston
Officials declare Pakistani scientists gave Libya technology to build nuclear weapons
Bush allows Canada to bid on Iraq contracts
Darby, a soldier, reports US abuses to the Armys Criminal Investigations Division
Darby, a soldier, reports US abuses to the Armys Criminal Investigations Division
O'Keefe cancels the planned fourth Hubble servicing mission because of shuttle safety concerns following the Columbia disaster.
Brown, Trujillo and David Rabinowitz discover Orcus, a large resonant trans-Neptunian object with an orbit similar to Pluto's.
Receives Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director for Mystic River.
Testifies that there was no concrete evidence to show the 9/11 attack was imminent, the first sitting National Security Adviser to testify on matters of policy
Astronomers unveil the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a million-second exposure revealing galaxies seen when the universe was only several hundred million years old.
Leads the mission launched to test geodetic precession and frame dragging predicted by general relativity.
UN Resolution 1540 recognizes the threat posed to international peace and security by nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, as well as their means of delivery, It calls upon greater effort by nations to limit proliferation of such weapons
Rice becomes the first National Security Adviser to campaign for an incumbent President
Death of Ronald Reagan
Pasachoff participates in scientific observations of the first transit of Venus visible since 1882.
An interim Government officially takes over from the US occupation authority
An interim Government officially takes over from the US occupation authority
Death of Marlon Brando
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the US is formed by the US Government, called the 9/11 Commission, concludes the attacks were planned & carried out by al-Qaeda
MESSENGER launches to begin a complex seven-year journey that will culminate in the first orbital mission around Mercury.
Spitzer records thousands of infrared exposures of M31, mapping warm dust and star-forming structures that are difficult to isolate in visible light.
Publishes Chronicles Volume One.
Death of Christopher Reeve
Illegal for US Citizens to have transactions (spend money or receive gifts) in Cuba under most circumstances without a US Government Office of Foreign Assets Control issued license
Illegal for US Citizens to have transactions (spend money or receive gifts) in Cuba under most circumstances without a US Government Office of Foreign Assets Control issued license
Bush wins 50.9% of the vote, 31 states & 286 electoral votes
Kerry wins 48.1% od the vote, 19 states & 252 electoral votes
Bush nominates Rice to be Secretary of State
Obama writes and delivers the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts
Obama resigns from the Illinois Senate following his election to the US Senate. Obama receives 70% of the vote to Keyess 27%, the largest victory margin for a statewide race in Illinois history
Obama writes and delivers the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts
Resigns as Secretary of State
Voyager 1 crosses the solar-wind termination shock and enters the heliosheath.
Wins the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation.
Wins an Oscar for "Ray" as Ray Charles
Directs, The Aviator
Receives her first Oscar nomination for playing Alice in Closer.
Riess uses very distant Type Ia supernovae to identify evidence that the universe once decelerated before dark energy became dominant and expansion began accelerating.
Death of Artie Shaw
Stars in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. Plays Allan Quatermain in King Solomons Mines
Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Angels in America
Holman and colleagues publish the discovery and orbital characterization of five irregular satellites of Neptune.
Publication of "Gilead"
Rolling Stone ranks Like a Rolling Stone first in its songs list.
Rolling Stone magazine lists the single "Like a Rolling Stone" at number one on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time
Appears in Man on Fire. Appears in Around the Bend
Directs and stars in Million Dollar Baby, a boxing drama with Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman.
Plays former boxer Eddie Dupris in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby.
Publication of "Plan of Attack"
Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone magazines list of "Greatest Artists of All Time", second only to The Beatles
Appointed Secretary of State, replaces outgoing secretary Colin Powell
Publication of "State of Fear"
Portrays aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.
Publication of "The Plot Against America"
Winner of the Tour de France, 6th time
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