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2004 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2032. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
2004 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 2004
- January 8, 2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake’s granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
- January 22, 2004 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- January 26, 2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
- February 1, 2004 – Janet Jackson’s breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
- February 2, 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men’s singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
- February 27, 2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- April 30, 2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
- May 6, 2004 – The series finale of the television sitcom Friends is aired on NBC. The finale attracts 52.46 million viewers, making it the sixth most watched television series finale in U.S. history.
- December 25, 2004 – Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn’s moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
- December 30, 2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
Who Were Born On 2004?
- January 10, 2004 – Kaitlyn Maher, American child singer and actress
- January 21, 2004 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
- March 4, 2004 – Izzy Canillo, Filipino actor
- March 21, 2004 – Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau van Amsberg
- March 27, 2004 – Amira Willighagen, Dutch singer
- June 1, 2004 – Miyu Honda, Japanese actress
- June 17, 2004 – Fuku Suzuki, Japanese actor and singer
- June 23, 2004 – Mana Ashida, Japanese actress and singer
- September 25, 2004 – Seiran Kobayashi, Japanese actress and singer
- October 28, 2004 – Miss Beazley, American dog of George W. Bush (d. 2014)