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1.1 January

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• January 1 - Pervez Musharraf gets the vote of confidence from Parliament and provincial assemblies to continue as President of Pakistan.
• January 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
  • NASA's MER-A (Spirit) lands on Mars.
• January 4 - Mikhail Saakashvili wins the presidential elections in Georgia.
• January 8 - Queen Elizabeth II officially names the RMS Queen Mary 2 cruise liner.
• January 13 - An Uzbekistan Airways plane crashes in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, killing 37.
• January 22 - The European Union bans the import of poultry from Thailand, as bird flu spreads throughout Southeast Asia.
• January 24 - NASA's MER-B (Opportunity) lands on Mars.
• January 27 - A House of Commons vote on University tuition top-up fees is narrowly won by the British Government. It is, however, the worst voting result for Tony Blair since he came to power in 1997.
• January 28 -
  • The findings of the Hutton Inquiry are published in London. The British Government is found not to have falsified information in the " sexed up dossier ". The report criticises the BBC's role in the death of David Kelly, a weapons expert on Iraq.
  • At a hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, it is revealed that the September 11, 2001, terrorists used Mace (a brand of tear gas) or pepper spray in overpowering the flight crew of American Airlines Flight 11.

1.2 February

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• February 1 - A hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 251 pilgrims.
• February 3- The CIA admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• February 6- A suicide bomber kills 41 people on a metro car in Moscow.
• February 10 -
  • At least 50 people killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad.
  • The French National Assembly votes to pass a law banning religious items and clothing from schools.
• February 12 - Same sex marriage in the United States: The City and County of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience.
• February 13 - Scientists in South Korea announce the cloning of 30 human embryos.
• February 14 - Riots break out between police and Aboriginal residents of Sydney suburb Redfern
• February 18 - A train carrying a convoy of petrol, fertiliser, and sulfur derails and explodes in Iran, killing 320 people.
• February 20 - Conservatives win a majority in the Iranian parliament election.
• February 24 - 6.5 Richter scale earthquake in Northern Morocco hits in the Rif mountains near the city of Al Hoceima - over 400 dead. Ait Kamara is destroyed. 517 dead.
• February 26 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
• February 29 - 2004 Haiti Rebellion: Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as president of Haiti. The chief justice of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, is sworn in as interim president.

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