the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
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 March 5 -  Nunavut general election, 2004: the new legislature returns Paul Okalik to office as premier of Nunavut, the largest territory of Canada.
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 She has been accused of leaking secret foreign ministry documents referring to her predecessor Paavo Lipponen's meetings with George W. Bush.
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 March 6 - Tens of thousands demonstrate in Caracas, Venezuela, against what they see as the government's fraud committed by the Consejo Nacional Electoral related to the realization of a presidential referendum in mid-2004.
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 March 6 - The United States puts forth a UN Security Council resolution seeking to freeze the assets of Charles Taylor, the exiled former president of Liberia.
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 The U.S. also announces that it is pledging $35 million to help rebuild Liberia's armed forces and that it supports the cancellation of Liberia's international debt, providing that economic reforms are implemented.
2004 
 March 6 - Palestinians are killed and wounded in attack on the main crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
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 March 6 - Up to 80,000 people march through the Turkish capital Ankara against plans to reform the country's civil service.
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 The marchers fear that the reforms could lead to the civil service becoming politicised or losing its secular status.
2004 
 March 6 - The scientists of the Russian polar research station near the North Pole are evacuated from their shifting and cracking ice floe by two Russian helicopters via Norway's Spitzbergen island.
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 March 7 - The New York City medical examiner reveals that a body pulled from the East River is that of actor/writer Spalding Gray, who had been missing since January.
2004 
 March 7 - Greek legislative election, 2004: New Democracy, led by Costas Karamanlis, wins over the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, led by George Papandreou.
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 Initial reports from police suggest that the explosion was caused by a bomb, in spite of increased security in the run-up to the presidential election on March 14.
2004 
 March 7 - The White House reports that all of Libya's remaining nuclear weapons-related equipment has been sent to the United States.
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 March 7 - Palestinian sources say that 14 people died after an Israeli raid into the refugee camps of al-Bureij and Nusseirat.
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 March 7 - The 2004 Formula One championship gets under way with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
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 March 7 - In Sweden some 15,500 skiers compete in the 80th installment of Vasaloppet, the oldest and longest cross-country ski race in the world.
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 March 7 - It is announced that Peter Maxwell Davies is to be the United Kingdom's next Master of the Queen's Music.
2004 
 March 7 - The headquarters of the United States-led coalition in Baghdad come under rocket attack from Iraqi guerillas, the day before the new Iraqi temporary constitution is due to be signed.
2004 
 March 8 -  Dr. Jiang Yanyong, who exposed the SARS coverup in the People's Republic of China, sends a letter to the National People's Congress calling the forceful suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 a "mistake."
2004 
 March 8 -  On International Women's Day, Afghan President Hamid Karzai encourages men to allow their female relatives to vote in the upcoming election, but also suggests that they control those votes.
2004 
 March 9 - March 9, 2004 attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey by two Islamic suicide bombers killing one, injuring five.
2004 
 March 9 - Opposition members of South Korea's parliament undertake the first steps in impeachment proceedings against President Roh Moo-hyun.
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 March 9 - John Allen Muhammad is sentenced to death by a Virginia judge because he was part of the Beltway sniper attacks.
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 March 9 - A genetically modified crop, Bayer's Chardon LL maize, is approved for growing in England for animal feed from 2005 until October 2006.
2004 
 The Welsh National Assembly's Environment Minister announces he is still opposed to approving the crop.
2004 
 March 9 - Pakistan announces a successful first flight test of its Hatf VI / Shaheen II long-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
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 March 9 -  Five of the nine Britons held by American authorities at Guantanamo Bay under suspicion of having links to terrorist organisations are returned to Britain.
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 March 9 - The FBI arrests William Cottrell, a Caltech student and alleged member of the Earth Liberation Front, in connection with last summer's spate of arson attacks at a car dealerships which destroyed or damaged over one hundred vehicles, including many Hummer H2 luxury SUVs.
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 March 10 - Five British men released from detention at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay land at RAF Brize Norton.
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 Four are immediately arrested by the Metropolitan Police and taken to Paddington Green high security police station in Central London for questioning.
2004 
 March 10 - Lee Boyd Malvo is sentenced to life in prison without parole by a Virginia judge for his role in the Beltway Sniper Attacks.
2004 
 March 11 - The Spirit rover takes first picture of Earth ever made from the surface of another planet.
2004 
 March 11 - March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks: 10 bombs on Madrid commuter trains kill at least 180 people and hurt more than 1400, the most people ever hurt in any bombing in Europe the 1988 Lockerbie bombing killed more but wounded fewer.
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 March 11 - Four British prisoners who had been arrested on their return from Guantanamo Bay are released without charge.
2004 
 March 11 - Same-sex marriage in the United States: The California Supreme Court issues an rule ordering San Francisco officials to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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 March 11 - A Maryland woman and former Democratic congressional aide, Susan Lindauer, is arrested on charges of conspiracy against the United States, acting as an Iraqi spy before and during last year's invasion.
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 March 11 - An Australian Senate report on poverty is immediately dismissed by Prime Minister John Howard.
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 The report shows between 2 and 3.5 million Australians, or up to 19 per cent of the population, are living in poverty.
2004 
 March 12 - A Utah woman is charged with murder when her child is stillborn because she did not want to have a Caesarean section.
2004 
 March 12 -  Millions of people pack rainy streets across Spain in protest against the recent Madrid bombings.
2004 
 March 12 - The parliament of South Korea votes to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun, saying he "breached election rules" by calling for support for the Uri party.
2004 
 March 12 - Guantanamo Bay: Recently released British Camp X-Ray inmate Jamal al-Harith is interviewed by the Daily Mirror, alleging physical assaults and psychological torture.
2004 
 March 13- His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester and the Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom attend the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace where the Spanish national anthem is played to honour the victims of the Madrid train bombings.
2004 
 The death toll in the bombings rises to 200; investigators continue search for perpetrators, with suspicions against ETA complemented by the apprehension of five foreign citizens connected to terror attacks in Morocco.
2004 
 March 13 - Fifteen teams that qualified for the DARPA Grand Challenge start on a 150–200 mile robotic race to Las Vegas, Nevada, for a $1 million prize.
2004 
 The incumbent government led by Jose Maria Aznar is defeated by the Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
2004 
 March 14 - Madrid bombings: Spanish police receives a videotape where a man identifying himself as an al-Qaeda spokesman says the organisation claims responsibility for the attack, according to an announcement from the country's interior minister.
2004 
 March 14 - Occupation of Iraq: Six United States soldiers are killed over the weekend in three separate insurgent roadside bomb attacks, two in Baghdad and one in Tikrit.
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 The election is widely criticised by external observers who said Russian state television was very biased towards Putin during the campaign.
2004 
 March 14 - Pope John Paul II becomes the third-longest reigning pope in history, the other two being Saint Peter and Pope Pius IX.
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 March 14 - Several Kurds storm the Syrian embassy in Brussels protesting about violence and deaths in north-east Syria over the weekend.
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 March 15 - Four U.S. Baptist missionaries working on a water purification project are killed in a drive-by shooting in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
2004 
 March 15 - The city of Aliso Viejo, California, nearly bans foam cups when they learn they are produced from a substance known as Dihydrogen monoxide (water), a substance that could "threaten human health and safety."
2004 
 March 15 - Pavlo Lazarenko, former prime minister of Ukraine, stands trial in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco for money laundering.
2004 
 March 15 - Same-sex marriage in the United States: Commissioners of Multnomah County, Oregon dismiss state attorney general Hardy Myers' non-binding opinion that same-sex marriages are illegal and vow to continue issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
2004 
 March 15 - Newly elected Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announces his government's opposition to the invasion and continued occupation of Iraq and his intention to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq by June 30, unless they are part of a U.N. force.
2004 
 March 15 - Astronomers announce the discovery of Sedna, a Pluto-like planetoid which is the most distant individual object known to orbit the Sun.
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 March 15 - Exiled Syrian Kurds storm the Syrian consulate in Geneva and other Kurds protest in Turkey and Germany at weekend violence in northeast Syria.
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 March 16 - Spanish police identify six Moroccans suspected to have carried out the March 11 Madrid attacks.
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 March 16 - The Federal Reserve votes to keep interest rates the same, primarily since there are not many new jobs in the United States.
2004 
 March 17 - Unrest in Kosovo: After two Albanian children are found drowned in the Ibar river in Kosovo and Metohia, with a third still missing, riots erupt in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica and later spread to the entire province.
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 Mitrovica Serbs are blamed by Albanian media for forcing the children into the river, but this is later denied by United Nations officials.
2004 
 At least 22 people are killed by the end of the day with hundreds injured in clashes between Serbs and Albanians; enclaves of Kosovo Serbs elsewhere in the province experience attacks by Kosovo Albanians as well as offices of UN officials which were abandoned.
2004 
 In reaction to the violence in Kosovo, demonstrators in Serbia march in Belgrade and set ablaze mosques in Belgrade and Nish.
2004 
 March 17 - Occupation of Iraq: A car bomb flattens the Mount Lebanon Hotel in central Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and hurting 45 more people.
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 March 18 - Howard Dean announces plans to form Democracy for America, a political organization intended to help progressive candidates holding similar views.
2004 
 March 18 - Unrest in Kosovo: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) announces that it will reinforce its Kosovo peacekeeping force, following ethnic fighting there that has killed at least 31 people over the past two days.
2004 
 More Serbian Orthodox Churches have been set on fire by Albanians and violence has continued in and around Kosovo Serb enclaves.
2004 
 United Nations officials attempt to restore order in the province and blame the unrest on nationalist extremists on both sides.
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 More demonstrations have taken place across Serbia, so far without the violence seen the previous day.
2004 
 March 18 - The United States House of Representatives all agree to double the reward for Osama bin Laden's capture to US$50 million.
2004 
 March 19 - ICANN announces that a Toronto, Canada organization, the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR), has applied to sponsor the .xxx top-level domain.
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 However, in February the Internet Engineering Task Force released RFC 3675, ".sex Considered Dangerous", detailing technical and administrative concerns with such proposals.
2004 
 March 19 - The U.S. military drops all charges of alleged mishandling of classified information against Muslim Army chaplain Yousef Yee at Guantanamo Bay.
2004 
 March 19 - Same-sex marriage in Canada: The Quebec Court of Appeal upholds a Quebec superior court ruling that same-sex marriages are valid under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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 The couple which brought the suit is scheduled to be wed on April 10, after a required 20-day waiting period.
2004 
 March 19 - Äänekoski bus disaster: At least 24 young people are killed and 15 hurt, several of them seriously, in a collision on an icy road between a coach and a lorry carrying rolls of paper on Highway 4 near Äänekoski in Central Finland.
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 March 19 - The newspaper USA Today admits that a former reporter, Jack Kelley, invented or distorted important parts of at least eight major stories.
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 He was, for example, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 on the basis of an eyewitness account of a suicide bombing that, could not have happened as he described it.
2004 
 March 20 - ROC presidential election: Chen Shui-bian is declared the winner over Lien Chan by fewer than 30,000 votes of nearly 13,000,000 cast (0.25%).
2004 
 March 20 - On the first anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, millions join protests in cities across the world to demonstrate against the war and the continued occupation.
2004 
 In London two Greenpeace protesters evade newly tightened security and scale the Houses of Parliament's Clock Tower to unfurl a banner calling for the truth to be told by the UK government.
2004 
 March 20 - Stephen Harper is elected as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, winning 56% of the possible points on the first ballot.
2004 
 March 20 - A Methodist church jury in Bothell, Washington acquits a lesbian minister of violation of church rules.
2004 
 March 21 - Malaysian general election: Secular ruling coalition Barisan Nasional wins a two-thirds majority and wrests back the state of Terengganu from Islamist party PAS.
2004 
 March 21 - Measurements taken at Mauna Loa Observatory show carbon dioxide readings of 379 parts per million, up by 3 ppm in one year; average increase for the past decade has been 1.8 ppm.
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 March 21 - Al-Qaeda claims to have purchased "smart briefcase bombs" with nuclear capabilities on the black market.
2004 
 March 21 - Salvadoran presidential election: Voting takes place to elect a new president of El Salvador.
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 March 21 - ROC presidential election: Taiwan's High Court has ordered all ballot boxes to be sealed, in order to preserve evidence.
2004 
 March 22 - Palestinians protest in the streets after an Israeli helicopter gunship fires a missile at the entourage of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City, killing Yassin and 7 others.
2004 
 March 22 - ROC presidential election, 2004: Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party submits a bill to the Legislative Yuan to allow an immediate recount, per Lien Chan's demand, but the majority Pan-Blue Coalition says it is not necessary, because the President could issue an executive order instead.
2004 
 March 22 - Salvadoran presidential election: Tony Saca of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) declares victory over a former Communist Party guerrilla leader, with 60% of the votes.
2004 
 March 22 - The former chief counter-terrorism aide to United States President Bush, Richard A. Clarke, claims that Bush diverted attention towards Iraq, ignoring the main threat of Al-Qaeda.
2004 
 March 22 - Mijailo Mijailovic is sentenced to life imprisonment for the equivalent of First-degree murder, found guilty of assassination of Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, September 10, 2003.
2004 
 March 22 - Same-sex marriage in the U.S.: Benton County, Oregon commissioners, after receiving a letter from state attorney general Hardy Myers, reverse their earlier vote to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples this Wednesday.
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 But, stating they will observe the principal of equal treatment under the law, the commissioners decide that the county will stop issuing any marriage licenses until the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled on the constitutionality of the law.
2004 
 A UN police officer from Ghana is killed, a local police officer later dies of his wounds, and their translator is also wounded but in stable condition.
2004 
 March 23 - United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell defend their pre-September 11th actions, saying that even if Osama Bin Laden had been killed, the attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon would have still happened.
2004 
 Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen also testify before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
2004 
 March 23 - Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi is chosen to lead Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and the movement's exiled politburo chief Khaled Meshaal is chosen as its overall leader.
2004 
 March 24 - The World Trade Organization makes a preliminary ruling that United States laws prohibiting Internet gambling violate international trade agreements, in response to a complaint by Antigua and Barbuda.
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 The Bush administration vows to appeal, while some members of the United States Congress say they would rather allow a trade war or withdraw from future WTO talks than undo laws against online gambling.
2004 
 March 24 - Danish artist Marco Evaristti paints an iceberg in Greenland red, using 780 gallons of paint.
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 March 24 - Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow: The United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments over the constitutionality of the "under God" clause of the Pledge of Allegiance.
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 March 24 - The British explorer David Hempleman-Adams sets an altitude record for a flight in a wicker basket balloon.
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 March 24 - The leader of Hamas states that the group has no plans to attack United States targets, retreating from earlier threats by its armed wing.
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 March 24 - Hussam Abdo, a 14-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber fails to detonate his bomb-vest at an Israeli checkpoint outside Nablus.
2004 
 March 25 - The 2004 Abel Prize in mathematics is announced to be awarded to Michael F. Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer for their index theorem.
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 March 25 - The terrorist group AZF suspends its bombing campaign in France but continues to demand money from the government.
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 News agencies report that the government placed notices in Libération newspaper to contact the terrorists.
2004 
 March 25 - Five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) array across the evening sky in a night show that will not happen again for another three decades.
2004 
 March 25 - A prototype of a mechanized five-ton disaster-rescue robot, the T-52 Enryu, is unveiled in Japan.
2004 
 March 26 - The first South Atlantic hurricane ever recorded forms 275 miles off the coast of Brazil.
2004 
 March 26 - ROC presidential election, 2004: The controversial victory of Chen Shui-bian is confirmed by the state electoral commission, with a margin of only 29,518 votes – 0.2% of the total – separating the candidates.
2004 
 March 26 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution (sponsored by Algeria and Libya) condemning the killing by Israel of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin along with six other Palestinians outside a mosque in Gaza City and calling for the end of executions.
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 The veto is publicly motivated by the resolution making no mention of suicide bombings committed by Hamas and attributed to Yassin.
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 11 votes are recorded in favour, with three (United Kingdom, Germany, and Romania) abstaining and one (the United States) against.
2004 
 March 27 - John F. Kerry joins other Democrats calling for National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to testify before the September 11 commission and states the White House should learn from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's openness during an inquiry after Pearl Harbor.
2004 
 March 27 - ROC presidential election, 2004: 500,000 Pan-Blue protesters take to the streets in Taipei to demand a recount.
2004 
 March 27 - NASA succeeds in a second attempt to fly its X-43A experimental airplane from the Hyper-X project, attaining speeds in excess of Mach 7, the fastest ever air-breathing Hypersonic flight.
2004 
 Brazilian and United States meteorologists disagree over whether Cyclone Catarina is a Hurricane, the first ever recorded in the South Atlantic.
2004 
 March 28 - Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, leader of Hamas, states that God has declared war on the United States.
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 March 28 - The University of Cambridge wins a controversial victory in the 150th Boat Race by 6 lengths, with a total time of 18:47 minutes.
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 The meeting was put off indefinitely because people disagreed about ways to change things in the region, including democratization.
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 March 28 - Israeli State Attorney Edna Arbel recommends that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon be indicted for taking bribes.
2004 
 March 28 - The French regional elections result in massive losses for the governing conservative parties and victories for socialist-green alliances in at least 20 of 22 regions, leading to Raffarin's resignation on March 30.
2004 
 March 29 - Dominica switches diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China.
2004 
 March 29 - An explosion occurs close to the main bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, killing two and injuring around twenty.
2004 
 March 29 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country to ban smoking in all enclosed workplaces (including bars and restaurants).
2004 
 March 29 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) welcomes seven new members: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
2004 
 March 29 - Beauty company Dove is to use "real women" in advertising after a survey finds two-thirds of UK women feel depressed about their figures and have low body confidence as a result of beauty advertising.
2004 
 March 29 - Scientists discover methane in the Martian atmosphere and believe it could mean there is life on the Red Planet.
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 March 30 - New Jersey physicist Greg Olsen pays $20 million to conduct environmental research for eight days aboard the International Space Station.
2004 
 March 30 - The Philippines police stop a big bomb attack after arresting four members of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group.
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 March 30 - The White House allows Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security advisor, testify under oath about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
2004 
 March 31 - The International Court of Justice rules that the USA was wrong to sentence 51 Mexicans to death for murder and says their trials must be reviewed.
2004 
 March 31 - A Canadian court rules that the Canadian Recording Industry Association did not prove that downloading music from the Internet breaks the rules of copyright.
2004 
 April 3 - A bomb explosion in a Madrid flat kills five suspected terrorists responsible for the Madrid train bombings on March 11, and a Spanish policeman.
2004 
 April 5 - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom begins a state visit to France to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale
2004 
 April 17 - Israeli helicopters fire missiles at a convoy of vechiles in the Gaza Strip, killing the leader of Hamas, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
2004 
 April 21 - The American TV network, CBS broadcasts pictures of Diana, Princess of Wales as she lay dying moments after the fatal car crash that killed her.
2004 
 April 22 - Two trains carrying explosives and fuel collide in the North Korean town of Ryongchon, killing 161 people, injuring 1,300 and destroying thousands of homes.
2004 
 April 25 - Greek Cypriots reject a United Nations plan to unite the island of Cyprus in a referendum.
2004 
 May 1 - An enlargement of the European Union takes place, expanding the Union by 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta, and Cyprus.