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She faces up to 20 years in prison, though it is considered unlikely that she would be sentenced to that maximum.
Sentencing is set for June 17.
March 5 -  Nunavut general election, 2004: the new legislature returns Paul Okalik to office as premier of Nunavut, the largest territory of Canada.
March 5 -  Key Tokyo stock indexes Nikkei 225 and Topix hit 21-month highs.
March 5 -  The trial of former Finnish Prime Minister Anneli Jäätteenmäki ends.
She has been accused of leaking secret foreign ministry documents referring to her predecessor Paavo Lipponen's meetings with George W. Bush.
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.
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.
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.
March 6 - Palestinians are killed and wounded in attack on the main crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim responsibility.
March 6 - Up to 80,000 people march through the Turkish capital Ankara against plans to reform the country's civil service.
The marchers fear that the reforms could lead to the civil service becoming politicised or losing its secular status.
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.
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.
March 7 - Greek legislative election, 2004: New Democracy, led by Costas Karamanlis, wins over the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, led by George Papandreou.
March 7 -  An explosion rocks a Moscow apartment block.
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.
Later reports state that the explosion was due to a gas leak.
March 7 - The White House reports that all of Libya's remaining nuclear weapons-related equipment has been sent to the United States.
March 7 - Palestinian sources say that 14 people died after an Israeli raid into the refugee camps of al-Bureij and Nusseirat.
Israeli sources say it was a "pinpoint" operation against the "terrorist infrastructure".
March 7 - The 2004 Formula One championship gets under way with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
Michael Schumacher wins.
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.
Norwegian Anders Aukland wins.
March 7 - In Austria there are elections in the states of Salzburg and Carinthia.
In Salzburg, the SPÖ earns a majority for the first time.
In Carinthia, the election is an unexpected success for Jörg Haider FPÖ.
March 7 - It is announced that Peter Maxwell Davies is to be the United Kingdom's next Master of the Queen's Music.
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.
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."
March 8 -  Iraq's governing council unanimously approves the country's new constitution.
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.
March 9 - March 9, 2004 attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey by two Islamic suicide bombers killing one, injuring five.
March 9 - New hubble Space Telescope images show deepest view of the universe yet.
March 9 - Opposition members of South Korea's parliament undertake the first steps in impeachment proceedings against President Roh Moo-hyun.
March 9 - John Allen Muhammad is sentenced to death by a Virginia judge because he was part of the Beltway sniper attacks.
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.
The Scottish Executive also approves the move, but asks Scottish farmers to hold off.
MPs and farmers protest in anger as the science is questioned.
The Welsh National Assembly's Environment Minister announces he is still opposed to approving the crop.
March 9 - Pakistan announces a successful first flight test of its Hatf VI / Shaheen II long-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
The missile has a range of 2,000 km 1,250 mi and can carry a payload of 1,000 kg 2,200 lb.
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.
They are to be questioned by British anti-terrorism police on arrival.
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.
March 10 - Five British men released from detention at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay land at RAF Brize Norton.
Four are immediately arrested by the Metropolitan Police and taken to Paddington Green high security police station in Central London for questioning.
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.
March 11 - The Spirit rover takes first picture of Earth ever made from the surface of another planet.
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.
March 11 - Four British prisoners who had been arrested on their return from Guantanamo Bay are released without charge.
A fifth was not arrested on arrival.
A further four remain in the Cuban camp.
British newspapers vie for the rights to their stories, with offers in the range of £300,000.
These five people are expected to sue the United States and UK governments.
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.
The court said it would hear oral arguments regarding the controversy in May or June.
The state says it did not register any of the thousands of recent gay marriages.
March 11 - UN inspectors find weapons-grade uranium in Iran.
Iran objects to UN and United States policy, considering it "unrealistic."
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.
March 11 - An Australian Senate report on poverty is immediately dismissed by Prime Minister John Howard.
The report shows between 2 and 3.5 million Australians, or up to 19 per cent of the population, are living in poverty.
March 12 - A Utah woman is charged with murder when her child is stillborn because she did not want to have a Caesarean section.
March 12 -  Millions of people pack rainy streets across Spain in protest against the recent Madrid bombings.
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.
Prime Minister Goh Kun will run the country until the Constitutional Court rules on the issue.
Roh's supporters dismiss the move as a power play to influence the upcoming April elections.
Thousands protest in support of Roh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All of the teams break down within seven miles of the start line; none collect the prize.
March 13 - Nine people, including eight children, are found dead in Fresno, California.
One of their family members is arrested for the deaths.
The police speculate that the deaths may have been part of a ritual.
March 14 - The Spanish parliamentary elections of 2004 take place.
The incumbent government led by Jose Maria Aznar is defeated by the Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
March 14 - Two suicide bombers kill 10 people in Ashdod, Israel.
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.
The authenticity of the video has not been verified.
The al-Qaeda claim overshadows voting in the general election.
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.
This occurs amidst the largest U.S. troop rotation since World War II.
March 14 - The people of Russia have a presidential election.
Current president Vladimir Putin wins by a lot of votes.
The election is widely criticised by external observers who said Russian state television was very biased towards Putin during the campaign.
March 14 - Pope John Paul II becomes the third-longest reigning pope in history, the other two being Saint Peter and Pope Pius IX.
March 14 - Several Kurds storm the Syrian embassy in Brussels protesting about violence and deaths in north-east Syria over the weekend.
March 14 - Presidential elections in Russia are held.
Vladimir Putin easily wins a second term.
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.
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."
March 15 - Pavlo Lazarenko, former prime minister of Ukraine, stands trial in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco for money laundering.
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.
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.
March 15 - Astronomers announce the discovery of Sedna, a Pluto-like planetoid which is the most distant individual object known to orbit the Sun.
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.
March 16 - Spanish police identify six Moroccans suspected to have carried out the March 11 Madrid attacks.
Five of the suspects are still at large but one is in custody.
March 16 - An explosion at an apartment building in Arkhangelsk, Russia, kills 32.
March 16 - The Federal Reserve votes to keep interest rates the same, primarily since there are not many new jobs in the United States.
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.
Mitrovica Serbs are blamed by Albanian media for forcing the children into the river, but this is later denied by United Nations officials.
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.
In reaction to the violence in Kosovo, demonstrators in Serbia march in Belgrade and set ablaze mosques in Belgrade and Nish.
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.
March 17 - Utah bans execution by firing squad.
March 18 - Howard Dean announces plans to form Democracy for America, a political organization intended to help progressive candidates holding similar views.
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.
More Serbian Orthodox Churches have been set on fire by Albanians and violence has continued in and around Kosovo Serb enclaves.
Russia and Serbia-Montenegro call for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council.
United Nations officials attempt to restore order in the province and blame the unrest on nationalist extremists on both sides.
More demonstrations have taken place across Serbia, so far without the violence seen the previous day.
March 18 - Near-Earth asteroid 2004 FH is making the closest approach of an asteroid ever recorded.
At 22:08 UTC it will pass 43,000 km above Earth's surface.
March 18 - Cleanup work at Love Canal has been completed, federal officials said.
The EPA says it should be taken off the Superfund list.
March 18 - The United States House of Representatives all agree to double the reward for Osama bin Laden's capture to US$50 million.
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.
IFFOR claims that a special domain would help stop children from seeing pornography.
However, in February the Internet Engineering Task Force released RFC 3675, ".sex Considered Dangerous", detailing technical and administrative concerns with such proposals.
March 19 - The U.S. military drops all charges of alleged mishandling of classified information against Muslim Army chaplain Yousef Yee at Guantanamo Bay.
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.
It joins Ontario and British Columbia in permitting same-sex marriage.
The couple which brought the suit is scheduled to be wed on April 10, after a required 20-day waiting period.
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.
The accident happened at around 2 a.m. local time (UTC +2).
March 19 - The newspaper USA Today admits that a former reporter, Jack Kelley, invented or distorted important parts of at least eight major stories.
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.
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%).
Lien calls the result unfair and demands it be voided.
A controversial referendum is invalidated by low turnout.
March 20 - Former Queen Juliana of the Netherlands dies aged 94.
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.
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.
March 20 - Stephen Harper is elected as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, winning 56% of the possible points on the first ballot.
March 20 - A Methodist church jury in Bothell, Washington acquits a lesbian minister of violation of church rules.
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.
A recount is pending for the closely contested state of Kelantan.
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.
The reason for this accelerated buildup in a greenhouse gas requires further analysis.
March 21 - Al-Qaeda claims to have purchased "smart briefcase bombs" with nuclear capabilities on the black market.
March 21 - Salvadoran presidential election: Voting takes place to elect a new president of El Salvador.
March 21 - ROC presidential election: Taiwan's High Court has ordered all ballot boxes to be sealed, in order to preserve evidence.
However, a recount of votes was not ordered.
Various protests are held throughout the island.
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.
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.
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.
March 22 - Israel assassinates Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual head of Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.
It then seals off both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Kofi Annan, and the British, French, and German governments, amongst others, condemn the killing.
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.
Clarke was the administration's senior counter-terrorism official when 9/11 took place.
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.
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.
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.
March 23 - Unrest in Kosovo: an UNMIK police patrol is attacked on the road Pristina-Podujevo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
March 24 - Danish artist Marco Evaristti paints an iceberg in Greenland red, using 780 gallons of paint.
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.
March 24 - The British explorer David Hempleman-Adams sets an altitude record for a flight in a wicker basket balloon.
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.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is announced as a new target, instead.
March 24 - Sharon states that Israel has a "natural right" to pursue those who would destroy it.
March 24 - Hussam Abdo, a 14-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber fails to detonate his bomb-vest at an Israeli checkpoint outside Nablus.
The child was paid $23 and promised sex in heaven as his reward.
An armed wing of Fatah takes responsibility for sending the boy.
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.
March 25 - The terrorist group AZF suspends its bombing campaign in France but continues to demand money from the government.
News agencies report that the government placed notices in Libération newspaper to contact the terrorists.
March 25 - Novelist and movie maker Alain Robbe-Grillet is elected to the Académie française.
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.
March 25 - A prototype of a mechanized five-ton disaster-rescue robot, the T-52 Enryu, is unveiled in Japan.
March 26 - United Nations electoral expert and security support arrive in Baghdad.
March 26 - The first South Atlantic hurricane ever recorded forms 275 miles off the coast of Brazil.
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.
Pan-Blue protestors storm and hurl eggs at the Central Electoral Commission building.
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.
The veto is publicly motivated by the resolution making no mention of suicide bombings committed by Hamas and attributed to Yassin.
11 votes are recorded in favour, with three (United Kingdom, Germany, and Romania) abstaining and one (the United States) against.
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.
March 27 - ROC presidential election, 2004: 500,000 Pan-Blue protesters take to the streets in Taipei to demand a recount.
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.
March 27 - A powerful cyclone hits the coast of southern Brazil.
Brazilian and United States meteorologists disagree over whether Cyclone Catarina is a Hurricane, the first ever recorded in the South Atlantic.
March 28 - Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, leader of Hamas, states that God has declared war on the United States.
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.
March 28 - The Arab League summit is postponed.
The meeting was put off indefinitely because people disagreed about ways to change things in the region, including democratization.
March 28 - Israeli State Attorney Edna Arbel recommends that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon be indicted for taking bribes.
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.
March 28 - A coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo fails.
March 29 - Dominica switches diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China.
March 29 - An explosion occurs close to the main bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, killing two and injuring around twenty.
Also in the capital, three police officers are shot dead.
In the city of Bukhara, another explosion at a suspected terrorist bomb factory kills ten people. (
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March 29 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country to ban smoking in all enclosed workplaces (including bars and restaurants).
People who break this law risk a large fine.
March 29 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) welcomes seven new members: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
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.
March 29 - Scientists discover methane in the Martian atmosphere and believe it could mean there is life on the Red Planet.
March 30 - New Jersey physicist Greg Olsen pays $20 million to conduct environmental research for eight days aboard the International Space Station.
March 30 - Police in Uzbekistan raid a Hideout south of the capital, Tashkent.
Fighting has caused 23 deaths in the area.
March 30 - The Philippines police stop a big bomb attack after arresting four members of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group.
March 30 - The White House allows Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security advisor, testify under oath about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
March 30 - Eight men are arrested after a series of raids in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was found during the raids.
March 31 - Nine Americans are killed during the war in Iraq.
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.
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.
April 2 - A bomb found on the Madrid to Seville train line is defused by Spanish police.
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.
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
April 8 - Three Japanese citizens are taken Hostage in Iraq.
April 16 - India defeats Pakistan in their historic first cricket tour in 14 years.
April 17 - Israeli helicopters fire missiles at a convoy of vechiles in the Gaza Strip, killing the leader of Hamas, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
April 20 - Tony Blair announces that the UK will hold a referendum on the European constitution.
April 21 - Mordechai Vanunu is released from prison in Israel after an 18-year term for treason.
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.
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.
April 22 - The last coal mine in France closes, ending nearly 300 years of coal mining.
April 24 - The christening of Lady Louise Windsor takes place at Windsor Castle.
April 25 - Greek Cypriots reject a United Nations plan to unite the island of Cyprus in a referendum.
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.
May 2 - After 3 weeks of captivity, American contractor Thomas Hamill escapes from his captors in Iraq with just a gunshot wound to the arm and makes it to US Military personnel.
May 5 - Parliament grounds in New Zealand host 15,000 people protesting about the proposed law that would change the ownership of foreshore and seabed.
May 6 - The president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, announces that Adzharian leader Aslan Abashidze has left the country, ending a political crisis there.
May 6 - The final episode of Friends airs on NBC.
Advertisers pay $2 million for 30 second ads.
May 9 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by landmine placed under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
May 10 - Canadian Sponsorship Scandal - The RCMP arrest Chuck Guite and Jean Brault in connection with the scandal.
May 10 - Final phase of elections to the Lok Sabha in India
May 10 - National election takes place in the Philippines for the presidency and almost all other elective positions.
May 11 - Explosion destroys a plastics factory in Glasgow, UK, killing nine people and injuring over a hundred.
May 11  - A bomb explodes in a crowded market in Iraq.
It kills three people and wounds at least 23.
May 11  - Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov is buried in his home village.
May 12 - An American civilian contractor in Iraq, Nick Berg, is shown being decapitated by a group with links to al-Qaida on a web-distributed video.
They state it is retaliation for the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.
May 12 - Semi final takes place in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Turkey.
May 13 - In India, the Congress Party wins a shock victory in the elections to the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament).
May 13 - The season finale for Frasier is aired.
May 14 - The editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper in the UK, Piers Morgan, is sacked after the British army proves photographs in the newspaper, allegedly showing British soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees, to be fake.
May 14  - Danish Crown Prince Frederik has married Australian Mary Konadson in Copenhagen, Denmark.
May 15 - FIFA announces that South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament, making it the first African nation to do so.
May 20 - A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hits Taiwan.
There is no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
June 5 - Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan dies of pneumonia at the age of 93.
June 11 - state funeral of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is held.
June 12 - Former U.S. President Bush celebrates his 80th birthday by skydiving.
July 1 – The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
July 4 – Groundbreaking for the Freedom Tower begins at Ground Zero in New York City.
July 4 – In football, Greece wins the European Championships, after being rated as an 80-1 rank outsider.
August 13–August 29 – The 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens, Greece.
August 16 – The village of Boscastle in Cornwall is hit by a flash flood.
September 1 – Many schoolchildren are taken hostage at a school in Beslan, southern Russia.
Many of them are massacred on September 3.
September 23 – Mount St. Helens becomes active again.
October 29 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates in favour of his son, Norodom Sihamoni.
November 2 – George W. Bush is reelected as President of the United States.
November 21 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine.
December 26 - A strong earthquake from the Indian Ocean kills at least 140,000 people.
December 26 – In the wake of the Orange Revolution, Viktor Yushchenko is elected President of Ukraine.
December 31 – The Taipei 101 tower is opened in Taipei, Taiwan.
Nobel prize winners
Chemistry – Aaron Ciechanover
Chemistry – Avram Hershko
Chemistry – Irwin Rose
Economics – Finn E. Kydland
Economics – Edward C. Prescott
Literature – Elfriede Jelinek
Medicine – Richard Axel
Medicine – Linda B. Buck
Peace – Wangari Maathai
Physics – David J. Gross
Physics – H. David Politzer
Physics – Frank Wilczek
January 21 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
February 19 – Millie Bobby Brown, English actress and producer
May 1 – Charli D'Amelio, American dancer and social media personality
June 4 – Mackenzie Ziegler, American dancer and social media personality
June 8 – Francesca Capaldi, American actress
October 3 – Noah Schnapp, American actor
October 6 – Bronny James, American basketball player
January 5 – Dorota Terakowska, Polish writer
January 5 – Tug McGraw, major league pitcher, father of Tim McGraw
January 6 – Charles Dumas, American high jumper
January 7 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress
January 10 – Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (born 1941)
January 13 – Harold Shipman, the United Kingdom's most prolific serial killer (by suicide)
January 16 – Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician
January 27 – Jack Paar, television show host
January 29 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer
January 29 – Mary Margaret Kaye, British writer
February 14 – Marco Pantani, Italian bicyclist and Giro d'Italia and Tour de France winner
February 15 – Jan Miner, American actress
February 26 – Boris Trajkovski, president of the Macedonia
March 2 – Marge Schott, former owner of the Cincinnati Reds
March 7 – Nicolae Cajal, member of the Romanian Academy, president of the Jewish Communities Federation of Romania
March 9 – Abu Abbas, terrorist
March 18 – Harrison McCain, Canadian billionaire
March 20 – Juliana of the Netherlands,
March 23 – Rupert Hamer, Australian politician
March 28 – Robert Merle, novelist
March 29 – Alistair Cooke, television and radio broadcaster
March 30 – Michael King, New Zealand historian (born 1945)
April 4 – George Bamberger, former major league manager and player, aged 80
April 8 – Bruce Edwards, longtime caddie for golfer Tom Watson, aged 49
April 23 – Pat Tillman, American football player (born 1976)
April 24 – Estée Lauder, cosmetics pioneer (born 1906)
April 30 – Kioumars Saberi Foumani, aka Gol-Agha, Iranian satirist, (born 1941)
May 9 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president
May 9 – Alan King, American comedian
June 5 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
June 10 – Ray Charles, American musician
July 1 – Marlon Brando, American actor
July 6 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria.
July 28 – Francis Crick, scientist
September 10 - Glyn Owen, Welsh actor
September 20 – Brian Clough, English football manager
September 22 – Ray Traylor, American professional wrestler
September 29 – Christer Pettersson, suspect in the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
October 10 – Christopher Reeve, American actor
October 25 – John Peel, British DJ
November 2 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch movie maker
November 9 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer
November 9 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer
November 11 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian political leader
December 1 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
December 4 - Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet
December 28 – Jerry Orbach, American actor
December 28 – Susan Sontag, American writer
December 30 – Artie Shaw, American musician
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Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano in the Hawaiian Islands.
It is the highest point in Hawaii at 4,205 meters.
If measured from top to bottom, below sea level, it is 10,200 meters high and would be the tallest mountain in the world.
It is around 1,000,000 years old.
Mauna Kea means 'white mountain' because in winter it often has snow at the summit.
Mauna Kea is an important site for astronomy.
Many different countries or institutions have an observatory there, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
The W. M. Keck Observatory with its 10-meter mirror is one of the most powerful in the world.
Mauna Kea is an important site, especially for infrared astronomy, because of its height and clear skies.
High altitude is important because atmosphere causes an effect called seeing, which limits the quality of images by blurring them.
At high altitude, there is less atmosphere between the observatories and space and this lessens the effect.
The volcano is at least  in volume and over 4 kilometers above sea level.
Measured from its base on the ocean floor it reaches above 8 kilometers making it the tallest mountain on Earth, but not the highest.
That distinction is reserved for Mount Everest.
Measured from sea level Mauna Loa is 4,169 meters high.
It is also one of the largest volcanoes measuring 60 miles long and 30 miles wide.
The world's biggest volcano is named Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
Mauna Loa is part of the five volcanoes on Hawaii's 'Big Island'.
The most recent time this volcano erupted was in 1984.
It erupted 33 times in the last 170 years.
Like all the other Hawaiian volcanoes, Mauna Loa was created by the movement of the Pacific tectonic plate which moved over the Hawaii hotspot in the Earth's mantle.
It is a shield volcano.
The largest recent eruption from Mauna Loa left a lava trail 51 kilometres (32 miles) long.
Kīlauea is an active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands.
The volcano is 1,277 meters high.
Kīlauea is a large lake of lava.
The crater of Kīlauea is named Pu'u'O'o.
The first eruption of Kīlauea is estimated as 300 to 600 thousand years ago.
Its first recorded eruptions were in 1823.
Its most recent eruption was March 3 2018.
It is still erupting now.
The Hawaiian name Kīlauea means "spewing" or "much spreading".
It refers to the constant flow of lava.
Kīlauea lies on the curve of volcanoes on the island of Hawaii that includes Mauna Loa and Kohala.
The volcano of Kīlauea is one of the youngest and also is said to be the home of an ancient volcano goddess Pele.
The oldest dated rocks are said to be about 23,000 years old.
It has its own magma plumbing under the Earth that goes down under the Earths crust by 60 km.
Kīlauea has a basalt-based lava rock type.
Kīlauea was formed on a volcanic hot-spot.
In May 2018, the volcano erupted causing damage in nearby homes and strets.
A van is a type of vehicle.
A van can carry either goods or people.
A van is usually bigger than the regular sized car.
Panel vans (= vans whose cargo space has no side windows) are used for deliveries and carrying goods.
These usually have large cargo space and few windows.
A van which is used to carry people is often called a minibus.
It can usually carry many people, sometimes up to a total of 15.
The demand for minivans is decreasing due to the introduction of crossovers.
However, some companies still make minivans.
The most popular minivans are the Toyota Sienna and Honda Odyssey.
People use luggage to carry their possessions when travelling.
In the United States luggage is often called baggage.
Types of luggage
A valise is a small bag.
It is usually for carrying clothes or accessories.
Some other words for this size of luggage are overnight bag, overnight case, and overnighter
A suitcase is a larger bag, most often for carrying clothes
A trunk, also known as a travelling chest or steamer trunk, is a very large, rigid chest that was mostly used when moving across the ocean on a ship; they are much less common in the 21st century
Pan (mythology), a god in Greek mythology
Pan (moon), one of Saturn's moons
Pan (genus), genus of apes
A type of cookware, for example a frying pan
A pantograph is an machine.
It is  used in drawing or planning.
It makes it easy to copy diagrams.
A paperback is a type of book.
It has a cover of thick paper or thin cardboard.
Paperback book covers can bend and be folded.
The covers are laminated (have layers), and some of the methods are more durable (lasting) than others.
Another name for paperback is soft cover.
Paperback books may be glued or held by sewing.
If the pages are held only by adhesive, the book will eventually come apart.
The quality of the paper also varies.
It is generally less white than bound hardback books because it is less bleached.
Usually, paperback books cost less money than hardback books.
In the middle 20th century a "mass market" type of paperback became commonplace, having a standard size, fitting a standard display rack, and glued.
Book terminology
A palette is used for mixing colours.
They are usually made out of plastic or wood but can be made out of other materials.
An artist often uses one of these and is in fact an essential item in art, when painting.
There are several insects given this name.
Most are beetles, but one is a fly, Arachnocampa.
They are nocturnal, active during the night.
They have special organs that can produce light.
This is used to find mates.
The patterns in which the beetles flash is unique to each species.
Lampyridae (Fireflies).
The adult female of this family has no wings.
It is the glow worm of the literature.
Phengodidae (Glow-worm beetles, glow-worms), found in North and South America.
One species, the railroad worm features two colors.
Arachnocampa,  flies found in Australia and New Zealand
A palette knife is not actually a knife.
It has a very flexible steel blade and no sharpened cutting edge.
It is a tool.
A palette knife is used for mixing paint colors.
It may be used for mixing and applying a whole range of semi-fluid mixtures.
Cutting tools
Foolscap is paper cut to the size of , sometimes .
This was a traditional paper size used in Europe and the British Commonwealth, before the adoption of the international standard A4 paper, the most common standard size in the world.
Foolscap was so called because, in the 18th century, folio-sized paper had the watermark of a fool's cap on it.
Basically, it is taller than A4.
In North America, foolscap is lined, legal-size paper.
In some South American countries it is called "oficio", because it is or was used for official documents.
Paper of the size is now very rarely used, being superseded by A4 (297 x 210).
However, some ring binders, lever arch files, suspended files, and other filing related things still use the size.
A polymer is a molecule, made from joining together many small molecules called monomers.
The word "polymer" can be broken down into "poly" (meaning "many" in Greek) and "mer" (meaning "unit").
This shows how the chemical composition of a polymer consists of many smaller units (monomers) bonded together into a larger molecule.
A chemical reaction bonding monomers together to make a polymer is called polymerization.
Some polymers are natural and made by organisms.
Proteins have polypeptide molecules, which are natural polymers made from various amino acid monomer units.
Nucleic acids are huge natural polymers made up of millions of nucleotide units.
Cellulose and starch (two types of carbohydrate) are also natural polymers made up of glucopyranose monomer bonded together in different ways.
Rubber is a mixture of polymers.
Plastics are man-made polymers.
Many fibers are made of polymers.
If the "units" called monomers in a polymer are all the same, then the polymer is called a "homopolymer".
Homopolymers are named by adding the prefix poly- before the monomer name from which the polymer is made.
For example, a polymer made by bonding styrene monomer molecules together is called polystyrene.
Many polymer molecules are like chains where the monomer units are the links.
Polymer molecules can be straight-chain, have branching from the main chain, or cross-linking between chains.
As an example of cross-linking, sulfhydryl (-S-H) groups in two cysteine amino acid units in polypeptide chains can bond together to make a disulfide bridge (-S-S-) joining the chains together.
In the same way how large hydrocarbon molecules in crude oil can be broken down in smaller molecules e.g. ethylene by applying heat (a process called cracking), the monomer ethylene can then be turned into the polymer polyethylene by applying pressure and adding catalysts.
Polyethelene is the basis of many plastic objects.
Relating pages
Medium, a size between small and large
Medium (spirituality), a person who claims to communicate with the dead
Interstellar medium, the matter between stars
Storage medium, a device for storing information
Transmission medium, a solid, liquid, gas, or plasma that can transmit energy
Growth medium, a solid or liquid material in which an organism can grow.
Medium (TV series), a television series that starred Patricia Arquette
The Medium, a 1946 opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
Media, the way information is sent or received
A phrase is a group of words that adds meaning to a sentence.
A phrase is not a sentence because it is not a complete idea with a subject, verb and a predicate.
In English there are five different kinds of phrases, one for each of the main parts of speech.
In a phrase, the main word, or the word that is what the phrase is about, is called the head.
In these examples, it is printed in bold.
The other words in the phrase do the work of changing or modifying the head.
all my dear children
the information age
seventeen hungry lions in the rocks
so very sweet
earnest in her desire
very happy with his work
In a Verb phrase, one or more words work together to give more meaning to a verb.
In English, the verb phrase is very complex, but a good description of its many forms can be found here.
especially softly
formerly of the city of Perth
much too quickly to see clearly
In a Prepositional phrase, one or more words work together to give information about time, location, or possession, or condition.
The preposition always appears at the front of the phrase (preposition = pre-position).
after a very long walk
behind the old building
for all the hungry children
in case it should happen again
Prepositions often describe the position of something, the time when something happens or the way in which something is done.
The prepositions "of", "to" and "for" have other functions.
Prepositions may sometimes be used to end sentences.
For example, "What did you put that there for?" (
better English is the alternative: "Why did you put that there?")
Example 2: "A pen is a device to write with" (better English is "A pen is a writing device").
In general, because they are links, prepositions belong in the middle of sentences, rather than at the end.
Amid
Among
Because of
Next to
Out of: unusual in needing two words, e.g. "The bat flew out of the cave".
Unto
Upon
A pronoun is traditionally a part of speech in grammar, but many modern linguists call it a type of noun.
In English, pronouns are words such as me, she, his, them, herself, each other, it, what.
Pronouns are often used to take the place of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun.
For example, instead of saying
Tom has a new dog.
Tom has named the dog Max and Tom lets the dog sleep by Tom's bed.
He has named it Max and he lets it sleep by his bed.
When a pronoun replaces a noun, the noun is called the antecedent.
For example, in the sentence: The dog that was walking down the street, the relative pronoun is the word that referring back to the antecedent, the word 'dog'.
In the sentence The spy who loved me, the relative pronoun is the word 'who' and its antecedent is the word 'spy'.
Differences and similarities to nouns