August 2004

August 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
See also: August 2004 in sports

Events

• August 1, 2004 - Supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, kills about 400 people and leaves over 100 missing.
• August 2, 2004 - Monday demonstrations against social cutbacks began in Germany
• August 3, 2004 - Statue of Liberty reopens after security improvements.
• August 6, 2004 - A United Nations report that blames the government of Sudan for crimes against humanity in Darfur is released.
• August 12, 2004 - Singapore's prime minister Goh Chok Tong hands over his position to Lee Hsien Loong.
• August 12, 2004 - New Jersey governor James McGreevey announces that he is "a gay American" and will resign effective November 15, 2004.
• August 13, 2004 - The 2004 Summer Olympics begin in Athens. They end on August 29.
• August 13, 2004 - Hurricane Charley kills 27 people in Florida after killing four in Cuba and one in Jamaica. Charley made landfall near Cayo Costa, FL as a Category 4 hurricane. Charley was the most intense hurricane to strike the United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
• August 16, 2004 - Severe flooding in the village of Boscastle in Cornwall.
• August 18, 2004 - In Dublin, Ireland the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works were completed and the final tunnel boring machine breakthrough ceremony took place.
• August 21, 2004 - A series of blasts rocks a rally of an opposition party in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing at least 13 people.
• August 22, 2004 - Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
• August 24, 2004 - Two airliners in Russia, carrying a total of 89 passengers, crash within minutes of each other after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, leaving no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.
• August 29, 2004 - Around 200,000 protesters demonstrate in New York City against President George W. Bush and his government, ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention.
• August 31, 2004 - Two suicide attacks on buses in Beer Sheva, Israel, kill at least 16 people and injure at least 60. Hamas claims responsibility for the attacks.
• August 31, 2004 - A woman commits a suicide attack near a subway station in northern Moscow, Russia, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 50. Authorities hold Chechen rebels responsible.

Deaths

• August 1 - Philip Abelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• August 3 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
• August 6 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
• August 8 - Fay Wray, Canadian actress (b. 1907)
• August 12 - Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1919)
• August 13 - Julia Child, American chef (b. 1912)
• August 14 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• August 15 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
• August 17 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
• August 18 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
• August 18 - Charlie Waller, American singer and guitarist (b. 1935)
• August 24 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
• August 26 - Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
• August 27 - Willie Crawford, baseball player (b. 1946)
• August 30 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)

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