Events in May 2004
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May. 1
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Ten nations, including eight former Soviet States join the E.U., at a ceremony, heralding the organisation's biggest expansion in nearly 50 years, in the Irish capital, Dublin. |
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May. 4
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Rodrigo Rato, a former Spanish Finance Minister is appointed the IMF Chairman. |
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May. 7
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Nepal's Prime Minister, Surya Bahadur Thapa, quits less than a year since taking office. |
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Vladimir Putin (51) is sworn in Russian President for a second term, at a glamorous Kremlin ceremony. |
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May. 9
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Chechnya's President, Akhmad Kadyrov, and 32 others are killed in a bomb attack at a stadium during a parade on Victory Day, in the capital Grozny. |
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May. 11
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Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheads a U.S. Civilian, Nick Berg in revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison, in Baghdad. |
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May. 14
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South Korea's Constitutional Court reinstates the suspended President, Roh Moo-Hyun in a historic verdict. |
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May. 17
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Ezzedine Saleem, President of the U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council is killed in a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad. |
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Ninety inmates of a Honduran jail are killed in a fire triggered by a short circuit. |
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May. 18
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Prosecutors in the Air India trial wrap up the 1985 Kanishka case in which 329 people die aboard the flight in a crash off the Irish coast, after hearing evidence for 13 months and questioning 80 witnesses about the most complex criminal trial in Canadian history. |
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May. 19
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Forty persons are killed as a U.S. copter fires at a wedding party in a remote desert area in Iraq near the border with Syria and Jordan. |
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May. 22
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The Commonwealth re-admits Pakistan five years after its suspension from the 53-member world body following a coup in 1999 that brought Pervez Musharraf to power. |
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The Spanish Crown Prince Felipe weds a journalist, Letizia Oritz in a $25 million ceremony, in Madrid. |
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May. 23
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Horst Koehler, former head of IMF, is elected Germany's ninth post-war President. |
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Karan Johar's Kal Ho Na Ho bags eleven out of 22 awards at the Fifth International Indian Film Academy awards, in Singapore. Hrithik Roshan gets Best Actor Award (Koi Mil Gaya) and Preity Zinta voted Best Actress. |
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Sixty persons are killed after a ferry capsizes in the Meghna river near Chandpur town in southern Bangladesh. |
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May. 26
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Sudanese Government and the main rebel group Sudan People's Liberation Army, sign accords to end 21 years of civil war, in Naivasha, Kenya. |
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May. 29
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The novelist and human rights activist, Arundhati Roy is awarded the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize. |
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The Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga is awarded the Ceres Medal by the FAO for her fight against poverty. |
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May. 30
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Saudi Arabian commandos end a 25-hour hostage drama in a residential complex in Al Khobar in which 22 persons are killed by militants. |
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