2004

This is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)

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Predicted and scheduled Events:

January 4 - Georgian presidential election scheduled
January 9 - Singer Michael Jackson due in court in Santa Barbara on child- sex related charges.
March 20 - Presidential election on Taiwan. Likely a match between incumbent President Chen Shui-bian and KMT Chairman Lien Chan.
April 19 - Partial solar eclipse (Southern Africa)
May 1 - expected enlargement of the European Union to include admission of further 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.
May 12 and May 15 - Eurovision Song Contest 2004.
June 4 - Scheduled release of movie version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
June 8 - First solar transit of the planet Venus since 1882; the next one will occur in 2012.
In July, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
July 7 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expires.
August 13 through August 29 - 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
September 29 - the asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within 4 lunar distances of Earth.
October 1 - The University of Manchester and UMIST merge to form the largest university in the United Kingdom.
October 14 - Partial solar eclipse (North east Asia, North Pacific).
November 2 - U.S. presidential election. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will be expected on the Republican ticket.

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