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| | | Michael Schumacher becomes the first driver to win seven world championship titles in Formula One | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Chechen terrorists take an entire school hostage, in Beslan in southern Russia, resulting in more than 300 deaths | |
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| 2004 |
| | | The National Physical Laboratory develops a new system of measuring time by bombarding a single strontium atom, frozen to -273C, with tiny packages of light | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Mark Edwards builds replicas of the boats used in 1829 in the first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, and the universities race them again over the original Henley course | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Representatives of the member states of the European Union accept a proposed European Constitution, subject to its ratification by each state | |
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| 2004 |
| | | George W. Bush wins a second term, defeating Democrat John Kerry in the US presidential election | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Palestinian president Yasser Arafat dies in a hospital near Paris | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Prime minister Viktor Yanukovych is at first declared winner of a rigged (and subsequently annulled) presidential election in Ukraine | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Hamid Karzai becomes the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Tests reveal that Viktor Yushchenko, opposition candidate in Ukraine's presidential election, has been poisoned with dyoxin | |
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