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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      
2004
 
    
George W. Bush wins a second term, defeating Democrat John Kerry in the US presidential election       
2004
 
   
Palestinian president Yasser Arafat dies in a hospital near Paris      
2004
 
   
Prime minister Viktor Yanukovych is at first declared winner of a rigged (and subsequently annulled) presidential election in Ukraine      
2004
 
   
Hamid Karzai becomes the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan      
2004
 
   
Tests reveal that Viktor Yushchenko, opposition candidate in Ukraine's presidential election, has been poisoned with dyoxin      
2004
 
    
Armed robbers, suspected of links with the IRA, steal more than £25 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast       
2004
 
    
A massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that kills nearly 200,000 people       
2004
 
   
Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko easily wins the re-run of the rigged presidential election in the Ukraine      
2004
 
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