Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize. Date: September 29, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 29 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)
The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth. Date: September 29, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 29 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)
Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides. Date: September 23, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 23 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)
Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane. Date: September 16, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 16 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)
National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office. Date: September 15, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 15 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)
NASA's uncrewed spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. Date: September 8, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 8 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)
Beslan school siege results in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children. Date: September 3, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 3 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia, Russia; by the end of the siege, three days later, more than 385 people are dead (including hostages, other civilians, security personnel and terrorists). Date: September 1, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September…
Ninety passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya. Date: August 24, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 24 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)
Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. Date: August 22, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 22 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)