What happened in 2004

“Yeah!”

Usher Featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris · 12 weeks at #1 in 2004

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1. Jan 3Hey Ya!OutKast6 wks
2. Feb 14The Way You MoveOutKast Featuring Sleepy Brown1 wk
3. Feb 21Slow JamzTwista Featuring Kanye West & Jamie Foxx1 wk
4. Feb 28Yeah!Usher Featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris12 wks
5. May 22BurnUsher8 wks
6. Jul 10I BelieveFantasia1 wk
7. Jul 24Confessions Part IIUsher2 wks
8. Aug 7Slow MotionJuvenile Featuring Soulja Slim2 wks
9. Aug 21Lean BackTerror Squad3 wks
10. Sep 11GoodiesCiara Featuring Petey Pablo7 wks
11. Oct 30My BooUsher And Alicia Keys6 wks
12. Dec 11Drop It Like It's HotSnoop Dogg Featuring Pharrell3 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 2004; weeks count only those in 2004.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 4Spirit (artist's impression depicted), the first of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, successfully landed on Mars.
2. Jan 8The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
3. Feb 1During the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, Janet Jackson's breast was exposed by Justin Timberlake in what was later referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction", resulting in an immediate crackdown and widespread debate on perceived indecency in U.S. broadcasting.
4. Feb 29Angelina Jolie wears a White Marc Bouwer dress to the 76th Academy Awards, which has since been placed on numerous lists for best red carpet fashion.
5. Mar 29Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
6. Mar 31Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
7. Apr 1Google launches its Email service Gmail.
8. Apr 30The New Yorker published an online article and photographs detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American military personnel of Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
9. Aug 3The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
10. Sep 3Beslan school siege ends, resulting in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children.
11. Oct 27The Boston Red Sox completed a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series, breaking the so-called "Curse of the Bambino".
12. Oct 29The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
13. Nov 9Firefox 1.0 is released.
14. Dec 26A major earthquake and tsunami devastated communities around the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  George W. Bush

• UK Prime Minister

  Tony Blair

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Paul Martin

• German Chancellor

  Gerhard Schröder

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Junichiro Koizumi

• President of Russia

  Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2004, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Grace VanderWaalAmerican singer-songwriter · Jan 15
• Coco GauffAmerican tennis player · Mar 13
• Charli D'AmelioAmerican social media influencer and dancer · May 1
• Jenna DavisAmerican actress and YouTuber · May 5
• Mikey WilliamsAmerican basketball player · Jun 26
• Daniela AvanziniAmerican singer and dancer · Jul 1
• Marsai MartinAmerican actress and producer · Aug 14
• Noah SchnappAmerican actor · Oct 3
• Bronny JamesAmerican basketball player · Oct 6
• Ilia MalininAmerican competitive figure skater · Dec 2

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.