February 2004

Sunday 01:

Janet Jackson exposes her breast on American television.

Thursday 05:

Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front captured the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

Friday 06:

In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.

Thursday 12:

Mattel Inc. announces the split of Barbara Millicent Roberts and Ken Carson after 43 years of dating.

Friday 13:

Travis Metcalfe from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.

Saturday 14:

In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.

Sunday 15:

John Daly the PGA golfer, wins his first PGA TOUR event in 9 years by winning the Buick Invitational golf tournament on the first hole of a playoff in San Diego, California.

Wednesday 18:

Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a run-away freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.

Thursday 19:

Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity."

Saturday 21:

The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.

Wednesday 25:

On Ash Wednesday, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is released in movie theaters across the United States, grossing approximately $370 million domestically.

Friday 27:

A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines kills 116, its worst terrorist attack.

Saturday 28:

Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947

Sunday 29:

Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as President of Haiti following popular rebel uprising.