June 2004

Wednesday 02:

The first episode of Ken Jennings' incredible reign as Jeopardy! champion airs. He starts out with $37,201 and would go on to win more than two million dollars.

Saturday 05:

Smarty Jones loses at the Belmont Stakes to Birdstone and fails to bid the Triple Crown.

Tuesday 08:

First Transit of Venus in this millennium.

Friday 11:

Ronald Reagan's funeral held at Washington National Cathedral

Saturday 12:

A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.

Sunday 13:

A 4 kg meteorite hits the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie, New Zealand, destroying the roof and a couch.

Monday 14:

The Workers Party of Bangladesh is split, as Khandaker Ali Abbas leaves to form a new party.

Sunday 20:

Ken Griffey, Jr. becomes the 20th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.

Monday 21:

SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

Thursday 24:

Habib Dodo, the general secretary of the Communist Youth of Côte d'Ivoire is assassinated by pro-government forces.

Monday 28:

Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.