Events in August 2004
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Aug. 2
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The former Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral L. Ramdas, gets this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award along with Pak. journalist, Ibn Abdur Rehman. |
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Aug. 3
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The NASA launches its $427 million MESSENGER mission to the planet Mercury from Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
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Hearings into the prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib, Iraq begins in a U.S. military court. |
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Aug. 8
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The New National Party that built apartheid decides to merge with its one-time nemesis, the African National Congress. |
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Aug. 10
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Porter Goss is nominated new CIA chief. |
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Aug. 12
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Hsien Loong (52), son of Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew is sworn in Sinagpore's third Prime Minister. |
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Aug. 13
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The Athens Olympics gets off to a spectacular start. |
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Aug. 14
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One hundred and eighty Congolese refugees are killed in an attack on a U.N. camp in western Burundi. |
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Aug. 15
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The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez wins referendum on a recall vote. |
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Aug. 21
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The former Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina escapes a bid on life after bombs go off at a rally in Dhaka. |
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Aug. 22
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China celebrates the centenary of Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of "opening up and modernisation drive." |
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Aug. 24
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A panel of Pentagon advisers on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq that broke out in March blames a failure of leadership at the Pentagon, for the abuses. |
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Aug. 25
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Ninety people are killed as two Russian planes crash within minutes of each other after take off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. |
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Aug. 26
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Seventyfour persons are killed by gunfire and in a mortar attack in Najaf, Iraq where the U.S. forces are battling the militia of the rebel cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr. |
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Aug. 27
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The former Chilean President, Augusto Pinochet loses final round as the apex court rules that he is not immune from prosecution for rights abuses. |
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Pakistan's National Assembly elects former Finance Minister, Shaukat Aziz as Prime Minister. |
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Militants leave Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq following a peace pact ending a three-week standoff. |
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Aug. 28
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Shaukat Aziz is sworn in Pakistan Prime Minister at a function in Islamabad. |
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Aug. 29
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The Athens Olympic Games concludes. |
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Kremlin's candidate Alu Alkhanov sweeps Chechnya's presidential polls. |
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