April 27, 2004

Rich Fields is seen nationally for the first time as Bob Barker introduces him as his new announcer on The Price is Right television gameshow. Fields won the roll after a national talent search to replace Rod Roddy who died in October of 2003.
In heavy fighting outside Najaf, Iraq, United States Armed Forces kill 64 insurgents and destroy an anti-aircraft weapon. (AP) (Democracy Now!)
A bomb explosion and gun battle occur in Damascus, Syria between security forces and a "terrorist group", in which four people are killed and a vacant United Nations building badly damaged. The identity and motives of the attackers is unclear but Islamist militants are the prime suspects. (BBC).
South African president Thabo Mbeki is sworn in for a second term after being overwhelmingly reelected on April 14. The event is marred by controversy over the attendance of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe. (BBC)