October 4, 2004

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[edit] October 4, 2004

• Conflict in Iraq
  • Three car bombs — two in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, and one in the northern city of Mosul — kill at least 26 people and wound at least 100. All the casualties are Iraqis. (Reuters) (BBC)
  • Adina Senensieb, a seventh grade at A.C. Stelle Middle School, dies.
  • The U.S. military continues its aerial bombardment of the rebel-held city of Fallujah. Local hospital officials say that nine people were killed. Elsewhere, two U.S. soldiers are shot dead at a checkpoint in Baghdad. (AP) (BBC)
• Canada's 38th Parliament opens with the selection of the Commons Speaker. It is the first minority government in 25 years. The Throne Speech follows tomorrow. (CBC)
• Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is officially declared the winner of last month's Indonesian presidential elections. (BBC)
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan agrees to investigate claims that Palestinian terrorists are using UNRWA ambulances. (Jerusalem Post)
  • At least 3 civilians are among the dead in the sixth day of the Israeli raid into the Jabaliya refugee camp. (BBC) (Channel news Asia) (Reuters)
• Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne reaches an estimated altitude of 112.2 km (69.7 miles), lands safely and wins the Ansari X Prize. (Spaceflight Now) (X Prize Foundation)
• Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries regarding odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system. (Nobel Prize)
• The retrial of 16 Hindus accused of murdering 14 people, mostly Muslims, in the Gujarat riots of 2002 begins in Mumbai. India's Supreme Court ordered a re-trial after a Gujarat court acquitted the defendants. (BBC)
• The parliament of Cambodia ratifies legislation creating a tribunal that will try leaders of the former regime, the Khmer Rouge, for genocide and crimes against humanity. (BBC)
• Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper dies of Parkinson's disease.