Editing 2004 (section)

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*[[Facebook]], originally called ''TheFacebook'', is launched by [[Mark Zuckerberg]]
*the [[2004 transit of Venus]], the first such occurrence since [[1882]]
*[[NASA]] lands the [[Opportunity (rover)|''Opportunity'']] and [[Spirit (rover)|''Spirit'']] [[Mars Exploration Rover|rovers]] on [[Mars]]
*the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Athens]]
*[[Al-Qaeda]] [[2004 Madrid train bombings|bombs]] multiple trains in [[Madrid]], killing 193 people
*the [[European Union]] [[2004 enlargement of the European Union|adds]] 10 new member-states
*334 people are killed in the [[Beslan school siege]], carried out by [[Chechnya|Chechen]] terrorists 
*a massive 9.1-9.3 [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|megathrust earthquake]] off the coast of [[Sumatra]] and the resultant [[tsunami]] kill over 227,000 people—one of the [[List of natural disasters by death toll|worst natural disasters]] in recorded history.
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2004 was designated as an [[International Year of Rice]] by the United Nations,<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 31, 2003 |title=UN declares 2004 the International Year of Rice |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2003/10/84272-un-declares-2004-international-year-rice |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116205241/https://news.un.org/en/story/2003/10/84272-un-declares-2004-international-year-rice |archive-date=January 16, 2022 |access-date=January 16, 2022 |website=United Nations}}</ref> and the [[International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition]] (by [[UNESCO]]).<ref>[https://en.unesco.org/ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925093242/http://en.unesco.org/ |date=September 25, 2013 }} (2003). [https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000131242 ''INTERNATIONAL YEAR TO COMMEMORATE THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SLAVERY AND ITS ABOLITION''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724140601/https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000131242 |date=July 24, 2020 }}</ref>

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