February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of death March 5, 2004
The temperature on March 5, 2004 was between 1.0 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 4 » Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
January 21 » NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
March 11 » Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 192 people.
March 29 » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
June 21 » SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
November 7 » Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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