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Jan.2, 2005 - Jan.9, 2005 |
Canada and the world in past year
A month-by-month breakdown of the major events that affected us all in 2004
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Martha Stewart is jailed for fraud
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JANUARY
5 - U.S. defeats Canada 4-3 in gold medal game at world junior hockey championships.
17 - Hollinger International Inc. fires Conrad Black as chairman and files $200-million U.S. lawsuit against him and right-hand man David Radler.
18 - Truck bomb explodes outside U.S. headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 31.
24 - NASA rover Opportunity lands on Mars three weeks after landing of twin rover, Spirit.
27 - Cpl. Jamie Brendan Murphy, 26, of Newfoundland is killed in suicide bomb attack on jeep in Kabul.
28 - Judge exonerates British government, condemns BBC over report on "sexed-up" dossier on Iraqi weapons.
29 - Stelco Inc. secures court-ordered bankruptcy protection from its creditors.
FEBRUARY
1 - More than 250 Muslims die in stampede during hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Suicide bombers kill 109 people at Kurdish political offices in Irbil, Iraq.
5 - Haitian militants seize city of Gonaives in revolt against government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
10 - Auditor General Sheila Fraser reports massive abuses in federal sponsorship program run by Public Works Department; Prime Minister Paul Martin orders independent judicial inquiry into the scandal. France's National Assembly votes to banish religious emblems such as Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses from state schools.
13 - Conrad Black launches $850-million defamation suit against members of Hollinger International board, claiming he has been made a "loathsome laughingstock" by media coverage of accusations against him. San Francisco becomes first U.S. jurisdiction to issue marriage licences to gay couples.
18 - Train carrying chemicals derails and explodes in northeastern Iran, killing 320 people. Pakistan and India agree on road map for talks aimed at ending decades-old enmity.
19 - Nova Scotia and P.E.I. declare state of emergency because of blizzard. Outbreak of avian flu discovered in poultry farm in B.C. Fraser Valley.
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