Template:In the news
- Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi is unanimously endorsed by 19 allied parties to become the next Prime Minister of India, but declines the position.
- Massachusetts becomes the first state to permit same-sex marriage in the U.S.
- Ezzedine Salim, president of the Iraqi Governing Council, is killed by a car bomb in Baghdad.
- Ukraine wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2004.
- Roh Moo-hyun is acquitted by the Constitutional Court and reinstated as President of South Korea.