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2004
The 21st Century Almanac · The 2000s

2004

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

A magnitude 9.1 earthquake unleashed an Indian Ocean tsunami that killed nearly a quarter-million people, Facebook launched from a Harvard dorm room, and George W. Bush won reelection as the Iraqi insurgency deepened.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Million Dollar Baby Best Directior: Clin
Nobel · Literature
Elfriede Jenilek (Austria - German)
World Series
No. 1 Song
1 Usher feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris Yeah!
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Major Events of 2004

4 events
Major Events of 2004Madrid Terrorist AttackTen Nations Join European UnionGenocide Begins in Darfur

Sports Highlights

Champions of 2004

Champions

MLB2004 World Series Boston Red Sox win 4-0 against St. Louis Cardinals - Oct 23...St. Louis 9 at Boston 11 - Oct 24...St. Louis 2 at Boston 6 - Oct 26...Boston 5 at St. Louis 1 - Oct 27...Boston 4 at St. Louis 0
NFLSuper Bowl XXXVIII New England Patriots win 32-29 against the Carolina Panthers - Super Bowl Box Score: New England...0 14 0 18-32 Carolina............0 10 0 19-29 Professional Golf Men's Majors winners - The Masters: Phil Mickelson... -9 to par, margin of 1 -
US OpenRetief Goosen... -4 to par - British Open: Todd Hamilton... -10 to par - PGA Championship: Vijay Singh... 67-68-69-76--280 Women's Majors winners - Kraft Nabisco Championship: Grace Park... 72-69-67-69--277 - US Women's Open: Meg Mallon... -10 to par - McDonald's LPGA Championship: Annika Sörenstam - Weetabix Women's British Open: Karen Stupples

Top Music of 2004

The year on the charts

Top Songs

  1. 1 Usher feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris Yeah! 2 Usher Burn 3 Alicia Keys If I Ain't Got You 4 Maroon 5 This Love 5 OutKast feat. Sleepy Brown The Way You Move 6 Hoobastank The Reason 7 Mario Winans feat. Enya and P. Diddy I Don't Wanna Know 8 OutKast Hey Ya! 9 Ciara feat. Petey Pablo Goodies 10 Terror Squad Lean Back

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year
"Clocks" - Coldplay
Song of the Year
"Speakerboxx/The Love Below" - Outkast & production team
Album of the Year
"Dance With My Father" - Luther Vandross & Richard Marx
Best New Artist
Evanescence

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. Shrek 2 DreamWorks $919,838,758
  2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Warner Bros. $796,688,549
  3. Spider-Man 2 Columbia $783,766,341
  4. The Incredibles Disney / Pixar $631,442,092
  5. The Passion of the Christ Newmarket Films / Icon Productions $611,899,420
  6. The Day After Tomorrow Fox $544,272,402
  7. Meet the Fockers Universal / DreamWorks $516,642,939
  8. Troy Warner Bros. $497,409,852
  9. Shark Tale DreamWorks $367,275,019
  10. Ocean's Twelve Warner Bros. $362,744,280

Academy Awards

Honoring 2004
Best Picture
Million Dollar Baby Best Directior: Clint Eastwood Best actor in a leading role: Jamie Fox for Ray Best actress in a leading role: Hillary Swank for Million Dollar Baby Best actor in a supporting role: Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby Best actress in a supporting role: Cate Blanchett for The Aviator

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Peace
Wangari Maathai (Kenya) "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"
Physiology or Medicine
Linda B. Buck & Richard Axel "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" Economic Sciences: Finn E. Kydland (Norway) & Edward C. Prescott (USA) "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics
Chemistry
Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko & Irwin Rose "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
Physics
David J. Gross, K. David Politzer & Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
Literature
Elfriede Jenilek (Austria - German)

Pulitzer Prizes

Public Service
New York Times National Reporting: Staff, Los Angeles Times International Reporting: Anthony Shahid, Washington Post Editorial Writing: William R. Stall, Los Angeles Times Editorial Cartooning: Matt Davies, White Plains (NY) Journal News Photography: Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times Commentary: Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald Criticism: Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times Feature Writing: No award Beat Reporting: Daniel Golden, Wall Street Journal Explanatory Reporting: Kevin Helliker and Thomas M. Burton, Wall Street Journal Investigative Reporting: Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss & Joe Mahr, The Blade (Toledo, OH) Breaking News: Staff, Los Angeles Times
Fiction
Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Drama
Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife Biography/Auto
biography
William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
History
Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Poetry
Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard
General Nonfiction
Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History
Music
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