What major events happened in 2004?

January 1 - The Shanghai Maglev, the world's first commercial maglev, was officially put into operation. January 3 - An Egyptian Shine Air charter flight crashed over the Red Sea shortly after taking off from the tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 148 people on board, more than 120 of whom were French passengers. January 4 - The American Mars rover Spirit successfully landed on the surface of Mars at 12:35 in the East 8th District. February 1 - Tragedy occurs during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, and 251 people are trampled to death. March 11 - A series of bombings occurred in Madrid, the Spanish capital, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 1,500. April 22 - France closes its last coal mine, ending about 200 years of coal mining in the country. July 28 - China's first scientific research station in the Arctic, the Yellow River Station, was completed. August 13 - The 28th Olympic Summer Games were held in Athens, Greece. September 1 - Chechen militants took nearly 1,500 hostages, most of them, from a middle school in the city of Besillan in North Ossetia, Russia. child. The kidnappers demand that Russian authorities immediately release all detained Chechen rebels and allow Chechnya to become independent. October 29 - EU leaders sign the EU Constitutional Treaty. November 3 - The results of the 2004 US presidential election are released, and George W. Bush is re-elected. December 5 - China's first cross-sea railway, the Guangdong-Sea Railway passenger transport, was officially opened. December 26 - The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused a huge tsunami along the Indian Ocean coast, causing huge damage to the countries along the Indian Ocean. More than 200,000 people died in the tsunami event, many of them foreign tourists.