July 2004

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Thursday the 1st er July 2004

  • Los Angeles, the United States of America: died of the actor Marlon Brando at the 80 years age in a hospital of the city. Article on Reuters.
  • the Sonde Cassini-Huygens is put into orbit around Saturn and transmits the images of the rings taken during its crossing.
  • Europe: Microsoft regulated last Monday June 28th the fine of 497 million Euro S which had been inflicted to him by the European commission for dominant position abuse the March 24th. Article on the Life of Net.
  • France, press: rebirth of the magazine of cartoons Conk Gadget . Article of Humanité.
  • Iraq: Saddam Hussein appeared formally before an Iraqi court to hear the counts of indictment of which that of Crime against humanity which weighs against him for acts against the following groups: Shiite in 1980,1991 and 1999, Kurdish in 1988 (Halabja) and during the years 1980 (tribe of Barzani), and the first two wars of the Gulf against the Iran and the Kuwait. The former Iraqi president refused to recognize the authority of the court and did not want to sign the bill of indictment because of absence of defense counsel. Several journalists announced that images transmitted to televisions were not accompanied by its original, put aside at some selected places.
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Friday July 2nd 2004

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Saturday July 3rd 2004

  • Tour de France cyclist: departure of the turn of France with the prolog of Liege (Belgium). Arrival the July 25th with Paris. Lance Armstrong contributes for a sixth consecutive victory. The test starts in a morose environment for the runners: several investigations of the police forces and justices French and Italy on the doping supposed certain runners, the recent one died of Marco Pantani, the exclusion of the turn of runners of the team Cofidis like David Millar and delivers it former the US welfare man Postal one, L.A. Confidential , are likely to throw in the public opinion of the suspicions on the performances of the candidates.
  • France: liberalization of the market of the electricity, the SNCF, 2nd consumer of the country after Eurodif, question its invoice of electricity which increased by 46% between 2003 and 2004.
  • France: Until the July 27th is held the Festival of Avignon.
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Sunday July 4th 2004

  • the United States of America, New York: pose first stone of the Freedom Tower (tower of freedom) which will rise on the site of the World Trade Center. Officiated the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, the governor of the State George Pataki and that of the neighboring state of the New Jersey. This monumental marble stone door an inscription in homage to the victims of the September 11th, 2001.
  • Football, Championship of Europe of the footballing nations 2004: the team of Greece finally gains the championship by beating the team of the Portugal over a score from 1 to 0.
  • France, Saint-Maur, Indre: a 36 year old prisoner, condemned for murder in March 2000, struck his neighbor of cell to the head with an ashtray. He started to eat the brain to him. Source: LeMonde.fr, July 8th, 2004.
  • Peru: the girl of the former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori married with Lima with a citizen states-unien. His/her father, born Japanese parents, is always in exile with the Japan since 2000. Peruvian justice claims its extradition for twenty counts of indictment of which the Corruption and the constitution of about thirty wikipédiens and wikipedists with Paris to meet Jimbo (founder of the project), to speak about the project to the press and to discuss creation French-speaking association. See the page Meeting Paris July 2004 for more information.
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Monday July 5th 2004

  • Game of bowls, Marseilles, recall: until the July 19th 2004 takes place in Marseilles the trophy of game of bowls “the Marseillaise”.
  • the Rock'n'roll festival its 50 years, the date of diffusion of the song of Elvis Presley, That' S all right mama having been retained like marking the official birth of this style of music (night of the July 5th to the July 6th 1954)
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Tuesday July 6th 2004

  • Austria: died of the Austrian president Thomas Klestil with 23:33 THIS. Hospitalized Monday in a critical condition following an cardiac arrest, its state worsened Tuesday. Elected official in 1992, and re-elected in 1998 for a second mandate, president Klestil was to leave his functions the July 8th to be replaced by the social democrat Heinz Fischer, elected in April. In accordance with the Constitution, the presidents of the national council take over temporarily the duties.
  • the United States of America: the CIA, arranges states-unienne of information, would have voluntarily omitted to inform the president George W. Bush on the existence of information making it possible to believe that the Iraq would have given up the development of weapons of massive destruction. Information revealed by the daily newspaper NewYork Times , according to the report/ratio to appear senatorial commission on the use of the intelligence services by the executive states-unien about the weapons of massive destruction in Iraq. Edicom
  • the United States, presidential election: the democratic candidate John Kerry chose his candidate with the vice-presidency, John Edwards, current senator of North Carolina and former candidate during the democratic primary educations. Republican side, the current president George Walker Bush aspires to a second mandate with its vice-president Dick Cheney.
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Wednesday July 7th 2004

  • Iraq: the chief of the Iraqi government, Iyad Allaoui received by decree of the extraordinary capacities in order to restore the calm one in the country, whereas attacks of guerilla took place in Baghdad.
  • Meteorology, France, the United Kingdom: the Tempête which swept the Europe west damaged the electrical communications and of telecommunications in France and in the United Kingdom. Certain French railways had to be closed. The circulation of the ferries on the Manche was also disturbed. Alarm is still in force in the south-east of the England and in the east of France until Thursday July 8th afternoon. Recall for France, to inform itself on the opinions of vigilance: Site of Weather France.
  • Russia: Russian justice started to seize the accounts of the oil group Ioukos. The group owes 3 billion dollars with the tax department.
  • Sudan: the government accepts 300 soldier sending of the African Union with the Darfur.
  • France: Price Iznogoud, which rewards “a personality for a great notoriety which tried to become caliph in the place of the caliph, was praised and failed in its company” , was allotted to its life president André Santini, deputy and mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux. It was allotted within the framework of the festival “Humor and salt water” of Saint-Georges-with-Didonne (Charente-Maritime). The prize winner, who was rewarded for “to have wanted to be Huchon in the place of Huchon” in Île-de-France, “ended up accepting this distinction which it wished, for its part, to see allotting to its “footeux” homonym: Jacques Santini” . Iznogoud Price decreed by Humor and water salée
  • France, Cinema: left film of Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11 , which had received the Palme of gold to the Cannes festival this year.
  • Japan: Good Tanabata with all!
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Thursday July 8th 2004

  • the actor French Jean Lefebvre died of the continuations of a Heart attack with Marrakech (Morocco), at the 84 years age. By a curious coincidence, the television channel France 3 had precisely repeated, the day before at the evening, the film we do not annoy , of Georges Lautner, in which the actor, at the sides of Lino Ventura, Michel Constantin and Mireille Darc, incarnated Léonard Michalon , a character with head of “beaten dog” (and receiving an unusual amount of “wallops”). La precision of the date of the death is given in a dispatch of New Observateur.
  • Festival of Avignon: it takes place of the 8 with the July 31st. With the June 30th (quasi final figures), in the festival off, 539 troops are indexed to give 667 spectacles (at least, without counting the spectacles of street, etc).
  • France: the President of the Republic pronounced, in the village of the Chambon-on-Lignon, a speech on the Tolérance and against the Discrimination S. In this commune, the Protestant inhabitants had hidden during the Second world war Jewish families which could escape the Génocide carried out by the Nazi S.
  • Austria: Heinz Fischer, elected in April, lent oath and became the eighth president of the Republic, succeeding Thomas Klestil, deceased two days before the completion of its mandate.
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Friday July 9th 2004

  • France: whereas part of paid EDF is in strike against the change of status of the company, the Senate voted the suppression of 65 years the maximum age for the owner of the production company of electricity. The journalists point out that, from now on, Francis Mer (65 years completed) could pass from the ministry for Finances to the presidency of EDF.
  • France free software: the ministry for the Equipment has just made its choice for the Mandrakelinux Corporate Server to replace 1.500 waiters which turned under Microsoft Windows NT. The government recently declared that “competition was open” between the solutions Open Source and Microsoft for the million computer in service in within the administrations. Press release MandrakeSoft
  • Israel - Palestine: the the International Court of Justice, sitting at $the Hague (Netherlands), handed down a judgment on the wall of safety that Israel built to insulate the the West Bank. The court considers this construction illegal under the terms of the international law. The Israeli government reacted by affirming that the Court had been unaware of a fact: the argument that this wall aims at ensuring the safety of Israel against the Terrorisme.

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Saturday July 10th 2004

Sunday July 11th 2004

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Monday July 12th 2004

  • Swiss: visit Pape of the Église copte, monophysite, Chenouda III with the Abbaye of Saint-Maurice, in Valais, where massacred the legion thebaine at the 3rd century was .
  • France, Football: Raymond Domenech was selected like new selector of the team of France of football, to replace Jacques Santini.
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Tuesday July 13rd 2004

  • France: employees of the Bosch factory of Vénissieux summoned to choose between the week of 36 H (instead of 35) without pay rise or the delocalization of the factory as a Czech Republic.
  • France: The aggression anti-semite in the RER which had put France in agitation these last days reveals false: the young woman presented as victim had lied.
  • Macedonia: this country ratified the Protocole n° 13 with the European Convention of the human rights, thus abolishing there the Capital punishment in all circumstances.
  • Japan: arrest of the former world champion of failures Bobby Fischer, using an American passport invalidates, and which tried to escape the sanctions that it incurs following its match against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia in 1992.
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Wednesday July 14th 2004

  • France: procession of the July 14th with for topic the Harmony.
  • France: in the traditional televised interview of July 14th, the president of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, announces that the ratification of the project of European Constitution will take place, in France, by the way of the Référendum, probably with the autumn 2005.
  • France: Richard Virenque gains the longest stage of the Tour de France 2004.
  • Iraq: murder of the governor of Mosul. This attack was asserted by Abou Moussab Zarkaoui
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Thursday July 15th 2004

  • Iraq: ten people were killed in an attack in the west of Baghdad.
  • France: the Ministers for the Economy, the Culture and Industry meet to fight against the hacking of the music on Internet.
  • France, high technologies: the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (ECA) has just assigned the South Korean manufacturer Samsung in justice in front of the Court of Bankruptcy of Paris for patent violation on the technology of the screens with liquid crystals. The technology blamed is SUITS it (vertically aligned) making it possible to manufacture screens with high contrast and offering a larger angle for the comfort of vision. The ECA in addition and for the same reasons assigned six manufacturers with the the United States, namely Samsung (Korean), IN Optronics and Chi Mei (Taiwan board), Fujitsu, Sanyo and Sharp (Japan board).
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Friday July 16th 2004

  • Afghanistan: a rocket falls close to a college visited a few minutes later by the president Hamid Karzai. The Talibans assert the attack.
  • India: a fire in a school of Kumbakonam in the state of the Tamil Nadu made at least 77 died, as a majority of the children between 6 and 13 years.
  • the United States of America: Martha Stewart was condemned to five months of prison for Délit of initiate.
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Saturday July 17th 2004

  • French Guiana: the Fusée ARIANE V put into orbit largest satellite of telecommunications of the world. This satellite will provide an access Internet high banc for the Canada.
  • France: Michel Bernard, one of the three antinuclear fasters, has being evacuated urgently by the firemen for the Hotel God whereas it was returned to his 27e day of fast. Its health condition had been degraded these last days.
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Sunday July 18th 2004

  • France: commemoration of the Raid of Vel d' Hiv, revêt a special character with the recrudescence of the racist acts and anti-semites in Europe.
  • Israel: the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon invites all the Jews of France to emigrate in Israel because of the anti-Jewish actions, because, according to his remarks, “the fact that 10  % of the population Frenchwomen is consisted Musulman S provides a compost to a new form of anti-semitism. ” Various French political officials even European estimate, in bulk, that Israeli the Prime Minister “lost an occasion to keep silent himself”, that “its remarks are unacceptable”, or that the call of Mr. Sharon is “offensive for the government and French people”. The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv will underline for its part, on July 21st, the “hysterical reaction of the French government to the declarations of Sharon”.
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Monday July 19th 2004

  • Bolivia: Referendum S popular on five objects in relation to the policy Gas ière of the country.
  • Sudan: to Nyala, capital of the Darfur southern, ten militiamans Djandjawid were condemned by a special court to 6 years of prison and the Amputation of their right hand and left leg.
  • Ukraine: an explosion in a mine close to Donetsk made 25 died.
  • Japan: Bobby Fischer, 61 years, former world champion of Échecs was abruptly stopped last week in departure for Manila. He was continued by the the United States since 1992 to have accepted a check of 3,35 million Dollar S for an tournament-exhibition with Boris Spassky in ex-Yugoslavia then under Embargo. He should be extradited in the United States where he risks 10 years of prison. This business could be related to a possible request for extradition concerning old a GI Charles Jenkins, always regarded by the United States as deserter, since it joined the North Korea in 1965. A diplomatic small portion of Go to some extent?
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Tuesday July 20th 2004

  • Germany: the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder honoured officially for the first time the memory with a group of German officers having taken part in the assassination attempt against Hitler 60 years ago.
  • France: Lance Armstrong gains the fifteenth stage of the turn of France between Valréas and Villard-with-Lans.
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Wednesday July 21st 2004

  • France: first day of the operation “Paris beach”.
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Thursday July 22nd 2004

  • France: died of the singer and guitarist Sacha Distel of the continuations of a Cancer at the 71 years age.
  • Turkey: the derailment of the train at high speed near Pamukova, mountainous region located in the North-West of Turkey, because death of 36 people and wounded 81 others of them.
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Friday July 23rd 2004

  • France: died on Thursday night of the singer and actor Serge Reggiani of one cardiac arrest at the 82 years age.
  • Swiss: a tourist finds death in an accident of Montgolfière to the Musée of transport to Lucerne.
  • Sudan: UNO estimates at 30.000 the number of people killed with the Darfur in fifteen months and to more than one million those which were moved by the engagements. Some 180.000 of them massed in camps in the precarious living conditions on other side of the border Chad ienne.
  • Bosnia-Herzégovine: with Mostar, inauguration of new the Stari Most, the old bridge of XIVe century connecting the two communities, which was destroyed during the war.
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Saturday July 24th 2004

  • Niger: voting operations for the municipal elections proceeded “without incident” in the country. More than 5,5 million voters were called with the ballot boxes according to the independent National electoral commission. These elections, which proceeded in 14.000 offices, were to make it possible to choose 3.747 city council men previously appointed by order in Council. Voting operations, which had started at 8 local times (7 hours GMT), ended as envisaged at 7 p.m. (18 hours GMT) for the near total of the offices.
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Sunday July 25th 2004

  • Australia: in a message on Internet, the Islamic group Al-Tawhid (which arises as a branch of Al-Qaïda in Europe) threatened to make car bomb attacks in Australia and Italy if the two countries did not withdraw their soldiers of Iraq. The Foreign Minister Alexander Downer declared that Australia would not yield to the threats. Mr. Downer as estimated as the threats rose directly from the withdrawal last week of the Filipino quota of Iraq in exchange of the release from an hostage and withdrawal of the Spain after the attacks of Madrid of the last March 11th.
  • Sudan: the Sudanese government refuses a foreign military intervention with the Darfur.
  • France: Lance Armstrong gains the turn of France for the sixth time.
  • Menville, Haute-Garonne: 1.500 militants ecologists, of which Jose Bove and several elected officials (whose No5el Mamère, deputy and mayor of Bègles and Gerard Onesta, appointed European) “mowed” a trangenic piece of one hectare corn . The action started towards 12:30 and lasted half an hour. It was held without incident. About fifteen gendarmes attended this operation, but did not intervene. Dispatch Reuters.
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Monday July 26th 2004

  • Israel: tens of thousands of Israelis formed a human chain stretching Gaza Strip to the Wailing Wall in the old city of Jerusalem (that is to say 90 kilometers) to express their opposition to the retirement scheme of Gaza of Ariel Sharon. This plan was to make reconsider one year the colonists in the territories irsaéliens (and thus to start again the peace negotiations).
  • Canada: Canadian the Prime Minister, the liberal Paul Martin, wants to soften the legislation on the consumption of Cannabis, whereas 12% of the population already acknowledge to have smoked of the cannabis, a law dépénaliserait the possession of minor amounts of cannabis (up to 15 grams).
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Tuesday July 27th 2004

  • France: the Court of Bankruptcy of Bordeaux pronounced the cancellation of the first Homosexual marriage celebrated the June 5th 2004 by No5el Mamère, Député - Maire of Bègles. The lawyer S of Stephan Chapin and Bertrand Charpentier announced that they made call this decision.
  • Guantanamo : repatriation in France of four French prisoners.
  • Algeria: the Criquet pilgrim ( schistocerca gregaria ) is devastating the cultures of North Africa.
  • Nuclear: after 36 days of fast, the two antinuclear militants Andre Larivière and Dominique Masset stopped their fast asking for a “true democratic debate” and the abandonment of the project of nuclear reactor of third generation EPR. The third faster, Michel Bernard, had had to stop 10 days ago for medical reasons. They were received by Jacques Chirac with a delegation. They considered the result of their action “mitigated enough”. They are in particular disappointed little of relay in the media.
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Wednesday July 28th 2004

  • Iraq: a Suicide bombing by a Kamikaze in the car bomb killed 70 people in front of a police station.
  • France: Nicolas Sarkozy, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Patrick Devedjian signed a charter “antipiratage” to prevent the illegal music downloading on Internet. This measurement envisages, inter alia, the cancellation of subscriptions Internet of the contraveners by the authorities.
  • World: 90 years ago began the First World War, which involved thirty-five country in the conflict and made more than ten million deaths.
  • P2P : the network iMesh agrees to pour damages with RIAA and promises to be put “in legality”.
  • Sudan: Arab militia killed out of the civilians at the beginning of July to the Darfur, by connecting some of them and by “burning them sharp” in spite of the cease-fire concluded in April, according to an official statement of the African Union (UA). Article of the newspaper Monde.fr.
  • Kabul, Afghanistan: the Governmental organization Doctors without borders decided to stop its actions Humanitaire S in Afghanistan following the voluntary Assassinat of five S German in last June. MSF shows the coalition carried out by the the United States of America to recover the humanitarian aid at ends Politique S and Militaire S.
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Thursday July 29th 2004

  • France, Entomology: the airport of Nice is invaded by a colony of calliptamus italicus or Italian Criquet comprising sixty million individuals. The air traffic is not disturbed. However, the swarm is in phase of reproduction and could threaten the cultures of the plain of the Var. This group is nevertheless less threatening that the clouds of locusts which have migrated for several weeks in Africa of the West and North.
  • the United States of America:
    • John Kerry receives the nomination of the democratic party for the next election of the president of the the United States of America.
    • Death at the 88 years age, the British Francis Crick, codecouvror in 1953 of the structure of DNA.
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Friday July 30th 2004

  • Belgium, Ghislenghien (close to Ath) (halfway between Brussels and Lille): a violent explosion of a control of Gaz to high pressure occurred close to a Diamond factory Boart (subsidiary company of Electrolux). The explosion made a hundred and thirty wounded, nineteen died and four disappeared. An alarm of gas leak had carried out the services of the firemen on the spot and it is at this time that the explosion took place, ejecting bodies to hundreds of meters, pieces of the buildings to six kilometers, generating a vibration of the ground of more than ten minutes, projecting flames to about thirty meters in height until approximately hundred meters around. Heat was felt up to two kilometers. The principal remains weighing seven tons and measuring eleven meters were found with two hundred meters. Traces of excavator were found on this piece of the gas pipeline. A family had stopped on a surface of Autoroute to five hundred meters of the hearth. All the family members were flarings (up to 40% of the surface of the body). The Gazoduc S (there are two of them) connect the Norway to Paris while passing by Zeebruges and make it possible to feed the France, the Spain and the Italy out of gas. Black ribbons were placed on the vehicles of Pompiers, police force and Civil protection in the majority of the Belgian cities in homage to the men of the fire, taken in the explosion. The July 31st 2004, the king Albert II returned of Sweden to go to the bedside victims. The day before, its son, the prince Laurent of Belgium and the Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt had gone to the site.
Line of time:
    • 8:30: the center of call Fluxys, with Brussels, is prevented by the 100 (Belgian first-aid organization éponyme of its call number) of a problem to height of Ghislenghien on the gas pipeline Zeebrugge - Blaregnies (France).
    • 8:35: the center decides to send a team to check on the spot.
    • 8:36: the 100 renews its call of 8:30 and announces the anomaly with height of the beacon U 32.
    • 8:57: the Explosion is detected with Brussels by an abrupt fall of pressure.
    • 8:59: cut of the gas pipeline between Brakel and Masnuy.
Belgium has in its basement of a pipe network of 400.000 km drain (source RTBF).

  • Ouzbékistan, Attack S: three bombs exploded in the capital Tachkent. Two aimed at the embassies of the the United States of America and Israel, the third a building of the ministry for the Justice. Three people were killed. An islamist group asserted the attack.

  • Sudan, Darfur: the Safety advice of the United Nations voted for a resolution ordering that the Sudanese government puts an end to the crimes committed in Darfur in the thirty days. The word “sanction” was not employed in the text of the resolution, but several countries want to see the government of Khartoum showing a voluntary and effective action against the “Arab” militia in this area of the west of the country. The government Sudan board finds this resolution “inappropriate”, but the French president Jacques Chirac requested a mobilization from fine humanitarians of the average soldiers French prépositionnés with the Chad.
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Saturday July 31st 2004

  • France, Football, Trophy of the Champions: the Olympique Lyonese gained the trophy of the champions vis-a-vis the Paris Saint-Germain 7 shootings with the goal with 6 (1-1 after prolongations). The OL gains this price for the third consecutive time.
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