June 2004

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The Probe Cassini-Huygens, launched the October 15th 1997, reached Saturn at the end of June 2004. It will release the Huygens module on the satellite Titan, which should provide more precise information on this satellite.

Tuesday the 1st er June 2004

  • Haiti: the blue helmets of UNO took this morning the changing of the temporary force (FIMH) directed by the the United States. The United Nations start a stabilization mission of the country, whereas the rebels still hold of the grounds and that the survivors of the floods hopelessly need assistance. The FIMH will remain in Haiti until the end of June because only part of the 8.000 blue helmets arrived.
  • Iraq: first dissension enters the the United Kingdom and the the United States. British the Prime Minister Tony Blair wanting that the political power of the Iraqis can go until prohibiting certain military operations in the country, George W. Bush made for the moment the deaf person ear.
  • Russia: at the time of its annual short speech to the the Kremlin in front of the members of the two parliamentary Rooms as well as the governors of the Federation of Russia, Vladimir Poutine “forgot” to speak about certain subjects like the war tchetchene.
  • France: the lyric writer Etienne Roda-Gil died this weekend of a stroke at the 62 years age.
  • Of the 1 {{er}} with the June 4th, is held the International Conference for renewable energies with Bonn, in Germany.

Wednesday June 2nd 2004

  • Canada: new alarm with the Virus of the Western Nile in Ontario.
  • France: the car manufacturer Renault presents Logan, a car with 5.000 € (a true exploit) intended for the countries for weak or average purchasing power. This car will be produced in Romania, Russia, and with the Morocco, and will be marketed under the Rumanian mark Dacia, property of Renault since 1999. The markets concerned are the Eastern Europe, the Asia (in particular the China), and the Mediterranean countries. The manufacturer has an aim of 700.000 sold vehicles each year.
  • France: the Ministry for Agriculture authorizes eight new test routines in full field of Maïs genetically modified.

Thursday June 3rd 2004

  • the United States: resignation of the director of the the CIA, George Tenet, director has announced for 7 years. He, at the request of the American presidency, had sought evidence of the existence of weapons of massive destruction in Iraq in 2003 (in vain so far).
  • Democratic republic of Congo: dissenting soldiers of the Congolese army seize the town of Bukavu (South-Kivu), endangering the peace process in progress.
  • Korea: the North Korea and the South Korea concluded an agreement involving a maritime coordination between the two countries in order to avoid the recurring incidents and a suppression of propaganda along the land borders.

Friday June 4th 2004

  • Italy: died of Nino Manfredi, continuation movie actor of one long illness at the 83 years age.
  • Russia: an bomb attack makes a carnage in a market of Samara, to 800 km in the east of Moscow. Provisional appraisal: 10 died, 40 wounded.
  • Venezuela: the national electoral commission validated a sufficient number of signatures, thus authorizing a referendum on the maintenance or the dismissal of the president Hugo Chávez. This last accepted the decision of the commission.
  • China: Birthday of the Manifestations of the place Tian' anmen of 1989. The Chinese State censures the media reporting the facts.

Saturday June 5th 2004

  • the United States: Death of the president of the United States of 1981 to 1989 Ronald Reagan of the continuations of the disease of Alzeimer at the 93 years age.
  • France: the deputy and mayor of Bègles, No5el Mamère, celebrates the first Mariage of a homosexual couple in France between Stephan Chapin, 33 years, and Bertrand Charpentier, 31 years.
  • France: with Marseilles, the test of Pétanque will profit from a coefficient 2 the proof baccalaureat. This test, reserved to the candidates declared médicalement inapt for the traditional of physical education and sporting examination could be also replaced by a test of Tir to the arc or Relaxation.

Sunday June 6th 2004

  • 60e anniversary of the Normandy landing in Normandy. Were in particular invited Vladimir Poutine, Gerald Shroeder and George W. Bush.
Dominique de Villepin and Michele Alliot-Marie was to check the security systems. Michel Barnier, accompanied its counterparts to him.

Monday June 7th 2004

Tuesday June 8th 2004

  • Iraq: the Safety advice of the United Nations unanimously adopts a resolution on the passage of the authority of the troops of occupation to the temporary Iraqi authority.
  • France: the heart of the second wire and heir to Louis XVI (known as “Louis XVII”), authenticated by a Analysis DNA in 2000, was lodged with the tombs of his/her parents in the vault “of the Bourbons” of the Basilique Saint-Denis, during a ceremony organized by the Mémorial of France with Saint-Denys and chaired by the prince Louis de Bourbon, duke of Anjou, at the sides of his/her grandmother the princess Emmanuelle de Bourbon, duchess of Anjou and Segovia, in the absence of representative of the French Republic.
  • Transit of Venus between the Sun and the Ground. The last passage went up with 1882. Images and video on the site Sky and Space.
  • Iraq: the Otage S Italy NS removed there is nearly one month were released by the troops of the coalition.
  • Israel - Lebanon - Syria: in reprisals with the Israeli attacks of the day before, the Hezbollah launched rockets in the disputed zone of the Fermes of Chebaa.
  • Organization of the American States: she recognized the transitory government of Haiti directed by Boniface Alexandre. For it, the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide corresponds to a Démission.
  • Venezuela: the national Electoral commission fixed the date of the Référendum of recall of the President Hugo Chávez at the August 15th 2004. In the event of defeat of this last, a presidential election anticipated will be organized.

Wednesday June 9th 2004

Thursday June 10th 2004

Friday June 11th 2004

Saturday June 12th 2004

Sunday June 13rd 2004

  • European Union: The Socialists (European) lose the European elections 2004: the EPP obtains the first place with 247 to 277 seats. the PSE is second with obtains from 189 to 209 seats.
  • European Union: continuation of the European elections 2004. The France, the Belgium, the Spain and other countries still elect their representatives.
  • European Elections 2004 in France: The PS carries the French poll with 31 seats (against 22 outgoing). first estimates at 8 p.m. Went away: 57,5%. LO-LCR: 2,6%. PC: 5,1%. Greens: 7%. PS: 29,9%. UMP: 16,8%. UDF: 12%. MPF: 7,6%. RPF: 1,5%. FN: 10%. MNR: 0,3%. CPNT: 1,8%.

Monday June 14th 2004

  • French Polynesia: election of Oscar Temaru (independence) like chair French Polynesia by the Parliament of the territory. It replaces the UMP Gaston Flosse.
  • Bulgaria: the negotiations of adhesion to the European Union are finished. The country will adhere to January 1st 2007. A safeguard clause, in the event of non-observance of the commitments entered into, was negotiated and could push back the date of one year adhesion.

Tuesday June 15th 2004

  • France: No5el Mamère, deputy and mayor of Bègles, was suspended of its functions for one one month duration to have celebrated the Mariage of a homosexual couple the June 5th.
  • Sport, Basketball NBA: the Straits Pistons lead 3 matches to 1 in the final of league NBA what returns them to 1 match final victory.
  • France: agents of EDF - GDF continues their actions in all France to fight against the bill suggested in first reading with the National Assembly today and which projects the opening of the market of the electricity French to the Concurrence. Petition for the maintenance of the public statute of EDF-GDF.
  • France, Internet: the constitutional council today has just made two major modifications to the Loi on the digital economy (LEN). The first modification is the suppression of the term of limitation for the online press. The second is the modification of the responsibility for the FAI (suppliers of access to the Internet). Henceforth, their responsibility will be committed only if “the illicit character of denounced information is manifest or that a judge ordered the withdrawal of it”.
  • Sport, Euro 2004: the match disputed between the Netherlands and the Germany showed a null result (1-1), whereas the first meeting of this day saw to be essential the Czech Republic (2-1) vis-a-vis the Latvia.
  • the United States of America: the Convention Baptist of the south, larger Church Baptist of the country with more than 13 million faithful, leaves the Alliance world Baptist which it estimates too Libérale (acceptance of the women pastors and tolerance of the Homosexualité). This Schisme is the result of a procedure having begun in 1997.

Wednesday June 16th 2004

  • Strikes with EDF - GDF: Power cuts " targeted and of short durée" with the Elysium and in 7th, 8th and 16th districts.
  • Sport, Basketball NBA: the Strait Pistons gained this night their fourth title NBA while being essential in the fifth match which opposed them to the Los Angeles Lakers (100-87).
  • Literature: the voyage of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in the Dublin of Ulysses , the novel of James Joyce, is virtually hundred years old! Bloomsday will be celebrated in several cities of the world, more still this year than usually. In particular with Dublin, with public readings and the traditional walk with foot on the traces of the heroes.
  • the African countries celebrate like each year the Journée of the African child , the birthday day of the massacre of the children of Sharpeville in South Africa in 1976. Various demonstrations take place to think of the place of the children in the African companies.
  • Fine of the written tests of the general baccalaureat in France.

Thursday June 17th 2004

  • Benign: the Parliament approved the new code of the family, abolishing the Polygamie and the Lévirat
  • Football: Euro 2004, the France made tie against the Croatia, with a score of 2-2
  • Belgium, Affaire Dutroux: Marc Dutroux was recognized guilty of the majority of the counts of indictment.
  • France: the government signed an agreement with the distributers, Industrie ls and organizations agricultural for a fall of 2  % of the prices of the products of large Consumption in next September.
  • Portugal: Gary Norman, one to support British was condemned to two years of prison firm by a Portuguese court to be made guilty of acts of violence deliberated during the Euro 2004 on Football. The court estimated that Gary Norman was the leader of the confrontations which opposed several supporters to the Portuguese police force in the night of the 14 to the June 15th. It will be expelled towards the Great Britain to purge its sorrow there. Seven other British are expelled for the same reasons.
  • European Union: with the the European Parliament, PSE is combined and supported the right . The socialist Europeans refused alliance with Verts and federalists. Harlem Désir announced the rejection of alliance that proposed to them the group of the Greens and the new federalistic group founded by Francois Bayrou and Francesco Rutelli. Result: the EPP - FROM and the PSE concluded a “technical agreement” to be distributed the presidency of the Parliament for two years and half. The Parliament will be chaired by the British Terry Wynn, for the two following years and half member of the Labor Party, by the German Hans-Gert Pöttering. Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Francois Bayrou had proposed another option: a ticket between the French Socialist Michel Rocard and the Polish liberal Bronislaw Geremek, which would have made it possible to send the conservatives in the opposition. Harlem Désir considers that “would have scrambled the legibility of the elections: the Parliament is on the right, no alliance should not dissimulate this fact”. As well as the British members of the Labor Party, losers of the elections and against French socialism, will be with the head of the Parliament.
  • European Union: the European Popular party (right-hand side) proposed Chris Patten for the presidency of the European commission, declared the general secretary of the EPP, Antonio Lopez Isturiz (Spain).

Friday June 18th 2004

  • European Union: The heads of state and government of the 25 countries of the European Union, joined together with Brussels, found an agreement on the project of European Constitution.
  • Croatia - European Union: the European Council accepted the opening of negotiations of adhesion with Croatia. They will open in 2005; Croatia caught up with and exceeded the Turkey on the way of adhesion.
  • the United States: an independent commission makes feel guilty the government states-unien by saying that the attacks of the September 11th, 2001 could have been much more important (of approximately ten planes instead of four) and that the government deliberately misled the people states-unien on the relations between Al-Qaïda and the Iraq. George W. Bush will have thus to be explained in front of its fellow-citizens.
  • a new American hostage, Paul Johnson, was decapitated in Iraq by members of Al-Qaïda. A few hours later, the Saoudi authorities announced that the police force had killed the chief of the network in question in the death of Johnson, Abdel Aziz Al-Mouqrin.
  • Commemoration of the Call of June 18th 1940, launched by the General de Gaulle since London.
  • Disappearance in Alsace of the small Jeanne-Marie Kegelin, 10 years, of which the atrociously mutilated body will be found ten days afterwards. This drama and that of two other victims will boulversera the public opinion and will raise the question of the responsibility for the State in the handing-over of sorrow and the settings in parole the people known for their dangerosity. Pierre Bodein, the supposed assassin of the three victims of which some, after being violéés, were évicérées alive, had profited from handing-over of sorrow and was in parole at the time of the facts.

Saturday June 19th 2004

  • Iraq: Witnesses as of the hospital sources give a report on 22 Iraqi civilians killed at the time of a bombardment of the American forces with Falluja.

Sunday June 20th 2004

  • India and Pakistan: The two countries got along on a prolongation of the stop of nuclear tests and set up a hot line between the ministries for the foreign affairs to avoid misunderstandings which could start a nuclear Guerre.
  • Referenda on the municipal défusions with the Quebec. Except for Montreal and of Longueuil, the whole of the centers cities preserve the main part of the old cities with which they had amalgamated in 2002. In Montreal, fifteen cities will be reconstituted. The municipal authorities of Longueuil will have to find another town hall because the current building is located in the old town of Brossard which will be reconstituted following the example half of the eight sectors of the city.

Monday June 21st 2004

  • France: Jean-Marie Messier, former president of Vivendi Universal, was placed as a police custody within the framework of the investigation into stock exchange handling supposed under its presidency.
  • the Summer solstice is the occasion to celebrate the twenty-third edition of the Fête of the Music, founded in France in 1982 by Jack Lang and celebrated from now on in more than one hundred country through the world.
  • With 13:30 UTC, first successful attempt at private manned space flight, tried by the SpaceShipOne in the aerospace contest X-Prize.
  • France: Three antinuclear militants decided to begin a Jeûne at unlimited duration to ask for the stop of the nuclear program (André Larivière, Michel Bernard and Dominique Masset).

Tuesday June 22nd 2004

  • Russia: Raids carried out by rebels tchethenes in several localities of Ingouchie, this night, made forty-eight died, in particular among the forces of the ministry for the Interior of this republic located at the west of Chetchnia in war. Ingouchie was so far saved by the war.
  • France: a coach Morocco Ain had an accident on a10 highway, in the south of Poitiers, making eleven dead and thirty-nine wounded. According to the survivors, the driver lost the control of the vehicle after having tried to pass a heavy truck. It had been folded back then before the coach does not carry out a barrel above the rail of safety and is turned over on the side.

Wednesday June 23rd 2004

  • North Korea: The talks on the dismantling of the Nuclear program North-Korean started today and will finish saturdays June 26th with Beijing, join together both Korea S, the Japan, the China, the Russia and the the United States of America. The objective of this meeting is to find an exit with “the open crisis in October 2002, when the Americans affirmed that Pyongyang had taken again its nuclear program, in violation of the international agreements”. All the delegations want officially to arrive at an agreement.
  • Badajoz (Spain): alternate of Miguel Ángel Perera, Spanish Matador.

Thursday June 24th 2004

  • Sudan: the bombardments of the army and the raids of the militiamans would have made 320  000 died with the Darfur since the beginning of the year. The international community cannot from now on deny the existence of a genocide any more.
  • Iraq: simultaneous attacks with the car bomb took place this morning, with Mosul (northern of the country), targeting police stations and making at least forty died and sixty wounded. There would have been at least seven attacks and of the confrontations between the American forces and the armed insurrectionists who were held in the center of the city. In same time, with Bakouba, the north of Baghdad, insurrectionists tackled on several occasions the American forces and the Iraqi police force. Two American soldiers were killed and the confrontations continued during the remainder of the day. Similar attacks would have also taken place with Ramadi, with 100 kilometers in the west of Baghdad. There too, in fact police stations were aimed by the insurrectionists, who ran up against the American forces.
  • Iran: the eight British soldiers stopped Monday June 21st by the Guards of the Revolution after being entered by error Iranian territorial water were slackening and given to their embassy.
  • the United States: the Supreme court of the State of New York declares the procedure as regards capital punishment incompatible with the constitution of the State (stop The People v. LaValle - People against laValle).

Friday June 25th 2004

  • Iran: a tanker charged with gasoline exploded after an accident close to a checkpoint outside the town of Zahedan, in the south-east of the country. The Red Crescent estimates that there could be between fifty and two hundred dead. The last estimates count ninety dead.
  • World: the first Computer virus being propagated in the cell phones was detected a few days ago by Kaspersky (company of computer security Russian). Cabir is transmitted via the system Bluetooth (technology allowing to transfer from the data thanks to the radio waves). It is not really “malicious” but it shows that the pirates can do it. It is a warning with the manufacturers of portables.

Saturday June 26th 2004

  • Euro 2004: the team of France of football is eliminated in quarterfinal by the team from Greece, after having carried out a championship of the nations considered mitigated per many sporting commentators.
  • Paris, homosexual: the annual walk of homosexual Parisian took place in Paris with, for claim, the equality of the rights to the marriage and the right to adopt children.
  • France: congress of the UMP. The members of the right party are invited to discuss defeats at the polls of spring 2004. Moreover, a conflict of influence will oppose to it the partisans of the Minister for the Economy and Finances Nicolas Sarkozy to the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and to the current president of the party Alain Juppe.
  • Israel - Palestine: the Israeli army announced to have killed several chiefs of Palestinian radical movements.
  • Israel - Palestine: “international day of support for the victims of tortures”. A demonstration is organized with Tel-Aviv by following associations: Amnesty International - Israel Section, the Public Committee Against Tortures in Israel, Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims off Torture in Ramallah, Defense for Children International /Palestine Section, the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. The watchword of the demonstration was torture: it will not stop, as long as one will not speak
about it

Sunday June 27th 2004

  • Turkey: George W. Bush, president of the the United States of America, arrived this Sunday at 15:15 (12. 15 GMT) at Istanbul, Turkey for the top of NATO of Monday 28 at Tuesday June 29th 2004. This displacement is the occasion of a first official visit of Bush US president in Turkey. With Ankara, Mr. Bush discussed with his counterpart Ahmet Necdet Sezer and the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan bilateral subjects and international subjects, of which the Iraq. Monday and Tuesday, 45 Heads of State or government, whose Mr. Bush, will assiteront at the top of NATO.
  • France, Nanterre: taguées inscriptions with characters racist and xenophobe were traced on Saturday night on a wall of the Mosquée of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). The prefect of the Hauts-de-Seine opened an investigation to identify the authors of this act.
  • France, Greenpeace: association launches a campaign of letters to EDF in which the French customers who wish it can announce that they are ready to change supplier if EDF launches the project EPR (with Gravelines or elsewhere).
  • France: about thirty demonstrators have been installed on the roof of the seat of the MEDEF, for Friday at 4 p.m. Several tens of people support them since the street. In front of the danger, no intervention was tried. The demonstrators claim the abrogation of the protocol Unedic of the June 26th.

Monday June 28th 2004

  • France: died at the 85 years age of a aneurysmal rupture of the journalist and man of television Georges de Caunes with La Rochelle.
  • Canada: federal legislative elections. With 2:22 UTC (22. 22 HAE), Radio-Canada announces that if the tendency is maintained, the Liberal party of Canada, directed by the very honourable Paul Martin, First outgoing minister, will form a government without however obtaining the absolute majority of the seats at the Parliament. Rare thing in the Canadian history, it is it tenth time (the sixth for the liberals), which a party obtains a majority of seats without to obtain the absolute majority.
  • Iraq: the powers occupying the country officially transferred sovereignty to the Iraqi temporary government directed by Iyad Allaoui.
  • France: the first two volumes of the Dictionnaire of the French Academy (ninth edition) are on line completely (of has to NR) and free. One can consult it with the following address: Dictionary of the French Academy, like on Atilf.
  • France: revaluation of SMIC of 5,8% announced for on July 1st 2004.
  • France, Television: died at the 82 years age of the man of television Marcel Jullian whereas it witnessed a reception, with the Closerie of the Lilacs to Paris.
  • the United States: The Supreme court of the United States hands down three judgments relating to the people held within the framework of the “war against terrorism”. Most important is Rasul v. Bush (Rasul against Bush). The vote is obtained by six votes against three (the liberal minority of the court, judges Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter and Stevens to which unite judge O' Connor, centrist whose votes are regularly decisive like in a concurrent opinion Kennedy judge, more preserving, against the three most preserving members of the Court, its president ( Chief Justice ) Rehnquist and judges Scalia and Thomas). Contradicting the county courts ( Short District ) and of call ( Circuit Runs Appeals off), he declares that the held people with Guantanamo can dispute their detention by a procedure of Habeas corpus . The Court did not come to a conclusion about the legality of detentions. She simply declared that the courts were to examine the requests on the bottom, rejecting the reasoning (founded in particular on the preceding Johnson v. Eisentrager dating from the Second world war) which had led them to declare these requests inadmissible. The stop Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (Hamdi against Rumsfeld), concerning detention in a prison of the marine of an American citizen captured in Afghanistan recognizes also the right to him to dispute its detention, two of the new judges (To refuel and Ginsburg) being in favor declaring it immediately illegal. The third stop Rumsfeld v. Padilla dismisses for a technical reason the action of Padilla, American citizen shown of the preparation of an attack and held him also under the dubious statute of “enemy combatant”. The ordinance of habeas corpus would have to be required of the opposition the military officer responsible for the detention of Padilla and not for the secretary to Rumsfeld defense. Padilla is thus invited to deposit a new request in front of the county courts. The text of the stops, in English, is available on the site of the Supreme court
  • Germany: the company Siemens AG announces the extension of the weekly duration of the work from 35 to 40 hours without pay rise. This in agreement with the trade unions of the company. In fact, the company threatened to delocalize the factories and thus to remove employment.

Tuesday June 29th 2004

Wednesday June 30th 2004

  • France: Strong Jean-Pierre, man of radio and Television, voice of the Stock Exchange in good number of newspapers, takes its retirement after 40 years of service.
  • France: Jean-Louis Borloo, minister for employment and social cohesion, announces its plan over 5 years having to allow the return to the use of a great number of people in precarious situation.
  • France: French the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin makes vote a law disputed on the one bank holiday suppression, Monday of Pentecost.
  • Israel: the judge Aharon Barak and the Supreme court of Israel estimated that the layout of the partition wall built by Israel in the West Bank must be modified on nearly about thirty kilometers because it carries a serious damage to some 35.000 Palestinians. Palestinian the Prime Minister, Ahmed Qorei has insufficient judge the only modification of the layout of this “barrier” that the Palestinians name “wall of the Apartheid”.
  • France: raise hotel SMIC of 11% (makes of them 5,8% like the SMIC basic and 5,2% on a proposal from the trade unions of hotel trade to revalorize work in the sector).
  • Israel: Michel Barnier, Foreign Minister of the French government in visit in Palestine has considered that the situation of Yasser Arafat, blocked by Israel in its general headquarter of Ramallah (the West Bank) for more than two years, “(could) not to last”. He as declared as “the personal situation in which he lives (...) is worthy (neither) for itself (nor) for the Palestinians whom he represents” after being himself maintained twice with the president the Palestinian Authority to the Moqata' has. He added “We consider that this situation should not last because he is the elected president and legitimates. Here is as the direction of the personal visit as I made him in the name of the French government to transmit to him this message of the president Jacques Chirac”.

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