Politics · November 2, 2004

2004 United States presidential election

Name: 2004 United States presidential election
Start: 2004-11-02
Location: United States

21 years ago · United States

21st anniversary

Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 2004. Incumbent Republican president George W.

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1795–1849

James K. Polk

James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of American expansionism and Jacksonian democracy.

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1865–1923

Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular presidents at the time of his death.

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b. 1965

Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan (pronounced; born as Shahrukh Khan on 2 November 1965), popularly known by the initials SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer renowned for his work in Hindi cinema.

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1755–1793

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette (Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the French monarchy in 1792 during the French Revolution.

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1917

Balfour Declaration

The Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917) was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority among an overwhelming Arab…

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1938

First Vienna Award

The First Vienna Award was a treaty signed on 2 November 1938 pursuant to the Vienna Arbitration, which took place at Vienna's Belvedere Palace. The arbitration and award were direct consequences of the previous month's Munich Agreement, which resulted in the partitioning of Czechoslovakia.

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Culture

1990

Transnistria War

The Transnistrian War (Romanian: Războiul din Transnistria; Russian: Война в Приднестровье, romanized: Voyna v Pridnestrovye) was an armed conflict that broke out on 2 November 1990 in Dubăsari between pro-separatist (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, PMR; Transnistria) forces, including the Transnistrian Republican…

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2020

2020 Vienna attacks

On 2 November 2020, a series of shootings took place in Vienna, Austria a few hours before the city was scheduled to enter a lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. A lone gunman started shooting in the busy city centre, killing four civilians and injuring 23 others, seven critically, including a police officer.

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