2004 in France
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Events from the year 2004 in France.
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[edit] Incumbents
- President - Jacques Chirac
- Prime Minister - Jean-Pierre Raffarin
- Interior Minister - Nicolas Sarkozy then Dominique de Villepin
- Finance Minister - Francis Mer then Nicolas Sarkozy
- Foreign Minister - Dominique de Villepin then Michel Barnier
[edit] Events
- 2 January - Flash Airlines Flight 604 headed for Cairo crashes into the Red Sea. All 148 people on board are killed, of whom more than 120 were French tourists.
- 30 January - Former Prime Minister and current Mayor of Bordeaux, Alain Juppe, is convicted of a party funding scam in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- 31 January - Air France and British Airways cancel five upcoming US flights to Washington DC and Miami, Florida amid fears of Al-Qaida.
- 10 February - The French National Assembly votes to pass a law banning religious items and clothing from schools.[1]
- 20 February - The insecticide Regent (fipronil), from BASF, is banned in France for its implication in Pollinator decline.
- 1 March - French troops are deployed to Haiti.
- 21 March–28 March - Regional elections held, in which the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin suffers a stunning and unprecedented defeat.[1]
- 5 April - Queen Elizabeth II begins a state visit to France in honour of the centennial of the Entente Cordiale. The following day, she addresses the French Senate.
- 22 April - The last coal mine in France closes, ending nearly 300 years of coal mining.
- 23 May - A section of the ceiling in Terminal 2E at Paris's Charles de Gaulle International Airport collapses, claiming at least 6 lives.
- 8 June - The pickled heart of Louis XVII of France is buried in the royal crypt at Saint-Denis.
- 13 June - European Parliament election in France.
- July - France released five of six suspects after their repatriation from Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.
- 26 September - Senate election held.
- 6 November - Clash between the armed forces of Côte d'Ivoire and French peacekeepers takes place (see: 2004 Ivorian-French violence).
- 14 December - The world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, is opened by President Jacques Chirac.
[edit] Arts and Literature
[edit] Sport
- 3 July - Tour de France begins.
- 4 July - French Grand Prix won by Michael Schumacher of Germany.
- 25 July - Tour de France ends, won by Lance Armstrong of the United States.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 8 January - Franck Ténot, press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic (b.1925).
- 22 January - Ticky Holgado, actor (b.1944).
- 18 February - Jean Rouch, filmmaker and anthropologist (b.1917).
- 21 February - Alex Métayer, comedian.
- 4 March - Claude Nougaro, singer and songwriter (b.1929).
- 28 March - Robert Merle, novelist (b.1908).
- 28 April - Patrick Berhault, mountain climber.
- 2 May - Paul Guimard, writer (b.1921).
- 3 August - Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer (b.1908).
- 17 August - Gérard Souzay, baritone (b.1918).
- 24 September - Françoise Sagan, playwright, novelist and screenwriter (b.1935).
- 8 October - Jacques Derrida, philosopher (b.1930).
- 27 October - Claude Helffer, pianist (b.1922).
- 31 December - Gérard Debreu, economist and mathematician, won 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (b.1921).
[edit] References
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 656–660. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
