The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Ann Miller, American actor and dancer ( d. 2004 )

* 1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – U. S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

* 1909 – Juliana of the Netherlands ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Jess Collins, American artist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.

* 2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

* 2004 – Paul Atkinson, British guitarist ( The Zombies ) ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

* 2004 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager ( b. 1952 )

* 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ( b. 1927 )

* 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.

* 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

* 1905 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal ( d. 2004 )

* 1926 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1946 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 2004 – Bob Murphy, American sportscaster ( b. 1924 )

* 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

* Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the militant Islamist group Hamas, was killed in a targeted killing in the Gaza Strip in an operation conducted by the Israeli Air Force on March 22, 2004.

Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin ( 1937 – 22 March 2004 ) ( ) was a founder of Hamas, an Islamist Palestinian paramilitary organization and political party.

Several kidnappings have been claimed by the Tawhid and Jihad ( The Unity of God and Holy War ) Islamist group, which changed its name to " Al-Qaeda in Iraq " in October 2004.

In the 2004 general election, Abdullah Badawi's first as prime minister, he delivered a landslide victory for his party's coalition National Front ( of which UMNO is the dominant party ) by winning 198 out of 220 seats in parliament and wresting control of the Terengganu state government from the Islamist opposition Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ), as well as coming close to capturing the traditional PAS stronghold of Kelantan.

In July 2006, Chechen militant Islamist Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, responsible for the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis that led to 129 civilian deaths and the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis that led to 385 deaths, was killed in the village of Ekazhevo, in Ingushetia.

In 2004, the conservative Islamist news agency Fars accused him of polygamous marriage and adultery, a charged denied by Mohajerani and his wife.

On May 18, 2004, Michael Rubin a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute ( AEI ) and an Expert at Wikistrat attacked Pachachi, claiming he had " supported the public execution of Baghdad Jews in 1969 " he also accused Pachachi of speaking " fondly of militant Sunni Islamist Muhammad Ayash al-Kubaisi.

Ezzedine Salim, (), also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed ( 1943-17 May 2004, عبدالزهرة عثمان محمد ), was an Iraqi politician, author, educator, Islamist theorist and one of the leading members of the Iraqi Dawaa Movement between 1980 and 2004.

Salim headed the Daawa al-Islamiyah (" Invitation to Islam ") party, an Islamist party officially being referred to ( in 2004 ) as Daawa Islamic Party.

Omar Bakri Muhammad ( ` Umar Bakrī Muḥammad ; born Omar Bakri Fostock in 1958 in Syria ) is an Islamist militant leader who was instrumental in developing Hizb ut-Tahrir in the United Kingdom before leaving the group and heading another Islamist organisation, Al-Muhajiroun, until its disbandment in 2004.

He was abducted and later beheaded according to a video released in May 2004 by Islamist militants in response to the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal involving the United States Army and Iraqi prisoners.

On May 11, 2004, the website of the militant Islamist group Muntada al-Ansar broadcast a video titled " Abu Musab al-Zarqawi shown slaughtering a Jewish-American ", which shows the Jewish-American citizen Nick Berg being decapitated.

The group, headed by Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, posted a video of a blindfolded Johnson on an Islamist website on June 15, 2004 and threatened to kill him unless all al-Qaeda prisoners were released from Saudi jails within 72 hours.

Apart from 1999 to 2004 where he lost his seat due to the Chinese disenchantment with DAP entering into a political pact with the Islamist PAS for the general elections, Lim represented various constituencies in four states:

* Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah is an Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group led by Adham Barzani ( cousin of Massoud Barzani ), founded in 1983 and disbanded in 2004.

On September 1, 2004, Beslan's Secondary School No. 1 was seized by a group of at least thirty-two Islamist terrorists related to the Second Chechen War.

" In an article published in a somewhat edited version on June 10, 2004 in the Jerusalem Post, much of which is a rehash of his November 18, 2003 article in National Review, Taheri writes " In this month's election for a new European Parliament, voters in several European Union countries, notably France and Britain, are offered common lists of Islamist and leftist candidates ... Europe's moribund extreme Left has found a new lease on life thanks to hundreds of young Muslim militants ..."

Izz El-Deen Sobhi Sheikh Khalil ( alternately Ezzeddine ) () ( circa 1962 / 1964-September 26, 2004 ), from the Shajaiyeh district of Gaza City, presently a Hamas stronghold, was a senior member of the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas when he was killed in an automobile booby trap on September 26, 2004, in the al-Zahera district of southern Damascus, Syria.

Fabrizio Quattrocchi ( 9 May 1968 – 14 April 2004 ) was an Italian security officer taken hostage by Islamist militants in Iraq, notable for his defiance of captors shortly before being killed.