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* 2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
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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 and Mikheil
On January 4, 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the United National Movement won the country's presidential election and was inaugurated on January 25.
In June 2004, the new Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, became the first Georgian politician to have visited the Iranian Georgian community in Fereydunshahr.
On 4 January 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili won the presidential elections in Georgia with more than 96 % of the votes cast, making him the youngest national president in Europe.
She has served as the acting head of state of Georgia twice ; the first time from 23 November 2003 to 25 January 2004 in the wake of Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation during the Rose Revolution, and again from 25 November 2007 to 20 January 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili stepped down to rerun in the early presidential elections.
After Nino Burjanadze ’ s brief tenure as an Acting President, Mikheil Saakashvili was elected on January 4, 2004.
In 2004, following the Rose Revolution of November 2003, newly elected Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, who vowed to resolve the conflict with the breakaway region of Abkhazia solely by peaceful means, disarmed groups of Megrelians who tried to fight a guerrilla war against the Abkhazians by incursions from Samegrelo.
On April 19, 2004, Tchiaberashvili became Mayor of Tbilisi — the capital of Georgia — still an appointive office at that time, after President Mikheil Saakashvili dismissed Mayor Ivane Zodelava.
* Irakli Okruashvili, Defense Minister of Georgia from 2004 to 2006 and a personal friend of Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili.
Irakli Okruashvili () ( born 6 November 1973 ) is a Georgian politician who had served on various important posts in the Government of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili, including being the Minister of Defense from December 2004 until being dismissed in November 2006.
On September 28, 2004, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili appointed Alasania as chairman of the Tbilisi-based Abkhazian government-in-exile.
Nevertheless, Adjara took part in the Georgian presidential elections of January 4, 2004, won by Mikheil Saakashvili.
2004 and Saakashvili
Involved in national politics since 1995, he became president on 25 January 2004 after President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned in the November 2003 bloodless " Rose Revolution " led by Saakashvili and his political allies, Nino Burjanadze and Zurab Zhvania.
Saakashvili was sworn in as President in Tbilisi on 25 January 2004.
In 2004, Saakashvili visited Israel to attend the official opening of the Modern Energy Problems Research Center, and Dr. Brenda Schaffer, the director of the center, described Saakashvili as the Nelson Mandela of the 21st century.
* BBC News Online profile of Mikhail Saakashvili ( 2004 )
On 4 January 2004, Mikhail Saakashvili won the pre-term presidential elections in with an overwhelming majority.
Zhvania himself became a minister in the transitional government prior to fresh presidential elections held on 4 January 2004, which were won by Saakashvili.
After the fall of Shevardnadze, the party joined forces with the United Democrats and the Union of National Solidarity to promote Saakashvili as the principal opposition candidate in the presidential elections of January 4, 2004, which he won by an overwhelming majority.
On January 25, 2004 Abashidze met the newly-elected President Mikhail Saakashvili in Batumi and declared his intention to work with Saakashvili.
In mid-March 2004, a motorcade carrying Saakashvili to planned political events in Ajaria ahead of the March 28 Georgian legislative elections, was turned back by Ajarian border guards.
New elections were ordered following the resignation of Shevardnadze and the election of President Mikhail Saakashvili in January 2004.
In June 2004, shortly before a visit by the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to Israel, a fresco of the legendary Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli on a column inside the church was defaced by unknown individuals.
Mikhail Saakashvili President of Georgia nominated her as Foreign Minister in his new government and Zourabichvili was the first female to be appointed to this post in Georgia on 18 March 2004.
On January 26, 2004, the newly elected President Mikhail Saakashvili officially rehabilitated Gamsakhurdia to resolve the lingering political effects of his overthrow in an effort to " put an end to disunity in our society ", as Saakashvili put it.
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