History in 2004 May

By rrazawi

  • Yelwa massacre

    Yelwa massacre
    Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by

  • Friends

    Friends
    The season finale of the sitcom Friends airs

  • Chechen president

    Chechen president
    Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast

  • The Constitutional Court

    The Constitutional Court
    The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.

  • The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest

    The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest
    The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians

  • Massachusetts

    Massachusetts
    Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage

  • Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest

    Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest
    Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.