On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
State government is in disarray as New York Gov George E Pataki is poised to become bigger player on national stage; he has been finding it harder in recent years to get his way with Legislature and blames Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for legislative inaction; several analysts say mess in Albany is not likely to tarnish Pataki's national reputation; photo (M)
US economy faces new economic dynamic as Federal Reserve prepares to raise short-term interest rates by expected quarter-point at June 30 meeting and keep up slow and steady pace of increases for months on end; rising rates may expose problems that were papered over by benefits of ever-cheaper credit; option of decent return on safe investmentment may lead to exodus from risker ones; rising rates will also reduce additional cash many households have been able to get by refinancing their mortgages, and higher monthly payments facing millions of families with adjustable rate mortgages may force them to cut back elsewhere in budget; photo; graph (M)
gambling on w
Article on major change in taste of art collectors witnessed during week of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions in London; buyers' focus has shifted from 19th century toward classic modern and contemporary art, with prices soaring for works by masters like Egon Schiele, Jean Michel Basquiat and Francis Bacon; great Impressionistic works are becoming scarcer and majority of current buyers are neither willing to spend upwards of $10 million on painting nor interested in hanging bucolic landscapes or still lifes on their walls; photos (M)
Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column discusses changing culture at Wimbledon, which young tennis player Taylor Dent is helping to push along by insisting on playing serve-and-volley style of game (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 23, 2004, covering June 28, 2004.
Velvet Revolver
Usher
Avril Lavigne
Gretchen Wilson
Prince
2004Anthony Buckeridge, English author (born 1912)[†]
Anthony Malcolm Buckeridge was an English author, best known for his Jennings and Rex Milligan series of children's books. He also wrote the 1953 children's book A Funny Thing Happened which was serialised more than once on Children's Hour.
2004Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.[†]
The Iraq War, also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict persisted as an insurgency arose against coalition forces and the newly established Iraqi government. US forces were officially withdrawn in 2011. In 2014, the US became re-engaged in Iraq, leading a new coalition under Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, as the conflict evolved into the ongoing Islamic State insurgency.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]