2004

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Predicted Events:

• February - Prime Minister Jean Chretien has chosen to step down as Prime Minister of Canada this month.
• April 19 - Partial solar eclipse (Southern Africa)
• May 1 - expected enlargement of the European Union to include admission of further 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.
• June 8 - First solar transit of the planet Venus since 1882; the next one will occur in 2012.
• In July, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
• August 13 through August 29 - 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
• September 29 - the asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within 4 lunar distances of Earth.
• October 14 - Partial solar eclipse (North east Asia, North Pacific).
• November 2 - U.S. presidential election. George W. Bush will almost certainly be on the Republican ticket, but who will be on the Democratic ticket?