Being born under the Chinese Zodiac Sign Monkey people are the geniuses of the cycle with erratic behaviours. Skillful, clever with a flexible mind that leads to being very inventive and original in thought. Solving difficult problems is what they do. There are certain type of fields that do not suit Monkeys well because of their habit of beint too agreeable. Getting things done and doing them fast is a goal of every Monkey. But when things don't get started immediately or move along fast they get impatient and discouraged to the point of abandoning projects. Bad habbit wise Monkeys tend to look down on other people. Having strong common sense Monkeys make good decisions. They have a thirst for knowledge. Add to this am excellent memorie. Having a strong will in many life situatuins Monkeys anger disappears fast once they cooled down.
Astrology character and traits of Monkey sign: Intelligent, desire for knowledge, skillful, inventive, curious, daring, easily discouraged, strong willed and vain.
2004 Zodiac Sign Monkey Compatibility
Chinese Zodiac Signs are based upon a twelve year lunar cycle. Your zodiac animal sign is determined by your birthday year. If you were born in 2004 then your astrological sign is Monkey. There are twelve animal signs. Each animal has it's own attributes and personality traits the Chinese believe comprise the nature of each particular animal.
Best matches for Zodiac Sign Monkey are: Snake, Rat, Dragon
Bad matches for Zodiac Sign Monkey are: Tiger
Historical Events for the Year 2004
1st January Star Sign » In a Motion of no confidence vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College (Pakistan) Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elect
2nd January Star Sign » 'Stardust (spacecraft) called Stardust' successfully flies past Comet 81P/Wild or Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
3rd January Star Sign » Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
4th January Star Sign » Spirit rover e.g 'Spirit', a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 Coordinated Universal Time known as UTC.
4th January » Mikheil Saakashvili is Georgian presidential election, 2004 e.g elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
9th January Star Sign » An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants Karaburun tragedy stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula, Albania Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
14th January Star Sign » The national flag of The Republic of Georgia (country) e.g Georgia, the so-called "Flag of Georgia (country) called five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
26th January Star Sign » President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
26th January » A exploding whale or whale explodes in the town of Tainan City or Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
1st February Star Sign » Incidents during the Hajj Failures in crowd control e.g 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
4th February Star Sign » Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
5th February Star Sign » Rebellion or Rebels from the National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti known as Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
12th February Star Sign » The city of San Francisco San Francisco, California begins issuing San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
14th February Star Sign » In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal Park called Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
18th February Star Sign » Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer Nishapur train disaster named catches fire and explodes.
27th February Star Sign » The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
28th February Star Sign » Over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a convert 500 km mi adj=on long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
29th February Star Sign » Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup.
2nd March Star Sign » 2003 invasion of Iraq or War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
11th March Star Sign » 2004 Madrid train bombings or Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
17th March Star Sign » 2004 unrest in Kosovo known as Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox Church called Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
19th March Star Sign » Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. A total of 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
19th March » A Swedish Douglas DC-3 named DC-3 shot down by a Russian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 called MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
22nd March Star Sign » Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian people e.g 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 AGM-114 Hellfire or Hellfi
27th March Star Sign » HMS Scylla F71 6, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
29th March Star Sign » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
29th March » The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to smoking ban named ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
31st March Star Sign » Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being 31 March 2004 Fallujah ambush e.g ambushed.
2nd April Star Sign » Islamism called Islamist terrorism e.g terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted.
3rd April Star Sign » Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
6th April Star Sign » Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
8th April Star Sign » Darfur conflict: The April 8 Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement named Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
21st April Star Sign » Five suicide car bombers 21 April 2004 Basra bombings or target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.
22nd April Star Sign » Two fuel trains Ryongchon disaster named collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
29th April Star Sign » Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
29th April » Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
30th April Star Sign » U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
1st May Star Sign » Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the President of Ireland or Irish President in Dublin.
2nd May Star Sign » Yelwa massacre ended. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims attacked the Christians of Yelwa killing more than 78 Christians including at least 48 who were worshipping inside a church compound. More than 630 nomad Muslims were killed by Christian
6th May Star Sign » The The Last One (Friends) e.g series finale of the television sitcom Friends is aired on NBC. The finale attracts 52.46 million viewers, making it the List of most-watched television broadcasts called fourth most watched television series finale in U.S.
7th May Star Sign » American businessman Nick Berg is decapitation e.g beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
14th May Star Sign » The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President of South Korea e.g President Roh Moo-hyun.
17th May Star Sign » The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts First same-sex marriages or Massachusetts.
26th May Star Sign » United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
29th May Star Sign » The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2nd June Star Sign » Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the TV syndication e.g syndicated game show 'Jeopardy!'
6th June Star Sign » Tamil language named Tamil is established as a "Languages of India Official classical languages called classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
8th June Star Sign » The first Transit of Venus, 2004 called Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
11th June Star Sign » Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn Natural satellite known as moon Phoebe (moon) e.g Phoebe.
21st June Star Sign » 'SpaceShipOne' becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve Human spaceflight or spaceflight.
24th June Star Sign » In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
26th June Star Sign » Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson re-elected as President of Iceland.
28th June Star Sign » Sovereign power is handed to the Iraqi Interim Government named interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the United States named U.S.-led rule of that nation.
1st July Star Sign » Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
4th July Star Sign » The cornerstone of the One World Trade Center named Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
5th July Star Sign » The first Indonesian presidential election, 2004 named Indonesian presidential election is held.
1st August Star Sign » A Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire called supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
3rd August Star Sign » The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
13th August Star Sign » Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida, and devastates the surrounding area.
13th August » One hundred fifty-six Democratic Republic of the Congo e.g Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
17th August Star Sign » The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the Coat of arms of Serbia or coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
22nd August Star Sign » Versions of 'The Scream' and 'Madonna (Edvard Munch) known as Madonna', two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
24th August Star Sign » Eighty-nine passengers die after Russian aircraft bombings of August 2004 known as two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian R
1st September Star Sign » The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
3rd September Star Sign » Beslan school hostage crisis: Day 3: The Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children.
7th September Star Sign » Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
15th September Star Sign » National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces 2004–05 NHL lockout known as lockout of the NHL Players Association e.g players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
23rd September Star Sign » Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods.
29th September Star Sign » The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
29th September » The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry 'SpaceShipOne' performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
30th September Star Sign » The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
30th September » The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
4th October Star Sign » 'SpaceShipOne' wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
18th October Star Sign » Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
19th October Star Sign » Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
23rd October Star Sign » A powerful 2004 Chūetsu earthquake named earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
24th October Star Sign » Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United F.C. called Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
25th October Star Sign » Cuban President Fidel Castro announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
29th October Star Sign » The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
6th November Star Sign » An Ufton Nervet rail crash or express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
7th November Star Sign » Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
8th November Star Sign » 2003 invasion of Iraq e.g War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
11th November Star Sign » New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial (New Zealand) e.g National War Memorial, Wellington.
11th November » The PLO or Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
21st November Star Sign » The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth, Dominica called Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one
22nd November Star Sign » The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
23rd November Star Sign » The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia (country) or Georgia, is consecrated.
26th November Star Sign » Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
27th November Star Sign » Pope John Paul II returns the relics of John Chrysostom or Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
30th November Star Sign » Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
5th December Star Sign » The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom named civil partnership is registered there.
8th December Star Sign » The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cusco or Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
14th December Star Sign » The Millau Viaduct, the List of tallest bridges in the world or tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.
20th December Star Sign » A gang of thieves Northern Bank robbery e.g steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robbery or bank robberies in British histor
21st December Star Sign » Iraq War: A suicide attack e.g suicide bomber 2004 Forward Operating Base Marez bombing or killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
26th December Star Sign » A 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami known as 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,0
26th December » Orange Revolution: The final Ukrainian presidential election, 2004 or run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
27th December Star Sign » Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
30th December Star Sign » A fire in the República Cromañón nightclub fire named República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
31st December Star Sign » The official opening of Taipei 101, the List of tallest buildings and structures in the world tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of convert 509 m ft.