6 oktober 2004 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♎. Het was de 279e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 21 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op maandag 6 oktober 2025, 245 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op dinsdag 6 oktober 2026, in 119 dagen. Je hebt 7.915 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 189.965 uur, of ongeveer 11.397.928 minuten, of ongeveer 683.875.680 seconden.
Date: 07 October 2004
By STACEY STOWE
Stacey STOWE
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says that Environmental Protection Department (Conn) employees Benedict Yorke and Erik Gothberg received special favors in form of home improvements from Earth Technology, which was given $1 million in state contracts (M)
Date: 07 October 2004
By DAMIEN CAVE and JOHN HOLL
Damien CAVE
Police shoot and kill Steven Gobillot during reported altercation when they find his parents Frederick and Jeanne Gobillot murdered in their Raritan Township (NJ) home; photo (M)
Date: 07 October 2004
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Sheryl STOLBERG
Profile of Rep Joel Hefley, Colorado Republican and chairman of House ethics committee who has presided over admonishment hearings of majority leader Tom Delay twice in same week; relationship between Hefley and DeLay described (M)
Date: 07 October 2004
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ; Randal C. Archibold reported from West Palm Beach, Raymond Hernandez from Tallahassee, Fla., and Katharine Q. Seelye contributed from Washington
Randal ARCHIBOLD
Vice Pres Dick Cheney and Sen John Edwards trade verbal shots as they campaign in Florida, effectively continuing their contentious debate; photos (M)
Date: 07 October 2004
By ERIC LIPTON
Eric LIPTON
Babar Ahmad, British citizen arrested in London at request of United States government, is indicted on charges of running Internet site supporting terrorist causes and arranging for purchase of gas masks, camouflage suits, night-vision goggles and other possible terrorist tools; indictment also alleges that he was in contact with Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, who was arrested by Pakistani authorities in July and who allegedly possessed surveillance information on financial centers in Nwe York, Washington and New Jersey (M)
Date: 07 October 2004
By STEPHEN LABATON
Stephen LABATON
Fannie Mae chairman and chief executive Franklin D Raines disputes charges by Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight that its senior executives manipulated accounting and earnings to get bigger bonuses, House subcommittee hearing; says regulators denied company fair hearing and waged unusually public campaign against it; says agency knew about one of key accounting issues for six years without comment; says he knew and approved of many accounting techniques at issue; table of top executives's salaries and bonuses; photo (M)
Date: 07 October 2004
By BILL CARTER and JEFF LEEDS
Bill CARTER
Howard Stern, popular radio personality, says he is moving from commercial broadcast radio to Sirius Satellite Radio to escape oversight of Federal Communications Commission, which has fined him hundreds of thousands of dollars for his on-air sexual and scatological references; listeners will have to pay $12.95 a month to hear him; deal is risky bet by Sirius that addition of Stern will help concept of pay radio gain national acceptance; it is blow to Viacom, whose struggling Infinity broadcasting unit produces and syndicates his show; when Stern moves to Sirius in Jan 2006, he will trade his regular audience of 12 million people for Sirius's 600,000 current listeners; photos (M)
Date: 07 October 2004
By Shaila K. Dewan (NYT); Compiled by George James
Shaila Dewan
Police are looking for leads in beating of 15-year-old Christopher Clive Osbourne in Bronx (NYC); photo (S)
Date: 07 October 2004
By ANNE EISENBERG
Anne EISENBERG
What's Next column on knee brace developed at Northeastern University that provides help for people rehabilitating after knee injuries; device is adaptation of standard knee brace and imitates job of large machines used for training and rehab in gym; researchers are exploring taking device into clinical trials; drawing (M)
Date: 07 October 2004
Police Comr Edgar Hillary of Swaziland is detained in Atlanta for several hours because he lacked proper transit visa; was en route to Mexico for Interpol General Assembly; Interpol's secretary general Ronald K Noble says several top police officials from other countries ran into similar problems at US airports because of new visa rules intended to thwart terrorists from entering country (M)