20 juni 2004 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♊. Het was de 171e 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 vrijdag 20 juni 2025, 353 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zaterdag 20 juni 2026, in 11 dagen. Je hebt 8.023 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 192.557 uur, of ongeveer 11.553.447 minuten, of ongeveer 693.206.820 seconden.
Date: 21 June 2004
By Ian Austen
Ian Austen
Nielsen/NetRatings reports that 54 percent of American office workers visited news and current affairs Web sites during week of Pres Ronald Reagan's funeral; analyst says that Reagan's death had relatively little impact on Web traffic and that figure reflects tendency among Web users to visit news and current affairs sites when they are on the job
Date: 20 June 2004
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
British Prime Min Tony Blair, at monthly news conference, defends actions in Iraq; insists terrorism and weapons of mass destruction are greatest threat of 21st century; is facing revolt in liberal wing of Labor Party brought on not by failures of domestic policy but by Iraq policy; is also bedeviled by anti-European sentiment and Labor's poor showing in local and European parliamentary elections; Labor won only 19 of 78 seats available to Britain in European Parliament; photo (M)
Date: 20 June 2004
By Elizabeth Ahlin
Elizabeth Ahlin
San Mateo County, Calif, Superior Court Judge Alfred A Delucchi will issue subpoena to Peter Shaplen, who is overseeing pool news coverage of Scott Peterson's murder trial, for videotape allegedly showing conversation between juror and Brent Rocha, brother of Peterson's wife, Laci whom Peterson is charged with killing; encounter seems accidental and could have been casual, but judge must determine from tape if juror showed bias (M)
Date: 20 June 2004
By Joseph P. Fried
Joseph Fried
Following Up column: on deaths of police detectives Richard J Guerzon and Keith L Williams, who were shot to death on Queens highway in 1989 by prisoner they were driving back to jail; Jay Harrison had stolen gun from third detective's locker in Queens Borough Hall; jury agreed with families that New York City failed to provide safe workplace for detectives, but state high court found law inapplicable to 'special risks' faced by police; on Dr Gilbert Lederman, who is no longer director of radiation oncology at Staten Island Hospital, where lawsuit charged him with coercing dying George Harrison into signing autographs; Lederman is now with Cabrini Medical Center; photos (S)
Date: 20 June 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federal Judge U W Clemon sentences former HealthSouth Corp chief financial officer Michael D Martin to 60 months of probation; fines Martin $50,000 and orders him to forfeit nearly $2.4 million for his role in fraud at company; Martin implicated HealthSouth founder Richard M Scrushy, who was indicted in November (M)
Date: 21 June 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
FCC schedules auction of 234 radio-airwave licenses that were returned from NextWave Telecom and other companies and can be used for mobile telephone services and wireless Internet services; photo (M)
Date: 20 June 2004
INTERNATIONAL 3-16 Kurds Moving to Reclaim Lands Thousands of ethnic Kurds are pushing into lands formerly held by Iraqi Arabs, forcing tens of thousands of Arabs to flee to refugee camps and transforming the demographic and political map of northern Iraq. American officials fear that a mass migration could set off ethnic strife and political instability. 1 The American military carried out an air strike on a residential area in Falluja, firing missiles that killed at least 17 people, said residents and a doctor. An American general said the target of the assault was a terrorist safe house. 11
Date: 21 June 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Debate Over Value Of Guantánamo Prisoners Some officials are now saying that most of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are not dangerous or in possession of vital intelligence about Al Qaeda. Indeed, the evidence against many of them is so sparse that investigators have been able to deliver cases for military prosecution against only 15 people. A1 New Methods for Peace in Iraq Iraq's newly appointed government is considering imposing a state of emergency that could involve curfews and a ban on public demonstrations. Prime Minister Iyad Allawi made clear that he intended to act quickly and forcefully against the insurgency, using extraordinary methods if necessary. A1