At A Glance
10 April 2004 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 10 April 2004 was a Saturday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Yeah!” by Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris.
- Top Film of 2004
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2004 was Shrek 2.
- Bestselling Novel of 2004
- “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2004.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2004–05 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 10 April is Aries.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 10 April 2004 fell in the Year of the Monkey.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for April is Diamond.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 10 April 2004 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 10 April
- 1972 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
- 1991 A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.
- 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
- 2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
- 2016 An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, impacting India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.
Famous people born on April 10
- Charlie Hunnam, English actor (born 1980)
- Daisy Ridley, English actress (born 1992)
- Haley Joel Osment, American actor (born 1988)
- Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1984)
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Events of 2004 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2004 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- January 11 – Drake & Josh premieres on Nickelodeon.
- February 4 – Mark Zuckerberg launches "TheFacebook", later renamed to Facebook, a social networking website for Harvard University students.
- April 28 – Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse is revealed on the television show 60 Minutes II.
Life in the US in 2004
President
George W. Bush
Gas (per gallon)
$1.88
Loaf of Bread
$1.20
Average House
$219,000
Weekly Wage
$618
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