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- The opposition parties achieved majority in the legislative election in Taiwan, with the opposition pan-blue alliance garnering at least 114 of the 225 seats. The governing Democratic Progressive Party and its pan-green allies won 101 seats.
- Austrian doctors announce that Ukrainian opposition Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin.
- Gale-force winds damage the 738-foot Malaysian-flagged freighter Selendang Ayu, resulting in an oil spill off the coast of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. Concerns mount about the impact of the oil spill on the ecologically sensitive Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
- The twelve Nobel Prizes for 2004 are awarded in the Scandinavian cities of Stockholm and Oslo.
- Leaders from twelve South American nations sign the Cuzco Declaration, establishing a new European Union-like confederation called the South American Community of Nations.