ABSTRACT
In 2004, Facebook was started by Mark Zuckerberg and other Harvard students. A coup d’état in Haiti ousted Jean-Baptiste Aristide from the presidency. NASA scientists announced findings that that seemed to indicate that water was once present on Mars. In the Darfur conflict, the Sudanese government signed a ceasefire with rebel groups. Ten new member states were welcomed into the European Union in the largest ever expansion of the organization. Massachusetts was the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage. North Korea banned cellular phones. The trial against Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity and other crimes began. Demanding independence from Russia and the release of some prisoners, Chechen rebels took over 1,000 people hostage in what became known as the Beslan school hostage crisis.
