The October 7, 2004 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♎. It was the 280 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 21 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 243 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, in 121 days. You have lived for 7,913 days, or about 189,921 hours, or about 11,395,270 minutes, or about 683,716,200 seconds.
Date: 08 October 2004
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News Corp agrees to measures that would limit Murdoch family's control over company in move to win support of investor groups who threatened to oppose company's plan to move to US from Australia (S)
Date: 08 October 2004
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Alcoa Inc's third-quarter profit rises 1.1 percent from a year earlier, to $283 million; sales rise 13 percent, to $5.98 billion (S)
Date: 08 October 2004
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Magnum Hunter Resources Inc, oil and natural gas producer, says company may be sold (S)
Date: 07 October 2004
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AaiPharma, developer of specialized pharmaceutical products, hires Rothschild to explore asset sales (S)
Date: 07 October 2004
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European Aeronautic, Defense & Space Co will buy Rascal Instruments Group, maker of testing equipment, for about $105 million from Thomas Weisel Partners and J F Lehman & Co (S)
Date: 08 October 2004
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Costco Wholesale Corp's fourth-quarter earnings rise 24 percent from a year earlier, to $296.8 million; sales rise 11 percent, to $14.8 billion (S)
Date: 08 October 2004
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Illinois Tool Works will not proceed with its bid for Linx Printing Technologies of Britain after Danaher Corp says it may offer 85.7 million pounds ($153 million) for company, 15 percent more than Illinois Tool offered (S)
Date: 07 October 2004
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Vector Group, holding company for cigarette makers Liggett Group and Vector Tobacco, will cut 465 jobs by Dec 15 because of falling sales (S)
Date: 08 October 2004
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MBIA Inc, bond insurer, says sales of new policies dropped at least 61 percent in third quarter as demand and prices fell (S)
Date: 08 October 2004
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Praxair Inc agrees to buy two pipelines and other German assets from Air Liquide for 498 million euros ($612 million) (S)
Date: 07 October 2004
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Mexican authorities, reversing themselves, approve Kansas City Southern's bid to buy Groupo TMM's 43 percent stake in Mexico's largest railroad, TFM, for $412 million in cash and stock; Kansas City Southern already owns 37 percent of railroad (S)