The November 5, 2004 was a Friday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 309 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 Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 242 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, November 5, 2026, in 122 days. You have lived for 7,912 days, or about 189,892 hours, or about 11,393,538 minutes, or about 683,612,280 seconds.
Date: 05 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Viacom plans bid for stake in MarketWatch.com, financial news Web site, that it does not already own; company currently owns 22.3 percent of MarketWatch (S)
Date: 06 November 2004
By Anthony Ramirez
Anthony Ramirez
Metropolitan Transportation Authority pulls 118 billboards on its buses and subway cars when it learns that phrase on advertisement for Akademiks clothing designer was sexual innuendo; photo (M)
Date: 06 November 2004
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Citing a major Election Day poll that found ''moral values'' ranked at the top of the list of issues that swayed the national electorate, some news organizations have portrayed matters like same-sex marriage and abortion as the sleeper factors of a campaign fought mostly over war, jobs, health care and terrorism. Democrats have looked at the data as evidence that they desperately need to do a better job connecting with cultural traditionalists. Conservative groups have used the survey data to make a case that mainstream America agrees with the conservative agenda that Mr. Bush now claims a mandate to enact.
Date: 05 November 2004
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
New $10-million polling system used by many news organizations on Election Day had several problems that led to erroneous early impression that John Kerry was heading for victory; report by Joe Lenski and Warren Mitofsky details systemic glitches that skewed data, such as survey takers' inability to get close enough to polls, and fact that Kerry voters were more open to pollsters; system, set up after errors in 2000, was built by National Elections Pool, consortium of major networks and AP; Lenski says subscribers should have been made more aware of problems cropping up throughout day (M)
Date: 05 November 2004
By David E. Sanger
David Sanger
Pres Bush appears at first news conference after re-election in relaxed, almost jovial, mood rarely seen since Sept 11, 2001 and almost never since quick victory in Iraq gave way to urban chaos and rising casualties; most non-Texans have also never seen Bush after actual election win, when he no longer has to pretend to clear electoral mandate (M)
Date: 05 November 2004
By Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank Op-Ed article says Democrats contemplating smoking ruins of election have to grasp continuing power of culture wars that have been going on in nation since Richard Nixon championed 'silent majority' 36 years ago; finds Democrats still do not understand or confront 'values' complaint, trying instead to accommodate themselves to this or that constituency while conservatives talk about society in which we are all victims of haughty 'liberal' overclass in media, schools and courts; says Republicans have thus found way to speak for 'forgotten man' without causing any problems for their core big-business constituency; warns Democrats must confront cultural popularism of wedge issues with genuine economic populism, sharpening, not minimizing, distinctions (M
Date: 05 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Grain processor Archer Daniels Midland announces it is entering joint venture with Metabolix to develop new generation of plastics derived from corn and other renewable resources (S)
Date: 05 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Americold Realty Trust, joint venture of Vornado Realty Trust and Crescent Real Estate Equities, acquires AmeriCold Logistics for $47.7 million; companies will sell 20.7 percent of AmeriCold shares to Yucalpa Companies for $145 million (S)
Date: 06 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
KeyCorp, Ohio banking company, says NASD, securities industry regulatory body, might recommend disciplinary action aganist its McDonald Investments unit after internal review finds evidence of late trading in some of its mutual funds (S)
Date: 05 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dutch insurer Aegon sells maritime container leasing unit of Transamerica Finance Corp to TAL International Group, which is controlled by Jordan Co; sale price is $1.2 billion (S)
Date: 05 November 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ashland agrees to acquire Derakane plastics technology from Dow Chemical Co for $92 million (S)