The September 1, 2004 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 244 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 Monday, September 1, 2025, 307 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, in 57 days. You have lived for 7,977 days, or about 191,463 hours, or about 11,487,837 minutes, or about 689,270,220 seconds.
Date: 02 September 2004
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Fox News cable channel is bigger draw for viewers of Republican National Convention than three networks; it is first time Fox beats all other news outlets for coverage of major news event; CNN falls to last place; Fox executives deny that coverage has Republican slant and reject that as reason for high ratings; graph (M)
Date: 01 September 2004
Schedule of speakers and events at Republican National Convention, including television and Internet listings (M)
Date: 02 September 2004
Schedule of days's speakers and events at Republican National Convention; includes television and Internet listings (M)
Date: 01 September 2004
By Elaine Sciolino
Elaine Sciolino
France steps up diplomatic efforts to win release of two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq, but refuses to give in to demand to rescind new law banning Islamic head scarves and other religious symbols from public schools; Pres Jacques Chirac affirms French law, news conference in Sochi during meeting with Russian Pres Vladimir Putin and Chancellor Gerhard Schroder; kidnappings have shattered French belief in their protection from terrorism related to Iraq because of antiwar position (M)
Date: 02 September 2004
By Michael Slackman and Diane Cardwell
Michael Slackman
Angry demonstrators have barely interrupted Republican National Convention, and because there has been little violence they have drawn relatively little national news coverage; nearly 1,800 protesters are arrested on streets, two-thirds of them on second night of convention; New York Police Dept, using large orange nets to divide and conquer, have adopted pre-emptive strike policy, cutting off demonstrations before they grow large enough, loud enough, or unruly enough to affect convention; demonstrations have so far been more restrained than at many recent protests elsewhere; protesters do manage to breach security cordon at Madison Square Garden twice on Sept 1; early in day, 12 demonstrators from Act Up enter convention site and interrupt speech by White House chief of staff Andrew Card; they are quickly arrested; during Vice Pres Cheney's speech, woman rushes convention floor; she is quickly tackled and dragged out (M)
Date: 02 September 2004
By Lee Jenkins
Lee Jenkins
New York Mets outfielder Cliff Floyd has become one of team's most open and honest players in interaction with media; is often only player willing to address hard questions after tough losses (M)
Date: 01 September 2004
Editorial lauds major French Islamic groups and political opposition for rallying behind government's defiance of Iraqi kidnappers who seized two French journalists last month and demanded tht France revoke its ban on wearing of Islamic head scarves in state schools; argues that head-scarf ban may be ill conceived and discriminatory, but holds French education policy should not be set by terrorists; notes Islamic leaders in France are forcefully making that point,
Date: 02 September 2004
Illinois Republican Senate candidate Alan Keyes tells radio reporter at Republican National Convention that gays and lesbians are 'selfish hedonists,' including Mary Cheney, Vice Pres Dick Cheney's daughter who has come out as lesbian (S)
Date: 02 September 2004
By Edward Wyatt
Edward Wyatt
Conservative authors and commentators, attending forum in Manhattan sponsored by American Compass, direct-mail book club specializing in conservative viewpoints, deplore lack of attention being paid to their point of view; authors, alleging liberal conspiracy, say they have been forced to turn to little-known alternative publishers; chart; photos (M)
Date: 02 September 2004
By Douglas Martin
Douglas Martin
Carl E Morris, former newspaper reporter and editor who then held several influential posts as advocate for hiring black journalists, dies at age 73 (S)