Portal:Current events/2004 January 22
January 22, 2004 (Thursday)
- Mars Exploration Rover Mission: MER-A Spirit rover stops transmitting meaningful data and has thought to have gone into safe mode. The cause of this is unknown but the rover is still able to send back a simple acknowledgement tone.[1]
- Staff members of the United States Republican Party are accused of infiltrating Democratic Party computers and making copies of confidential files stored on the compromised computers. The infiltrations reportedly began in early 2002.[2]
- Maher Arar sues the United States government for having deported him to Syria and not Canada, his country of citizenship. He was reportedly tortured in Syria.[3]
- Enron Corporation: Richard Causey, former chief accounting officer was indicted in Houston, Texas, on federal charges of securities fraud and conspiracy for his role in masking Enron's faltering fiscal health in late 2001. He has pled not guilty.[4]
- Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper resumes publishing.[5]
- ^ "Spaceflight Now - Destination Mars - Mission Status Center". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Infiltration of files seen as extensive". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-12-01. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
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- ^ "Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines". Yahoo News. Retrieved 22 December 2015.