Unix Timestamp: 1084665600
Sunday, May 16. 2004, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage, in compliance with a ruling from the state's Supreme Judicial Court ("Goodridge v. Department of Public Health").

Ezzedine Salim, holder of the rotating leadership of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, is killed in a bomb blast in Baghdad.

A coup d'état in Chad against PresidentIdriss Déby fails.