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- Hurricane Charley, after battering Florida, heads for North Carolina and Virginia. Though still strong, Charley has been officially downgraded to a tropical storm.
- Czesław Miłosz, a prominent Polish poet who won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature dies at age 93 and in Kraków, Poland.
- The opening ceremony officially starts the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, heralding 16 days of competition.
- Freelance British journalist James Brandon is kidnapped in Basra, and then released after intervention by cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.