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January
* January 1 - Pervez Musharraf wins a vote of confidence from an electoral college consisting of Parliament and the provincial assemblies, confirming him as President of Pakistan and de facto dictator until 2007.
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January 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
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January 4 - Mikhail Saakashvili wins the presidential elections in Georgia.
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January 4 - NASA's MER-A (Spirit) lands on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
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January 8 - Queen Elizabeth II christens the RMS Queen Mary 2 cruise liner,
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January 13 - Serial killer Harold Shipman is found hanged in his cell at Wakefield Prison, 4 years after being convicted of murdering 15 patients in Cheshire, England.
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January 19 - U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) wins the Iowa Democratic caucus. Vermont Governor Howard Dean's concession speech ends with a lively but controversial scream.
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January 24 - NASA's MER-B (Opportunity) lands on Mars at 05:05 UTC.
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