Editing TIMELINE (section)

===August 2004===
* August 1 - A supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, kills about 400 and leaves over 100 missing.
* August 1 - A bomb attack occurs in front of Prague's Casino Royal.
* August 2 - Monday demonstrations against social cutbacks began in Germany.
* August 3 - The Statue of Liberty reopens after security improvements.
* August 4 - Gibraltar celebrates 300 years of British rule.
* August 6 - A United Nations report blaming the government of Sudan for crimes against humanity in Darfur is released.
* August 9 - Footballer Lee Hughes, 28, is sentenced to 6 years in prison and banned from driving for 10 years after being found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving. Hughes also has his contract terminated by his employers West Bromwich Albion.
* August 12 - Singapore's prime minister Goh Chok Tong hands over his position to Lee Hsien Loong.
* August 12 - New Jersey Governor James McGreevey announces that he is "a gay American" and will resign effective November 15, 2004.
* August 13-August 29 - The 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens, Greece.
* August 13 - Hurricane Charley kills 27 people in Florida after killing 4 in Cuba and 1 in Jamaica. Charley made landfall near Cayo Costa, FL as a Category 4 hurricane. Charley is the most intense hurricane to strike the United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
* August 16 - Severe flooding occurs in the village of Boscastle in Cornwall.
* August 18 - In Dublin, Ireland, the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works are completed and the final tunnel boring machine breakthrough ceremony takes place.
* August 20 - Elbegdorj Tsakhia, the peaceful democratic revolutionary leader of Mongolia, becomes Prime Minister of Mongolia for the second time.
* August 21 - A series of blasts rocks an opposition party rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing at least 13 people.
* August 22 - Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
* August 24 - Two airliners in Russia, carrying a total of 89 passengers, crash within minutes of each other after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, leaving no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.
* August 29 - Around 200,000 protesters demonstrate in New York City against U.S. President George W. Bush and his government, ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention.
* August 29 - Michael Schumacher wins a record seventh world championship title by finishing second in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.
* August 30 - September 2 - U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are renominated at the Republican National Convention in New York City.
* August 31 - Two suicide attacks on buses in Beer Sheva, Israel, kill at least 16 people and injure at least 60. Hamas claims responsibility for the attacks.
* August 31 - A woman commits a suicide attack near a subway station in northern Moscow, Russia, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 50. Authorities hold Chechen rebels responsible.