Montana became the 41st state to join the United States of America.
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Two hundred bodies were found in a mass grave site between Ethiopia and Somalia.
Category five Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines and claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people with gusts up to 145 miles per hour.
Canadian country singer Shania Twain released her Greatest Hits album and later received Billboard's 2004 Album of the Year.
French master chef Vincent La Chapelle formed a Freemason’s Lodge in the Netherlands.
Asteroid 2005 YU55 came dangerously close to hitting the Earth.
