Events in the year 2004 in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

Incumbents

* Chief Executive:

Tung Chee-hwa Tung Chee-hwa (; born 7 July 1937) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July. He is currently a vice-chairman of the Chin ...

Events

April

* 2 April – Playhouse Disney (Hong Kong TV channel) is launched.

August

* 13 to 29 August – Hong Kong at the 2004 Summer Olympics

September

* 12 September -

2004 Hong Kong legislative election The 2004 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 12 September 2004 for members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). The election returned 30 members from directly elected geographical constituency, geographical constituenci ...

* 17 to 28 September - Hong Kong at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

October

* October - MC Jin, American son of Hong Kong immigrants, a rapper, songwriter, actor and comedian, releases his debut album, ''

The Rest Is History ''The Rest Is History'' is Jin's debut album. It was released on October 19, 2004. Background Originally titled ''Almost Famous'', the album was delayed for over a year. Originally slated for a Summer 2003 release it was pushed back to an Oct ...

''.

December

* 21 December - Ma On Shan rail line is opened.

Full date unknown

* Kelly Chen, Hong Kong female celebrity is awarded "The Outstanding Young Persons of the World" by the

Junior Chamber International Junior Chamber International, commonly referred to as JCI, is a non-profit international non-governmental organization of young people between and years old. It has members in about 124 countries, and regional or national organizations in mo ...

Deaths

May

* 1 May -

Wong Ker-lee Wong Ker-lee, (; 15 August 1910 – 1 May 2004) was a Fujianese Hong Kong businessman and politician. He was first Mayor of Taichung after the Chinese retrocession of Taiwan from 1946 to 1947 when he resigned for the February 28 Incident. After ...

, 93, Fujianese Hong Kong businessman and politician. (b. 1910)

June

* 11 June -

Joyce Symons Catherine Joyce Symons CBE JP (née Anderson; 18 August 1918 – 11 June 2004) was an educator, former teacher of the Diocesan Girls' School the leading girls' school in Hong Kong and its headmistress for 32 years. She was also a Member of the U ...

, 85, Hong Kong educator. (b. 1918)

July

* 16 July - John Park, 80, Hong Kong sailor (b. 1924)

November

* 24 November - James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author (b. 1941)

References

{{Year in Asia, 2004 Years of the 21st century in Hong Kong