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Events on Monday 29 March 2004 1
2004NATO admits seven new membersAlliance expands into the former Eastern Bloc and Baltic statesBulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia formally joined NATO, the largest single enlargement of the alliance. It extended NATO's reach directly to the borders of Russia for the first time.