The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Ann Miller, American actor and dancer ( d. 2004 )

* 1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – U. S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

* 1909 – Juliana of the Netherlands ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Jess Collins, American artist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.

* 2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

* 2004 – Paul Atkinson, British guitarist ( The Zombies ) ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

* 2004 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager ( b. 1952 )

* 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ( b. 1927 )

* 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.

* 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

* 1905 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal ( d. 2004 )

* 1926 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1946 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 2004 – Bob Murphy, American sportscaster ( b. 1924 )

In February 2004, Facebook was launched.

Friendster was founded by computer programmer Jonathan Abrams and Rob Pazornik in 2002 before the creation, launch and adoption of MySpace ( 2003 ), Facebook ( 2004 ), and others.

He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, with a 10. 2 % stake acquired in 2004 for $ 500, 000, and sits on the company's board of directors.

In August 2004, Thiel made a $ 500, 000 angel investment in the social network Facebook for 10. 2 % of the company and joined Facebook's board.

The investment was originally in the form of a convertible note, to be converted to equity if Facebook reached 1. 5 million users by the end of 2004.

Facebook also had just launched in February 2004, a month before i2hub.

In August 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Adam D ' Angelo, and Sean Parker of Facebook launched a competing peer-to-peer file sharing service called Wirehog.

ConnectU had sued Facebook in early 2004.

It was created by Andrew McCollum, Mark Zuckerberg, Adam D ' Angelo, and Sean Parker during their development of The Facebook social networking website in Palo Alto in the summer and fall of 2004.

The complete Space Gypsy series ( 2004 – 2011 ) is available to download from the Official Space Gypsy Adventures Facebook site.

In Fall 2004, facing growing pressure from Facebook at Columbia, but sensing its superior product might still win out if it were able to expand as rapidly, CUCommunity relaunched as a national social working site, CampusNetwork.

Studies published in 2004 and 2007 show the combined frequency of M7a and N9b to be at least 28 % in Okinawans ( 7 / 50 M7a1, 6 / 50 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 50 N9b ), 17. 6 % in Ainus ( 8 / 51 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 51 N9b ), and 10 % ( 97 / 1312 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 1312 M7a1, 28 / 1312 N9b ) to 17 % ( 15 / 100 M7a1, 2 / 100 M7a ( xM7a1 )) in mainstream Japanese.

Von Trier's use of sexually explicit images in The Idiots ( 1998 ) started a wave of arthouse mainstream films with unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( 1999 ), Baise-Moi ( 2000 ), Intimacy ( 2001 ), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny ( 2003 ) and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs ( 2004 ).

In 2004, May wrote that Oxford's poetry was " one man's contribution to the rhetorical mainstream of an evolving Elizabethan poetic " and challenged readers to distinguish any of it from " the output of his mediocre mid-century contemporaries ".

By 2004 the support for SLD in the polls had dropped from about 30 % to just below 10 %, and several high-ranking party members had been accused of taking part in high profile political scandals by the mainstream press ( most notably the Rywin affair: Rywin-gate ).

By 2004, shirts that exposed the belly button and low rise baggy cargo pants which debuted in the late 1990s, became mainstream.

He gained mainstream recognition and fame with the 2004 independent romantic comedy Sideways.

In 2004, he returned to the world of the Sandman with Sandman Presents: Thessaly: Witch for Hire, and 2006 saw the debut of the Vertigo-esque magical-but mainstream DCU title-Shadowpact and Fables companion series Jack of Fables.

Existing indie bands that were now able to enter the mainstream included more musically and emotionally complex bands including Modest Mouse ( whose 2004 album Good News for People Who Love Bad News reached the US top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award ), Bright Eyes ( who in 2004 had two singles at the top of the Billboard magazine Hot 100 Single Sales ) and Death Cab for Cutie ( whose 2005 album Plans debuted at number four in the US, remaining on the Billboard charts for nearly one year and achieving platinum status and a Grammy nomination ).

He gained mainstream fame as a wrestler in the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) from 1996 to 2004, and was the first third-generation superstar in the company's history.

However, laser mice did not enter the mainstream market until 2004, when Paul Machin at Logitech, in partnership with Agilent Technologies, introduced its MX 1000 laser mouse.

The group achieved notability in the underground hip hop community, although they have had little mainstream success in the US, with the exception of the song " This Way ", a 2004 collaboration with Kanye West, Xzibit, and John Legend appearing in the music video.

By the 2000s this fusion of ethno / dance / pop had crossed over to mainstream success in the contest, with entries like Turkey's " Everyway That I Can ", Ukraine's " Wild Dances ", Greece's " My Number One " and Norway's " Fairytale " winning in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2009.

Studies published in 2004 and 2007 show the combined frequency of M7a and N9b to be at least 28 % in Okinawans ( 7 / 50 M7a1, 6 / 50 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 50 N9b ), 17. 6 % in Ainus ( 8 / 51 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 51 N9b ), and 10 % to 17 % in mainstream Japanese.

The release of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft in 2004 and its subsequent huge success across the globe has forced both MMORPG and their secondary markets into mainstream consciousness, and many new market places have opened up during this time.

These models remained on sale until 2004, when the newer Cerato was launched and gave Kia one of its first serious competitors for mainstream brands.

Basinger appeared in the mainstream thrillers Cellular ( 2004 ) and The Sentinel ( 2006 ), but for the rest of the decade her appearances were in low-profile projects.

Attack of the Political Cartoonists, written by J. P. Trostle, was published in 2004 and includes profiles of 150 mainstream American and Canadian cartoonists.

A 2004 study by Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo asserted that Newsweek, along with all other mainstream news outlets except for Fox News and the Washington Times, exhibited a " liberal bias ".

Rush ( band ) | Rush, 2004 With the introduction in the mid 1970s of mainstream music on FM radio stations, where it was common practice to program extended performances, musicians were no longer limited to songs of three minutes ' duration as dictated by AM stations for decades.

Starting around the time of the 2004 Summer Olympics, there has been a movement in Taiwan to change all media references to the team to the " Taiwanese Team ", and the mainstream Taiwan Television ( TTV ) is one of the first Taiwanese media outlets to do so.

After success with viewing figures on BBC Two, the show was promoted to the more mainstream BBC One in 2004.

Both of those tracks ( performed by Usher and Ciara, respectively ) were the main mainstream hits of 2004.

After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European, Asian and African audiences.