In summer 2004, viewers of YLE ( the Finnish Broadcasting Company ) placed Torvalds 16th in the network's 100 Greatest Finns.

The Finnish President also made a speech to the National Assembly of Nicaragua on 31 May 2004.

Following an interview in the monthly supplement of Helsingin Sanomat, Lynn's coauthor Tatu Vanhanen, a political scientist and father of the Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen, was investigated by the Finnish police between 2002 and 2004.

In 2004 the Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen and Boston Camerata music director Joel Cohen created a live performance work with dance and music entitled " Borrowed Light.

Euro gold and silver commemorative coins ( Finland )# 2004 coinage | Tove Jansson and Finnish Children's Culture commemorative coin

Tove Jansson was selected as the main motif in a recent Finnish commemorative coin, the € 10 Tove Jansson and Finnish Children's Culture commemorative coin, minted in 2004.

* Finnish — Tuomela, Tapio: Pierrot: Quintet No. 2 for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano ( 2004 ).

* Nea ( given name ), the 8th most popular Finnish girls ' name in 2004.

* Finnish rock band Nightwish released the song " Nemo " on their 2004 release Once.

Euro gold and silver commemorative coins ( Finland )# 2004 coinage | Johan Ludvig Runeberg and Finnish Poetry commemorative coin

* Johan Ludvig Runeberg was selected as the main motif in a recent Finnish commemorative coin, celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth, the € 10 Johan Ludvig Runeberg and Finnish Poetry commemorative coin, minted in 2004.

Albert Edelfelt was selected as the main motif in a recent Finnish commemorative coin celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, the € 100 Albert Edelfelt and painting commemorative coin, minted in 2004.

Taisto Kalevi Sorsa ( December 21, 1930 – January 16, 2004 ) was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972 – 1975, 1977 – 1979, 1982 – 1983 and 1983 – 1987 and at the date of his death still held the Finnish record of most days of incumbency as prime minister.

Home's skinhead looks and attitude on official photographs of the mid-nineties are merely publicity poses, and recently he has been much more inclined to appear nude in publicity material ( this started after Home consented to appear in a nude celebrity feature for a Finnish newspaper in 2004 ); and this nudity is something that offends just as much as Home's earlier faked ' hard man ' looks.

The Finnish Hard Dance scene has also gained some following, primarily due to Helsinki based DJ Proteus winning the title of Best DJ at The Hard Dance Awards in 2004 and 2005.

In 2004, Finnish melodic metal band Nightwish released Once on Nuclear Blast, which rocketed to the top of the charts in multiple countries, including Finland, Germany, Norway, Greece, Sweden, Austria, and more.

Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali (), in media previously known as the Cuban-Swede (), is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba between January 2002 and July 2004.

Royal Comics Syndicate is a Finnish comics syndicate founded in 2004.

Scotto's director credits include: Madama Butterfly ( Metropolitan Opera, Arena di Verona, Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Opera ); Bellini's Il pirata ( Festival Belliniano, Catania, 1993 ) and La sonnambula ( Catania, 1994 ); an Emmy Award-winning telecast of La traviata ( New York City Opera, 1995 ); Norma ( Finnish National Opera ); Adriana Lecouvreur ( Santiago, 2002 ); Lucia di Lammermoor ( Music Hall of Thessaloniki, 2004 ); La Wally ( Dallas, Bern ); La Bohème ( Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2007 and Palm Beach Opera, 2009 ); Turandot ( Athens, 2009 ); La sonnambula ( Miami and Michigan Opera Theatre, 2008 ), and Un ballo in maschera, ( Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2010 ).

* 1951 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic ( d. 2004 )

Rabbi Steinsaltz accepted the position as Nasi ( President ) of the 2004 attempt to revive the Sanhedrin.

This version of the script logo has been on the front of the away jerseys since 2001 and the home ones since 2004. The Orioles began the 2008 season in a rebuilding mode under President of Baseball Operations Andy MacPhail.

After his death, the Looney Tunes cartoon Daffy Duck for President, based on the book that Jones had written and using Jones ' style for the characters, originally scheduled to be released in 2000, was released in 2004 as part of disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD set.

Dick Brass, a Vice President at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, complained that the company was slow in moving ClearType to market in the portable computing field.

In 2004 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in recognition of her distinguished service to the country.

In 2004, President Chen Shui-bian was re-elected by a narrow margin following a controversial assassination attempt on him and the Vice President Annette Lu only hours before the election.

A bare majority of Congress, acting in a special session called by former President Lucio Gutiérrez in December, 2004, ousted 27 of the 31 justices and replaced them with new members chosen by Congress, notwithstanding the lack of any provisions permitting impeachment of Supreme Court justices by Congress and the specific provisions giving the Court the power to select new members.

Following the 2004 Summer Olympics, President Romano Prodi pointed out that the combined medal total of the European Union was far greater than that of any other country and called for EU athletes to fly the European flag at the following games alongside their own as a sign of solidarity ( which did not happen ).

* 2004 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup.

* 1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2004, Fine Gael supported the re-election of President Mary McAleese.

This was followed by a visit to the White House by President Bongo in May 2004.

His final film to date was Welcome to Mooseport ( 2004 ), a comedy with Ray Romano, in which Hackman portrayed a former President of the United States.

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

Immediately after 21 April 2004 these troops were withdrawn by President Ricardo Maduro in the wake of a similar decision by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

President of Afghanistan | Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaking before United States Congress | U. S. Congress in June 2004

In the March 2004 elections, PASOK was defeated by New Democracy, led by Kostas Karamanlis, the nephew of the former President.

Relations between Indonesia and the U. S. are positive and have advanced since the election of President Yudhoyono in October 2004.

He was President of Germany from 1 July 1999 until 30 June 2004, and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998.

* 2004 – President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.

* 2004 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J.