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

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

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was again convicted by a French court for " inciting racial hatred " and fined € 5, 000, the fourth such conviction and fine from a French court.

Bacardi acquired the Cazadores blue agave tequila brand in 2002 and in 2004 purchased Grey Goose, a French made vodka, from Sidney Frank for $ 2 billion.

* French forces: troops sent within the framework of Operation Unicorn and under UN mandate ( United Nations Operation in Côte d ' Ivoire ), 3000 men in February 2003 and 4600 in November 2004 ;

In 2004, following an air strikes on French peacekeepers by Ivorian forces, the French military destroyed all aircraft in the Air Force of Côte d ' Ivoire.

On 6 November 2004, at least one Ivorian Sukhoi Su-25 bomber attacked a French peacekeeping position in the rebel town of Bouaké at 1 pm, killing nine French soldiers and wounding 31.

According to a 2004 French study conducted by INSERM, cognitive behavioral therapy was the most effective therapy when compared with psychoanalysis and family or couples therapy.

* 1918 – Gérard Souzay, French baritone ( d. 2004 )

* Associate member parties may include parties that do not have MEPs ( e. g., French Trotskyist parties which did not get elected in the 2004 European elections ), are from states that are not part of the European Union, or do not wish to be full members.

Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs ( CFPF ) per US $ 1 – 95. 89 ( 2005 ), 96. 04 ( 2004 ), 105. 66 ( 2003 ), 126. 71 ( 2002 ), 133. 26 ( 2001 ), 117. 67 ( January 2000 ), 111. 93 ( 1999 ), 107. 25 ( 1998 ), 106. 11 ( 1997 ), 93. 00 ( 1996 ), 90. 75 ( 1995 ); note-linked at the exact official rate of 0. 055 French francs to one Pacifique franc.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

In June 2004, the United States Department of Agriculture, with the advisement of a federal district judge from Beaumont, Texas, classified batter-coated French fries as a vegetable under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

* 1917 – Odette Laure, French actress and singer ( d. 2004 )

On February 29, 2004, a coup d ' état ousted the popularly elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, allegedly with the assistance of the French and United States governments ; U. S. and French soldiers were on the ground in Haiti at the time, recently arrived ( See controversy ).

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* 1922 – Claude Helffer, French pianist ( d. 2004 )

* 1921 – Gérard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2004 )

* 1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher ( d. 2004 )

* Beidaihe, used as a seaside retreat by senior officials of the Communist Party of China until 2004

During this second term of office on the Commission, he was responsible for introducing new staff regulations for EU officials, a significant feature of which was substantial salary cuts for everyone employed after 1 May 2004, reduced pension prospects for many others, and gradually worsening employment conditions.

Similarly, the US Senate Intelligence Committee, while critical of US intelligence officials, did not recommend any resignations in its report, also issued in July 2004.

In 2004, Australia threatened to cut its aid to Vanuatu when then-Prime Minister Serge Vohor reappointed officials who had been dismissed after being charged with criminal activity.

Other former WorldCom officials charged with criminal penalties in relation to the company's financial misstatements include former CFO Scott Sullivan ( entered a guilty plea on March 2, 2004 to one count each of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and filing false statements ), former comptroller David Myers ( pleaded guilty to securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and filing false statements on September 27, 2002 ), former accounting director Buford Yates ( pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges on October 7, 2002 ), and former accounting managers Betty Vinson and Troy Normand ( both pleading guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud on October 10, 2002 ).

On February 16, 2004, Fonda led a march through Ciudad Juárez, with Sally Field, Eve Ensler, and other women, urging Mexico to provide sufficient resources to newly appointed officials helping investigate the murders of hundreds of women in the rough border city.

In 2004, Israeli officials met with Kurdish political leaders.

Although Jiang has been seldom seen in public since giving up his last official title in 2004, he was with Hu Jintao on stage at a ceremony celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, and toured the Military Museum of the Chinese Peoples Revolution with Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, and other former senior officials.

Most of the officials were elected in 2004 with Debra Ackerman being specially elected to replace Brian Hill.

The city also has a long history of recalls for elected officials, such as the mayor recall in 2004.

After many years of discussion between local and state officials, the decision was finally made in 2004 that the bridges should not be rebuilt.

NASCAR officials are using a template ( racing ) | template to inspect Casey Atwood's 2004 Nationwide Series car

According to a 2004 Human Rights Watch report, the North Korean government under Kim was " among the world's most repressive governments ", having up to 200, 000 political prisoners according to U. S. and South Korean officials, and no freedom of the press or religion, political opposition or equal education: " Virtually every aspect of political, social, and economic life is controlled by the government.

In a 2004 New York Times article, Brooks wrote that ; " There have been hundreds of references ... to Richard Perle's insidious power over administration policy, but I've been told by senior administration officials that he has had no significant meetings with Bush or Cheney since they assumed office.

The curse had been such a part of Boston culture that when a road sign on the city's busy Storrow Drive was vandalized from " Reverse Curve " to " Reverse The Curse ," officials left it in place until after the Red Sox won the 2004 Series.

" The stable cultivation in 2004 throws into doubt US officials ’ predictions of a major impact on US drug prices and purity ," commented John Walsh, WOLA Senior Associate for Drug Policy.

On July 14, 2004, the Iranian government rejected requests for Canadian government observers to attend the trial, despite promises and assurances by the Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and judiciary officials to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham.

As of October 2004, Inyo County officials seemed to be resisting the offer of the easement, perhaps due to the prior history of mistrust over LADWP actions.

On July 17, 2004, he submitted his resignation amid growing chaos in the Gaza Strip characterized by the kidnapping of Palestinian security officials, including the Chief of Police for the Gaza Strip and five Frenchmen.

On July 26, 2004, Sammartino met in Pittsburgh with Vince and WWE officials about doing a DVD release and providing commentary for WWE 24 / 7 Classics, but Sammartino would not agree to be a part of the current product.

In 2004, The Denver Post reported that that George W. Bush administration " has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.

On March 27, 2004, the provisional government banned Neptune from leaving the country, along with 36 other senior officials of the Aristide administration, in order to more easily investigate corruption allegations.

On March 16, 2004, at Waxman's request, the Committee on Government Reform Minority Office published " Iraq on the Record, the Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq " a detailed and searchable collection of 237 specific misleading statements made by Bush Administration officials about the threat posed by Iraq.

On February 25, 2004 Brown referred to the Bush administration policies on Haiti as " racist ", and called his representatives as a " bunch of white men " during a briefing on the Haiti crisis with senior State Department officials and several members of Congress.