On 26 December 2004, the coast of the Andaman Islands was devastated by a high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

* 1928 – Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer ( d. 2004 )

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

* Other 9. 6 % ( Includes Indian and mixed ) ( 2004 Census )

Since the establishment of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba in 1959, the country has sent more than 52, 000 medical workers abroad to work in needy countries, including countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

* 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

* 2004 – A 9. 3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230, 000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.

The island was somewhat affected by the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Diego Garcia was the site of several naval exercises between the US and Indian navies held between 2001 and 2004.

* 2004 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist ( b. 1925 )

In an Indian hospital between 2004 and 2005, 4 of 24 endocarditis patients failed to demonstrate classic vegetatations.

The ten largest recorded earthquakes have all been megathrust earthquakes ; however, of these ten, only the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is simultaneously one of the deadliest earthquakes in history.

In 2004, Indian elections covered an electorate larger than 670 million people — over twice that of the next largest, the European Parliament elections — and declared expenditure has trebled since 1989 to almost $ 300 million, using more than 1 million electronic voting machines.

On 26 December 2004, the countries surrounding the Indian Ocean were hit by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

The 2004 Indian elections saw the INC winning the largest number of seats to form a government leading the United Progressive Alliance, and supported by left-parties and those opposed to the BJP.

* 1934 – Vijay Anand, Indian filmmaker and director ( d. 2004 )

* 1926 – Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer ( d. 2004 )

According to research, the vulture population has undergone a sharp decline on the Indian subcontinent, 95 % decline in 2004, 99. 9 % decline as of 2008 due to the use of diclofenac in animals.

* 1915 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer ( d. 2004 )

9 submarine cables ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( 1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean ), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions ) ( 2004 )

* Zapata: El sueño de un héroe ( 2004 ) director, writer

* 1934 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – José Giovanni, French-Swiss writer and director ( b. 1923 )

More problematic is that between 2004 and 2006 he was an executive director of a lobbying company Dutko Worldwide Prague.

In 2004, Science Fiction magazine Strange Horizons named him the 2nd greatest director in the history of the genre, ahead of better known directors such as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Jean-Luc Godard and Ridley Scott.

Yoji Yamada, director of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, made a trilogy of acclaimed revisionist samurai films, 2002's Twilight Samurai, followed by The Hidden Blade in 2004 and Love and Honor in 2006.

In 2004, Wray was approached by director Peter Jackson to appear in a small cameo for the 2005 remake of King Kong.

In 2004 director Robert Greenwald produced the documentary film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, which argues that Fox News has a conservative bias.

* 2004 – Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician ( b. 1925 )

* 1915 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director ( d. 2004 )

It was founded in 2004 by the singer and director Harry Dunstan.

* 1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch director ( d. 2004 )

In 2004, Brando signed with Tunisian film director Ridha Behion and began pre-production on a project to be titled Brando and Brando.

* 1922 – Russ Meyer, American film director and producer ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Philippe de Broca, French film director ( b. 1933 )

* Hratch Semerjian ( acting director ), 2004 – 2005

* 1937 – Ron O ' Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Russ Meyer, American director ( b. 1922 )

* July 23 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director ( d. 2004 )

* April 16 – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director ( died 2004 )

** Russ Meyer, American film director and producer ( d. 2004 )

In 2004, Viola began work on a new production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and executive producer Kira Perov.

In director David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees ( also 2004 ), Hoffman appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as an existential detective team member.