In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Kamchatka Krai wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to award the Southern Kuril Islands to Japan.

In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Project.

The Southern African regional office of the U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) in Gaborone, Botswana now administers most of the U. S. assistance to Lesotho, which totaled approximately $ 2 million in FY 2004.

Madagascar was admitted to the Southern African Development Community in 2004.

* Peter Batchelor, Kees Kingma, Guy Lamb, Demilitarisation and Peace-building in Southern Africa: The role of the military in state formation and nation-building, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004

* Gould, C. and Lamb, G., Hide & Seek: Taking Account of Small Arms in Southern Africa, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, 2004

* Southern Insurgency ( 2004 – ongoing )

*: The ongoing Southern Insurgency began long before 2004, waged by the ethnic Malays and Islamic rebels in the three southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat.

" Cultural Studies ' Misfit: White Trash Studies ", Mississippi Quarterly 2004 57 ( 3 ): 369-387, traces the emergence of ' white trash studies ' as a scholarly field by placing representative 20th-century popular images of ' white trash ' in their Southern economic and cultural contexts.

( 2004 ) Before the Spanish Chronicles: Early Apache in the Southern Southwest, pp. 120 – 142.

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.

* June 24, 2004 Enron announces sale of CrossCountry Energy LLC to CCE Holdings Inc., a joint venture of Southern Union Company and GE Commercial Finance Energy Services for $ 2. 35 billion.

* " Cajun South Louisiana ", Southern Spaces, 12 March 2004.

* 2004 — The European Southern Observatory discovers Abell 1835 IR1916, the most distant galaxy yet seen from Earth.

* Donald Worster, 2004 ( 1979 ) Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s ( 25. anniversary ed ) Oxford University Press.

Southern ( 1999, 149 ) dates the invasion to 295 ; Barnes ( 1982, 17, 293 ) mentions an earlier, unsuccessful invasion by Narseh based on the fact that the title Persici Maximi was given to all four emperors ; Odahl ( 2004, 59 ) concurs with Barnes and suggests that Saracen princes in the Syrian desert collaborated with Narseh's invasion.

* The Great Southern Babylon by Alecia P. Long, Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

Perry ( 2004 ) says Basso was a slashingly witty critic of the moonlight and magnolia romanticism of the Old South that dominated the Southern mind before 1920.

Strawberry is in the Southern Marin Fire Protection District, which also serves Tamalpais Valley, Homestead Valley, Almonte, Alto, part of the Town of Tiburon, and, since 2004, the City of Sausalito.

The show was presented at Cotton Hall again in 2004 and 2005 — attracting Holiday season tourists to Colquitt from throughout the south-eastern U. S. " A Southern Christmas Carol " has, in the years since, become an increasing popular Holiday season show that is produced by theatres throughout the south-eastern United States.

In 2004, The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote about the borough's " fast growing gay and lesbian community ," and the marriage equality organization Garden State Equality's main Southern New Jersey office is in Collingswood.

Late in 2004, Norfolk Southern carefully transported Caboose 342 from Roanoke to the NS rail yard at Crewe, Virginia by rail.

Terry left Southern FM in 2004 due to being " too rude " and domestic problems, as the following news post on his official website ( now only viewable through the Wayback Machine ) explains:

By 2004 lost Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ) accreditation and later closed.

The house has been featured in the New York Times ( March 10, 2006 ), in Southern Living Magazine ( May 2004 ) and in a televised Our State Magazine production, among others.

* Robert M. Timm, Hopland Research & Extension Center, University of California, Hopland, California ; Rex O. Baker, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona ( retired ), Corona, California ; Joe R. Bennett, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Taft, California ; and Craig C. Coolahan, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Sacramento, California, " Coyote Attacks: An Increasing Suburban Problem " ( March 3, 2004 ).

* 2004 – 2006: River Ridge Sports Complex, Oxnard, California

" University of California Stanford, 2004.

* 2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Crick died of colon cancer on 28 July 2004 at the University of California San Diego ( UCSD ) Thornton Hospital in La Jolla ; he was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

A public memorial was held on 27 September 2004 at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, near San Diego, California ; guest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter Jacqueline Nichols.

Auditions were held in March 2004 in California, but the project has been officially abandoned.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

On April 18, 2004, a " Celebration of Life " was held in Berry's memory at The Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California.

During their marriage, several of Grammer and Donatacci's homes were featured in magazines, including ones in: Malibu, California ( February 2001, InStyle ), Maui ( May 2004, InStyle ), Long Island, New York ( April 2008, InStyle ), Bachelor Gulch, Colorado ( Architectural Digest ), and Bel Air, Los Angeles ( Architectural Digest ).

* 2008 – California becomes the second U. S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

* Oral history interview with Martin Hellman Oral history interview 2004, Palo Alto, California.

In September 2004, IWW-organized short haul truck drivers in Stockton, California walked off their jobs and went on a strike.

Hyundai America Technical Center completed construction of its Hyundai / Kia proving ground in California City, California in 2004.

In 2001 Eastwood was appointed to the California State Park and Recreation Commission by Governor Davis, then reappointed in 2004 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Eastwood to the California Film Commission in April 2004.