* 2004: To commemorate the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, the British led the military parade with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

Government crackdowns against the practice are thought to have been a factor in a failed military mutiny in May 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.

In 2004, the army transformed itself into a fully professional organization and compulsory military service was abolished.

A volunteer needs either to have completed the compulsory military service ( which ended in 2004 ) or to attend 8 week training.

The latest Defence agreement (" Defence agreement 2005-2009 ") was signed June 10, 2004, and calls for a significant re-construction of the entire military.

In July 2004 the American Psychological Association issued a statement that DADT " discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation " and that " Empirical evidence fails to show that sexual orientation is germane to any aspect of military effectiveness including unit cohesion, morale, recruitment and retention.

Tensions between Georgia and separatist authorities in Ajaria increased after the elections, climaxing on May 1, 2004 when Abashidze responded to military maneuvers held by Georgia near the region by having the three bridges connecting Ajaria and the rest of Georgia over the Choloki River blown up.

A mutiny of military factions in October 2004 resulted in the death of General Seabra and others, and caused widespread unrest.

This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of Dan Rather over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 election that attempted to impugn the military record of George W. Bush by relying on allegedly fake documents that were provided by Bill Burkett, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard.

* 2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province-In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.

* 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

On 17 December 2004, the Colombian government authorized Trinidad's extradition to the United States, but stated that the measure could be revoked if the FARC-EP released all political hostages and military captives in its possession before 30 December.

A 2004 estimate put military manpower availability ( males age 15-49 ) at 38, 347, with a " fit for military service " estimate of 20, 188.

The former colonial power, Portugal, has been focusing on enhancing the capabilities of the STP Coast Guard, and agreed to provide the force with training under a two-year military co-operation agreement signed in 2004.

However, the military of Somalia was later gradually reconstituted with the establishment of the Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) in 2004.

In 2004, the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress estimated that the Popular Defence Force, the military wing of the National Islamic Front, consists of 10, 000 active members, with 85, 000 reserves.

Romania: Included in total are 177, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The statistic of 250, 000 military dead is " The figure reported by the Rumanian Government in reply to a questionnaire from the International Labour Office Other estimates of Romanian casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: 335, 706 Killed and missing By US War Dept in 1924: 335, 706 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 430, 000, caused by military action, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Romanian civilian deaths due to military activity, 10, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons and 200, 000 caused by famine and disease

By US War Dept in 1924: 45, 000 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 450, 000, due to military activity, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Serbian civilian deaths due to military activity and 30, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons.

A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 civilian deaths due to military activity in Austro-Hungarian Galicia.

Hewlett-Packard purchased Compaq later that same year, continuing development of the existing product line until 2004, and promising to continue selling Alpha-based systems, largely to the existing customer base, until October 2006 ( later extended to April 2007 ).

Aerial approach to the former US Naval base on Johnston Atoll which closed on June 15, 2004.

Norway ( ratified the convention in 1996 ), Russia ( ratified in 1997 ), Canada ( ratified in 2003 ) and Denmark ( ratified in 2004 ) have all launched projects to base claims that certain areas of Arctic continental shelves should be subject to their sole sovereign exploitation.

By 2004 Family Affairs had a larger fan base and won its first awards, but was cancelled in late 2005.

The navy, according to 2004 estimates from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, now has 1, 800 personnel, and a base at Marsa Gwayawi on the Red Sea.

On 30 June 2004, Saddam Hussein, held in custody by U. S. forces at the U. S. base " Camp Cropper ", along with 11 other senior Ba ' athist leaders, were handed over legally ( though not physically ) to the interim Iraqi government to stand trial for crimes against humanity and other offences.

On 6 November 2004, Yamoussoukro Airport was attacked by French infantry after military aircraft from the airport bombed a UN peacekeeper base as well as rebel targets, 9 French peacekeepers and one U. S. civilian were killed.

The first Taco Bell in Spain was opened at Naval Station Rota in 2004 and is available only to those authorized to access the naval base.

Furtermore, Limassol is the base of Cyprus University of Technology, which established in 2004.

Incorporation of Rhodes University's former campus in East London in 2004 gave the University an urban base and a coastal base for the first time.

From 1964 to 2004, the portal at the base of the ramp was inscribed with the words ’’ Bring me men ... ’’ taken from the poem, " The Coming American ," by Samuel Walter Foss.

After being released by the Mariners in the middle of the 2004 season, Olerud was signed by the New York Yankees to fill a void left at first base by the injury of Jason Giambi.

United maintained a Latin American hub at MIA through the 1990s but ended flights from Miami to South America, and shut down its Miami crew base, in May 2004, reallocating most Miami resources to its main hub in Chicago.

An Ormet Corporation employee strike affected Woodsfield's economic base in 2004, but once the strike ended, things began to improve.

After years of development, community input and revisions, the Noisette Community Master Plan for the old naval base was finalized in a contractual agreement in early 2004.

During the 2004 Senate race in South Dakota, Republican challenger John Thune made Ellsworth a campaign issue, stating in an April 16, 2004 appearance at the base that if he were elected over incumbent Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle: “ It puts Ellsworth in a lot stronger position than having someone who's going to be in the minority and someone who doesn't have a relationship with the President of the U. S .” In a debate between the two men broadcast on KSFY-TV and KOTA-TV television on October 17, 2004, Thune said: " I think we have got to have somebody that has a relationship with the President of the United States, can work constructively across party lines in the Congress to get this done if we're going save Ellsworth " and was later quoted in the " Rapid City Journal " newspaper on October 27, 2004 claiming that: " an all-Democratic congressional delegation would have little political influence if President Bush is elected to a second term .”

It was re-mounted on its base in 2006 after being restored in 2004 by a studio in Roeselare.

AirBaltic, the national airline of Latvia and under SAS part-ownership, opened up a second base at Vilnius in 2004 to complement its Riga operation and became the largest carrier at Vilnius, using Boeing 737 jets and Fokker F50 turboprops.

The complete B. pertussis genome of 4, 086, 186 base pairs was sequenced in 2004.

On April 4, 2004, the Mahdi Army attacked the Spanish-Salvadoran-ALARNG base ( Camp Golf, later renamed Camp Baker ) in An Najaf, part of a coordinated uprising across central and southern Iraq in an apparent attempt to seize control of the country ahead of the June 30, 2004 handover of power to a new Iraqi government.

As Neely ( 2004 ) concludes, there was no effort to engage in " total war " against civilians, as in World War II.

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

The house was opened to the public in 1833, but continued to be occupied by Scott's descendants until 2004.

The last of his direct descendants to inhabit Abbotsford was his great-great-great-granddaughter Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott ( 8 June 1923-5 May 2004 ).

In 2004, Pope John Paul II's efforts to unite Europe were honoured with an ‘ Extraordinary Charlemagne Medal ’, which was awarded for the first time ever.

In Managua, Nicaragua, the Albertus Magnus International Institute, a business and economic development research center, was founded in 2004.

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

A private member's bill — the Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.

In 2004, a new head coach, Jim L. Mora, was hired and Michael Vick returned for the full season.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

He was forced to resign his managing general partner post in the late summer of 2004.

Though a losing season, this was a 26-game improvement over 2004, and sufficient for second place in a woefully weak NL West, five games behind the San Diego Padres.

The first was 24 February to 12 March 2004.

Salieri's Italian tour of 1778 – 80 began with the production of Europa riconosciuta ( Europa Recognized ) for La Scala ( which was revived in 2004 for the same opera house's re-opening following extensive renovations ).

In 2004, the opera Europa riconosciuta was staged in Milan for the reopening of La Scala in Milan, with soprano Diana Damrau in the title role.

A convertible version of the DB9, the DB9 Volante, was introduced at the 2004 Detroit Auto Show.

In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

In 2004 it was moved to Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay, in India ), to make it more accessible to the populations of Asia and Africa.

Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).

The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.

During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement ( the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007 ).