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During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

Satellite image of the Bosphorus, taken from the International Space Station in April 2004.

* Dedicating April 15 as Jackie Robinson Day ( 2004 )

* In April 2004, Beverly Hughes was forced to resign as minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism when it was shown that she had been informed of procedural improprieties concerning the granting of visas to certain categories of workers from Eastern Europe.

The European Commission replied to the answers of the questionnaire sent to Croatia on April 20, 2004 with a positive opinion.

However, in October 2004, the Cuban government announced an end to this policy: from November US dollars would no longer be legal tender in Cuba, but would instead be exchanged for convertible pesos ( since April 2005 at the exchange rate of $ 1. 08 ) with a 10 % tax payable to the state on the exchange of US dollars cash — though not on other forms of exchange.

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

* Ogg, Jim ; June, 2004, Overview of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points ( GSSP's ) http :// www. stratigraphy. org / gssp. htm Accessed April 30, 2006.

The disease has also been shown to result from use of Human Growth Hormone obtained from the pituitary glands of persons who died from Creutzfeldt – Jakob Disease, though the known incidence of this cause is ( as of April 2004 ) quite small.

20th Century Fox and Legend Films released a colorized version of the film on DVD on April 20, 2004, a reference to its ironic appeal ( see 420 ( cannabis culture )).

The USASF hosted the first Cheerleading Worlds on April 24, 2004.

Muhtar Cem Karaca ( April 5, 1945-February 8, 2004 ), also called Cem Baba ( Daddy Cem or Father Cem ), was a prominent Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement.

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

DOM Level 3, the current release of the DOM specification, published in April 2004, added support for XPath and keyboard event handling, as well as an interface for serializing documents as XML.

In April 2004, in cooperation with the American Society of Cinematographers, DCI created standard evaluation material ( the ASC / DCI StEM material ) for testing of 2K and 4K playback and compression technologies.

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 ).

As of April 2004, net international reserves stood at $ 1. 9 billion.

Satellite image of Estonia in April 2004

For instance, in the 55 Cancri system the first planet – 55 Cancri b – was discovered in 1996 ; two additional farther planets were simultaneously discovered in 2002 with the nearest to the star being named 55 Cancri c and the other 55 Cancri d ; a fourth planet was claimed ( its existence was later disputed ) in 2004 and named 55 Cancri e despite lying closer to the star than 55 Cancri b ; and the most recently discovered planet, in 2007, was named 55 Cancri f despite lying between 55 Cancri c and 55 Cancri d. As of April 2012 the highest letter in use is " j ", for the unconfirmed planet HD 10180 j ( HD 10180 h is the confirmed planet with the highest letter ).

At an extraordinary Congress in Brussels held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union, the ELDR Party incorporated itself under Belgian law and later became a European political party.

* EverQuest Hero's Call 2 ( Pocket PC, April 2004 )

New York City impresario Steve Sylvester and producer Sal Abbetiello launched Stevie Sly's Freestyle Party show at the Manhattan live music venue Coda on April 1, 2004.

The proposal would have to receive final legislative approval, by two-thirds majorities, before March 1 to be printed on the April 4 ballot, Roberts said.

After being delayed several times, legislative elections were held in April 2004.

Runoff elections for legislative seats were held on April 21.

This was followed in April 1965 with general legislative elections.

This was followed in April 1965 with general legislative elections with universal adult suffrage in which the Basotho National Party ( BNP ) won 31 and the Basutoland Congress Party ( BCP ) won 25 of the 65 seats contested.

In 1997, attempts to renew national institutions through democratic elections ran into administrative difficulties, resulting in a court-ordered annulment of the legislative elections held in April 1997.

The Socialist Party dominated the National Assembly until April 2001, when in free and fair legislative elections, President Wade's coalition won a majority ( 90 of 150 seats ).

** In the Greek legislative election, the conservative New Democracy wins the most seats in the Hellenic Parliament ; its leader, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, becomes Prime Minister of Greece on April 11.

New Zealand ratified the Convention 6 April 1993 with reservations concerning the right to distinguish between persons according to the nature of their authority to be in New Zealand, the need for legislative action on economic exploitation-which it argued was adequately protected by existing law, and the provisions for the separation of juvenile offenders from adult offenders.

Mindful that the government might have to take politically costly decisions in advance of the legislative elections planned for spring 1998 in order to ensure that France met the Maastricht criteria for the single currency of the EU, Chirac decided in April 1997 to call early elections.

At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 22. 6 % of the popular vote and 36 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic.

In the 8 April 2001 legislative elections, the party won 4. 8 % of the popular vote and 3 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic.

St. Landry Parish was officially established on April 10, 1805 by a legislative act, becoming the largest parish in the Louisiana state.

Portland was organized as a township by legislative act March 6, 1838, and the first township meeting was held April 2, 1838 at the home of Joshua Boyer.

It led to the designation of Romano Prodi as leader of the Olive Tree coalition, which gathered several center and left-wing parties, for the legislative elections of the 9th and 10th April 2006.

The legislative elections on August 28, 1910 had elected 14 new representatives ( resulting in an assembly that was divided: 9 % Republican, 58 % Government and 33 % Opposition ) which helped the revolutionary cause, but which made little importance since the Setubal Congress ( on 24 – 25 April 1909 ) had determined that the Republicans would take power by force.

Citing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 ( 2003 ), and the laws of war, the CPA vested itself with executive, legislative, and judicial authority over the Iraqi government from the period of the CPA's inception on April 21, 2003, until its dissolution on June 28, 2004.

The elections for the legislative assembly followed in April and, partly in consequence of the re-infranchisement of the ex-rebels, resulted in a decisive majority for the Merriman ministry.

The legislation was passed on April 14, 1820, the final day of the legislative session, creating the town of Rotterdam.

Known as the Constitution of 1973, it was drafted by the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and, following additions by the opposition parties, was approved by the legislative assembly on April 10, 1973.

As promised during the negotiations, a working committee chaired by Hitler and Kaas and supposed to inform about further legislative measures, met three times ( 31 March, 2 April and 7 April ) without any major impact.

" Also, on April 11, 2012, the Baltimore Business Journal has published an article stating that the Maryland General Assembly in the recently ended 2012 legislative session approved $ 2. 5 million for the convention center project allocated for " initial design the $ 400 million expansion of the convention center ( slated to be funded using public money from the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore ), as well as a $ 500 million, 18, 500-seat arena and hotel project ( slated to be funded using private funding from a group lead by local business magnate Willard Hackerman )" however the Maryland General Assembly's budget committees added a prerequisite before they will approve the release of the $ 2. 5 million, the prerequisite being that the State of Maryland, the City of Baltimore and the private financiers of the project must submit a memorandum of understanding to the Maryland General Assembly's budget committees with a detailed explanation of how this project would be funded, how much of the $ 400 million would be shared between the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore and exactly who would operate the brand new arena.

On April 8, 1789, two days after the Senate achieved its first quorum, members elected Otis as their chief legislative, financial, and administrative officer.