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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 )).

In April 2004 legislative elections were held, completing the implementation of the new constitution.

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.

Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Parliamentary Constituency, renowned for high levels of voting and for electing Provisional IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands as a Member of Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981, shortly before his death.

Although Japan eventually recognized the People's Republic in 1972, shortly after Kakuei Tanaka succeeded Sato as Prime Minister of Japan, the memory of this relationship was strong enough to be reported by The New York Times ( April 15, 1978 ) as a significant factor inhibiting trade between Japan and the mainland.

On 27 April 1977, shortly before his 77th birthday, Mountbatten became the first member of the Royal Family to appear on the TV guest show This Is Your Life.

Pereira came back from Goa, removed the corpse shortly after 15 April 1553, and moved it to his house.

A military dictatorship, led by then-Lt. Col. Lansana Conté and styling itself the Military Committee of National Recovery ( CMRN ), took control of Guinea in April 1984, shortly after the death of independent Guinea's first president, Sékou Touré.

On April 17, 2002, shortly after calling a game between the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers on TNT, both Albert and color analyst Mike Fratello were injured in a limo accident in Trenton, New Jersey.

Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.

On 12 April 1261, shortly before his death, Alexander issued a papal bull for King Henry that absolved him of oaths taken in the Provisions of Oxford, which was instrumental in the War.

The first mention of the Tervingi occurs in a eulogy of the emperor Maximian ( 285 – 305 ), delivered in or shortly after 291 ( perhaps at Trier on 20 April 292 ) and traditionally ascribed to Claudius Mamertinus, which says that the " Tervingi, another division of the Goths " ( Tervingi pars alia Gothorum ) joined with the Taifali to attack the Vandals and Gepidae.

In April 1941, Willkie joined the law firm of Miller, Boston, and Owen in New York City, and shortly thereafter the firm changed its name to Willkie, Owen, Otis, Farr, and Gallagher.

* April 1993 – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U. S. President George H. W. Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait.

* April – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U. S. President George Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait.

* April 17 – Russwood Park, a baseball stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, burns to the ground from a fire shortly after a Chicago White Sox versus Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball game.

* April 24 – Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members ; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police.

The Central Committee, under the leadership of Jiang Qing, labelled the event ' counter-revolutionary ', and cleared the square of memorial items shortly after midnight on April 6.

Æthelred died shortly after Easter ( 15 April ) 871, and is buried at Wimborne Minster in Dorset.

* April 13 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3, a North Korean Earth observation satellite, explodes shortly after launch.

" His columns resumed shortly after the April 23 opening of his annual film festival at the University of Illinois.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was simultaneously Father of the House and Prime Minister from May 1907 until shortly before his death in April 1908.

His gruks first started to appear in the daily newspaper " Politiken " shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the signature Kumbel Kumbell.

Heath sacked Enoch Powell from the Shadow Cabinet in April 1968, shortly after Powell made his inflammatory " Rivers of Blood " speech which criticised Commonwealth immigration to the United Kingdom.

Rapid growth occurred shortly thereafter, and on April 5, 1878 the town was officially incorporated as the City of Gaithersburg.

Willis C. Hawley ( left ) and Reed Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act passed the House of Representatives.

Almost all the people deported were murdered on or shortly after April 11, 1944, when their train reached Auschwitz concentration camp | Auschwitz-Birkenau.