* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

* Trying to Rule Britannia ; BBC ; 6 August 2004

Several international financial institutions have praised the economic reforms introduced by former president Álvaro Uribe ( elected 7 August 2002 ), which include measures designed to reduce the public-sector deficit below 2. 5 % of GDP in 2004.

The death penalty was removed from peacetime law in August 2002, and in May 2004 Turkey amended its constitution in order to remove capital punishment in all circumstances.

* Omega and why maths has no TOEs article based on one written by Gregory Chaitin which appeared in the August 2004 edition of Mathematics Today, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Alan Turing's death.

CERT and Citizen Corps were transferred to the Office of Domestic Preparedness ( now the Office of Grants and Training ) in August 2004.

Tram 2530 in the original livery on 24 August 2004, leaving Croydon on an Elmers End station | Elmers End service

Begun as a Sargasso Sea pilot sampling project in August 2003, Craig Venter announced the full Expedition on 4 March 2004.

Fay Wray ( born Vina Fay Wray ; September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004 ) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong.

Before filming of the remake commenced, Wray died in her sleep of natural causes on August 8, 2004, in her Manhattan apartment.

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

A private memorial for family and colleagues was held on 3 August 2004.

A Foreign Legion soldier with a captured rebel, Ivory Coast, 10 August 2004.

In August 2004, the Keep Britain Tidy campaign issued a press release calling for zero tolerance of graffiti and supporting proposals such as issuing " on the spot " fines to graffiti offenders and banning the sale of aerosol paint to anyone under the age of 16.

Windows XP SP1 was released in September 2002, SP2 came out in August 2004 and SP3 came out in April 2008.

According to Ruickbie ( 2004, p. 19 ) the Greeks observed two days sacred to Hecate, one on the 13th of August and one on the 30th of November, whilst the Romans observed the 29th of every month as her sacred day.

Cooperation between the U. S. and Indonesia on counter-terrorism has increased steadily since 2002, as terrorist attacks in Bali ( October 2002 and October 2005 ), Jakarta ( August 2003 and September 2004 ) and other regional locations demonstrated the presence of terrorist organizations, principally Jemaah Islamiyah, in Indonesia.

The antitrust component of VeriSign's claim was dismissed in August 2004.

On 25 August 2004, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price announced his intention to move for the impeachment of Tony Blair for his role in involving Britain in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The GPL release of the Quake III engine's source code was moved from the end of 2004 to August 2005 as the engine was still being licensed to commercial customers who would otherwise be concerned over the sudden loss in value of their recent investment.

James Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933, to Susie ( née Behlings ) Brown ( August 8, 1916-February 26, 2004 ) and Joseph (" Joe ") Gardner ( March 29, 1911-July 10, 1993 ) ( who changed his surname to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him ).

On 18 August 2004, he had to undergo serious heart surgery, in which an artificial heart valve was inserted.

He stood down in August 2004.

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE ( 30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 ), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

Spears and Aldridge reconciled in August 2010, but ended their relationship a second time in November 2010.

* August 28 – Madonna sparks media controversy by kissing popstars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.

" Spears also recorded that at a conference with Joffre on 30 August 1914 French, the back of his tunic wet with sweat from riding hard to reach the meeting, was " one of the coolest and calmest people at GHQ ".

On August 31, 2007, LAX Nightclub officially opened at a party hosted by Britney Spears.

However, Sir Edward Spears claimed that he had originally proposed the idea to Churchill when they visited eastern France in August 1939, but by the time the operation was put into practice Churchill believed the idea was his .< REF NAME = PRELUDE ></ REF >

" Spears began recording the track in Las Vegas in August 2006, while she was seven months pregnant with her second child, Jayden James.

On August 16, Colón and Perez lost the title to Nemeth and Gavin Spears.

On August 17, 2011, Britney Spears performed a concert in this arena, as part of her Femme Fatale Tour.

On August 13, 2004, Spears announced through Jive Records the release of her first greatest hits compilation titled Greatest Hits: My Prerogative, due November 16, 2004.

Britney Spears first performed in the MGM Arena on August 4, 2000 for her Oops !...

Shane Drahm ( born 28 August 1977 in Brisbane ) is an Australian rugby union player who plays at fly-half or fullback for Kubota Spears in Japan's Top League.

Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC ( 7 August 1886 – 27 January 1974 ) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars.

With the outbreak of war in August 1914, on the orders of his colonel at the War Office, Spears left Paris for the front.

General Charles Lanrezac, Commander of Fifth French Army – Spears ’ first liaison job was an attachment to this officer early in the war Sent first to the Ardennes on 14 August 1914, his job was to liaise between Field Marshal Sir John French and General Charles Lanrezac, commander of the French Fifth Army.

On August 27, 2003, Madonna opened the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards performing a medley of " Like a Virgin / Hollywood " with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Missy Elliott.

On August 27, 2003, Madonna opened the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards performing a medley of " Like a Virgin / Hollywood " with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Missy Elliott.

The medley track " Like a Virgin / Hollywood " was performed during the opening of the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards on August 27, 2003, where Madonna was joined by Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Missy Elliott.

On August 13, 2004, Spears announced through Jive Records the release of her first greatest hits compilation titled Greatest Hits: My Prerogative, due November 16, 2004.