* 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.

In the 2007 regular season, the Diamondbacks enjoyed success with a young team including Brandon Webb, Conor Jackson, Stephen Drew, Carlos Quentin, Chad Tracy, Chris Young, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds ( called up from Double-A in May ) and Justin Upton ( called up from Double-A in August ).

The following day, August 18, Stephen W. Kearny rode into Santa Fe, New Mexico with his Army of the West and declared the New Mexican territory conquered.

Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930, in Wapakoneta, Ohio, to Stephen Koenig Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel

File: Barack Obama speaks to Stephen Hawking. jpg | President Barack Obama talks with Stephen Hawking in the Blue Room of the White House before a ceremony presenting him and 15 others the Presidential Medal of Freedom, August 12, 2009.

* Stephen Ornes, What is The Poincaré Conjecture ?, Seed Magazine, 25 August 2006.

Pope Saint Stephen I served as Bishop of Rome from 12 May 254 to 2 August 257.

In 257 Emperor Valerian resumed the persecution of Christians, and Stephen was sitting on his pontifical throne celebrating Mass for his congregation when the emperor's men came and beheaded him on 2 August 257.

St Stephen I's feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is celebrated on 2 August When in 1839 the new feast of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori was assigned to 2 August, Saint Stephen I was mentioned only as a commemoration within the Mass of Saint Alphonsus.

The revision of the calendar in 1969 removed the mention of Saint Stephen I from the General Roman Calendar, but, according to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, the 2 August Mass may now everywhere be that of Saint Stephen I, unless in some locality an obligatory celebration is assigned to that day, and some continue to use pre-1969 calendars that mention a commemoration of Saint Stephen I on that day.

Pope Stephen III ( c. 720 – 1 February 772 ) was pope from 1 August 768 to 1 February 772.

After Constantine was officially dethroned on August 6, Stephen was consecrated pope on the following day, August 7, 768.

With Louis ’ invitation, Stephen left Rome in August 816, crossing the Alps together with Bernard, the King of the Lombards, who was ordered to accompany Stephen to the emperor.

Pope Stephen VI ( died August 897 ) was Pope from 22 May 896 to August 897.

Pope Stephen IX ( c. 1020 – 29 March 1058 ) was Pope from 3 August 1057 to 29 March 1058.

Saint Stephen I (; ; Esztergom, Principality of Hungary, 967 or 969 or 975 – 15 August 1038, Esztergom or Székesfehérvár, Kingdom of Hungary ), born as Vajk, was Grand Prince of the Hungarians ( 997 – 1000 ) and the first King of Hungary ( 1000 – 1038 ).

Pope Gregory VII canonized Stephen together with his son, Saint Emeric of Hungary, and Gerardo Sagredo, on 20 August 1083.

Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.

Alexander (; ) ( 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506 ) of the House of Jagiellon was the Grand Duke of Lithuania and later also King of Poland.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

In August 1219, his younger son, Coloman, who had been crowned King of Halych, was expelled from his kingdom by Prince Mstilav of Novgorod.

On August 30, 2011, Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King, who correctly predicted the 2011 Super Bowl, made his predictions for the 2011 season and picked the Falcons to defeat the San Diego Chargers in the 2012 Super Bowl.

Albert became Duke of Prussia after paying feudal homage to the King of Poland, Zygmunt August ( Ducal Prussia was a fief of Poland ), on July 19, 1569 in Lublin.

Anton succeeded his brother Frederick August I as King of Saxony when he died, on 5 May 1827.

The first clashes took place on 2 August, but little action took place for several days, as the King waited for all his forces to arrive and Essex waited for the fleet.

On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

Jeron Criswell King ( August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982 ), born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell (), was an American psychic known for wildly inaccurate predictions.

Diana was worshipped at a festival on August 13, when King Servius Tullius, himself born a slave, dedicated her temple on the Aventine Hill in the mid-6th century BC.

On 4 August 1265 Montfort faced an army led by Prince Edward ( the later King Edward I ) and the powerful earl of Gloucester, who had recently defected to the royalist side, at the Battle of Evesham.

Although he had been invested as such on the 8th of August, on his and Eleanor's tour of the provinces a messenger caught up with them with the news that on 1 August, King Louis VI had died of dysentery.

In August, Oxford attended Paul de Foix, who had come to England to negotiate a marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou, the future King Henry III of France.

Georges Danton, the leader of the August 1792 uprising against the King, undermined by several political reversals, was removed from the Committee and Robespierre, " the Incorruptible ", became its most influential member as it moved to take radical measures against the Revolution's domestic and foreign enemies.

Frederick the Peaceful KG ( September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 ) was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 1452.

Frederick William I () ( 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740 ) was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg ( as Frederick William II ) from 1713 until his death.

Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy .– Martin Luther King Jr .' s I Have a Dream speech, delivered August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

The Duke of Hamilton led an invasion of England to free the King, but he was defeated by Oliver Cromwell in August 1648 at the Battle of Preston.

The coup pre-empted King Idris ' instrument of abdication dated 4 August 1969 to take effect 2 September 1969 in favour of the Crown Prince, who had been appointed regent following the king's departure for Turkey.