In December 2004, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Alfonso Arau for his work in cinema.

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.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

* American Medical Association, AMA Says Alcohol Industry Targets Teen Girls, December 16, 2004.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

Ruth's heavy Louisville Slugger solid ash wood bat sold for $ 1. 26 million at a Sotheby's auction in December 2004.

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On December 3, 2004, the ceremony broke the Guinness World Record for Christmas caroling with 7, 514 carolers.

: On December 16, 2004, the CIA added an entry for the European Union ( EU ).

* The Growth of Inflation Symmetry, December 2004

In December 2004, the EU leaders announced that accession negotiations with Croatia would start on March 17, 2005 provided that Croatian government cooperates fully with the ICTY.

In December 2002, the EU formally invited Cyprus to join in 2004, insisting that EU membership would apply to the whole island and hoping that it would provide a significant enticement for reunification resulting from the outcome of ongoing talks.

" Images of race and redemption: The Protestant missionary contribution to Carl Meinhof's Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen ", Le Fait Missionaire: Social Sciences and Missions 15 ( December 2004 ), 59-96.

In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

# The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head — March 1, 2004 to December 5, 2004

# Thriving on Vague Objectives — December 6, 2004 to September 11, 2005

In December 2004, a tsunami generated near Indonesia caused minor shoreline erosion on Barton Point ( the northeast point of the atoll of Diego Garcia ).

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In December 2004, the Supreme Court lifted a stay thereby allowing the Brazil-based União do Vegetal ( UDV ) church to use a decoction containing DMT in their Christmas services that year.

* Lowest Confluence: in Matrūh, Egypt at-255 feet (- 78 m ), first visited by Dave Morrison, Steve Price and Tony Carlisle on December 4, 2004.

On the Arctic Circle those events occur, in principle, exactly once per year, at the June and December solstices, respectively.

The CJLS has also held that the Talmudic concept of Kavod HaBriyot permits lifting rabbinic decrees ( as distinct from carving narrow exceptions ) on grounds of human dignity, and used this principle in a December 2006 opinion lifting all rabbinic prohibitions on homosexual conduct ( the opinion held that only male-male anal sex was forbidden by the Bible and that this remained prohibited ).

He declared in the Commons on 19 December that naval rearmament would commit the government to expenditure over a number of years and thus would subvert " the principle of annual account, annual proposition, annual approval by the House of Commons, which ... is the only way of maintaining regularity, and that regularity is the only talisman which will secure Parliamentary control ".

However it parted with its principle by voting at the United Nations against North Korea, under pressure from Japan, in December 2008.

On the Antarctic Circle these events occur, in principle, exactly once per year, at the December and June solstices respectively.

In the December 1941, at the Arcadia Conference, the Allied leaders agreed to the " Germany first " principle whereby Germany was to be defeated first, and then Japan.

In the winter snow is the principle precipitation with snow falling mostly in the months of December, January and February.

In a formal protest lodged on 9 December, Grey declared that " while the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty left the United States free to build and protect the canal, it expressly maintained the principle of Article VIII of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850, guaranteeing to England the use of the canal on a complete equality with the United States of America.

In a speech before a group of German journalists on January 13, 1933, Schleicher boasted about how based how the acceptance " in principle " of gleichberechtigung by the other powers at the World Disarmament Conference in December 1932 that he planned to have by no later than the spring of 1934 a return to conscription and to Germany having all the weapons forbidden by Versailles.

In December 1987, cabinet agreed, in spite of Lange ’ s reservations, to a statement of principle that supported a flat rate of income tax and a new form of income assistance called guaranteed minimum family income ( GMFI ).

Roland Gelatt's revised edition of The Fabulous Phonograph ( Collier Books, New York, 1977, p. 119 ) asserts that Tamagno's recording contract, signed in December 1902, was the first to embody " the royalty principle ".

At the Keely Motor Company's stockholders ' meeting in December, a report was read from Keely in which he discussed the difficulties he had had with the Board of Directors during 1889 and said that while the work of " graduating " or adjusting his provisional engine had not progressed as rapidly as he had expected, no serious obstacles had presented themselves, and there were no difficulties affecting the principle or " essence " of his work.

In December 2005 the Conservative party elected a new leader, David Cameron, who opposes ID cards in principle.

Helmut Hasse (; 25 August 1898 – 26 December 1979 ) was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local classfield theory and diophantine geometry ( Hasse principle ), and to local zeta functions.

The Cabinet approved the approach, in principle, on 15 December 1997, observing that the creation of the Central Resources Pool would require Parliamentary approval and would have to await constitution of the Twelfth Lok Sabha.

The legal system of Macau was not substantially modified in 1999, as a result of the transfer of power from Portugal to the PRC, given that there is a principle of continuity of the pre-existing legal system, according to which all sources in force prior to the transfer of sovereignty continued to apply, with some minor exceptions that were specified in December 1999.

Acting on the constitutional principle that the king's right to convene did not interfere with the church's independent right to hold assemblies, they sat till 20 December, deposed all the Scottish bishops, excommunicated a number of them, repealed all acts favoring episcopacy, and reconstituted the Scottish Kirk on thorough Presbyterian principles.

Georgii Frantsevich Gause (; December 27, 1910 – May 4, 1986 ), was a Russian biologist who proposed the competitive exclusion principle, fundamental to the science of ecology.

* December 18, the Belgian newspapers were in an uproar on the theme of a violation of the principle of the separation of powers, with an advanced position taken up by Yves Desmet, who draws the conclusion that the government was aware of the gist of the ruling two days beforehand and had instituted a diversionary manoevre ( a frivolous request by FPIM on Thursday ) to derail the ruling.

On 29 December 1998 Colonel General Anatoly Kornukov, a former Air Defence Forces officer and new commander-in-chief of the merged force, succeeding Deynekin, reported to the Russian defence minister that the task had ' in principle been achieved '.

** the Government decision of December 2002 to agree in principle to the provision of additional resources was made contingent on the outcome of the review, and so had proved meaningless.

Fitzwilliam started to contribute to debates in the Lords, with his first intervention on 5 December 1782 during the debate on the address, intervening to criticise Lord Rockingham's successor as Prime Minister, Lord Shelburne, on the lack of principle on the concession of American independence.

Writing to Laurence on 11 December, he said Pitt was guilty of " a proud, arrogant assumption of power, that ... if it passes unnoticed, it is a dangerous infraction upon a most material constitutional principle and usage ".

The Scottish Transport Minister, Iain Gray, announced government support in principle for the scheme in December 2002, subject to the residents of Edinburgh supporting the scheme.