| March 2004

* 2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid.

The first was 24 February to 12 March 2004.

* 2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

In March 1999, dBase was sold to KSoft, Inc. which was soon renamed to dBASE Inc. ( In 2004 dBASE Inc. was renamed to dataBased Intelligence, Inc .).

A copy of this first issue sold for £ 12, 100 on 16 March 2004, which was at the time thought to be the highest price ever paid for a British comic at an auction.

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.

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.

EU accession negotiations started on 31 March 1998, and concluded when Cyprus joined the organization as a full member in 2004.

'" by Katie Zezima, The New York Times, March 31, 2004.

* Robert M. Timm, Hopland Research & Extension Center, University of California, Hopland, California ; Rex O. Baker, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona ( retired ), Corona, California ; Joe R. Bennett, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Taft, California ; and Craig C. Coolahan, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Sacramento, California, " Coyote Attacks: An Increasing Suburban Problem " ( March 3, 2004 ).

Valderrama was the only Colombian to feature in FIFA's 125 Top Living Football Players list in March 2004.

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

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.

Dominica previously maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China, but on 23 March 2004, a joint communique was signed in Beijing, paving the way for diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic.

A successful March 2004 regional transportation ballot measure included funding to rehabilitate the rail bridge for the commuter rail service, but in October 2008 the Metropolitan Transportation Commission transferred $ 91 million from this project to the BART Warm Springs Extension Project in Fremont

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

According to a March 2004 BBC profile, politics within the country are dominated by tensions between Obiang's son, Teodorin, and other close relatives with powerful positions in the security forces.

The two most important policy objectives in this regard have been accession into NATO and the European Union, achieved in March and May 2004 respectively.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the Afghan economy grew 20 % in the fiscal year ending in March 2004, after expanding 30 % in the previous 12 months.

* Braudy, Leo, ed., " Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings "; Oxford University Press ; 6th edition ( March, 2004 ).

In March 1961 Singer and another University of Maryland physicist, E. J. Opik, were given a $ 97, 000 grant by NASA to conduct a three-year study of interplanetary gas and dust.

After agreeing to the deal, Mayflower Transit trucks were dispatched to the team's Maryland training complex on March 29, 1984 in the early morning, where workers loaded all of the team's belongings and the trucks left for Indianapolis with the Colts completely gone from Baltimore by midday.

When the Congress received notice of this on March 1, 1781, he joined Daniel Carroll in endorsing them for Maryland.

The Articles took effect on March 1, 1781, when Maryland became the final state to ratify them.

The E-4 aircraft were originally stationed at Andrews AFB, Maryland so they could be easily accessed by the President and the Secretary of Defense, with SAC also establishing three dispersed support squadrons for the E-4 at Westover AFB, Massachusetts, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana and March AFB, California.

# Maryland ( 1959, after having rejected it on March 23, 1867 )

# Maryland ( March 24, 1933 )

On March 13, 1996, Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, Maryland Governor Parris Glendening, and Prince George's County Executive Wayne K. Curry signed a contract that paved the way for the immediate start of construction for the new home of the Redskins ( now FedExField ).

* March 7 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore, Maryland.

* March 6 – McCulloch v. Maryland: The U. S. Supreme Court rules that the Bank of the United States is constitutional.

* March 25 – The first settlers arrive in St. Mary's City, Maryland ( led by Lord Baltimore ), the fourth permanent settlement in British North America.

* In Maryland, the Jesuits Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase arrived with Lord Leonard Calvert on March 25, 1634, and in that year established an institution of higher learning at St. Mary's which later became known as Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.

* March 6 – Maryland Agricultural College ( present-day University of Maryland, College Park ) is chartered.

* March 10 – John Gunby, Maryland soldier in the American Revolutionary War ( d. 1807 )

By petition of Rockville's citizens, the Maryland General Assembly incorporated the village on March 10, 1860.

* March 9, 1873: Salisbury, Maryland After school as Miss Shockley was walking with four small children, she was approached by a Mr. Hall and shot.

Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.

# Maryland ( March 14, 1951 )

# Maryland ( March 23, 1966 )

The settlement of Lord Baltimore's Maryland began with the arrival of passengers from England at St. Clement's Island in the Potomac River in what is now southwestern St. Mary's County on March 25, 1634 ( the anniversary of this landing being annually celebrated as Maryland Day ).

After serving briefly as the Chief-of-Staff for the Air Force Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Allen was appointed in March 1973 as a deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community in Washington, D. C.

Reece died on March 19, 1961 in Bethesda, Maryland, just two months after being sworn in for his 18th term.

On March 9, 1970 two black radicals, Ralph Featherstone and William (" Che ") Payne, died on U. S. Route 1 south of Bel Air, Maryland, when a bomb being carried between Payne's legs on the front floorboard of their car exploded, completely destroying the car and dismembering both occupants.