The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.

The last of his direct descendants to inhabit Abbotsford was his great-great-great-granddaughter Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott ( 8 June 1923-5 May 2004 ).

As of May 2004, 30 % of people in the ACT aged 15 – 64 had a level of educational attainment equal to at least an bachelor's degree, significantly higher than the national average of 19 %.

By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

Gianfranco Fini was notably nominated Deputy Prime Minister after the 2001 general election and was Foreign Minister from November 2004 to May 2006.

After three years of consistent use across different platforms, the BBC began to drop the BBCi brand gradually ; on 6 May 2004, the BBC website was renamed bbc. co. uk, after the main URL used to access the site.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

Government crackdowns against the practice are thought to have been a factor in a failed military mutiny in May 2004.

It is sometimes included in Europe, and has been a member state of the European Union since 1 May 2004.

In May 2004, Cyprus entered divided the EU, although in practice membership only applies to the southern part of the island which is in the control of the Republic of Cyprus.

On May 1, 2004, Ecuador placed further stringent visa restrictions on Colombians seeking to enter Ecuador.

The Czech Republic became a member of the EU in May 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.

Czech is also one of the 23 official languages in the European Union ( since May 2004 ).

Caitlin Clarke ( May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004 ) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998 – 1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

# Don't Stand Where the Comet is Assumed to Strike Oil — May 26, 2003 to February 29, 2004

It was founded 1 May 2004 as a merger of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

* Three-way PKN union drastically changes Dutch denominational landscape ( May 24, 2004 )

A judicial recount under the jurisdiction of a special panel of the High Court began on 10 May 2004 and ended on May 18, 2004.

* 2002 – Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.

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Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

These fears were unfounded ; in letters to Cecil in May and June 1603 he again pressed his decades-long claim to have Waltham Forest and the house and park of Havering restored to him, and on 18 July the new King granted his suit.

* May 5 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician ( d. 1623 )

* May 24 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster ( b. 1563 )

* May 1 – Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros, English Noblewoman ( b. c. 1574 )

* May – William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros ( d. 1618 )

Byrd's contribution includes the famous Earl of Salisbury Pavan, composed in memory of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who had died on 24 May 1612, and its two accompanying galliards.

* May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate

Robert Emerson " Bob " Clampett ( May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984 ) was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil.

Clampett died of a heart attack on May 2, 1984 in Detroit, Michigan, just six days before his 71st birthday, while touring the country to promote the home video release of Beany & Cecil cartoons.

His doctor advised him to travel for his health and so in July 1851 to May 1853 Cecil travelled through Cape Colony, Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.

* Paul Smith, ‘ Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne -, third marquess of Salisbury ( 1830 – 1903 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2009, accessed 8 May 2010.

On 25 May 1923, Cecil returned to the cabinet as Lord Privy Seal, a position held by several members of his family.

In May 1606 he submitted his report of his circuit of the province of Munster to Sir Robert Cecil, the king's secretary, and was made serjeant at law after his appointment as attorney general.

* May 11-William Cecil Ross, politician ( d. 1998 )

He took out his own licence to train in 1969 and that year had his first winner with Celestial Cloud at Ripon on 17 May, with Wolver Hollow winning the Eclipse Stakes in July to give Cecil his first Group One success.

Harry Bensley ( 1876 or 1877 – 21 May 1956 ) was an English rake and adventurer, best remembered as the subject of an extraordinary wager between John Pierpont Morgan and Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale.

David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson ( 7 May 1917 – 24 June 2000 ) was an English film actor.

Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, KG ( 5 May 1542 – 8 February 1623 ), known as Lord Burghley from 1598 to 1605, was an English politician and soldier.

He was created Earl of Exeter on 4 May 1605, the same day his half-brother Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cranborne was created 1st Earl of Salisbury.

Cecil McBee ( born May 19, 1935 ) is an American post bop jazz bassist, one of the most influential in the history of jazz.

The foundation stone was laid in April 1928 by the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Cecil Clementi, and in May 1929, the college was fully functional in its new buildings, many of which are still in use today.

Cecil McGivern CBE ( 22 May 1907, Newcastle, England – 30 January 1963, Buckinghamshire, England ) was a British broadcasting executive, who initially worked for BBC Radio before transferring to BBC Television in the late 1940s.