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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* May 20 – Robin Gibb, British-Australian musician ( b. 1949 )

Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE ( 22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012 ) was a singer and songwriter, best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry.

On 20 May 2012, Gibb died at the age of 62 from liver and kidney failure.

In June 2005, Gibb joined X Factor runner up band G4 at a sell-out concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, singing the Bee Gees song " First of May ".

In May 2006, Gibb took part in the Prince's Trust 30th birthday Concert at the Tower of London along with Barry.

On 18 May 2008, Gibb released the song " Alan Freeman Days " in tribute to the Australian DJ Alan Freeman.

In 1968, they recorded " First of May " with lead vocals by Barry, The flip side of the song was " Lamplight " on which Robin Gibb sang the lead, Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood chose " First of May " to be the A-side, No other songs released on the album Odessa, and Robin quit the group.

Gibb served as Minister of State for Schools in the Department for Education from 13 May 2010 until 4 September 2012.

In 1994, Gibb was selected to contest the 1994 Rotherham by-election, caused by the death of James Boyce, held on 5 May 1994.

However, the club went into administration in May 2002, and Richmond was replaced by new co-owners Julian Rhodes and Gordon Gibb.

* Robin Gibb ( of the Bee Gees ) released a single called " Alan Freeman Days " in May 2008.

" We hardly earn the bread ", wrote Abby May to her brother, " the butter we have to think about.

With financial support from Emerson, Alcott left Concord on May 8, 1842, to a visit to England, leaving his brother Junius with his family.

While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the English in his absence at an unnamed spot, and then again in his presence at Wilton in May.

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

In May, Norris Cole received a blast from the past with the reappearance of his estranged brother Ramsay Clegg ( Andrew Sachs ) who wanted a reconciliation.

* 30 May 823 (): In the 14th year of Emperor Saga's reign, he abdicated ; the succession ( senso ) was received by Junna, Saga's younger brother and Emperor Kammu's third son.

In the early morning hours of May 27, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone ( the younger brother of the boy whom Dahmer had molested in 1988 ) was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his rectum.

Flavius Claudius Julianus, born in May or June 332 or 331 in Constantinople, was the son of Julius Constantius ( consul in 335 ), half brother of Emperor Constantine I, and his second wife, Basilina, a woman of Greek origin.

May Belle Mitchell gave her children advice on drinking and sex in a time when such things were " done but not spoken of ", recalled Mitchell's brother Stephens.

During her years at Washington Seminary, Mitchell's brother, Stephens, was away studying at Harvard College ( 1915 – 1917 ), and he left in May 1917 to enlist in the army, about a month after the U. S. declared war on Germany.

Luis Somoza Debayle became President ( 29 September 1956 to 1 May 1963 ), and was effectively dictator of the country until his death, but his brother Anastasio Somoza Debayle held great power as head of the National Guard.

The three other leaders — William Thompson's brother, Corporal Perkins, and John Church — were shot on May 17, 1649.

His brother Theodorus " Theo " was born on 1 May 1857.

Harold's brother Tostig made probing attacks along the southern coast of England in May 1066, landing at the Isle of Wight using a fleet supplied by Baldwin of Flanders.

* May 30 – On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III of France.

* May 8 – Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary, brother of V. I. Lenin ( b. 1866 )

* May 23 – Battle of Heiligerlee: Troops under Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat a smaller loyalist force under the Duke of Arenberg in an attempt to invade the Northern Netherlands.

* May 1 – King Sigismund is executed at Orléans after an 8-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Godomar.

* May 17 – The five men accused of adultery with Anne Boleyn, including her own brother George Boleyn, are executed.

* May 5 – The Peace of Beaulieu or Peace of Monsieur ( after Monsieur, the Duc d ' Anjou, brother of the King, who negotiated it ) ends the Fifth War of Religion.

* May 19 – Martin I succeeds his brother, John I, as King of Aragon ( now north-east Spain ).

In 1552 it was given as an appanage by Henry II to his son Henry of Valois, who, on becoming king in 1574, with the title of Henry III, conceded it to his brother Francis, duke of Alençon, at the treaty of Beaulieu near Loches ( 6 May 1576 ).

However, his piety does not seem to have matched that of his brother ( Jean de Joinville relates a tale of Louis catching him gambling on the voyage from Egypt to Acre ) and he returned with his brother Alphonse in May 1250.

* May 17 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England ( d. 1460 )