There were mounting calls for the President's resignation in early 2004 with thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets in support of demands for a referendum of confidence in him.

England began to recover in the early 2000s and were undefeated in Test matches through the 2004 calendar year.

* Todd, Malcolm ( 2004 ): The early Germans

She later had a brief solo music career in the early 2000s after the dissolution of Hole, releasing America's Sweetheart ( 2004 ), and went through several rehab sentences and run-ins with the law until achieving sobriety.

In 2004, the Panthers suffered major injuries early on, and the Panthers finished the season 7 – 9.

Corinna Vinschen became co-lead since early 2004 when Faylor left Red Hat.

Although the counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed VI, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

Abridged 14 was published in 2004, Abridged 15 is due early 2012.

This includes 73, 645 regular Britannica articles, with the remainder drawn from the Britannica Student Encyclopædia, the Britannica Elementary Encyclopædia and the Britannica Book of the Year ( 1993 – 2004 ), plus a few " classic " articles from early editions of the encyclopaedia.

The following U. S. listing tabulates the early 2010 ranking of major franchises along with the number of sub-franchisees ( or partners ) from data available for 2004.

The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.

As of early-2010, this was approximately 50 teraflops ; in mid-2008, this was approximately 30 teraflops ; in mid-2006, 20 teraflops ; and in early 2004, only 14.

In 2004 – 2006, two additional plants, one in Ras Laffan, Qatar, and the other in Skikda, Algeria, were built, but as of early 2007, Ras Laffan is functioning at 50 %, and Skikda has yet to start up.

Hyperinflation began early in the 21st-century, reaching 624 % in 2004.

After two fairly successful seasons without a playoff appearance, the Astros were early favorites to win the 2004 NL pennant.

In late 2004 and early 2005, regular sabotage of plants and pipelines reduced export and domestic distribution of oil, particularly to Baghdad.

* 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Until 2004 ( in 2005 – 2007 the Jaguars went back to wearing white at home for early season games ) and then 2008, the Jaguars would always wear their white jerseys for afternoon games at home during the first half of the season.

In early 2004, Linkin Park started a world tour titled the Meteora World Tour.

Although a counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

In early 2004, a Young Liberal convention in Hobart called for Fraser's life membership of the Liberal Party to be ended.

In 2004, an average of 290 drug couriers per month were arrested, decreasing to 80 per month by early 2006.

The hunger strike was concluded in early January 2004 when an Australian medical team agreed to visit the island.

In early 2004, the DVD also became available by mail.

The contras ( some references use the capitalized form, " Contras ") is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s.

With the help of five Central American Presidents, including Ortega, it was agreed that a voluntary demobilization of the contras should start in early December 1989, in order to facilitate free and fair elections in Nicaragua in February 1990 ( even though the Reagan administration had pushed for a delay of contra disbandment ).

Honduras and Nicaragua had tense relations throughout 2000 and early 2001 due to a boundary dispute off the Atlantic coast.

Demonstrating independence from the U. S., Mexico supported the Cuban government since its establishment in the early 1960s, the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua during the late 1970s, and leftist revolutionary groups in El Salvador during the 1980s.

When the Spanish arrived in western Nicaragua in the early 16th century, they found three principal tribes, each with a different culture and language: the Niquirano, the Chorotegano, and the Chontal.

The Nicaraguan Campaign Medal, a decoration of the United States Navy, was later issued for those American service members who had performed military duty in Nicaragua during the early years of the 20th century.

By the early 1970s, Nicaragua had become the United States ' top beef supplier.

In early 1979, President Jimmy Carter and the United States no longer supported the Somoza regime, but did not want a left-wing government to take power in Nicaragua.

The early economic gains of the Sandinistas were wiped out by seven years of sometimes precipitous economic decline, and in 1990, by most standards, Nicaragua and most Nicaraguans were considerably poorer than they were in the 1970s.

* April 30 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation ( see Nicaragua's early history ).

While countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay were dictatorships that censored elements of Nueva canción in in the late 1970s and early 1980s the Sandinista movement that rose to power with the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979 welcomed Nueva canción, and several artist gave support to the movement like Mercedes Sosa and Silvio Rodríguez who played in the Abril en Nicaragua concert in 1983.

The dictators that ruled Guatemala during the late 19th and early 20th century were generally very accommodating to U. S. business and political interests ; thus, unlike other Latin American nations such as Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba, the U. S. did not have to use overt military force to maintain dominance in Guatemala.

From the early 1970s he was also involved in campaigns against the dictatorships in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Indonesia, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Philippines, Iraq, Iran, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Chile.

In the early 20th century the first bishop of León and last in Nicaragua, Archbishop Simeón Pereira y Castellón ( the same who presided over the funerals of Darío on 13 February 1916 ) commissioned the Granadan sculptor Jorge Navas Cordonero make the statue of the Virgin Mary above the front of the facade, the Atlanteans that are among the gables and the towers.

The Contadora Group was an initiative launched in the early 1980s by the foreign ministers of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela to deal with the military conflicts in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, which were threatening to destabilize the entire Central American region.

A pen cancel may indicate fiscal ( revenue ) use ; however, in the early days of stamps a pen cancel was sometimes used because no handstamp was available, for instance in Nicaragua where pen cancels were used for seven years after their first stamps appeared in 1862.

Starting in the early 19th century, Afro-Caribbeans from Bocas del Toro ( Panama ), San Andrés ( Colombia ), and Nicaragua visited what is now Tortuguero to hunt turtles from May through September.

A north-northeastward track that began early on October 31 brought the center back over the Caribbean waters later that day near Cabo Gracias a Dios on the border between Honduras and Nicaragua.

In Nicaragua, the first immigrant group to introduce the term for this cut of beef to the United States restaurant scene in Miami, Fl as early as the 1950s, it refers to a thin steak prepared grilled and served with a traditional chimichurri sauce-macerated parsley, garlic, peppers, and olive oil sauce.

According to information from Seymour M. Hersh, author of The Dark Side of Camelot during early preparations to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally asked then-Governor of Alabama John Malcolm Patterson ( who served as a lieutenant in Eisenhower's staff during the World War II ) to use the aircraft of Air National Guard of Alabama ( Patterson, as Governor, was commander-in-chief of the guard ) by Cuban émigrés to attack and pilots to train them in deep secret in Nicaragua.

By early on October 29, a trough extended from Nicaragua through Florida ; based on the trough and climatology for similar hurricanes, Hattie was expected to continue northward.

Marin married Alvaro " Alex " Marin, an immigrant from Nicaragua, in the early 1980s.

Petty says in the foreword to Parallel Worlds that he is a humanist and Socialist, mentions visiting Nicaragua and Cuba in the early 1960s, and feeling the influence of Colin Wilson's The Outsider.

MAP-ML symbolPopular Action Movement-Marxist-Leninist () is a communist party in Nicaragua that surged out of a split from the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) in the early 1970s.