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unusual facts about August 2004


Assemblage 23

Assemblage 23 released a fourth album, Storm, in October 2004 with singles "Let the Wind Erase Me" in August and "Ground" in November.



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11th Marine Expeditionary Unit

During August 2004, the MEU, led an assault consisting of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines; 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division; and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, against the Islamist Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf.

Acting on AIDS

Since its inception in August 2004, Acting on AIDS has grown to approximately 190 campus chapters around the United States.

Allan Johnston

Johnston signed for Kilmarnock in August 2004, reuniting him with former Hearts management team Jim Jefferies and Billy Brown.

Anti-idling

The city of Auburn, California implemented extensive idling regulations in August 2004.

Babar Ahmad

Before his imprisonment in August 2004, Ahmad was working in the IT department at Imperial College, University of London.

Belinda Chapple

She has released two solo singles; the Olympic Games ballad "Where It All Began" in August 2004 and in April 2005 returned with "Move Together", a dance-pop collaboration with UK mix master Solitaire.

Caloundra Airport

On 15 August 2004, a Mooney M20 aircraft, registration VH-DXZ crashed into the ocean off Bokarina while approaching Caloundra Airport at night.

David Woodward

David Woodward (29 August 1942 – 25 August 2004) was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.

Dion McGregor

A third album, The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor: More Outrageous Recordings of the World's Most Renowned Sleeptalker was assembled by Toronto poet Steve Venright and released in August 2004 on the Torpor Vigil Industries label.

Easyworld

The band achieved limited success in the early 2000s, releasing 3 albums in total; Better Ways to Self Destruct, This Is Where I Stand and Kill the Last Romantic on Fierce Panda Records and Jive Records before parting ways in August 2004.

Eddie Morten

In August 2004, Morten asked his travel agent to book him a flight from Vancouver, British Columbia to San Francisco, California, but was told that the airline, Air Canada, would not allow him to fly without an attendant because he is deaf and partially blind.

Elizabeth Carty

Carty won the Miss North Carolina Teen USA pageant in late 2003 and represented North Carolina in the nationally televised pageant held in Palm Springs, California in August 2004.

Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping

The individual jumping event, part of the equestrian program at the 2004 Summer Olympics, was held from 22 August to 27 August 2004 in the Olympic Equestrian Centre on the outskirts of Markopoulo in the Attica region of Greece.

Eric Denis

In August 2004, the film went on to win the second prize in the "Portraits" category" in Tver festival in Russia.

Fleishman-Hillard

In August 2004, PR Week reported that the Chicago office of F-H were advising PepsiCo with a campaign to respond to concern about rising levels of obesity.

Gian Paolo Dallara

In the August 2004, it was announced that Dallara and his team were signed by Alex Shnaider to build a chassis for the erstwhile Jordan team, Midland.

Good Spirit

The album was album recorded from various gigs around Australia: The Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 14 August 2004; The Palais, Melbourne on 19 August 2004 and at the Fly-by-Night Club in Fremantle on 21 August 2004.

HAVAL

On 17 August 2004, collisions for HAVAL (128 bits, 3 passes) were announced by Xiaoyun Wang, Dengguo Feng, Xuejia Lai, and Hongbo Yu.

Jeff Timmons

After positive reviews, he wrote and arranged his first solo album, Whisper That Way, which was released in August 2004 and included the singles Whisper That Way, Better Days and Favorite Star.

Jiang Yonghua

On 20 August 2004, she also broke the Olympic record at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, setting a time of 34.112 seconds, but was beaten by Australia's Anna Meares a few minutes later, with new Olympic and world record time of 33.952 seconds.

John McWethy

On 11 August 2004, he moderated the first "News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis" workshop, a joint program by the National Academy of Engineering, the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Julius Ruffin and Arthur Lee Whitfield

Whitfield was released by Virginia authorities in August 2004, when a Norfolk prosecutor said DNA evidence proved Whitfield did not commit the two rapes.

Kagara, Niger State

In August 2004, while presenting 500 hand pumps from the Federal Government to the Niger State Governor, Abdulkadir Kure, Mukhtar Shagari said the dam project could be doomed due to non-approval of the budgetary allocation.

Kiki Fatmala

She married Christian Froeschel in Zwettl, Austria on 14 August 2004 and already registered in Registry Office, Jakarta.

Landsat 8

In August 2004, a memorandum from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directed Federal agencies to place Landsat-type sensors on the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) platform.

Larry Miles Dinger

From August 2004 to June 2005, he was the State Department's Senior Advisor to the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

Ledyard Tucker

Ledyard R Tucker (19 September 1910 Glenwood Springs, Colorado – 16 August 2004 Savoy, Illinois) was an American mathematician who specialized in statistics and psychometrics.

Luca Toni

He consequently gained his first cap for the Italian national team in a friendly match 18 August 2004 lost 2–0 to Iceland in Reykjavík, which also marked Marcello Lippi's debut at the helm of the Azzurri.

Michael E. Ward

In August 2004, Ward stepped down from his position prematurely to join his wife, Hope Morgan Ward who had accepted a position as a Methodist bishop in Mississippi; Patricia N. Willoughby was appointed to fill the position for the remainder of Ward's term.

Ndiss Kaba Badji

He has a personal best long jump of 8.20 metres, achieved in August 2004 in Sestriere.

North American Islamic Trust

In August 2004 Mohammed M. Hossain and Yassin M. Aref, two leaders of a mosque owned by NAIT in Albany, were arrested in a sting operation on charges that they took part in what they thought was a plot to import a shoulder-fired missile and assassinate a Pakistani diplomat in New York City.

Promises to Keep

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment is a book written by William Fisher, the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property at Harvard Law School and the faculty director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It was released by Stanford University Press in August 2004.

Raquel C. Bono

From August 2004 through August 2005 she served as the executive assistant to the 35th Navy Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

Reel to Red Productions

Reel to Red Productions was the first internship program of its kind established by Chelse Benham in August 2004 at The University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA) in Edinburg, Texas, USA.

Robert Hoyzer

Hoyzer's career as a referee came to an abrupt end in January 2005 after he was suspected of betting on a first-round German Cup tie between regional league side Paderborn and 1st Bundesliga club Hamburger SV on 21 August 2004.

Short 360

21 August 2004: A Venezuelan Air Force Short 360 crashed into a mountain while descending to land at Maracay, killing all 30 people on board.

The Panda Band

The band undertook its first tour of regional and metropolitan Western Australia with Little Birdy in July 2004, followed by their first interstate dates in Sydney & Victoria playing with Hope of the States in August 2004.

The Tree Bride

Hardcover — ISBN 1-4013-0058-8 (ISBN 978-1-4013-0058-6), published in August 2004 by Theia.

This Hungry Life

The album was recorded live in front of an audience at a closed hotel in Bellows Falls, Vermont in August 2004.

Tiffany McElroy

She co-anchored portions of the PIX Morning News on WPIX in New York City from August 2004 to August 2009, following two years at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Torsten Schmidt

His personal best throw is 64.78 metres, achieved in August 2004 in Thum.

Uptech Computer

In August, 2004 Microsoft brought suit against the owners of one franchise for distributing pirated copies of Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Office 2000.

V-u-den

The group was formed in August 2004 and consists of members Rika Ishikawa (Morning Musume), Erika Miyoshi, and Yui Okada, with Ishikawa being the leader.

We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You

It contains a full live concert filmed at Brighton Dome in August 2004, featuring backstage footage and extras.

Yu-Foo Yee Shoon

In August 2004, Yu-Foo was appointed Minister of State at the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS).

Yuki no Hana

It was also covered by Mainland Chinese singer Han Xue on August 2004 in Mandarin; and by Hong Kong singer Vincy Chan in 2006, in Cantonese.

Zamora TV

It was created in August 2004 and can be seen in the community of Villa de Cura in the Zamora Municipality of the Aragua State of Venezuela on UHF channel 61.