2004 Kroger St. Jude International – Singles
Taylor Dent was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Jan-Michael Gambill.


2004 Kroger St. Jude International – Singles
Joachim Johansson won in the final 7–6(7–5), 6–3 against Nicolas Kiefer.


2004 Kufa shelling
The 2004 Kufa shelling occurred on August 26, 2004 when the main mosque in Kufa, Iraq was hit by a barrage of mortar rounds.


2004 Kufa shelling
The mortar rounds struck the mosque, killing 74 people, and injuring 315. Weeks before the attack happened there had been heavy fighting between U.S. forces and fighters loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr around Kufa, and Najaf. As a result of the shelling, the U.S. halted all operations around the area for 24 hours.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire
The 2004 Kumbakonam school fire incident happened in a school in Kumbakonam in the Thanjavur district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. On 16 July 2004, the day of the accident, a total of 94 students of the Krishna English Medium School's primary section were burnt to death in their classroom as the thatched roof caught fire. The accident was one of the four most significant fire accidents and the most significant school accident in the history of Tamil Nadu, and the second-largest school fire in India in terms of casualties, the first being the Dabwali fire accident.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire
A committee set up under the retired Judge Sampath found out that the heavy casualties were due to the management's wrong tactics to admit extra students to a primary school and mislead the authorities about the student-teacher ratio. The Chief Minister who visited the site ordered the withdrawal of the recognition of the three schools, prosecution of the school authorities, the correspondent, and the suspension of the Chief Educational Officer, the District Elementary Educational Officer, and the Assistant Elementary Educational Officer of the Thanjavur school district.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire
A compensation of ₹ 1,000,000 was provided to the next of the kin of the deceased, ₹ 25,000 to the severely injured, and ₹ 10,000 to other injured victims from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund. The district administration arranged another primary school in Natham village and accommodated 46 students under the government's Educational Guarantee Scheme.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire
After a long delay, a trial began on 24 September 2012 in the Thanjavur district court. The case had 21 accused and 488 witnesses that included 18 children who survived the accident. The headmaster Prabharan and three others were charged in the case. Charges were also filed against 17 others, including Pulavar Palanichamy, his wife and correspondent of the school Saraswati, three teachers, six officers of the Elementary Education Department, the Kumbakonam Municipal Commissioner, the town planning officer, and four assistants of the education department. On 30 July 2014, the court sentenced the school founder Pulavar Palanichamy to life imprisonment and fined ₹51,65,700. Ten others, including school staff and officials from Kumbakonam and the state education department, were sentenced to five years imprisonment. Eleven of those accused, including three teachers, were acquitted.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Background
There were three schools, namely, Sri Krishna Aided Primary School, Saraswathy Nursery and Primary School, and Sri Krishna Girls High School, operating in the same building in Kasiraman street in Kumbakonam, a town in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The school was located amidst residential buildings, 15 m (49 ft) away from the main road. The school had a small gate 4 ft (1.2 m) wide, immediately beyond which the classrooms were located. The classrooms did not have any partition, and there was a stage at the end of the classroom.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Background
On the northwest side of the stage were the noon meal kitchen and a cycle stand, both of which were thatched structures. The northern wing in the ground floor accommodated the Saraswathy Nursery and Primary School, which had six classes, one each for LKG (Lower Kinter Garden), UKG (Upper Kinter Garden), I, II, IV, and V. There was another entrance to the school on the eastern side.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident
On 16 July 2004, a fire broke out, with the school's thatched roof structure catching fire initially. The school started at 9:15 a.m., and during one of the breaks at 10:30 a.m., one of the girl students noticed the fire and alerted the teacher, and the news spread to other classes. The fire sparked from the midday meal kitchen thatch and spread to the upper level, which also had a thatched roof and spread rapidly. The narrow staircase had sundry material that prevented the exit of children. The staircase was also located close to the kitchen. The kitchen used fire logs for cooking unlike other schools, which had gas stoves. The school was overcrowded, having 900 children enrolled. The thatch and the supporting bamboo poles caught fire, fell on the children, and also blocked the exit.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident
The buildings in the nursery and primary schools had no ventilation. Near the eastern entrance, there was a narrow staircase 4.5 ft (1.4 m) wide leading to the first floor of the building. The layout of the first floor was similar to the ground floor, where classes had no separation, and the exit was through a narrow collapsible door. The lower end of the class on the western side was connected to the noon meal kitchen thatched roof and the cycle stand roof, where the accident occurred.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident
The Sri Krishna Girls High School had 179, Sri Krishna Aided Primary School had 477, and Saraswathy Nursery and Primary School had 126 students in their roles, totaling 782 students in the three schools. The second floor measured 62.5 ft (19.1 m) * 13 ft (4.0 m) and had classes for standards VI, VII, VIII, and IX of the girls' high school. The third floor had an open terrace having a water tank.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident
The fire service was informed at 11 a.m., and the personnel arrived in a few minutes. But since they were unprepared for such a large-scale fire, the rescue services were not effective. The locals also helped by breaking the concrete window. The injured children were admitted to the Government hospital in Kumbakonam and some of them later got shifted to Thanjavur Medical College hospital.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Victims
The deceased children were taken to the government hospital for postmortem. By the end of the day of the accident, 76 children were reported killed, and their bodies had been handed over to their families by the district administration. The Collector of the district administration arranged for temporary wards in the Government hospital for the parents to identify their children. The digging of graves for 56 bodies went on until 2 a.m. the next morning, with the help of additional diggers arranged by the district administration.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Victims
On 16 July, additional doctors arrived from Kilpauk Medical College, JIPMER Medical College Hospital, C.M.C., Vellore, Salem, and Coimbatore to treat the injured. The casualty increased to 90, 89 of whom were identified and handed over to the parents. Some of the injured were shifted to private hospitals in Kumbakonam, Madurai, and Chennai as requested by the parents. There were 65 who were still undergoing treatment on 16 July, although four of them later died, increasing the total death toll to 94.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Aftermath
"Oh dear little ones! Oh dear little ones! For you, parents had glorious dream! And You were all immersed in your own dreamsYet, Agni engulfed you and all those dreamsTaking you to Almighty's divine presenceUsually, departed old parents and buried by sonsWhereas, Kumbakonam, saw a sad scene! Crying parents burying their little ones!! Oh Almighty! show your grace on those little onesAnd keep them in Thy holiest presence!! Oh Almighty! bless those parents wailing in griefTo have the strength to bear this great lossMay Thy compassion and grace pervade all soulsAnd bring down the pain and wipe away the tearsOh Almighty! show your grace on those little ones"


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Aftermath
~ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Prayer for departed children of Kumbakonam, 2004


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Aftermath
The accident was one of the four major fire accidents in the state following the Brihadeeswarar Temple fire on 7 June 1997, when 60 people were killed, Erwadi fire incident on 6 August 2001 that killed 30 mentally challenged people and fire at a marriage hall on 23 January 2005 at Srirangam where 30 people including the bridegroom were killed.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Aftermath
The accident was the second in terms of casualties for fire accidents in schools after the one in 1995 in Dabwali, Mandi in Sirsa District of the Haryana State, where 400 people were killed in a school fire during a prize distribution ceremony of the DAV Public School. It was the largest school accident in Tamil Nadu, followed by a private school building collapse in Madurai during the 1950s that killed 35 girls and injured 137 others. The accident raised several questions on the Tamil Nadu Educational Department on the safety rule implementation, training of school teachers in civil defense, and enforcement of rules imparting education.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Aftermath
The Chief Minister who visited the site ordered the withdrawal of recognition of the three schools, prosecution of the school authorities and the correspondent, Suspension of the Chief Educational Officer, the District Elementary Educational Officer, and the Assistant Elementary Educational Officer of Thanjur school district. A compensation of ₹ one lakh was provided to the relatives of the deceased, ₹25,000 to the severely injured and ₹ 10,000 to other injured from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Aftermath
Counseling sessions were arranged for the children affected by the trauma and arrangements were made to facilitate the surviving children to join other schools. A central minister also visited the site on behalf of the Prime Minister of India. The relief announced by the state and central government were disbursed on 17 July 2004. The district administration arranged a primary school in Natham village and accommodated 46 students under the Educational Guarantee Scheme of the government.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Aftermath
Yadava College constructed a park in memory of the 94 children by planting 94 saplings and termed in Kumbakonam Park in an idea to create environmental awareness among future generations. The state government constructed a memorial park near Palakarai, the Cauvery bridge, in Kumbakonam in memory of the lost lives. The park was opened by the then Deputy Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin on 6 June 2010. The park was constructed at a cost of ₹ 19 lakh, housing children's amusement equipment in an area of 7,300 sq ft (680 m2).


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Aftermath
The government allotted housing plots to 59 homeless parents of the deceased of the total 89. A charitable trust named Amritha helped construct houses in the plots and the colony was named Amrithapuram. In 2012, 25 families of the victims constructed an Amritha Vinayagar temple on the premises in memory of the lost lives. The temple was consecrated on 21 June 2012.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Accident, Aftermath
The state government constructed a memorial park near Palakarai, Kumbakonam, in memory of the lost lives, which opened on 6 June 2010. The government also allotted housing plots to 59 homeless parents of the 89 deceased students.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial
The case trial started after a long delay on 24 September 2012 in the Thanjavur district sessions court. The case had 21 accused and had 488 witnesses that included 18 children affected in the accident. The headmaster, Prabharan, and three others turned approvers. There was a petition filed in the court to include the then collector of the district, J Radhakrishnan, and three others in the case, but it was dismissed. A total of 17 people were charge-sheeted in the case and were set to face trial. The seventeen included Pulavar Palanichamy, his wife and correspondent of school Saraswati, three teachers, six officers in the education department (elementary), the Kumbakonam municipal commissioner, town planning officer, and four assistants in the education department.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial
The education department officials were accused of negligence in their duties and the lower level officers for colluding with the officials to obtain and renew the licenses. The three teachers were accused of showing negligence in rescuing the children. Pulavar Palanichamy, Saraswati, and the three teachers filed petitions in the lower court to discharge them from the case. Their plea was dismissed both in the lower court and Madras High Court on 14 July 2012.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Investigation
The Tamil Nadu state government deputed a committee under Justice K. Sampath on 20th July 2004 to inquire into the circumstances and causes of the fire accident. The committee assumed office on 1 August 2004 and was constituted with expert members Dr. Rani Kandhaswami (Former Principal, Lady Willington Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Chennai), S.K. Saxena (Fire Officer, Madras Atomic Power Station, Kalpakkam), K. Vijayan (Clinical Psychologist, Institute of Mental Health, Chennai) and P.A. Annamalai (retired Head Master).


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Investigation
The committee was given a timeline of four months but the timeline was extended four times; the investigation was completed on 30 June 2005. The investigations revealed that the school had not been inspected by the Education Department officials for three years. The fire officials reported that the building laws were not followed as the school had a thatched kitchen and classroom, had no emergency exits and was a "death trap".


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Investigation
The schools had to follow minimum safety standards, the chapter IV on fire and safety of National Building Code of India 2005 and 14435:1997 states the code of practice of fire safety in educational institutions. A public interest litigation was filed in the Supreme Court of India by Avinash Mehrotra quoting the accident and pleading protection of life and safety of school children across various other schools in India.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Investigation
The school teachers were not trained properly to handle the situation. The investigation revealed that the role of teachers was highly questionable. One view held that most of them found ways to escape themselves rather than saving the children as many came out unscathed. Some of the student eyewitnesses revealed that the teachers asked them to remain in the classes. However, some hold that the teachers tried their best to rescue the children and some of them asked the children to stay in the classes as they thought the fire was just the regular smoke from the kitchen.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Investigation
The committee found that the major reason for the heavy casualty was the false tactics of the management to bring the other two school students to the aided primary school to mislead the inspecting authorities about the student-teacher ratio. The management was held responsible for the whole accident. The report pointed out that the teachers were not trained in disaster management and the prohibited thatch structure was close to the classrooms. It also stated that the schools had inadequate exit facilities and had no firefighting capabilities.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Investigation
Pulavar Palanichamy, the owner of the schools, was reported to have used his political clout and coalesced with the municipal and the revenue department officials for getting the permits for the schools. Vijayalakshmi, the noon meal organizer and teacher of the English Medium School, was held accountable for not performing her duties of taking safety precautions.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Investigation
Vasanthi, the head cook, lit the oven in the absence of her assistant, Sivasankari, who usually lights it. There were contrasting reports on whether Sivasankari was present in the school during the event. The Tahsildar of Kumbakonam Taluk, Paramasivam, was reported "dishonest" for granting a license under the Tamil Nadu Public Buildings (Licensing) Act, 1965 to the school. The chartered engineer Jayachandran was also held dishonest of giving stability certificate to the building without visiting the school once. The additional assistant educational officer, Madhavan for allowing the school to run without recognition for 6 years.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Investigation
Sivaprakasam, the assistant elementary education officer, was held accountable for allowing Madhavan, who was not competent to allow a permit to the school. Balaji, the deputy education elementary officer was accused of carelessly passing the papers signed by Madhavan. The local health officer Dr. Sivapunyam was accused of giving a false sanitary certificate to the school. Annadurai, a friend of Pulavar Palanichamy was accounted for advising circumvention of rules. Pingapani, the deputy educational officer, who inspected the high school, did not show interest in learning that the same campus had a primary school acting beyond rules.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Investigation
The other officers who were earlier responsible for permitting the nursery school against the rules during 1999, namely, Shanmughavelu, Sethuramachandran, Chandrasekharan, and Dr. Palanivelu. The Deputy elementary educational officer, Durairaj, and assistant elementary educational officer, Balakrishnan, were held less culpable for knowing about the thatched structure and the exaggerated attendance, but not initiating any action.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Verdict
The trial was concluded on 17 July 2014. On 30 July 2014, Thanjavur district session court sentenced school founder Pulavar Palanichamy to life imprisonment and fined ₹5,165,700 (US$72,000). Palanichamy's wife and school correspondent P Saraswathi, headmistress J Santhalakshmi, noon meal organizer R Vijayalakshmi, cook R Vasanthi were sentenced to five years imprisonment. Officials in the district elementary education office, officer R Balaji, his assistant S Sivaprakasam, superintendent T Thandavan, and assistant G Durairaj were also sentenced to five years in jail. Total fine of ₹5,257,000 (US$74,000) was imposed and ordered the compensation of ₹50,000 (US$700) to parents of each victim.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Verdict
The chartered engineer, B Jayachandran was sentenced to two years of jail time and a fine of ₹50,000 (US$700) but later the court suspended his punishment. The court cleared charges of other eleven accused, including three teachers, six education department officials, and two municipality officers.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Verdict
The bench of Madras High Court in Madurai allowed the appeal filed by the state government against the release of 11 accused in the case on 13 September 2014.


2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Trial, Verdict
The eleven who were acquitted by the Principal District Court were B. Palaniswamy, the District Elementary Educational Officer, R. Narayanaswamy, the District Educational Officer, J. Radhakrishnan, the Assistant Elementary Educational Officer, V. Balasubramanian, the Assistant Elementary Educational Officer (Nursery), K. Balakrishnan and G. Madhavan, Additional Assistant Elementary Educational Officers, P. Devi, R. Mahalakshmi, and T. Anthoniammal, the teachers of the school, R. Sathiyamoorthy, the then Kumbakonam Municipal Commissioner and K. Murugan, the Town Planning Officer.


2004 Kvalserien
The 2004 Kvalserien was the 30th edition of the Kvalserien. It determined two teams of the participating ones would play in the 2004–05 Elitserien season and which four teams would play in the 2004–05 Allsvenskan season.


2004 Kyrgyzstan League, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn won the championship.


2004 Kyrgyzstan Second Level
Final tables for the 2004 season of the Kyrgyzstan League Second Level.


2004 Kyrgyzstan Second Level
There was no final stage this year, because only Shumkar-M Kara-Su displayed intent to play in the Kyrgyzstan League the following year. Luch Frunze withdrew to be replaced by FK Alamudun and KGUSTA changed their name to Dinamo-Chuy UVD.


2004 LFF Lyga
Final tables of the Lithuanian Championship in 2004 are presented below. The Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) organized three football leagues: A Lyga (the highest), 1 Lyga (second-tier), and 2 Lyga (third-tier), which comprised four regional zones.


2004 LG Cup (Nigeria)
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2004 LG Cup (Nigeria)
The LG Cup Four Nations is an exhibition association football tournament that took place in  National Stadium, Lagos, Nigeria in April 2004.


2004 LNBP season
The 2004 LNBP was the 5th season of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, one of the professional basketball leagues of Mexico. It started on July 1, 2004 and ended on December 8, 2004. The league title was won by Santos Reales de San Luis, which defeated Halcones UV Xalapa in the championship series, 4–2.


2004 LNBP season, Format
20 teams participate. The teams are divided in 2 groups of 10 teams each, called Zonas (zones): Zona Norte (North) and Zona Sur (South). The first 8 teams of each group qualify for the playoffs. The group playoffs have quarterfinals (best-of-5), semifinals (best-of-7) and finals (best-of-7). The winner of each group series qualify for the championship series (best-of-7), named Campeón de Campeones (Champion of Champions).


2004 LNBP season, Regular season, Zona Sur standings
Note: The LNBP website calculates 51 points for Garzas de Plata de la UAEH, thus ranking the team below Coras de la UAN.


2004 LNBP season, Copa Independencia
The first edition of the Copa Independencia, a tournament that took place in September, was played between the 8 best ranked teams at the end of the first part of the season. The tournament was won by Lobos de la UAdeC, which defeated Lechugueros de León, 94–88 in the final game played at Gimnasio Hermanos Carreón in Aguascalientes.


2004 LNBP season, All-Star Game
The 2004 LNBP All-Star Game was played in San Luis Potosí at the Auditorio Miguel Barragán on August 31, 2004. The game was played between a team of Mexican players (Mexicanos) and a team of foreign players (Extranjeros). The Mexican won, 111–106.


2004 LPGA Championship
The 2004 LPGA Championship was the 50th LPGA Championship, played June 10–13 at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware.


2004 LPGA Championship
Defending champion Annika Sörenstam won the second of her three consecutive LPGA championships, three strokes ahead of runner-up Shi Hyun Ahn. Due to heavy rains on Friday, the final 36 holes were played on Sunday. It was the seventh of Sörenstam's ten major titles.


2004 LPGA Championship
Beginning in 1994, the DuPont Country Club hosted this championship for eleven consecutive seasons, ending with this edition. The next five were played in nearby Maryland, at Bulle Rock Golf Course in Havre de Grace.


2004 LPGA Tour
The 2004 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from March through December 2004. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States-based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). This was the 55th season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season consisted of 32 official money events. Total prize money for all tournaments was $42,875,000.


2004 LPGA Tour
Annika Sörenstam continued to dominate women's golf in 2004, winning eight tournaments and $2,544,707 in prize money. Four other players earned over $1 million. There were six first-time winners in 2004: Moira Dunn, Christina Kim, Lorena Ochoa, the first Mexican winner, Jennifer Rosales, Kim Saiki, and Karen Stupples.


2004 LPGA Tour
For details of what happened in the main tournaments of the year see 2004 in golf.


2004 LPGA Tour, Tournament schedule and results
The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the LPGA Tour including that event.


2004 LPGA Tour, Award winners
The three competitive awards given out by the LPGA each year are:


2004 LSU Tigers football team
The 2004 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. Coached by Nick Saban in his final season coaching at LSU, the Tigers played their home games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The team finished with a 9–3 record and an appearance in the Capital One Bowl against Iowa.


2004 La Flèche Wallonne
The 2004 La Flèche Wallonne was the 68th edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 21 April 2004. The race started in Charleroi and finished in Huy. The race was won by Davide Rebellin of the Gerolsteiner team.


2004 Ladies European Tour
The 2004 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from January through December 2004. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).


2004 Ladies European Tour, Tournaments
The table below shows the 2004 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour.


2004 Ladies German Open
The 2004 Ladies German Open was a women's tennis event that was played in Berlin, Germany from 3 May to 9 May 2004. It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. Second-seeded Amélie Mauresmo won the singles title and earned $189,000 first-prize money.


2004 Ladies German Open, Finals, Doubles
Nadia Petrova /  Meghann Shaughnessy defeated  Janette Husárová /  Conchita Martínez, 6–2, 2–6, 6–1


2004 Lafayette Leopards football team
The 2004 Lafayette Leopards football team represented Lafayette College in the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The team was led by Frank Tavani, in his fifth season as head coach.


2004 Lafayette Leopards football team
Lafayette played in its first post-season game ever at Delaware by virtue of winning the Patriot League co-championship. Tavani was named a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award.


2004 Lafayette Leopards football team
The Leopards played their home games at Fisher Field in Easton, Pennsylvania. All games were televised by the Lafayette Sports Network (LSN).


2004 Lahsuna massacre
On 18 May 2004, four people were massacred at Lahsuna village in Bihar state of India.


2004 Lahsuna massacre
Members of the People's War Group, an outlawed naxal group, were accused of the crime. About 100 armed members of the group reportedly dragged the victims out of their homes and killed them for casting their votes in favour of Janata Dal (United).


2004 Lahsuna massacre
The victims were identified as Uday Paswan, Naga Paswan, Vijay Paswan and Sarwan Paswan.


2004 Lahsuna massacre
In 2008, three members of the group were found guilty of the killings and were awarded capital punishment by a court in Patna.


2004 Langerado Music Festival
The second Langerado Music Festival was held on March 6, 2004, in the heart of downtown Hollywood, FL at the Young Circle Park. In excess of 4,000 people attended this show, which followed in the tradition of the previous year and was a single day event.


2004 Langerado Music Festival, Lineup
The artists that attended the festival included Cake, moe., The Wailers, G. Love & Special Sauce, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Cracker, Drive By Truckers, MOFRO, Moshi Moshi, Perpetual Groove, ulu, Brothers Past, Rana, the Spam Allstars, Seth Yacovone Band, Whirlaway, louque, the Yoko Theory and Way of the Groove.


2004 Languedoc-Roussillon regional election
A regional election took place in Languedoc-Roussillon on March 21 and March 28, 2004, along with all other regions. Georges Frêche (PS) was elected President of the former Languedoc-Roussillon Council (now merged to Regional Council of Occitanie), defeating incumbent Jacques Blanc.


2004 Lao League, Overview
It was contested by 11 teams, and MCTPC won the championship.


2004 Lao League, Relegation playoff
Prime Minister's Office FC and No-8 Road Construction FC were automatically promoted from Lao League 2. A play off was held between the third place team and the third bottom team in the top division.


2004 Laois County Council election
An election to Laois County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2004 Las Vegas Bowl
The 2004 Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl was a post–season American college football bowl game, held on December 23, 2004, at Sam Boyd Stadium on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,  as a part of 2004–05 NCAA Bowl season. It was the 13th edition of the Las Vegas Bowl. The game featured the UCLA Bruins from the Pac-10 Conference and the Wyoming Cowboys from the Mountain West Conference. The game marked the first meeting between the two programs.


2004 Las Vegas Bowl
UCLA made its second trip to the Las Vegas bowl, their 26th trip to a bowl, and third consecutive bowl trip. The Bruins had defeated the New Mexico Lobos 27–13 in the 2002 Las Vegas Bowl. Wyoming appeared in their first Las Vegas Bowl, and their first trip to a bowl game since appearing in the 1993 Copper Bowl. It was their 11th bowl appearance in program history.


2004 Las Vegas Bowl
Wyoming upset UCLA, 24–21, on a 12–yard touchdown pass from Corey Bramlet to John Wadkowski with 57 seconds left in the game. The game was televised by ESPN.


2004 Las Vegas Bowl, Game summary
UCLA wore their home blue uniforms, and Wyoming wore white visitor uniforms. MVP Corey Bramlet went 20–34 for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns. Maurice Jones-Drew rushed for 126 yards on 26 carries for the Bruins. The Cowboys out gained the Bruins in yardage, 405 to 311.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic
The 2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, promoted at the time as the Las Vegas Desert Classic III, was the third year that the Professional Darts Corporation held a major darts tournament in the United States. It was held between 30 June and July 4, 2004.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic
The tournament was held at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada and was broadcast in the UK by Sky Sports. The layout of the playing hall had been modified from the previous year, and attracted larger crowds.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic
Manley defending Champion in 2003, who losing to Kevin Painter of England.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic
Taylor has Two Times Desert Classic Champion he beating Wayne Mardle 6–4 (sets).


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Results, Men's Tournament
† Ricky Villanueva withdrew from the tournament for unknown reasons


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Round One
Featured the last 32 and was not televised. Phil Taylor had the highest average in the best of 3 sets matches of 100.6 and coverage began live on Sky Sports with Round Two, the last 16 on Thursday 1 July.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Round Two
The first match featured Kevin Painter against Peter Manley. Manley was erratic in the first set which went to Painter, who then went on to beat Manley 3-0 including checkouts of 143, 124 and 102. Painter averaged of 94.5.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Round Two
The last American in the tournament, Darin Young (who was World Soft Tip Darts Champion) had beaten Lionel Sams in the first round and faced "Hawaii 501" – Wayne Mardle. The first two sets were close, but Mardle went through comfortably 3-0.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Round Two
John Part also had a comfortable win against Adrian Gray and in the early stages of the match he was averaging 111.33. It was a 3–0 win for Part who also checked out 161 and a 164.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Round Two
Alan Warriner faced Phil Taylor and started well. "The Ice Man" was two legs up in the first set only for Taylor to level at 2–2 before Warriner took the deciding leg. Taylor won the next two sets and started the fourth with a 147 checkout. Although Warriner won the next leg, Taylor pulled away to win the match.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Round Two
The battle of two former World Champions saw Richie Burnett beat Dennis Priestley – the Welshman had to hit a 117 checkout to tie the match at 1–1, which was possibly the turning point and Burnett went on to win 3–1.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Quarter Finals
John Part overcame Richie Burnett 3-1 in a match that wasn't necessarily reflected by the scoreline. Burnett came close to winning the first set having levelled it with a 137 finish. But Part won the decider. Even as Part looked to be coasting to victory at 2–0 in both sets and legs, Burnett put on a fightback to win 3 consecutive legs. Part held him off in the end for a 3–1 win.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Quarter Finals
Vegas-loving Wayne Mardle, took the first set against Ronnie Baxter – averaging 101 to Baxter's 94.30. Mardle then appeared to slow the game down which possibly affected both players. Baxter was possibly affected the most as he lost 0–3.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Quarter Finals
Steve Coote put up a valiant battle against Phil Taylor. The first set went to the deciding leg, and Coote held a 2–1 lead in the second – but Taylor always had the better of his opponent when it mattered and won the match 3–0.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Quarter Finals
Dennis Smith had been suffering from toothache throughout the tournament and combined with an in-form Kevin Painter was too much for "Smiffy" winning 3–1


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Semi Finals
Part was dogged by a failure to hit his doubles against Mardle in the semi. Neither player was outstanding, yet Mardle raced to a 3–0 lead. Despite a mini-fightback from the Canadian to win the 4th set, it was Mardle who went to the final a 4–1 winner.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Semi Finals
Kevin Painter v Phil Taylor was a repeat of the World Final from January. Taylor started the better, with a 114 winning the first set. Painter levelled and both players traded blows to stay level at 2–2. Taylor then surged to win the fifth and sixth sets to claim his place in the final.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Final
Taylor and Mardle had exchanged some verbal battles in the run-up to the match. The match started with Taylor in fine form, a first set average of 104 gave him the set 3 legs to 1. Taylor also took the second and started the third set with a 10 dart leg – his average now at 103.0. Mardle fought back to win the next two legs, but after Mardle missed darts to close the gap to 2 sets to 1, Taylor stretched the lead to 3–0.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Final
"Hawaii 501" began to hit back. He took the fourth set by 3 legs to 1 with a 12 dart leg for the set. Close again in the next set and Taylor checked out a 135 to go 2 legs to 1 up and then the next leg for the set and a 4 sets to 1 lead.


2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament Summary, Final
Mardle then began an amazing comeback. He took the sixth set to make it 2–4 and despite being 2 legs behind in the seventh set – three consecutive legs made it 3–4. His surge continued as he tied the match at 4–4 and the ninth set went to the deciding leg. Taylor kept his match average at 101 and won that crucial deciding leg for a 5–4 set lead and was then able to win the 10th set to clinch the title.


2004 Las Vegas Gladiators season
The 2004 Las Vegas Gladiators season was the 8th season for the franchise. This was the first season in which the Gladiators were members of the AFL's Western Division. They finished at 8–8, 4th in the Western Division. The Gladiators did not qualify for the playoffs.


2004 Las Vegas Gladiators season, Coaching
Frank Haege entered his third and final season as the head coach of the Gladiators.


2004 Latin Billboard Music Awards
Below are the winners of the 2004 Billboard Latin Music Awards, handed out April 29 in Miami.


2004 Latvian Higher League
The 2004 season in the Latvian Higher League, named Virslīga, was the 14th domestic competition since the Baltic nation gained independence from the Soviet Union on 6 September 1991. Eight teams competed in this edition, with Skonto FC claiming the title.


2004 Latvian Higher League, Relegation play-offs
The matches were played on 14 and 17 November 2004.


2004 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 2004 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 2004 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre.


2004 Laurence Olivier Awards, Productions with multiple nominations and awards
The following 14 productions, including one opera, received multiple nominations:


2004 Le Mans Endurance Series
The 2004 Le Mans Endurance Series was the inaugural season of ACO's Le Mans Endurance Series. It is a series for Le Mans prototype and Grand Touring style cars broken into 4 classes: LMP1, LMP2, GTS, and GT. It began on 9 May 2004 and ended on 13 November 2004 after 4 rounds.


2004 Le Mans Endurance Series
This season was preceded by the 1000km of Le Mans held in 2003 as a development race for the creation of the LMES.


2004 Le Mans Endurance Series, Teams Championships
Points are awarded to the top 8 finishers in the order of 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. Teams with multiple entries do not have their cars combined, each entry number is scored separately in the championship. Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance are not awarded points.


2004 Le Mans Endurance Series, Teams Championships, GTS Standings
† - Half points were awarded due to a lack of competitors.


2004 League of Ireland Cup
The League of Ireland Cup 2004 was the 31st staging of the League of Ireland Cup, which was won by Longford Town, the club's first victory in the competition.


2004 League of Ireland Cup
The 2004 League Cup kicked off in May. It featured two teams representing the Kerry and Mayo Leagues plus the 10 teams from the Premier Division and the 12 from the First Division. There was 24 teams drawn into eight groups of three. Each team played the other two in their group. The winner of each group progressed to the quarter-finals.


2004 League of Ireland First Division
The 2004 League of Ireland First Division season was the 20th season of the League of Ireland First Division.


2004 League of Ireland First Division, Overview
The First Division was contested by 12 teams and Finn Harps won the division. Each team played the other teams three times, totalling 33 games. The 2005  season would see the League of Ireland Premier Division revert to 12 twelve teams. To facilitate this expansion there was no promotion/relegation play-off this season and the second and third placed teams, UCD and Bray Wanderers, were automatically promoted.


2004 League of Ireland First Division, Gallery
The locations of the clubs that competed in the 2004 League of Ireland season


2004 League of Ireland Premier Division
The 2004 League of Ireland Premier Division was the 20th season of the League of Ireland Premier Division. The division was made up of 10 teams. Shelbourne were champions while Cork City finished as runners-up. Both clubs also enjoyed respectable runs in Europe.


2004 League of Ireland Premier Division, Overview
The season began on 19 March and ended on 22 November. Each team played four rounds of games, totalling 36 games each. The 2005 season would see the League of Ireland Premier Division revert to 12 twelve teams. To facilitate this expansion there was no promotion/relegation play-off this season and only one team, Dublin City, were automatically relegated. At the end of October, Drogheda United and Bohemians were all but out of the title race. Drogheda United and Bohemians were twelve points and eight points behind leaders Shelbourne respectively.


2004 League of Ireland Premier Division, Overview
Shelbourne had not quite sealed the title yet, though, as Cork City had reached second place and were just four points behind with four games remaining. On 5 November it looked like the Cork City's league challenge might have been over after they could only draw at home to Derry City. If Shelbourne had beaten Longford Town the following day they would be nine points clear with Cork City having just three games remaining. Longford won 4–1. Both Cork City and Shelbourne won their remaining games before the final round of matches.


2004 League of Ireland Premier Division, Overview
This meant that Cork City were three points behind Shelbourne. Cork had to win and Shelbourne lose for the title to go the Cork instead of Shelbourne. It turned out that neither result went the way Cork wanted as both they and Shelbourne drew. This meant that Shelbourne retained the league title and Cork City would have to be satisfied with second place.


2004 League of Ireland Premier Division, UEFA coefficient
The League of Ireland Premier Division performances in Europe this season meant that the league received a coefficient of 1.333 added to their overall coefficient which now accumulated to 4.164. This gave them a ranking 38th place as shown.


2004 League of Ireland Premier Division, Gallery
The locations of the clubs that competed in the 2004 League of Ireland season


2004 Leeds City Council election
The 2004 Leeds City Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough Council in England.


2004 Leeds City Council election
Following a full boundary review of Leeds' electoral wards by the Boundary Committee for England, all of the council's 99 seats were contested on the new ward boundaries. The previous all-out election in Leeds was in 1980.


2004 Leeds City Council election
The election saw the previously Labour-run council falling into no overall control. The Liberal Democrats and Conservatives agreed to take control of the council in a formal coalition, the first non-Labour administration in 24 years since 1980.


2004 Leeds City Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:


2004 Legg Mason Tennis Classic
The 2004 Legg Mason Tenis Classic was the 36th edition of this tennis tournament and was played on outdoor hard courts. The tournament was part of the International Series of the 2004 ATP Tour. It was held at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington, D.C. from August 16 through August 22, 2004.


2004 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles
Chris Haggard /  Robbie Koenig defeated  Travis Parrott /  Dmitry Tursunov 7–6(7–3), 6–1


2004 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Doubles
Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Sargis Sargsian were the defending champions, but did not compete this year, with Kafelnikov retired at the end of the 2003 season.


2004 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Doubles
Chris Haggard and Robbie Koenig won the title, defeating Travis Parrott and Dmitry Tursunov 7–6(7–3), 6–1 in the final. It was the 1st and only title in the year for the pair, and the 5th title for Haggard and 5th and final title for Koenig, in their respective careers.


2004 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Singles
Tim Henman was the defending champion but chose to participate in the 2004 Summer Olympics.


2004 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Singles
Lleyton Hewitt won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Gilles Müller.


2004 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
The 2004 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Lehigh won the Patriot League co-championship but lost in the first round of the national playoffs.


2004 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
In their fourth year under head coach Pete Lembo, the Mountain Hawks compiled a 9–3 record. Kaloma Cardwell, Karrie Ford, Jason Morrell and Justin Terry were the team captains.


2004 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
The Mountain Hawks outscored opponents 345 to 193. Their 5–1 conference record tied for best in the Patriot League standings. Though their co-champion Lafayette was awarded the Patriot League's automatic berth in the national Division I-AA playoffs, Lehigh qualified as an at-large selection. Both Patriot League representatives lost their first-round games.


2004 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
Lehigh was ranked No. 23 in the preseason national Division I-AA poll, and remained ranked throughout the season. The Mountain Hawks' ranking peaked at No. 8 in mid-November, but losses to archrival Lafayette and in the first round of the playoffs dropped them to No. 15 in the postseason poll.


2004 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
Lehigh played its home games, including its one playoff game, at Goodman Stadium on the university's Goodman Campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.


2004 Leicester South by-election
A by-election was held in Leicester South on 15 July, the same day as the Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election. It was won by  Parmjit Singh Gill of the Liberal Democrats, over-turning a Labour majority of 13,243 votes at the 2001 general election.


2004 Leicester South by-election
The MP for Leicester South, Jim Marshall, from the Labour Party died on 27 May 2004, shortly before the local and European elections in June.


2004 Leicester South by-election
The seat was first won by Marshall in 1974. He lost it to the Conservative Party candidate, Derek Spencer, in the 1983 general election by 7 votes, but won it back at the 1987 election. Marshall had a large personal vote, and both the Liberal Democrat and Conservative Parties targeted the seat at the 2004 by-election. At the 2005 general election, the Liberal Democrats were unable to retain the seat and Peter Soulsby became Leicester South's MP.


2004 Leicester South by-election
The constituency is diverse, covering leafy suburbs such as Stoneygate and Knighton along with inner city areas with a strong Asian community.


2004 Leicester South by-election, Results
The by-election was considered a referendum on Blair's policies, especially the ongoing Iraq War; Leicester South has one of the largest South Asian populations of any constituency in the UK. In his victory speech, Gill said, "Yesterday, Lord Butler gave his views on Tony Blair's reasoning for backing the invasion of Iraq. Today, people in Leicester have given theirs." He then went on to say, "The justification which Tony Blair gave for backing George Bush was wrong. The people of Leicester South have spoken for the people of Britain. Their message is that the prime minister has abused and lost their trust. He should apologize and he should apologize now."


2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final
The 2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final was the final football match of the 2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship, contested by Laois and Westmeath over two games in Croke Park, Dublin. The first game finished level so a replay occurred. Westmeath won their first ever title at senior level, leaving Wicklow and Fermanagh as the only other counties yet to achieve this. The season also saw the emergence of Denis Glennon.


2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match
Westmeath had only ever appeared in two Leinster Senior Football Championship finals in their history: in 1931 and 1949. They went into the 2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship bidding to win their first ever title at senior level, with the only other counties still to achieve this being Wicklow and Fermanagh.


2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match
Westmeath midfielder Rory O'Connell was banned for 12-weeks for stamping on Offaly's Pascal Kellaghan during Westmeath's Leinster Senior Football Championship win on 23 May 2004. This threatened O'Connell's participation in the final. Kellaghan submitted a letter saying the offence had not happened.


2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction
Commentators hailed Westmeath's win as monumental, with the Irish Independent's Eamonn Sweeney, 'Richard Stakelum famously greeted Tipperary's first Munster title in sixteen years with the words, "The famine is over." What Westmeath have endured makes the famine of other counties look more like minor spells of peckishness. There was a song a few years back which described the failures of the English soccer team as "thirty years of hurt." Thirty years? How about one hundred and twenty years of hurt. And those years never stopped Westmeath dreaming either.' Colm O'Rourke said it was "one of the greatest days ever in Croke Park and must have given rise to the biggest street party ever in [the Westmeath capital] Mullingar last night".


2004 Leitrim County Council election
An election to Leitrim County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 22 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2004 Leitrim Senior Football Championship
This is a round-up of the 2004 Leitrim Senior Football Championship. Annaduff claimed their first title in 76 years after a narrow win over another Southern side, Gortlettragh, in the final. They had dethroned St. Mary's of Carrick previously in the semi-final.


2004 Leitrim Senior Football Championship, Group stages
The Championship was contested by 20 teams, divided into four groups of five. The top two sides in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.


2004 Leitrim Senior Football Championship, Leitrim Senior Football Championship Final
Team:K. LudlowJ. CoxG. CoxD. CoxD. DuignanD. McHughM. FaughnanR. McCormackB. GuckianS. BeirneT. McNabola (0-5)G. GarveyA. CoxR. Cox (0-1)M. Rowley


2004 Leitrim Senior Football Championship, Leitrim Senior Football Championship Final
Team:C. McCrannD. KennedyS. ReillyK. McGrathM. QuinnS. Quinn (0-1)M. DuffyP. McGarryC. QuinnG. Mitchell (0-1)D. KennedyS. Dorrigan (0-3)P. KaneD. DuignanD. Kelleher


2004 Les Saintes earthquake
The 2004 Les Saintes earthquake occurred at 07:41:07 local time on November 21 with a moment magnitude of 6.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The shock was named for Îles des Saintes "Island of the Saints", a small island to the south of Guadeloupe, which is an overseas department of France. Although it occurred near the Lesser Antilles subduction zone, this was an intraplate, normal fault event. It resulted in one death, thirteen injuries, and forty people being made homeless, but the overall damage was considered moderate. A small, nondestructive tsunami was reported, but runup and inundation distances were difficult to measure due to a storm that occurred on the day of the event. Unusual effects at a volcanic lake on Dominica were also documented, and an aftershock caused additional damage three months later.


2004 Les Saintes earthquake, Tectonic setting
While the northern and southern boundary of the Caribbean Plate are complex and diffuse, with zones of seismicity stretching several hundred kilometers across, the eastern boundary is that of the Lesser Antilles subduction zone. This 850 km (530 mi) long subduction zone lacks a uniform curve and has an average dip of 50–60°. The largest known earthquake on the plate interface was a M7.5–8.0 event in 1843, but it did not generate a large tsunami. In opposition, the three largest events between 1950 and 1978 were intraplate normal faulting events.


2004 Les Saintes earthquake, Earthquake
The mainshock and the primary aftershock occurred on the previously mapped Roseau Fault, a 15 km (9.3 mi), northeast-dipping normal fault that forms the western portion of the northwest-trending Les Saintes channel graben within the overriding North American Plate. Late 1990s bathymetric studies showed that it had vertical fault scarps approaching 120 m (390 ft). The type of slip was primarily extensional, but included a small amount of left-lateral slip, and may have contributed to hydrological/volcanic effects that were observed on the island of Dominica, where a flooded fumarole drained twice.


2004 Les Saintes earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
A maximum intensity of VIII (Heavily damaging) was recorded at Terre-de-Haut, where some serious damage occurred to a school, a church, and to some homes near the sugar loaf. The same intensity was observed at Terre-de-Bas, where damage was moderate and non-structural in nature. At Petite-Anse, a small area contained some damaged walls, but no complete collapses occurred. At Grand-Bourg on the island of Marie-Galante (where the intensity was deemed to be VI–VII (Slightly damaging–Damaging)) the town hall, a church, and a college were red-tagged. The same intensity was assigned to the nearby commune of Saint-Louis, where the newly built town hall had visible cracks and the church was closed due to the potential of aftershocks breaking stained glass windows.


2004 Les Saintes earthquake, Earthquake, Boiling Lake
In the weeks following the mainshock, no abnormal geochemical or seismic activity was observed at La Grande Soufrière (an active stratovolcano) on Guadaloupe, but on southern Dominica near the Valley of Desolation, a flooded fumarole known as Boiling Lake was discovered empty by tourists on Christmas Day. The 10–15 m (33–49 ft) deep lake lies in an active geothermal area and is normally stable in terms of temperature (80–90 °C (176–194 °F)) and water level. By mid-February the lake was again full again, but the temperature had not returned to normal, and the water level dropped again following the M5.8 aftershock on February 14.


2004 Les Saintes earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks
By mid-February, aftershock activity had essentially ceased, with events becoming increasingly far apart. On February 14, a strong and slightly-damaging aftershock occurred. This was also a normal slip event that occurred about 7 km (4.3 mi) to the northwest of the November 21 mainshock. The damage was minimal, with cracks developing on the roads, some broken water pipes, and wall and roof damage (including at some locations that were damaged during the mainshock).


2004 Les Saintes earthquake, Tsunami
A small tsunami took place following the shock, and while no tide gauges captured the event, scientists were on scene within several days to investigate. A large storm occurred on the day of the event, and this might have prevented visual observation of the tsunami, but witnesses on Guadelouple reported that the sea dropped "a few" to as many as 50 cm (20 in).


2004 Les Saintes earthquake, Tsunami
At Anse des Mûriers on Îles des Saintes, a ship captain reported that three minutes after the earthquake the sea dropped about 80 cm (31 in) and also receded from the coast about 5 m (16 ft). Investigators documented a 70 cm (28 in) runup at Grande-Anse and a 50 cm (20 in) runup was measured at Anse Pajot, but these findings were difficult to distinguish from the storm surge.


2004 Letterkenny Town Council election
An election to Letterkenny Town Council took place on 5 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 9 councillors were elected by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2004 Lexell
2004 Lexell, provisional designation 1973 SV2, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7.5 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 22 September 1973, by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, on the Crimean peninsula, and later named for Swedish-Russian astronomer and mathematician Anders Johan Lexell.


2004 Lexell, Classification and orbit
Lexell is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest collisional populations of stony asteroids. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–2.3 AU once every 3 years and 2 months (1,169 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.08 and an inclination of 2° with respect to the ecliptic.


2004 Lexell, Classification and orbit
The asteroid was first identified as 1938 WL at the Finnish Turku Observatory in November 1938, extending the body's observation arc by 35 years prior to its official discovery observation at Nauchnij.


2004 Lexell, Physical characteristics
Pan-STARRS' photometric survey characterized Lexell as a LS-type asteroid, which transitions between the common S-type and rare L-type asteroid.


2004 Lexell, Physical characteristics, Rotation period
In March 2013, two rotational lightcurves of Lexell were obtained from photometric observations by Gary Haagen at Stonegate Observatory, Massachusetts, and by a group of astronomers at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory (E09), Australia. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 5.441 and 5.4429 hours with a brightness variation of 0.45 and 0.42 magnitude, respectively (U=3/3).


2004 Lexell, Physical characteristics, Rotation period
In February 2013, observations made by French amateur astronomer Pierre Antonini gave a concurring period of 5.44 hours with an amplitude of 0.51 magnitude (U=3-).


2004 Lexell, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Lexell measures 7.255 and 7.456 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.306 and 0.2908, respectively. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of the Flora family – and calculates a diameter of 7.82 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 12.7.


2004 Lexell, Naming
This minor planet was named after Anders Johan Lexell (1740–1784), a Swedish-Russian astronomer and mathematician. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 (M.P.C. 4238). The lunar crater Lexell was also named in his honor, as is Lexell's Comet, of which he computed its orbit.


2004 Lexmark Indy 300
The 2004 Lexmark Indy 300 was the thirteenth and penultimate round of the 2004 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, held on October 24, 2004 on the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Queensland, Australia. Paul Tracy won the pole and Bruno Junqueira won the race.


2004 Lexmark Indy 300, Qualifying results
* Oriol Servià's time from Qualification Session #1 was forfeited after he switched to his backup car for the race.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting
The period between Paul Martin's assumption of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada (November 14, 2003) and the announcement of the 2004 federal election (May 23, 2004) saw a considerable amount of infighting within the party. The divisions in the Liberal Party, the party's embroilment in the Sponsorship Scandal, and a united Conservative opposition, all combined to end 12 continuous years of Liberal rule.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Turner's leadership
While the Liberal Party has had internal conflicts during its history, it has had a tumultuous period during the later leadership of Pierre Trudeau. In 1975, John Turner unexpectedly resigned as Minister of Finance.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Turner's leadership
Internal unrest began after Turner was elected leader, defeating Trudeau-loyalist Jean Chrétien. Trudeau had resigned due to slipping approval ratings, which showed his party headed for certain defeat against newly elected Progressive Conservative leader Brian Mulroney.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Turner's leadership
Turner then immediately led the Liberals into a disastrous election, finishing with 40 seats, only ten more than the New Democratic Party. For his part, Turner initially did not give any Trudeau loyalists important campaign positions until near the end of the campaign when it was too late. Some suggested that the Liberals would follow their British namesake into oblivion, as NDP leader Ed Broadbent consistently out-polled Turner in personal approval ratings.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Turner's leadership
Consequently, Turner's leadership was frequently questioned, and in the lead up to the 1986 Liberal convention, a vote of confidence loomed large. Chrétien, supposedly still bitter over his loss at the 1984 convention, resigned his seat. The ongoing and often open lack of popularity of Turner within his own party led to many editorial cartoonists to draw him with a back stabbed full of knives. Keith Davey and other Liberals began a public campaign against Turner, coinciding with backroom struggles involving Chrétien's supporters. However, the public conflict influenced many Liberals to support Turner, and he ended up getting 75% of the delegate vote.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Turner's leadership
Further infighting dogged the party during the 1988 election but they were successfully able to re-establish themselves as the main opposition to Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives. Despite doubling their number of seats, the results were considered a disappointment as polls in mid-campaign had predicted a Liberal majority, and Turner resigned as party leader in 1990.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Turner's leadership
Back in 1986, a group of young Liberals approached Paul Martin as an ideological equivalent of Turner. While Martin did not take part in an attempt to overthrow Turner, he did prepare to succeed him in the leadership should the position open, and he entered Parliament in the 1988 election. From the moment Martin announced his intentions to become an MP, he was touted as a possible leadership candidate.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, 1990 Convention
Chrétien and Martin squared off in the 1990 leadership convention after Turner resigned, with Martin being acknowledged as the ideological successor to Turner.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, 1990 Convention
The Meech Lake Accord had been a potentially divisive issue for the Liberals. Trudeau came out of retirement to campaign against the Accord, while Turner and Martin declared their support for it. While Turner had privately opposed many of Trudeau's policies while in Cabinet, Meech Lake was seen as one of the signs of open disagreement among both factions.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, 1990 Convention
Chrétien himself said that he never forgave Martin for some of the "wounds" that the latter inflicted; the most notable was during a leadership debate when Martin supporters shouted "vendu", a French  insult meaning sellout.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, 1990 Convention
Although Chrétien won on the first ballot, Martin had a strong second-place showing, which allowed him to force concessions. Martin played a major role in drafting policy during the 1993 federal election. The Liberals, as it turned out, won a landslide majority government, and Martin was appointed to the key post of Minister of Finance.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Chrétien government
The Liberals were re-elected with a razor-thin majority in the 1997 campaign, although they were still by far the largest party in the House of Commons. Several MPs such as Reg Alcock had opposed the timing of the vote, in wake of the devastating Red River Flood in Manitoba. Others felt that it was too early to call an election, since the government had only been in power for three and a half years, and the resulting drop in Liberal support likely undermined confidence in Chrétien's leadership of the party.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Chrétien government
Rumours of a division between Chrétien and Martin intensified around the 2000 election, with Martin's supporters wanting to take over before the campaign. However, the party managed to win almost as many seats as in 1993 (at the expense of all the other political parties) persuading Chrétien to stay on. Around this time, Martin had worked throughout this time to position himself as the clear successor to Chrétien, ensuring that most of the institutions of the Liberal Party were controlled by his allies.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Chrétien government, Chrétien-Martin split
The dispute between the two men came to a head in the summer of 2002, when Chrétien tried to curtail Martin's open campaigning for the leadership. What ensued is of some debate. Martin claims that he was fired from cabinet by Chrétien, which is what was widely reported in the media, while Chrétien claims that Martin had resigned. In either case, Martin's departure from cabinet aided his leadership campaign since he did not have to disclose donors, unlike Martin's rivals (John Manley, Allan Rock, and Sheila Copps) who were still in cabinet and were thus obliged to follow the rules.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Chrétien government, Chrétien-Martin split
Martin's influence and the backlash from his dismissal compelled Chrétien to set a date for his retirement. After Martin's dismissal/resignation, he toured the country campaigning for the leadership while his Liberal organizers prepared to challenge Chrétien during a review vote in January 2003. During the fall, Chrétien announced that he would step down in February 2004 after less than half of caucus agreed to sign a commitment supporting him.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Chrétien government, Chrétien-Martin split
Shortly before Chrétien stepped down, Parliament passed a law that banned parties from accepting campaign contributions from corporations, as well as granting parties a subsidy based on their share of popular vote from the most recent election.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Chrétien government, Chrétien-Martin split
While viewed positively among the public as an electoral reform after some early revelations of the sponsorship scandal, Bill C-24 was opposed by many of his own MPs who saw it as a poison pill since it effectively cut off the main source of funding for the Liberals; they had enjoyed the majority of company donations for the last decade due to a fragmented opposition. Party president Stephen LeDrew famously derided Bill C-24 as "dumb as a bag of hammers". While the opposition parties were well poised to reap the benefits of Bill C-24 due to their established grassroots fund raising, the Liberals were caught unprepared for this change. This would hamper them in the 2004 and 2006 campaigns, leaving them in heavy debt.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Martin's Cabinet
In November 2003, Martin was elected as Liberal leader by capturing 3,242 of 3,455 delegates. He had won the leadership almost unopposed, due to his hold on the party machinery, and because Chrétien supporters did not rally around either of Martin's leadership opponents (with Martin's large lead, even most Chrétien supporters grudgingly voted for Martin). Potential contenders Brian Tobin and Allan Rock never formally entered the race, while John Manley dropped out and Sheila Copps received at most marginal support. Martin was sworn in as Prime Minister in December.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Martin's Cabinet
While the issue of the party leadership was settled, at the lower levels unprecedented intraparty warfare began. Martin replaced half of Chrétien's ministers, one of the largest cabinet turnovers in Canadian history for a ruling party undergoing a leadership change. Ministers such as John Manley, Allan Rock, Don Boudria, David Collenette, and Sheila Copps, who had played key roles during Chrétien's decade in power, were reduced to minor roles or compelled to take patronage appointments, and many of them decided to retire from politics.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Martin's Cabinet
Besides excluding experienced Chrétien supporters from cabinet, Martin also outraged many of them by guaranteeing his star candidates powerful cabinet posts, despite many being newcomers to federal politics.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Martin's Cabinet
Several Chrétien loyalists wanted to remain as backbenchers. In some cases, they were defeated in the riding nomination process, with widespread allegations of tampering by Martin supporters. Unlike in previous elections, incumbent Liberals were not automatically granted their local nomination.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Sponsorship Scandal
Chrétien's supporters have suggested that Martin had used the sponsorship scandal as a pretense to remove many Chrétien supporters, such as André Ouellet, Alfonso Gagliano, and Jean Pelletier, from their positions in government, crown corporations, and the party. The Chrétien camp contends that the Gomery commission was set up to make them look bad, and that it was not a fair investigation. The scandal also cast skepticism on Martin's cabinet appointments, prompting speculation Martin was simply ridding the government of Chrétien's supporters to distance the Liberals from the scandal.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Sponsorship Scandal
The first volume of the Gomery Report, released on November 1, 2005, cleared Martin of any wrongdoing while placing blame for the scandal on Chrétien. However, many have criticized the Gomery Inquiry as not having the scope to assign criminal responsibility for the Scandal or to investigate Martin's role, and indeed some have accused Martin of purposely "tying Gomery's hands."


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Sponsorship Scandal
While the Gomery Report: Phase 1 exonerated Martin from responsibility and liability for the misspending of public funds, Chrétien has decided to take an action in Federal Court to review the commission report on the grounds that Gomery showed a "reasonable apprehension of bias", and that some conclusions didn't have an "evidentiary" basis.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Sponsorship Scandal
The controversy over responsibility for Chrétien's legal fees also proved another potentially divisive issue. Many of Martin's ministers wanted to deny Chrétien and his supporters further federal aid, as it would be criticized by opposition parties and the public alike, though such a position would anger many Chrétien loyalists.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Sponsorship Scandal
Outgoing minister Reg Alcock did approve a payment of up to $40,000 to assist Jean Pelletier with legal fees in a court challenge against the Gomery Commission after the Liberals were defeated in the 2006 federal election. Representatives of other parties criticized this payment, though Pelletier's lawyer argued that it followed a long-standing government policy for high-ranking functionaries in judicial proceedings.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Public
Formally, Chrétien and Martin have remained publicly respectful of each other; while much of the verbal sparring was between their supporters. After being dismissed or resigning from cabinet, Martin did not comment on the government, as he was focused upon leadership campaigning. At the November 2003 Liberal leadership convention, Chrétien pledged that he would help Martin to win the Liberals' fourth consecutive majority government, while Martin said that many of his initiatives as Finance Minister were credited to Chrétien's support.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Public
At the 2006 leadership convention in Montreal, Martin's final speech as outgoing leader paid tribute to Chrétien, but the latter was not present for the event.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Nomination battles
In Canadian federal politics, would-be electoral candidates will generally seek the nomination of their chosen party within the local constituency. The nominee is chosen by members of the party within the constituency, and consequently the candidates attempt to sign up as many new members as possible to support them prior to the nomination meeting. In previous elections, incumbent Liberal Members of Parliament (MPs) were protected from nomination challenges; this rule was not applied in 2004, especially towards Chrétien supporters. Martin claimed that he wanted to make the process more democratic, but he was heavily criticized when he overruled the new process to parachute in his handpicked star candidates, often against the wishes of the local riding association.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Nomination battles
The highest profile battle was in the riding of Hamilton East—Stoney Creek between former Deputy Prime Minister and leadership candidate Sheila Copps and Martin loyalist and newly appointed Minister of Transport Tony Valeri. Copps had been one of the most noted representatives of the party's left wing for over two decades, dating to the party's nadir in the mid-1980s. However, Elections Canada had merged her riding with Valeri's in a way that slightly favoured Valeri. Copps lost the nomination battle, which she blamed on dirty tricks.


2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting, Nomination battles
In several ridings, the nomination battles resulted in the splitting of the Liberal vote, as disgruntled party members supported the Conservatives, NDP or Bloc, costing the Liberals several otherwise safe seats.


2004 Liberian Premier League, Overview
It was contested by 7 teams, and Mighty Barrolle won the championship.


2004 Libertarian National Convention
The 2004 Libertarian National Convention was held from May 28 to May 31, 2004 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The delegates at the convention, on behalf of the U.S. Libertarian Party, nominated Michael Badnarik for president and Richard Campagna for vice president in the 2004 presidential election. The convention was televised nationally on C-SPAN.


2004 Libertarian National Convention
Libertarians hold a National Convention every two years to vote on party bylaws, platform and resolutions and elect national party officers and a judicial committee. Every four years it nominates presidential and vice presidential candidates.


2004 Libertarian National Convention, Voting for presidential nomination, First ballot
After the first round, a motion was passed to suspend the rules and allow only the top three candidates from the first round to proceed to the second ballot.


2004 Libertarian National Convention, Voting for presidential nomination, Second ballot
After the second round, Gary Nolan, not receiving the necessary votes to advance, endorsed Michael Badnarik.


2004 Libertarian National Convention, Voting for presidential nomination, Third ballot
After the second round of voting, Gary Nolan addressed the convention, endorsing Michael Badnarik for the 2004 nomination of the Libertarian Party.


2004 Libertarian National Convention, Voting for vice presidential nomination
A separate vote was held for the vice presidential nomination. Per convention rules, nominee Michael Badnarik addressed the crowd, however he declined to declare his preferred running mate.


2004 Libertarian National Convention, Voting for vice presidential nomination, First ballot
Richard Campagna of Iowa was nominated as vice presidential candidate on the first ballot.


2004 Libertarian Party presidential primaries
The 2004 Libertarian Party presidential primaries allowed voters to indicate non-binding preferences for the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate. These differed from the Republican or Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses in that they did not appoint delegates to represent a candidate at the party's convention to select the party's nominee for the United States presidential election. The party's nominee for the 2004 presidential election was chosen directly by registered delegates at the 2004 Libertarian National Convention, which ran from May 28 to 31, 2008. The delegates nominated Michael Badnarik for president and Richard Campagna for vice president.


2004 Libertarian Party presidential primaries
Five primaries were held. A total of 26,701 votes were cast in these primaries.


2004 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Primaries and caucuses, Missouri primary
In the Wisconsin primary on February 3, the Libertarian Party had a state-run primary held alongside the Democratic, Republican primaries.


2004 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Primaries and caucuses, Wisconsin primary
In the Wisconsin primary on February 17, the Libertarian Party had a state-run primary held alongside the Democratic, Republican primaries.


2004 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Primaries and caucuses, California primary
In the California primary on March 2, the Libertarian Party had a state-run primary held alongside those for the Republicans, Democrats, the Green Party, and the Peace and Freedom Party.


2004 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Primaries and caucuses, Massachusetts primary
In the Massachusetts primary on March 2, the Libertarian Party had a state-run primary held alongside the Democratic, Republican, and Green primaries.


2004 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Primaries and caucuses, Nebraska primary
In the Nebraska primary on May 11, the Libertarian Party had a state-run primary held alongside the Democratic and Republican primaries.


2004 Liberty Bowl
The 2004 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played on December 31, 2004, in Memphis, Tennessee. The 46th edition of the Liberty Bowl was played between the Boise State Broncos and the Louisville Cardinals in front of 58,355 fans. With sponsorship from AutoZone, the game was officially the AutoZone Liberty Bowl. Louisville overcame a 10-point halftime deficit to win, 44–40.


2004 Liberty Bowl
Of non-Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games following the 2004 regular season, this game featured the highest ranking teams, with Boise State 9th and Louisville 10th in the BCS rankings. Boise State played in place of the Mountain West Conference champions, the Utah Utes, who played in the Fiesta Bowl instead.


2004 Libyan Super Cup
The 2004 Libyan Super Cup was the 8th edition of the Super Cup, and was played on Friday, August 27, 2004 between LPL winners Al Olympic and Libyan Cup winners Al Ittihad. Al Olympic ended the game with 9 men, Nader Kara and Younes Al Shibani having both been sent off, Kara going for taking his shirt off after scoring, and Al Shibani walking for a poor tackle. Al Ittihad comfortably won the game 5-2.


2004 Liechtenstein referendum
A double referendum was held in Liechtenstein on 4 April 2004. Voters were asked whether they approved of amending the law on compulsory accident insurance and funding a new building for the security forces. Both proposals were rejected.


2004 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 2004 season was the club's 74th year of existence, the 51st year in professional football, and the 43rd in the top level of professional football in Ecuador.


2004 Liga Indonesia Premier Division
The 2004 Liga Indonesia Premier Division (also known as the Liga Bank Mandiri for sponsorship reasons) was the tenth season of the Liga Indonesia Premier Division, the top Indonesian professional league for association football clubs. The season began on 4 January and ended on 23 December.


2004 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Awards, Top scorers
This is a list of the top scorers from the 2004 season.


2004 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano
The 2004 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano (Professional Football League of Bolivia) season had 12 teams in competition. Club Bolívar won the championship.


2004 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano, Results
Note: The season is divided into Torneo Apertura and Torneo Clausura, played in different formats. The above table is only for the Torneo Apertura; information for the Torneo Clausura is missing.


2004 Limerick City Council election
An election to Limerick City Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 17 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2004 Limerick County Council election
An election to Limerick County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 28 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2004 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
The 2004 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 110th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.


2004 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
On 10 October 2004, Ahane won the championship after a 1-11 to 0-13 defeat of Garryspillane in the final. It was their 19th championship title overall and their first title since 1999. It remains their last championship triumph.


2004 Lithuanian Athletics Championships
The 81st 2004 Lithuanian Athletics Championships were held in S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas on 24–25 July 2004.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 10 October 2004, with a second round on 24 October 2004 in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting. All 141 seats in the Seimas were up for election; 71 in single-seat constituencies elected by majority vote and the remaining 70 in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election
The elections were won by the Labour Party with around 28% of the vote in the nationwide constituency and 39 seats in the Eighth Seimas, far short of the 71-seat majority. Outgoing government coalition "Working for Lithuania", consisting of the ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania and New Union (Social Liberals), won a total of 31 seats.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election
Despite finishing behind Labour, the Social Democrats led a coalition government with New Union, Labour and the Peasants and New Democratic Party Union. Algirdas Brazauskas continued as the Prime Minister of Lithuania.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Background
The previous parliamentary elections were held on 8 October 2000. The Liberal Union of Lithuania emerged as the largest party in the parliament, with 34 of the 141 seats in the Eighth Seimas, followed by New Union (Social Liberals) with 29. The two parties formed a coalition government, with Rolandas Paksas of the Liberal Union as Prime Minister and Artūras Paulauskas of the New Union as Speaker.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Background
However, the coalition was not long-lived, and at the end of June 2001, the New Union formed a new coalition government with the Social Democratic Party, with Algirdas Brazauskas as Prime Minister. In the 2000 elections, the Social-Democratic Coalition of Algirdas Brazauskas, consisting of Democratic Labour Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Union of the Russians of Lithuania and the New Democracy Party, had won 51 seats. The Democratic Labour Party and Social Democrats, which had together won 45 of those seats, merged in 2001 under the name of the latter.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Background
Paksas, who had left the Liberal Union by the end of 2001, was elected President of Lithuania in 2003. In April 2004 he was impeached by the Seimas and removed from office, with Paulauskas serving as the acting president until elections later that year.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Background
Lithuania became a member of the European Union on 9 May 2004. The first elections to the European Parliament took place at the same day as the presidential election. The Labour Party, which was founded in October 2003, received almost one-third of all votes in the European elections and the party was seen as the frontrunner for the parliamentary elections.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Electoral system
All seats in the 141-member Seimas were up for election in parallel voting, with 71 members elected in single-seat constituencies and 70 members elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency. Voting in the elections was open to all citizens of Lithuania who are at least 18-years-old.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Electoral system
Due to amendment in the Constitution of Lithuania, the first round took place on 10 October 2004 (the second Sunday of October). 70 seats were allocated to the participating political parties using the largest remainder method, with a 5% threshold (7% for multi-party lists) to enter the parliament. Candidates took the seats allocated to their parties based on the preference lists submitted before the elections and adjusted by preference votes given by the voters.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Electoral system
In a change from the elections in 2000, members of the Seimas in the 71 single-seat constituencies were once again elected by a majority vote, with a run-off held on 24 October. Also, these elections were first ones with permanently set voting day (in 1992, 1996 and 2000 parliamentary elections voting date were set on initiative of Supreme Soviet or President of Republic).


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Electoral system
To be eligible for election, candidates had to be at least 25-years-old on the election day, not under allegiance to a foreign state and permanently resident in Lithuania. Persons serving or due to serve a sentence imposed by the court 65 days before the elections were not eligible. Also, judges, citizens performing military service, and servicemen of professional military service and officials of statutory institutions and establishments could not stand for election.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Electoral system
In May 2004, the Constitutional Court of Lithuania decided that a person removed from office through impeachement for breaching the oath of office can not stand in parliamentary or presidential elections, or serve on the government, disqualifying Paksas from the elections.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Campaign
Opinion polls suggested that Labour Party, coalition "Working for Lithuania", Homeland Union and Liberal and Centre Union would be the main contenders in the elections.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Campaign
Labour Party was founded in October 2003, a year before the elections, by a Russian-born businessman and member of the Seimas Viktor Uspaskich and won the elections to the European Parliament earlier in 2004. The populist party campaigned on the promise of increasing living standards and fighting corruption. Many of its promises, such as lowering prices by 10 to 20%, increasing the minimum salary and pensions, tax holidays for newly established companies, all within less than three years, were criticized by economists as unfeasible. Nevertheless, the party garnered strong support in rural areas and small towns.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Campaign
"Working for Lithuania" was the coalition of the Social Democrats (led by Prime Minister, Algirdas Brazauskas) and the New Union (led by the Speaker of the Seimas, Artūras Paulauskas) parties, which had led the government since 2001. The coalition campaigned on their record in the government and promised further economic growth, lower unemployment and increases in salaries and pensions. The prospects for electoral coalition was raised by July of 2004, when the New Union (Social Liberals) failed to reach five per cent threshold in 2004 European Parliament elections. In two single-member constituencies (No. 30 (Alytus) and No. 56 (Trakai-Elektrėnai)) Julius Sabatauskas and Dangutė Mikutienė competed with Artūras Skardžius and Vytautas Petkevičius respectively, who were supported by the coalition.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Campaign
Conservative Homeland Union, led by Andrius Kubilius, once again campaigned pointed to dangers posed to Lithuania by Russia. The party allied itself with the Liberal and Centre Union, led by Artūras Zuokas but headed in the elections by Petras Auštrevičius. Several members of the party, including Zuokas, had been under investigation for corruption and financial fraud.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Campaign
Finally, the Liberal Democratic Party of Rolandas Paksas led a coalition "For the Order and Justice". Since Paksas was barred from participating in the elections, its electoral list was headed by Valentinas Mazuronis. Paksas had expressed hopes that the electoral list would win 50 seats in the Seimas.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Campaign
Altogether, around 600 candidates competed in the single-seat constituencies, while over 1,100 candidates were included in the electoral lists for the nationwide constituency.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Results
The elections were won by the Labour Party, which claimed 39 of the 141 seats in the Seimas. Nevertheless, newspaper Rzeczpospolita indicated that the result was a disappointment for the party, which had expected a better result in the second round of voting in single-seat constituencies.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Results
Coalition "Working for Lithuania" finished second in elections, with Social Democrats and New Union winning 20 and 11 seats, respectively. Homeland Union won 25 seats, more than double their tally in the previous elections.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Voting irregularities
Several aspects of the electoral campaign and voting came under criticism. In particular, allegations of vote buying, mostly implicating the Labour Party, emerged in voting by post, prompting the Seimas to consider changes in voting procedures. Social Democrats and New Union also accused the Labour Party of violating the rules for electoral campaigns and exceeding campaign spending limits.


2004 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Government formation
Several possible coalitions emerged after the elections. Homeland Union and Liberal and Centre Union indicated their willingness to join a "rainbow" coalition with the Social Democratic Party, excluding only Labour and Liberal Democrats. Labour joined forces with Peasants and New Democratic Party Union and invited Social Democratic Party to join. Brazauskas initially ruled out a coalition with Labour Party, but eventually Social Democratic Party and New Union (Social Liberals) joined forces with the Labour Party and the Peasants, with Brazauskas as the Prime Minister.


2004 Lithuanian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Lithuania in June 2004 alongside European elections. They were held following the impeachment of President Rolandas Paksas, who was elected in January 2003.


2004 Lithuanian presidential election, Background
Paksas was impeached for allegedly leaking classified material, and granting citizenship to Russian businessman Jurij Borisov in exchange for financial support. The Constitutional Court of Lithuania ruled that Paksas could not seek re-election as president. In accordance with the constitution, the speaker of parliament, Artūras Paulauskas, became acting president pending new elections.


2004 Lithuanian presidential election, Candidates
The candidates for the presidency were Adamkus, who had been President from 1998 to 2003 and who was running as an independent, Prunskienė of the Peasants and New Democratic Party Union (VNDS), Vilija Blinkevičiūtė of the New Union (Social Liberals) (NS), Petras Auštrevičius (independent), and Česlovas Juršėnas of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP).


2004 Lithuanian presidential election, Results
In the first round on 13 June, former President, Valdas Adamkus, led the vote tally over the former Prime Minister Kazimira Prunskienė. Adamkus defeated Prunskienė in the second round on 27 June.


2004 Little League World Series
The 2004 Little League World Series took place between August 20 and August 29 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Pabao Little League of Willemstad, Curaçao, defeated Conejo Valley Little League of Thousand Oaks, California, in the championship game of the 58th Little League World Series. This was the first LLWS title for the Caribbean island of Curaçao.


2004 Little League World Series, Pool play
The top two teams in each pool move on to their respective semifinals. The winners of each will meet August 29 to play for the Little League world championship.


2004 Little League World Series qualification
Qualification for the 2004 Little League World Series took place in sixteen different parts of the world during July and August 2004, with formats and number of teams varying by region.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Great Lakes
The tournament took place in Indianapolis, Indiana from July 31 to August 9.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Mid-Atlantic Region
The tournament took place in Bristol, Connecticut from August 6–15.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Midwest
The tournament took place in Indianapolis, Indiana from July 31-August 9.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, United States, New England
The tournament was held in Bristol, Connecticut from August 6–15.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Northwest
The tournament was held in San Bernardino, California from August 1–12


2004 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Southeast
The tournament took place in St. Petersburg, Florida from August 1–7.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Southwest
The tournament took place in Waco, Texas from August 5–10.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, United States, West
The tournament took place in San Bernardino from August 1–12.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, International, Asia
The tournament took place in Hagåtña, Guam from July 23–28.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, International, Canada
The tournament was held in Brossard, Quebec from August 7–14.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, International, Caribbean
The tournament took place in Oranjestad, Aruba from July 18–24.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, International, Europe, Middle East and Africa
The tournament took place in Kutno, Poland from July 26-August 2.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, International, Latin America
The tournament took place in Panama City, Panama from July 25–31


2004 Little League World Series qualification, International, Mexico
The tournament took place in Monterrey, Nuevo León from July 3–12.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, International, Pacific
The tournament took place in Hagåtña, Guam from July 23–29.


2004 Little League World Series qualification, International, Transatlantic
The tournament was held in Kutno, Poland from August 5–14.


2004 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election, with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by nine. The Liberal Democrat party kept overall control of the council.


2004 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The 2004 Liège–Bastogne–Liège took place April 25, 2004 and saw Davide Rebellin win his first Liège–Bastogne–Liège, capping a victorious week having already won the Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne to complete a rare Ardennes triple. The previous year's winner, Tyler Hamilton, finished in ninth position.


2004 London Assembly election
An election to the Assembly of London took place on 10 June 2004, along with the 2004 London mayoral election.


2004 London Assembly election
The Assembly is elected by the Additional Member System. There are fourteen directly elected constituencies, nine of which were won by the Conservatives and five by the Labour Party. An additional eleven members were allocated by a London wide top-up vote, with the proviso that parties must win at least 5% of the vote to qualify for list seats. This latter rule prevented both the British National Party and the Respect Party from winning a seat each as both fell just short of the 5% threshold.


2004 London Assembly election
This election saw losses for Labour and the Greens and gains for both the Liberal Democrats and UKIP, who achieved their first representation in the Assembly since its creation in 2000.


2004 London Assembly election, Results
The Conservative Party gained Brent and Harrow from Labour (who lost 7.6% of their vote), however they lost it again in the 2008 election. There were also large swings away from Labour in Barnet and Camden, City and East, Ealing and Hillingdon, Greenwich and Lewisham, Havering and Redbridge and West Central. The Liberal Democrats lost votes in most constituencies, but made gains in Enfield and Haringey, Lambeth and Southwark and Merton and Wandsworth. UKIP gained large percentages of the vote in Bexley and Bromley, Croydon and Sutton, Greenwich and Lewisham and Havering and Redbridge.


2004 London Broncos season
The 2004 London Broncos season was the twenty-fifth in the club's history and their ninth season in the Super League. The club was coached by Tony Rea, competing in Super League IX and finishing in 10th place. The club also got to the fifth round of the Challenge Cup.


2004 London Broncos season, Super League table IX
Sources: Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.


2004 London Broncos season, 2004 Challenge Cup
For the fifth consecutive year, the Broncos were knocked out of the cup at the fifth round stage.


2004 London Labour Party mayoral selection
The London Labour Party mayoral selection of 2004 was the process by which the Labour Party selected its candidate for Mayor of London, to stand in the 2004 mayoral election. Ken Livingstone, the incumbent Mayor of London, was selected to stand after Labour's previous candidate, Nicky Gavron, stood aside.


2004 London Labour Party mayoral selection, Background
Ken Livingstone had been elected Mayor of London in the 2000 election as an independent, after unsuccessfully seeking the Labour Party nomination. This resulted in his expulsion from the Labour Party. In 2002, Labour selected Nicky Gavron as its Mayoral candidate for the 2004 election. Livingstone had made public his intention to seek a second term as Mayor, leading to fears that the Labour vote could be split once again between Livingstone and Gavron.