2004 Haitian coup d'état, CARICOM
The CARICOM initially refused to recognize the interim government, but in 2006 the newly elected René Préval resumed his country's membership in the organization.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
On 1 March 2004, US Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), along with Aristide family friend Randall Robinson, reported that Aristide had told them (using a smuggled cellular phone), that he had been forced to resign and abducted from the country by the United States. He claimed to be held hostage by an armed military guard.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
Aristide later repeated similar claims, in an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on 16 March. Goodman asked Aristide if he resigned, and President Aristide replied:   "No, I didn't resign. What some people call 'resignation' is a 'new coup d'état,' or 'modern kidnapping.'"


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
Many supporters of the Fanmi Lavalas party and Aristide, as well as some foreign supporters, denounced the rebellion as a foreign controlled coup d'état orchestrated by Canada, France and the United States (Goodman, et al., 2004) to remove a democratically elected president. A new book on the subject, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward, documents the events leading up to 29 February 2004, and concludes that what occurred during the "rebellion" was in fact a modern coup d'état, financed and orchestrated by forces allied with the US government.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
In a report published on 28 October 2005, Granma, the official Cuban news service, alleged that United States politician Caleb McCarry engineered Aristide's overthrow.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
Some have come forward to support his claim saying they witnessed him being escorted out by American soldiers at gunpoint.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
Sources close to Aristide also claim the Bush administration blocked attempts to reinforce his bodyguards. The Steele Foundation, the San Francisco-based organization which supplied Aristide's bodyguards, declined to comment.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
Mr. Aristide, who accuses the United States and France of conspiring to force him out of power, filed a lawsuit in Paris last week accusing unnamed French officials of 'death threats, kidnapping and sequestration' in connection with his flight to Africa. The Bush administration insists that Mr. Aristide had personally asked for help and voluntarily boarded a U.S. plane. ' He drafted and signed his letter of resignation all by himself and then voluntarily departed with his wife and his own security team,' Mr. Powell said.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
The US has denied the accusations. "He was not kidnapped," Secretary of State Colin Powell said. "We did not force him onto the airplane. He went on the airplane willingly and that's the truth." The kidnapping claim is "absolutely false," concurred Parfait Mbaye, the communications minister for the Central African Republic, where Aristide's party was taken. The minister told CNN that Aristide had been granted permission to land in the country after Aristide himself – as well as the U.S. and French governments – requested it.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
According to the US, as the rebels approached the capital, James B. Foley, U.S. ambassador to Haiti, got a phone call from a high-level aide to Aristide, asking if the U.S. could protect Aristide and help facilitate his departure if he resigned. The call prompted a series of events that included a middle-of-the-night phone call to President Bush and a scramble to find a plane to carry Aristide into exile. He traveled voluntarily via motorcade to the airport with his own retinue of security guards, including some contracted Americans. Before takeoff, Aristide gave a copy of his resignation letter to Foley's aide.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
The Associated Press reported that the Central African Republic tried to get Aristide to stop repeating his charges to the press.


2004 Haitian coup d'état, U.S. involvement
Aristide has also denied that a letter he left behind constitutes an official resignation. "There is a document that was signed to avoid a bloodbath, but there was no formal resignation," he said. "This political kidnapping was the price to pay to avoid a bloodbath." According to the US embassy translation it reads "Tonight I am resigning in order to avoid a bloodbath. I accept to leave, with the hope that there will be life and not death." A slightly different translation was given by Albert Valdman, a linguistics professor and specialist in Haitian Creole at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. "If tonight it is my resignation that will avoid a bloodbath, I accept to leave with the hope that there will be life and not death."


2004 Hajj stampede
The 2004 Hajj stampede resulted in the deaths of at least 251 pilgrims on 1 February 2004 during the Hajj in Mecca. The incident took place during the ritual stoning of three pillars in the Mina valley, close to Mecca, on the final day of Hajj ceremonies. More than 200 people were injured, and the incident became the worst tragedy during the Hajj since 1990.


2004 Halifax municipal election
The 2004 municipal elections of the Halifax Regional Municipality took place on 16 October 2004. Elections have been held every four years since the amalgamation of the cities of Halifax and Dartmouth, the town of Bedford and Halifax County into the Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996. The regional council is made up of twenty three councillors and one mayor, all positions were up for election.


2004 Halifax municipal election
There are no political parties at the municipal level in Nova Scotia, so all candidates run as independents. Voter turnout in the mayoral election was 48.39%.


2004 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
The 2004 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships (also known as 2004 Miller Lite Hall of Fame Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in the United States and was part of the ATP International Series of the 2004 ATP Tour. It was the 28th edition of the tournament and was held from July 5 through July 11, 2004.


2004 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles
Jordan Kerr /  Jim Thomas defeated  Gregory Carraz /  Nicolas Mahut 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–3


2004 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Singles
Robby Ginepri was the defending champion, but did not participate.


2004 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Singles
Greg Rusedski won the title, defeating Alexander Popp 7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–2) in the final.


2004 Hallam tornado
During the afternoon of May 22, 2004, a long-track F4 tornado formed during a tornado outbreak and tore through multiple counties in southeast Nebraska. The tornado damaged many towns along its path, but its most significant destructive effect occurred at the town of Hallam. The Hallam tornado is recognized by NOAA as the second-largest tornado on record, peaking at 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide at Hallam.


2004 Hallam tornado, Tornado sequence
The Hallam tornado formed west and northwest of Daykin at 7:30 pm CDT as an F1 on the Fujita Scale (the EF scale had not been established yet in 2004). One satellite tornado, rated an F1 in intensity, formed and quickly dissipated northeast of town. The main storm turned and traveled east-northeast from Daykin to a point south-southeast of Western and then to about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Swanton. During this time, the tornado fluctuated between an F0/1 and intensified. The only damage reported in the area was to farmhouses and silos.


2004 Hallam tornado, Tornado sequence
The tornado remained confined within the F0-1 range until it hit southern Wilber, where it became an F2. The damage here was slight, with only roofs blown off. The tornado continued east-northeast, grazing the east side of Wilber as it moved towards Clatonia. Here it is estimated that the tornado was an F3.


2004 Hallam tornado, Tornado sequence
After passing just northwest of Clatonia, the tornado moved through Hallam at 8:35 pm CDT, where damage reached a high-end F4 in intensity. At Hallam, the tornado was a record-breaking 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide (the widest tornado ever recorded at the time). Most houses in Hallam were completely demolished, along with farming equipment and structures. A coal train was tossed off its tracks on the west side of town. Hallam escaped the most intense winds of the storm though, which were to the south.


2004 Hallam tornado, Tornado sequence
East of Hallam, the tornado was rated a F2-3 as it turned east and began to cycle. It decreased in size to just about a mile wide as it passed north of Cortland, where it turned northeast and passed 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Firth. Norris School District 160 suffered severe damage, with the middle school being hit the worst. The auditorium roof and other walls within the school caved in. Buses were tossed and homes northeast of the school were flattened.


2004 Hallam tornado, Tornado sequence
At this point, the storm regained intensity, reaching F4 status. Damage continued northeast to Holland and to a point north-northwest of Panama. Here, tornado damage was light – F2 at best. The tornado then tracked north-northeast to Bennet, where some houses received F3 tornadic damage. At Bennet, the twister turned east-northeast and began to thin out. Damage east-northeast of Bennet was within the F0/1 scale. The tornado finally dissipated a mile west-southwest of Palmyra at 9:10 pm Central Daylight Time.


2004 Hallam tornado, Damage
The storm was long-lived, having been on the ground for more than 100 minutes. It was also a long-track tornado, having covered 52 miles (84 km). Even though it damaged towns and demolished many buildings, there were no damage-cost estimates available. The Hallam tornado became the widest on record until it was barely surpassed on May 31, 2013 by the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado, which had a width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km).


2004 Halton Borough Council election
The 2004 Halton Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Halton Unitary Council in Cheshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2002. The Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 Halton Borough Council election, Campaign
All 56 seats were being contested after boundary changes had taken place, with 119 candidates competing for election. Labour contested all 56 seats, compared to 32 for the Conservatives, 19 Liberal Democrats, 3 Green party, 2 British National Party, 1 Legalise Cannabis Alliance and 1 independent. There were also 4 candidates from the new Citizens Party of Halton, with 3 of them being former Labour councillors. The election in Halton, along with the rest of North West England, was held with all postal voting as part of an attempt to increase turnout.


2004 Halton Borough Council election, Campaign
Before the election Labour dominated the council with 47 of the 56 seats. As a result, the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives were aiming just to reduced Labour's majority to provide a better opposition, with the Conservatives standing in every ward.


2004 Halton Borough Council election, Campaign
A major issue in the election was the attempt by the council to secure funding for a second crossing over the River Mersey. The Labour party defended their record in control of the council, pointing to the regeneration of the town centres of Widnes and Runcorn and improvements in services.


2004 Halton Borough Council election, Results
The results saw both the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives make significant gains against Labour, but with Labour keeping a safe majority on the council. The Liberal Democrats made gains in Halton Brook, Norton North and Windmill Hill wards, while the Conservatives picked up seats in Birchfield and Farnworth wards. Windmill Hill required 2 recounts before the Liberal Democrat, Kelly Marlow, was declared the winner by a single vote over the Labour candidate. Labour councillors who failed to be re-elected included the deputy mayor, Dennis Middlemass, who lost in Mersey ward to the Liberal Democrats after 12 years on the council. Overall turnout in the election was 38%, almost double what was seen at the last election in 2002.


2004 Halton Borough Council election, Results
Labour's leader of the council, Tony McDermott, blamed national policies and mid term votes against the government for the losses, but was pleased at preserving a good majority which he said demonstrated "a welcome level of support".


2004 Hamburg Masters
The 2004 Hamburg Masters was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 98th edition of the Hamburg Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2004 ATP Tour. It took place at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center in Hamburg, Germany, from 10 May through 17 May 2004. First-seeded Roger Federer won the singles title.


2004 Hamburg Masters, Finals, Doubles
Wayne Black /  Kevin Ullyett defeated  Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan 6–4, 6–2


2004 Hamburg Masters – Doubles
Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor were the defending champions, but lost in Quarterfinals to Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett.


2004 Hamburg Masters – Doubles
Black and Ullyett won the title, defeating Bob and Mike Bryan in the final 6–4, 6–2.


2004 Hamburg Masters – Singles
Guillermo Coria was the defending champion but lost in the final to Roger Federer 4–6, 6–4, 6–2, 6–3.


2004 Hamburg Masters – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2004 Hamburg state election
The 2004 Hamburg state election was held on 29 February 2004 to elect the members of the 18th Hamburg Parliament. The election was triggered by the collapse of the coalition government between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Party for a Rule of Law Offensive (PRO), and Free Democratic Party (FDP). The election saw a collapse in support for PRO which had split after its leader Ronald Schill left in 2003. The original party and Schill's new party captured 3.5% of the vote between them, down from 19.4% in 2001. A huge amount of support flowed to the CDU, which won 63 of the 121 seats in Parliament, forming a majority government. First Mayor Ole von Beust continued in office.


2004 Hamburg state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 17th Hamburg Parliament.


2004 Hamburg state election, Background
In August 2003, Mayor von Beust made moves to dismiss an Interior official suspected of corruption. In response, Senator of the Interior Ronald Schill threatened to spread rumours of an affair between von Beust and the Senator of Justice. Schill was subsequently dismissed from the government. In December of the same year, Schill left his own party along with five of its members of Parliament, depriving the government of its majority. He subsequently joined Pro DM.


2004 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
The 2004 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 47th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 55th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 3rd place in the East Division with a 9–8–1 record, which surprised many as they had gone 1–17 the year before. They played in the East Semi-Final against the Toronto Argonauts, but lost 24–6.


2004 Hansol Korea Open
The 2004 Hansol Korea Open was a women's tennis tournament and was held from September 27 – October 3, 2004, in Seoul, South Korea. It was a Tier-IV event on the 2004 WTA Tour. Maria Sharapova won the inaugural edition of the tournament.


2004 Hansol Korea Open, Finals, Doubles
Cho Yoon-jeong /  Jeon Mi-ra defeated  Chuang Chia-jung /  Hsieh Su-wei 6–3, 1–6, 7–5


2004 Hansol Korea Open – Doubles
Cho Yoon-jeong and Jeon Mi-ra won the title, by defeating Chuang Chia-jung and Hsieh Su-wei 6–3, 1–6, 7–5 in the final. It was the 1st and only title for both players in their respective careers.


2004 Hansol Korea Open – Singles
Maria Sharapova won the title, defeating Marta Domachowska in straight sets in the final. This was Sharapova's third WTA Tour title of the year and fifth of her career.


2004 Harlow District Council election
The 2004 Harlow District Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2004 Harlow District Council election, Background
After the last election in 2003 both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats had 12 seats, while Labour had 9 councillors. However, in July 2003 councillor Jane Steer defected from the Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives, making the Conservatives the largest group on the council for the first time in almost 50 years with 13 seats. The joint administration between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats continued to run the council.


2004 Harlow District Council election, Background
Meanwhile, in January 2004 the Liberal Democrat group on the council expelled Matthew Shepherd from the party's group on the council.


2004 Harrogate Borough Council election
The 2004 Harrogate Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Harrogate Borough Council in North Yorkshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 Harrogate Borough Council election, Campaign
Before the election the Conservatives ran the council with 28 seats, while the Liberal Democrats had 21 seats and there were 4 independents. The Conservatives had gained a majority after 2 Liberal Democrats defected to the Conservatives in autumn 2003. 16 seats were contested in the election, all from the rural areas of the council. The candidates in the election were 16 Conservatives, 16 Liberal Democrats, 2 independents and 1 candidate from the British National Party. The election was held under all postal voting, for the first time in Harrogate.


2004 Harrogate Borough Council election, Campaign
A significant issue in the election was the future of the Royal Hall in Harrogate. The Conservative administration refused to fund the restoration of the building and said they would consider financing other projects elsewhere in the council area from the money saved. However the Liberal Democrats would have put 2.6 million pounds towards restoring it, as they said future generations would have to spend even more if the council did not take action.


2004 Harrogate Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw the Conservatives stay in control, with no change in the party composition of the council. The Conservatives gained Lower Nidderdale from the Liberal Democrats, but Conservative cabinet member Brian Lumsden was defeated in Boroughbridge by Liberal Democrat Peter Phillips, in what had been considered a safe seat. The Conservatives won 62.5% of the vote, compared to 34.2% for the Liberal Democrats. As a result, the Conservatives remained on 29 seats, the Liberal Democrats on 21 and 4 independents.


2004 Harrogate Borough Council election, Election result
Meanwhile, the British National Party came in last in the only seat they contested in Nidd Valley with 131 votes, with Leslie Ellington holding the seat for the Conservatives, after having defected from the Liberal Democrats since the 2003 election. Overall turnout in the election was 55.2%, an increase on the 34.7% in the 2003 election and the 38.7% at the 2002 election.


2004 Hart District Council election
The 2004 Hart Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Hart District Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 Hart District Council election, Campaign
In early May 2004 the Conservative leader of the council, Lorraine Fullbrook, resigned as a councillor in order to stand for the seat of South Ribble in the 2005 general election. This meant an extra seat in Church Crookham West would be contested in the local elections.


2004 Hart District Council election, Campaign
The election saw the Conservatives challenged by a new Community Campaign (Hart) group as well as from the main political parties. The group had been formed in 2003 in protest against plans to develop a barracks in Church Crookham.


2004 Hart District Council election, Election result
The results saw the Conservatives stay in control of the council despite losing 2 seats to the new Community Campaign (Hart) group and 1 seat to the Liberal Democrats. Community Campaign (Hart) gained the seats of Church Crookham East and West and came second in two additional wards. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats gained Fleet Courtmoor from the Conservatives, while holding the other 4 seats they had been defending. However the Conservatives did manage to gain one seat in Crondall, where they defeated Brian Leversha who had resigned from the Conservatives to sit as an Independent.


2004 Hart District Council election, Election result
Meanwhile, no Independents were successful in being elected with former councillor Peter Carr coming closest after losing by 66 votes. The other candidates from the Labour Party, British National Party and Official Monster Raving Loony Party each failed to get more than 200 votes.


2004 Hartlepool by-election
On 23 July 2004, the Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, in England, Peter Mandelson (Labour), was nominated as the United Kingdom's new European Commissioner for Trade. On 8 September, he accepted the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, thereby disqualifying himself from Parliament, and causing a by-election. Polling took place on 30 September.


2004 Hartlepool by-election
It was the last of six by elections held during the 2001–2005 Parliament.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
Out of a registered electorate of 68,517, there were 31,362 valid votes, making a turnout of 45.77%. This was the highest by-election turnout since the Romsey by-election in May 2000. The Labour Party candidate Iain Wright won the seat with a majority of 2,033, a substantially reduced majority. The Liberal Democrat vote more than doubled, leaving that party a close second. The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) held its deposit, and beat the Conservative Party into fourth place.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
This marked the first time UKIP had come third in a by-election (and followed a successful European election in June 2004, in which countrywide it had come third and won twelve seats). It would be over six years before the party improved on this position, when it took second place at Barnsley Central in 2011. It would go on to win a by-election for the first time a little over a decade after the Hartlepool contest, in Clacton in October 2014.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
The Conservative vote in Hartlepool dropped considerably, leaving the party in fourth place for the first time in an English by-election since Liverpool Walton in 1991.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
Robert Kilroy-Silk of UKIP initially suggested he might stand but later ruled this out, as did Hartlepool and Middlesbrough mayors Stuart Drummond and Ray Mallon.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
Preceding by-elections had seen the Liberal Democrats come from third place to beat the Conservative Party, and in Brent East and Leicester South take seats from Labour. The seat was safer (judging by the 2001 result) than Leicester but was vulnerable to swings such as achieved in Brent, or in Birmingham Hodge Hill where the Liberal Democrats narrowly failed to win.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
In the event, the Liberal Democrats were not quite able to repeat these performances. Their campaign suffered from the choice of a candidate who was not from Hartlepool, while the Labour candidate had been born and brought up in the town.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
In addition, the Liberal Democrat candidate made reference, on a campaign blog, to having canvassed a street where everyone she met "was either drunk, flanked by an angry dog, or undressed"; this happened despite a Liberal Democrat minder, Ed Fordham, having been appointed by the party's Campaigns Department to proof read Dunn's blog before any posts went up. Fordham removed a reference to some of the people canvassed being Labour supporters, but he thought the rest of the comment was fine.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
Labour gave wide publicity to this remark and asserted that it was an insult to the people of Hartlepool. Dunn defended her remarks on the Today programme, in a performance that was perceived to be unconvincing, so Labour Party vans toured the constituency playing her Today interview on loudspeakers.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
Hartlepool had no significant ethnic minority vote, unlike the other three by-elections. The Liberal Democrats were nevertheless content to claim the large swing to them, and the Conservatives' fourth place established the Liberal Democrats as the main opposition party to Labour in the seat. UKIP did well with a local candidate, and its message of opposition to European Union fishing rules was a popular one in a port town.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
The Conservative Party dropped from second place at the 2001 general election to fourth place, its worst place in an English by-election since 1991.


2004 Hartlepool by-election, Results
Labour believed its performance good, for it came at the end of a very long campaign (effectively seventy-one days), and with a swing markedly smaller than in other seats over the previous year; the party also regarded the result – along with that in Hodge Hill – as a vindication of its decision to aggressively attack the Liberal Democrats and essentially ignore the Conservative challenge.


2004 Harvard Crimson football team
The 2004 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Harvard finished the season with an overall record of 10–0, winning the Ivy league championship with a conference mark of 7–0.


2004 Harvard–Yale prank
The 2004 Harvard–Yale prank was a practical joke performed on November 20, 2004, at the annual Harvard–Yale football game in which Yale students perpetrated a card stunt, costumed as a Harvard "pep squad". They gave out placards to a section of Harvard fans which, when raised together, read "We Suck".


2004 Harvard–Yale prank
The stunt was conceived of and coordinated by Michael Kai and David Aulicino, two Yale students in the class of 2005, and was executed with the help of 20 classmates disguised as the "Harvard Pep Squad". The perpetrators handed crimson-and-white placards to fans in the central area of the Harvard side of the stadium—mostly Harvard alumni, with a few faculty, students, and others. The group told the crowd that, by lifting the placards, they would spell "Go Harvard".


2004 Harvard–Yale prank
Most Harvard students were sitting in a section off to the side of the alumni area where the prank was executed, and they left the stands unaware of the prank; however, players on the field did see the placards.


2004 Harvard–Yale prank, Response
Initially, many at Harvard denied that the prank had happened. In response, Yale students registered the domain name "harvardsucks.org" (as well as "yalesucks.com" in a preemptive move) and posted a video detailing their efforts. Chuck Sullivan, Harvard's director of athletic communications, said, "[It was] all in good fun." In an interview with The Harvard Crimson, the prank's organizers claimed that members of the Harvard Band were complicit with the Yale pranksters. This was a further hoax designed to “toss salt in the wound”, as stated by Kai.


2004 Harvard–Yale prank, Media and Internet coverage
The prank was covered by newspapers, radio programs, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, MSNBC, and several other TV shows. Several magazines have listed the prank among the greatest in college history. A satirical article in Maxim says that Yale perpetrated "the greatest prank this side of the Mason–Dixon line since the Boston Tea Party ... and caused dozens of stoic, blue-blooded Harvard men to spit port wine all over their smoking jackets." Sports Illustrated featured the prank with "some of the best attempts to get the other guy's goat". ESPN and ESPN2 featured the prank in a 15-minute documentary on the rivalry.


2004 Harvard–Yale prank, Similar pranks
This prank echoes many similar stunts, most notably the Great Rose Bowl Hoax of 1961. In that Rose Bowl game, California Institute of Technology students had manipulated several of the ending card stunts led by Washington cheerleaders, the last of which caused the letters in "Caltech" to be spelled out.


2004 Hastings Borough Council election
Elections to Hastings Borough Council were held on 10 June 2004. Half of the council was up for election and the Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control. Overall turnout was 34.5%.


2004 Hastings Direct International Championships
The 2004 Hastings Direct International Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Eastbourne Tennis Centre in Eastbourne in the United Kingdom that was part of Tier II of the 2004 WTA Tour. It was the 30th edition of the tournament and was held from June 14 through June 19, 2004.


2004 Hastings Direct International Championships, Finals, Doubles
Alicia Molik /  Magüi Serna defeated  Svetlana Kuznetsova /  Elena Likhovtseva 6–4, 6–4


2004 Hastings Direct International Championships – Doubles
Lindsay Davenport and Lisa Raymond were the defending champions but only Raymond competed that year with Martina Navratilova.


2004 Hastings Direct International Championships – Doubles
Navratilova and Raymond lost in the quarterfinals to Alicia Molik and Magüi Serna.


2004 Hastings Direct International Championships – Doubles
Molik and Serna won in the final 6–4, 6–4 against Svetlana Kuznetsova and Elena Likhovtseva.


2004 Hastings Direct International Championships – Doubles, Seeds
Text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2004 Hastings Direct International Championships – Singles
The Singles competition of the 2004 Hastings Direct International Championships was part of the 30th edition of the Eastbourne International tennis tournament, Tier II of the 2004 WTA Tour. It was won by Svetlana Kuznetsova, who defeated Daniela Hantuchová 2–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–4.


2004 Hastings Direct International Championships – Singles
Chanda Rubin was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


2004 Hastings Direct International Championships – Singles, Seeds
The champion seed is indicated in bold text. Text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top four seeds received a bye to the second round.


2004 Havant Borough Council election
The 2004 Havant Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Havant Borough Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 Havant Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives gained seats to hold 27 of the 38 seats on the council, while Labour fell to 6 seats and the Liberal Democrats dropped to hold 5 seats. The Conservative gains included taking Barncroft and Battins wards in Leigh Park from Labour; the first time in over 30 years that Labour had not won all the seats in Leigh Park. Overall turnout at the election was 32.4%.


2004 Hawaii Bowl
The 2004 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, part of the 2004 bowl game season, took place on Christmas Eve 2004, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The competing teams were the UAB Blazers, representing Conference USA (C-USA) and the Hawaii Warriors, representing the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Hawaii won the game, 59–40. This was the third Hawaii Bowl, and was sponsored by Sheraton Hotels and Resorts.


2004 Hawaii Bowl, Teams, Hawaii
Hawaii finished the 2004 season with an 8–5 record, going 4–4 in WAC play. The Warriors made their third straight appearance in the Hawaiʻi Bowl, facing off against UAB. The Warriors would go on to defeat the Blazers and cap off their third straight winning season, the fifth in six seasons under head coach June Jones.


2004 Hawaii Bowl, Teams, UAB
The Blazers finished the 2004 season with a record of 7–5 (5–3 C-USA). The Blazers would also make their first and so far only appearance.


2004 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary
The 2004 Hawaii Bowl kicked off at 2:06 p.m. HST (8:06 p.m. EST) on December 24, 2004 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The contest concluded at 6:12 p.m. HST, lasting a total of four hours and six minutes. Official attendance for the game was listed as 39,754, placing it at fifteenth highest in at dance for non-BCS bowls during the season. It also set an attendance record for the Hawaii Bowl and currently stands as the third-highest attended game. At kickoff, the weather was cloudy with a temperature of approximately 75 degrees. The wind was from the northeast at 6 miles per hour (10 km/h). There was a possibility of rain throughout the game, although only a minimal amount of rainfall was recorded.


2004 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
UAB won the ceremonial pre-game coin toss to select first possession and deferred its option to the second half; Hawaii elected to receive the opening kick. The Warriors began the game's opening drive at their own 20-yard line after the opening kickoff was fielded in the end zone for a touchback. On the team's first two plays, Timmy Chang threw an incompletion and a short pass to running back West Keliikipi. On a short third down, a rush by Chang was stopped one yard shy of a first down, forcing Hawaii to punt.


2004 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
UAB started the scoring with a 51-yard touchdown strike from quarterback Darrell Hackney to wide receiver Roddy White. The extra point attempt was blocked, and UAB opened up a 6–0 lead. Hawaii came right back with a 74-yard touchdown pass from Timmy Chang to Jason Rivers to take a 7–6 lead. UAB's Dan Burks scored on a 4-yard touchdown run to make the score 13–7 UAB. However, the Warriors responded with a pair of touchdowns to take a 21–13 lead at the end of the first quarter. West Keliikipi scored first on a 4-yard run, and Chang threw a 29-yard pass to Gerald Welch for the second score.


2004 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter
In the second quarter, Nick Hayes opened the scoring with a 22-yard field goal to bring UAB within 21–16. Hawaii answered with a 13-yard touchdown pass from Chang to Chad Owens bringing the lead to 28–16. Norris Drinkard scored on a 10-yard touchdown run for UAB to cut the lead to 28–23. Hayes second field goal of the quarter from 36-yards out with three seconds remaining in the half trimmed the lead to 28–26.


2004 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter
Hawaii blew the game wide open in the third quarter. First, Chad Owens caught a 15-yard touchdown pass from Timmy Chang, and then he scored on a 59-yard punt return. A Justin Ayat 43-yard field goal pushed the lead to 45–26. UAB's Hackney scored on a 4-yard touchdown run to bring the score to 45–33, but the Warriors would not fold.


2004 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
In the fourth quarter, Timmy Chang drove Hawaii the length of the field, and capped a time consuming drive with a 4-yard touchdown run. Lance Rhodes caught a 17-yard touchdown pass from Hackney, to bring the score to 52–40. But the ensuing onside kick was returned by Hawaii's Britton Komine 42-yards for a Hawaii touchdown. That provided the final score, 59–40.


2004 Hawaii Democratic presidential caucuses
The 2004 Hawaii Democratic presidential caucuses were held on February 24 in the U.S. state of Hawaii as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 2004 presidential election.


2004 Hawaii Warriors football team
The 2004 Hawaii Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. Hawaii finished the 2004 season with an 8–5 record, going 4–4 in Western Athletic Conference (WAC) play. The Warriors made their third straight appearance in the Hawaii Bowl, facing off against the UAB Blazers. The Warriors would go on to defeat the Blazers and cap off their third straight winning season, the fifth in six seasons under head coach June Jones.


2004 Hawaii Warriors football team
In his final season, quarterback Timmy Chang set the NCAA Division I-A all-time passing yards record with 17,072, surpassing the old mark held by BYU quarterback Ty Detmer (15,031). Chang also set records for total offensive yards (17,183), most offensive plays (2,610), and most interceptions (77). Wide receiver Chad Owens won the Mosi Tatupu Award for the best special teams player in the country and would earn second team AP All-American honors as an all purpose player.


2004 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 2004 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 80th season in the Australian Football League and 103rd overall. Following the season Alastair Clarkson was appointed as coach.


2004 Hazfi Cup Final
The 2004 Hazfi Cup Final was a two-legged football tie in order to determine the 2003–04 Hazfi Cup champion of Iranian football clubs. Sepahan faced Esteghlal in this final game.. The first leg took place on July 8, 2004 at Naghsh Jahan Stadium in Esfahan and the second leg took place on July 15, 2004 at Azadi Stadium, Tehran.


2004 Hazfi Cup Final, Format
The rules for the final were exactly the same as the one in the previous knockout rounds. The tie was contested over two legs with away goals deciding the winner if the two teams were level on goals after the second leg. If the teams could still not be separated at that stage, then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout (taking place if the teams were still level after extra time).


2004 Heineken Cup Final
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2004 Heineken Cup Final
The 2004 Heineken Cup Final was the final match of the 2003–04 Heineken Cup, the ninth season of Europe's top club rugby union competition. The match was played on 23 May 2004 at Twickenham Stadium in London. The match was contested by London Wasps of England and Toulouse of France. Wasps won the match 27–20.


2004 Heineken Open
The 2004 Heineken Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland in New Zealand and was part of the International Series of the 2004 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from 12 January through 18 January 2004. Unseeded Dominik Hrbatý won the singles title.


2004 Heineken Open, Finals, Doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi /  Fabrice Santoro defeated  Jiří Novák /  Radek Štěpánek 4–6, 7–5, 6–3


2004 Heineken Open – Doubles
David Adams and Robbie Koenig were the defending champions of the doubles event of the Heineken Open tennis tournament, held in Auckland, New Zealand, but only Koenig competed that year with Petr Pála. Koenig and Pála lost in the first round to Jan-Michael Gambill and Brian MacPhie.


2004 Heineken Open – Doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi and Fabrice Santoro won in the final 4–6, 7–5, 6–3 against Jiří Novák and Radek Štěpánek.


2004 Heineken Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2004 Heineken Open – Singles
Gustavo Kuerten was the defending champion of the singles event at the Heineken Open tennis tournament, held in Auckland, New Zealand, but lost in the semifinals to Dominik Hrbatý.


2004 Heineken Open – Singles
Hrbatý won in the final 4–6, 6–2, 7–5 against Rafael Nadal, on his first ATP tour level final.


2004 Heineken Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2004 Hel van het Mergelland
The 2004 Hel van het Mergelland was the 31st edition of the Volta Limburg Classic cycle race and was held on 3 April 2004. The race started and finished in Eijsden. The race was won by Allan Johansen.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash
On October 24, 2004, a Beechcraft Super King Air aircraft, registered N501RH and owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports, crashed into mountainous terrain in Stuart, Virginia, during a missed approach to Blue Ridge Airport in Martinsville, Virginia. The aircraft was transporting eight passengers and two flight crew to Martinsville so they could attend the NASCAR event at Martinsville Speedway that afternoon.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash
All ten people on board were killed; among them, members of the Hendrick family including John Hendrick, president of Hendrick Motorsports, his twin daughters, Ricky Hendrick, former Busch Series driver and heir to the Hendrick empire. Hendrick Motorsports staff involved includes Kimberly and Jennifer Hendrick, general Manager Jeff Turner, and chief engine builder Randy Dorton. The pilots were Richard Tracy and Elizabeth Morrison. Other passengers include Joe Jackson, an executive at DuPoint and Scott Lathram, Tony Stewart's pilot driver.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Crash
The King Air took off from Concord, North Carolina, at 12 pm EST, carrying eight passengers and two flight crew. Among them were several key Hendrick Motorsports staff, including team president John Hendrick and his twin daughters, Kimberly and Jennifer Hendrick; Ricky Hendrick, son of Rick Hendrick; general manager Jeff Turner; and chief engine builder Randy Dorton. The other people on board were Joe Jackson, a DuPont executive; Scott Lathram, a pilot for driver Tony Stewart; and pilots Richard Tracy and Elizabeth Morrison, who was scheduled to come to her brother's (Rick Morrison) birthday party that night after the race.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Crash
The plane was reported missing at 3:00 pm. Eventually 9-1-1 was called, and fire trucks and police cars patrolled the Virginia area during the race itself. Around midway through the race, a Civil Air Patrol search team patrolling the nearby Bull Mountain's peak found airplane wreckage on the summit. When removing the wreckage from the summit, response teams found the bodies of the Hendrick group at 11:05 pm. Everyone on board had been killed. A search by firefighters also discovered a scar on the mountain of moved dirt; the discovery proved that the airplane crashed on the side of the mountain and the explosion blew the wreckage and group upward.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Crash
NASCAR received word of the plane crash halfway through the race at Martinsville. Jimmie Johnson, a Hendrick driver, won the race. Due to the circumstances, the usual victory lane celebration did not take place. Upon the conclusion of the race, NASCAR called all Hendrick personnel to its mobile operations trailer where details of the accident were disclosed to the team.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Investigation
An investigation conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) followed soon after the crash.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Investigation, Weather
There were foggy conditions at the time of the plane crash.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Investigation, Pilot error as a cause
The NTSB suggested that pilot error was the cause of the crash, partly by:


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Investigation, Pilot error as a cause
The NTSB concluded its investigation by suggesting that the pilots failed to execute an instrument approach procedure and that both failed to use all navigational aids to confirm the airplane's position during its approach.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Aftermath, Impact on Hendrick Motorsports
On February 18, 2005, Marshall Carlson, Rick Hendrick's son-in-law, signed on as new general manager.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Aftermath, Memorials
The week following the crash, officials at the Atlanta Motor Speedway held a moment of silence before both the Busch and Nextel Cup races and lowered the flags to half staff. All the Hendrick Motorsports cars, as well as the No. 0 driven by Ward Burton of Hendrick-affiliated Haas CNC Racing, carried tributes on the hoods for those who were lost the week before.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Aftermath, Memorials
Jimmie Johnson (who won the Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 race) and the rest of his teammates and crew wore their caps backwards in victory lane as a tribute to Ricky Hendrick, who had a habit of doing the same. At the Hendrick museum in Concord, North Carolina, 300 people showed up for a candlelight vigil in honor of the ten victims.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash, Aftermath, Memorials
The Randy Dorton Trophy now goes to the winner of the Mahle Engine Builders Challenge.


2004 Hertsmere Borough Council election
The 2004 Hertsmere Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Hertsmere Borough Council in Hertfordshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 Hertsmere Borough Council election, Background
Before the election the Conservatives controlled the council with 25 councillors, compared to 8 for Labour and 6 Liberal Democrats. 39 candidates stood for the 13 seats being contested, with 13 each from the Conservative and Labour parties, 12 Liberal Democrats and 1 from the Socialist Labour Party.


2004 Hertsmere Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservative party remained on 25 seats, after both gaining and losing 2 seats. Labour finished 1 down on 7 seats, to be level with the Liberal Democrats for the first time, after the Liberal Democrats picked up a seat.


2004 Hertsmere Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservative gains from Labour came in Borehamwood Hillside where they won by 235 votes and in the former Labour stronghold of Borehamwood Brookmeadow, which had been held by Tim Sandle since 1995 (the area had been subject to a recent boundary change, with the main Labur voting part of the ward being reallocated to Cowley ward). Labour did take one seat back from the Conservatives in Borehamwood Cowley Hill by 87 votes, after the sitting Conservative councillor for Cowley Hill, Martin Heywood, contested and held Potters Bar Oakmere instead with a 709-vote majority for the Conservatives. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats picked up a seat from the Conservatives in Bushey St James by 59 votes.


2004 Hertsmere Borough Council election, Election result
Following the election the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties shared the main opposition role as both parties were on the same number of seats. Meanwhile, Labour chose a new leader, Leon Reefe, after Len Silverstone stood down as leader of the group.


2004 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco
The 2004 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco was the fourth running of the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, a motor racing event for heritage Grand Prix, Voiturettes, Formula One, Formula Two and Sports cars.


2004 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, Report
The event featured former Formula One drivers Phil Hill, Stirling Moss and Roberto Mieres.


2004 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, Report
Festivities included the official opening of a new pit complex.


2004 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, Report
In Race B, Philip Walker started from the back of the grid due to mechanical issues in practice. He put on a strong recovery drive to finish sixth.


2004 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2004 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 20th Tournament in the history of the conference. It was played between March 11 and March 20, 2004. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Fleet Center in Boston, Massachusetts, the home venue of the NHL's Boston Bruins. By winning the tournament Maine received the Hockey East's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2004 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The team that finishes ninth in the conference is not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third seed and sixth seeds, and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played a best-of-three with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-elimination game, with the winner advancing to the championship game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2004 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


2004 Holiday Bowl
The 2004 Holiday Bowl was the third bowl game (also the second of three in California) played of the 2004–05 bowl season on December 30, 2004. The game was held at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, pitting the Pac-10's California Golden Bears and the Big 12's Texas Tech Red Raiders. Cal was edged out for a BCS bowl berth by Texas in the last week of the regular season.


2004 Holiday Bowl, Teams
In 2004 Cal posted a 10–1 record under head coach Jeff Tedford and quarterback Aaron Rodgers, with their only regular season loss coming against the eventual national champion, USC. They finished the regular season ranked No. 4 according to polls, and appeared to have an excellent chance to receive an at-large BCS bowl berth, most likely in the Rose Bowl. Under normal circumstances, the Bears, as Pac-10 runner-up, would have had first crack at a Rose Bowl berth since conference champion USC was playing for the national championship.


2004 Holiday Bowl, Teams
The Bears entered their final game of the regular season ranked No. 4 in BCS standings and a 24-point favorite over Southern Miss. They won 26–16 in a closer than-expected game. With 13 seconds left in the game and Cal with the ball at the Southern Miss 22-yard, Tedford elected to run out the clock instead of attempting to increase the margin of victory to possibly impress some voters. Leading up to the game, Tedford  said he had no interest to run up the score.


2004 Holiday Bowl, Teams
In a controversial case, the Texas coach Mack Brown made impassioned pleas to media asking poll voters reconsider their final votes. Several Associated Press (AP) voters were besieged by fan emails and phone calls attempting to sway their votes, apparently spurred from Brown's pleas to rank Texas ahead of other "less deserving teams." Nine of the 65 AP voters switched Texas ahead of Cal, and three of them were from Texas. In the Coaches Poll, four voters moved Cal down to No. 7 and two to No. 8, when the week before none had them lower than No. 6.


2004 Holiday Bowl, Teams
Meanwhile, two coaches moved Texas up to No. 3 when the team did not play that week. The Los Angeles Times wrote that accusations were raised about coaches manipulated voting, but the individual coaches votes were not released to prove or disprove the allegations. The AP Poll makes its voters' records public. No. 6 Texas gained 23 points on No. 4 Cal in the AP poll, and the fifth-ranked Longhorns closed 43 points on the fourth-ranked Bears in the coaches poll. That allowed Texas to earn a BCS berth, finishing .0129 points ahead of Cal in the BCS standings after being .0013 points behind. The Longhorns went on to beat Michigan 38–37 in the Rose Bowl. In part because of the controversy with Cal's BCS ranking, the AP poll withdrew from the BCS after the season.


2004 Holiday Bowl, Teams
Texas Tech entered the game with a 7–4 overall record and a 5–3 record in the Big XII. The Red Raiders entered the game with the top-ranked passing offense in the NCAA, averaging just over 399 yards per game, and with the NCAA season leader in passing yardage, Sonny Cumbie. Earlier in the season, Tech had shown its offensive prowess with a 70–10 victory over Nebraska, the most points ever given up by Nebraska in the team's history.


2004 Holiday Bowl, Game summary
Cal played well at first, finishing the first quarter with a 14–7 lead. However, the Texas Tech passing assault exploded after that. In the second and third quarters, the Red Raiders outscored the Bears 31–3, going on to record the biggest upset of the bowl season. Red Raiders quarterback Sonny Cumbie torched the Bears defense for 520 passing yards, going 40-for-60 with three touchdowns and no interceptions. The brightest spot for Cal was running back J.J. Arrington, who ran for 173 yards and a touchdown, making him only the third Pac-10 running back to reach 2,000 yards rushing in a season.


2004 Holiday Bowl, Game summary
Tech got on the board first with a touchdown pass from Sonny Cumbie to Jarrett Hicks, but the Bears responded with two touchdowns on runs by J.J. Arrington and Marshawn Lynch to go up 14–7 in the first quarter. The Red Raiders outscored the Bears 17–0 in the second quarter, with an Alex Trlica field goal, a touchdown run by Taurean Henderson, and another Cumbie-to-Hicks touchdown pass. Cumbie's second touchdown pass came three plays after Tech's Vincent Meeks intercepted an Aaron Rodgers pass and returned it 48 yards to California's 22-yard line. Meeks was named the Defensive MVP of the game.


2004 Holiday Bowl, Game summary
In the second half, Tech took the opening kickoff and marched 85 yards in just four plays, scoring on a 60-yard catch and run by Joel Filani to make the score 31–14. Tech's Johnny Mack scored on an 11-yard run later in the third quarter as the Red Raiders took a 38–17 lead into the fourth quarter. California's Aaron Rodgers threw for one touchdown and ran for another in the fourth quarter, but Texas Tech added their final touchdown on a Taurean Henderson run that capped a 12-play drive covering 74 yards.


2004 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The 2004 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross during the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Holy Cross finished second-to-last in the Patriot League.


2004 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
In their first year under head coach Tom Gilmore, the Crusaders compiled a 3–8 record. David Mitchell and Steve Silva were the team captains.


2004 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The Crusaders were outscored 367 to 240. Their 1–5 conference record placed sixth in the seven-team Patriot League standings.


2004 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
Holy Cross played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.


2004 Hong Kong Sevens
The 2004 Hong Kong Sevens was an international rugby sevens tournament that took place at the Hong Kong Stadium between 26–28 March 2004. It was the 29th edition of the Hong Kong Sevens and was the fifth tournament of the 2003–04 World Sevens Series. Twenty-four teams competed in the tournament and were separated into six groups of four with the top eight teams qualifying through to the cup tournament.


2004 Hong Kong Sevens
After winning all three of their group stage matches, England took out the Hong Kong title for the third year running, defeating Argentina in the cup final 22–12. The plate-final saw Scotland defeat France while the Cook Islands took home the bowl defeating Japan.


2004 Hong Kong Sevens, Teams
Compared to other tournament of the series, the Hong Kong Sevens had 24 teams compete for the title instead of the regular sixteen teams that usually competed in a World Series event.


2004 Hong Kong Sevens, Format
The teams were drawn into six pools of four teams each. Each team played the other teams in their pool once, with three points awarded for a win, two points for a draw, and one point for a loss (no points awarded for a forfeit). The pool stage was played over the first two days of the tournament. The top team from each pool along with the two best runners-up advanced to the Cup quarter finals. The remaining four runners-up along with the four best third-placed teams advanced to the Plate quarter finals. The remaining eight teams went on to the Bowl quarter finals.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election
The 2004 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 12 September 2004 for members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). The election returned 30 members from directly elected geographical constituencies and 30 members from functional constituencies, of which 11 were unopposed.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election
An unprecedented number of 3.2 million people registered to vote in the election. The turnout rate was an unprecedented 55.6% with 1,784,406 voters casting ballots, beating the previous record set in 1998 by 200,000 votes. While pro-democratic opposition candidates gained new seats in the legislature, their gains fell short of their expectations.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election
In the geographical constituencies, candidates from the pro-democratic camp secured 60 percent of the seats in the geographical sectors of the election, taking 18 seats (up from 17) in this category, and 62 percent of the popular vote. On the other hand, the pro-Beijing and pro-business candidates made greater gains, winning 12 directly elected seats (up from 7). In the functional constituencies which the pro-democratic camp sought to abolish, the camp made more gains (from 5 to 7 seats).


2004 Hong Kong legislative election
Overall, the democrats took 25 seats and the pro-government camp 35 seats. Bills initiated by the government can still be passed on pro-government support alone, but bills originated by members cannot be passed without democratic support, since these bills require absolute majorities in each sector (geographical and functional) of the legislature. Constitutional amendments require a two-thirds vote and thereby also require support from the democratic camp.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election
Despite the increase in the number of seats returned by geographical constituencies and the record turnout, the Democratic Party lost the status of being the largest political party in the Legislative Council to the pro-government Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, DAB, who secured 12 seats if including the two members who ran under the banner of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, and pro-business Liberal Party who secured 10 seats, thereby becoming only the third-largest party. Some attributed the poor performance of the pro-democratic camp to tactical miscalculation in vote allocation. This was not helped by some of the democratic parties' personal scandals.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election
The pro-Beijing and pro-business parties succeeded in retaining the majority in the legislature. However, pro-democracy candidates have maintained the threshold to block changes, if necessary, to the Basic Law of Hong Kong, since a two-thirds vote is required for amendment. The current Legislative Council also saw the entry of more radical members of the democratic camp.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Change in composition
According to the Annex II of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, the 6-seat Election Committee constituency indirectly elected by the 800-member Election Committee would be abolished, while the directly elected geographical constituency seats would increase from 24 to 30, same number of the indirectly elected functional constituencies.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Change in composition
As a result, Hong Kong Island and Kowloon East was added one extra seat each, from five to six and four to five respectively, and the New Territories West and New Territories East was added two extra seats each, from six to eight and five to seven respectively, while the number of seats in Kowloon West remained four.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Background
The election came amidst the deteriorating governance and intense debates over constitutional reforms in Hong Kong. The Tung Chee-hwa administration had been embattling with economic recession brought by the 1997 financial crisis and the more prominent SARS outbreak in 2003. Nevertheless, the Tung administration push forward the controversial Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 legislation which outlawed "treason" and "subversive activities" and raised concerns on its potential threats against Hong Kong people's civil liberties. A group of barristers formed the Basic Law Article 23 Concern Group and rallied against the national security legislation.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Background
Over 500,000 people to protested on 1 July 2003, the sixth anniversary of the establishment of the HKSAR, against the legislation, the largest demonstration since the handover. The Article 23 legislation further crippled the Tung administration as the government saw its popularity dropped to a new low. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), the largest pro-Beijing party saw its largest defeat in the District Council elections in November 2003, which alarmed the Beijing and the Hong Kong government.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Background
The Annex I and Annex II of the Basic Law state that the method for selecting the Chief Executive and for forming the Legislative Council could be amended after 2007. The pro-democracy camp argued that the third term of Chief Executive and fourth term of Legislative Council should be elected on the basis of universal suffrage in 2007 and 2008 as stipulated in the Article 45 and 68 of the Basic Law respectively. In 2004, the Article 23 Concern Group transformed into the Article 45 Concern Group calling for the early implementation of the universal suffrage. Facing the pro-democracy pressure for full democratisation, in April 2004, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) ruled out the 2007/08 universal suffrage.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Retiring incumbents
With the cancellation of the Election Committee constituency, there were total of twelve incumbents chose not to run for re-election. Ip Kwok-him lost his seat in the Central and Western District Council therefore was not qualified for running in the District Council functional constituency.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Results
Note: For the joint list of pro-democrats in Hong Kong Island, Kowloon East and New Territories East, the votes are divided equally to each candidate.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Results, Overview
The election was largely seen as a contest between the pro-democracy coalition and the pro-business and pro-Beijing coalitions. There were 162 candidates for 60 seats in the LegCo. Before the election, the pro-democratic camp was widely expected to gain the most votes and increase its representation from 22 seats in the LegCo. Some members of the pro-democratic camp aimed at securing an absolute majority of the seats in the legislature so that they would have the power to veto all government proposals.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Results, Overview
The democratic camp called for direct elections for the Chief Executive of Hong Kong in 2007 and for LegCo in 2008, as well as rapid political reform. In contrast, the pro-Beijing and pro-business candidates placed more emphasis on economic growth and social stability. Most of the political parties are now setting 2012 as the ideal time for electoral reform.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Results, Overview
While the democratic camp hoped to play up the issue of universal suffrage as a prominent issue in the election, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ruled out universal suffrage for the Chief Executive election in 2007 and for LegCo elections in 2008 in April 2004 before the election. Despite this, the pro-democratic camp insisted on promoting their agenda, which seemed to backfire when the campaign lost its original momentum. This was not helped by various sex and financial scandals of a few pro-democracy candidates. There were some allegations by the pro-democracy camp of Mainland Chinese influence behind this.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Results, Irregularities
There were a few reports of irregularities. Some polling stations ran out of ballot boxes, causing long delays in voting. To fit more ballots into the ballot boxes, some election workers forcefully stuffed ballots into the box using objects such as barbecue forks and metal rulers. Some stations also used random cardboard boxes without official seals. Some ballot boxes were opened before the close of polling.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Results, Irregularities
The polling station operating manual had mistakes in it, so some candidate representatives were kicked out after the closing of the poll and were prevented from witnessing the counting, as required by law.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Results, Irregularities
Some candidates have tried to challenge the election results, but have remained unsuccessful thus far.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Results, Irregularities
A report on the election process was published shortly after the election. Another report was commissioned by the government to suggest future improvements.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Candidate lists and results, Geographical Constituencies (30 seats)
Voting system: Party-list proportional representation with largest remainder method and Hare quota.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election, Candidate lists and results, Functional Constituencies (30 seats)
Voting systems: Different voting systems apply to different functional constituencies, namely for the Heung Yee Kuk, Agriculture and Fisheries, Insurance and Transport, the preferential elimination system of voting; and for the remaining 24 FCs used the first-past-the-post voting system.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election in Hong Kong Island
These are the Hong Kong Island results of the 2004 Hong Kong legislative election. The election was held on 12 September 2004 and all 6 seats in Hong Kong Island were contested. The pro-democracy camp failed to win four out of six seats with the two tickets of the Democratic Party and Article 45 Concern Group's Audrey Eu and The Frontier's Cyd Ho joint ticket. The last-minute emergency call of Martin Lee cost the defeat of Cyd Ho in a narrow margin to Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong's (DAB) Choy So-yuk. Legislative Council President Rita Fan also contested in Hong Kong Island for the first time.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election in Hong Kong Island
Six tickets took part in the election, with the DAB fielding a ticket of chairman Ma Lik and Choy So-yuk and the pro-democrats fielding two tickets, one consisted of Martin Lee, Yeung Sum and Joseph Lai of the Democratic Party and the other consisted of Audrey Eu and Cyd Ho. Other candidates included former Democratic Party member Tsang Kin-shing and independent insurance agent Kelvin Wong Kam-fai. Rita Fan also fielded her one-candidate ticket, aiming at the votes from the middle and upper class voters from the sandwich of Hong Kong's pro-Beijing vs. pro-democracy political spectrum, despite herself was supported by the pro-Beijing camp.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election in Hong Kong Island
The two pro-democracy tickets with the slogan "1+1=4" provided that their supporters would have cast their votes evenly to the two tickets. Pre -election polls showed, nevertheless, that the Eu-Ho ticket had far more supporters, causing the Democratic Party to request all supporters of the camp to vote instead for their ticket just two weeks before the election. It turned out that the Democratic Party drew too many votes from the Eu-Ho ticket, causing Cyd Ho defeat by DAB's Choy So-yuk, by a slim margin of 815 votes (or 0.23% of all valid votes).


2004 Hong Kong legislative election in Hong Kong Island
Should the Democratic Party drew around 1900 more votes from the Eu-Ho ticket, the third-rank candidate on their list would have defeated Choy. When the results were announced in the morning of the following day, Martin Lee said before cameras "I'd rather lose with dignity than win like this", on the "unexpected" defeat of Cyd Ho.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election in Kowloon East
These are the Kowloon East results of the 2004 Hong Kong legislative election. The election was held on 12 September 2004 and all 5 seats in Kowloon East where consisted of Wong Tai Sin District and Kwun Tong District were contested. All four incumbents were elected with famous pro-democrat radio host Albert Cheng won a new seat with Andrew To of The Frontier on a joint ticket.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election in Kowloon West
These are the Kowloon West results of the 2004 Hong Kong legislative election. The election was held on 12 September 2004 and all 4 seats in Kowloon West where consisted of Yau Tsim Mong District, Sham Shui Po District and Kowloon City District were contested. All four incumbents were re-elected, with Democratic Party's Lau Chin-shek ran as independent.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories East
These are the New Territories East results of the 2004 Hong Kong legislative election. The election was held on 12 September 2004 and all 7 seats in New Territories East where consisted of North District, Tai Po District, Sai Kung District and Sha Tin District were contested. The pro-democracy camp formed a electoral coalition "7.1 United Front" aimed at four seats, however due to the largest remainder method the wasted votes contributed to Li Kwok-ying who placed second on the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong ticket. Radical democrat Leung Kwok-hung of April Fifth Action also won a seat for the first time.


2004 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories West
These are the New Territories West results of the 2004 Hong Kong legislative election. The election was held on 12 September 2004 and all 8 seats in New Territories West, which consists of Tsuen Wan District, Tuen Mun District, Yuen Long District, Kwai Tsing District and Islands District, were contested. All the incumbents were elected with the new two seats gained by Lee Wing-tat of the Democratic Party and Selina Chow of the Liberal Party.


2004 Hong Kong–Macau Interport
The 60th Hong Kong–Macau Interport was held in Macau on 11 June 2004. Hong Kong captured the champion by winning 2-1.


2004 Hong Kong–Macau Interport, Squads, Macau
The following only shows the players played in the match.


2004 Hopman Cup
The 2004 Hopman Cup (also known as the Hyundai Hopman Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the sixteenth Hopman Cup tennis tournament held at the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth from 3 through 10 January 2004. Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchová and Karol Kučera made the final, but lost to Americans Lindsay Davenport and James Blake.


2004 Hopman Cup, Group B, Teams and Standings
1Due to an injury to Alicia Molik, Australia was unable to compete in the final. Slovakia competed in the final in their place. 2Canada lost in qualifying to Hungary, but then took the place of Belgium in the Hungary-Belgium tie.


2004 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2004 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament took place at the end of the 2003–04 regular season. The better seed hosted each first round match. Butler hosted the second round and semifinals. As the highest remaining seed, Milwaukee hosted the championship game.


2004 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All Horizon League schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2003–04 Horizon League season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 2 teams received a bye to the semifinals and the third seed received a bye to the quarterfinals.


2004 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket
First round games at campus sites of higher seedsSecond round and semifinals hosted by Butler. Championship hosted by best remaining seed


2004 Houston Astros season
The 2004 Houston Astros season was the 43rd season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Houston, Texas. Five years removed from opening Minute Maid Park, the Astros hosted the All-Star Game, which was the first held in Houston since 1986. Having limped into the All-Star break with a 44–44 record, Phil Garner was named to replace Jimy Williams as manager. The Astros finished second in the Central division and captured the NL Wild Card.


2004 Houston Astros season
The Astros won a postseason series for the first time in franchise history by defeating the Atlanta Braves in the National League Division Series (NLDS), scoring an NLDS-record 36 runs. Roger Clemens won the NL Cy Young Award, becoming the fourth pitcher to win the award in both leagues, and the only one with seven overall.


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, First half
When he hit his sixth career grand slam against the Milwaukee Brewers on April 9, first baseman Jeff Bagwell tied a club record. Starting pitcher Roger Clemens was named National League Pitcher of the Month in April after going 5–0 in a win–loss record (W–L) with a 1.95 earned run average (ERA), 32 strikeouts and 14 bases on balls in 32+1⁄3 innings pitched. In just one start did he allow more than one run.


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, First half
Clemens passed Steve Carlton to move into then-second place behind Nolan Ryan on the all-time strikeout list on May 6 against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 6–2 victory while striking out nine and bringing his career total to 4,140. In May, outfielder Lance Berkman produced a .785 slugging percentage with 24 runs batted in (RBI), winning his first career National League Player of the Month honors.


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, First half
In a three-team deal involving the Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics, the Astros acquired center fielder Carlos Beltrán. The Royals sent Beltrán to Houston for minor league catcher John Buck and cash. The A's sent minor leaguers pitcher Mike Wood and first baseman Mark Teahen to the Royals. The Astros sent relief pitcher Octavio Dotel to the A's. Dotel, the Astros' closer, had a 0–4 W–L with a 3.12 ERA in 34+1⁄3 innings pitched, 50 strikeouts and 14 saves in 17 opportunities. He had replaced Billy Wagner in that role following his trade to Philadelphia in the previous off-season.


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, First half
The Astros fired manager Jimy Williams and replaced him with Phil Garner at the All-Star break. With a 44–44 record, the team had been slumping after spending the first month and a half of the season in first place in the National League Central division. That was considered a disappointment due to hopes of reaching the World Series after signing free agent starting pitchers Clemens and Pettitte, and acquiring Beltrán weeks earlier.


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Minute Maid Park
The 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 75th playing of the midseason exhibition baseball game between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL). The game was held on July 13, 2004 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, the Houston Astros' home stadium. The previous All-Star Game held in Houston was in 1986 in the Astrodome. In the Home Run Derby, Miguel Tejada of the Baltimore Orioles defeated Berkman in the final round, 5–4. Tejada established records of both 27 home runs overall, and 15 in a single round, while Berkman hit the longest home run of the competition at 497 feet (151 m).


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Minute Maid Park
Three members of the Astros were in the starting lineup; Roger Clemens, who had played in the 1986 All-Star Game, was the starting pitcher, Jeff Kent was at second base, and Berkman was one of the three outfielders starting in the game. Beltrán, first named to the American League team before the trade, was added to the National League team as a reserve. The game had an attendance of 41,886 and boxing legend Muhammad Ali threw the ceremonial first pitch of the game. The final result was the American League defeating the National League 9-4, thus awarding an AL team (which would eventually be the Boston Red Sox) home-field advantage in the World Series.


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, Second half
A triple play and a seven-run seventh inning on August 19 against Philadelphia highlighted an Astros 12–10 win. With the Phillies leading 7–2, Todd Pratt grounded into a bases-loaded triple play in the fifth inning, Houston's first in 13 years. Berkman, Craig Biggio, and Eric Bruntlett each homered in the seventh inning.


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, Second half
Bagwell recorded his 200th career stolen base on August 30 against the Cincinnati Reds to become the tenth player in MLB history to reach that plateau while hitting 400 home runs. On September 18, Bagwell collected his 1,500th career RBI with a single in the third inning against the Brewers. Two innings later, he homered for his 1,500th run scored, becoming just 29th player in MLB history and first Astro to reach both milestones. Bagwell finished with 27 home runs, stopping a streak of eight consecutive seasons with at least 30 but extending a streak of 12 with at least 20.


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, Second half
The Astros won 36 of their final 46 games to win the National League wild card.


2004 Houston Astros season, Regular season, Overview, Second half
After the Astros acquired Beltrán from the Royals, he played 90 games batting .258 with 23 home runs, 53 RBI, and 28 stolen bases. His combined totals in 2004 included 159 games with a .267 batting average, 38 home runs, 104 RBI, 42 stolen bases, and 121 runs scored.


2004 Houston Astros season, National League Divisional Playoffs, Atlanta Braves vs. Houston Astros
In Game 2, Bagwell hit his first career postseason home run off Mike Hampton in the first inning in a 4–2 extra-inning loss.


2004 Houston Astros season, National League Divisional Playoffs, Atlanta Braves vs. Houston Astros
After seven failed attempts in 43 years of franchise history to win a playoff series, the Astros defeated the Atlanta Braves in five games for their first. Behind the quartet dubbed the "Killer B's" – composed of Bagwell, Beltrán, Berkman and Biggio – who batted .395 (34-for-86) with eight home runs, 21 RBI and 24 runs scored, the Astros' offense ignited, scoring an NLDS-record 36 runs. Beltrán homered four times in this series.


2004 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, St. Louis Cardinals vs. Houston Astros
The Astros faced the St. Louis Cardinals in the playoffs for the first time in 2004 in the National League Championship Series (NLCS). By hitting one home run in each of the first four home runs in the NLCS, including the game-winner in Game 4, Beltrán tied Barry Bonds' record for home runs in single postseason-record with eight, continuing a strong performance from the NLDS. Counting a two home-run performance in Game 5 of the NLDS, that gave Beltrán at least one home run in a record-setting five consecutive postseason games, later eclipsed by Daniel Murphy's home runs in six consecutive postseason games in 2015.


2004 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, St. Louis Cardinals vs. Houston Astros
Cardinals center fielder Jim Edmonds hit the game-winning home run off Dan Miceli in the 12th inning of Game 6, for a 6–4 final score and forcing a Game 7. It was the third game Miceli lost of the 2004 postseason.


2004 Houston Bowl
The 2004 EV1.net Houston Bowl was the fifth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The game pitted the Colorado Buffaloes from the Big 12 Conference and the UTEP Miners from the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The game was the final competition of the 2004 football season for each team and resulted in a 33–28 Colorado victory.


2004 Houston Comets season
The 2004 WNBA season was the eighth season for the Houston Comets. The Comets missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.


2004 Houston Comets season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft
Based on the Comets' 2003 record, they would pick 8th and 11th in the Cleveland Rockers dispersal draft. The Comets picked Pollyanna Johns Kimbrough and Lucienne Berthieu.


2004 Houston Cougars football team
The 2004 Houston Cougars football team, also known as the Houston Cougars, Houston, or UH represented the University of Houston in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the 59th year of season play for Houston. The team was coached by second year head football coach, Art Briles. The team played its home games at Robertson Stadium, a 32,000-person capacity stadium on-campus in Houston.


2004 Houston Texans season
The 2004 season was the Houston Texans' third in the National Football League, all of which they had spent under head coach Dom Capers. The team finished 7–9, two games better than the previous season, and came third in the AFC South, the first time they had not finished bottom. The Texans also earned their first victory over the Tennessee Titans, the franchise previously known as the Oilers, who had left Houston after the 1996 season.


2004 Hull City Council election
The 2004 Hull City Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Hull City Council in England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2004 Hull City Council election, Campaign
Before the election the Labour party formed the administration after becoming the largest party in the 2003 election. Their administration however was criticised by the Audit Commission, which raised the hopes of the Liberal Democrats that could regain control of the council.


2004 Hull City Council election, Campaign
Labour campaigned saying that voters should choose "order and progress" under themselves rather than the chaos they said the Liberal Democrats had brought while they were in office. They hoped to expand their pilot programme of free school meals for all children to all schools within the city. The Liberal Democrats however wanted to abolish the programme and pledged to establish crime prevention funds for neighbourhoods, free off-peak bus travel for pensioners and expand recycling. The Liberal Democrats also pledged to keep council tax increases to the same level as rises in earnings for the 2 years after the election.


2004 Hull City Council election, Campaign
20 of the 59 seats on the council were contested in the election, which was conducted with all postal voting in common with councils across 4 of the English regions.


2004 Hull City Council election, Election result
The results saw the Labour party remain the largest party on the council with 27 seats but with the Liberal Democrats gaining 2 seats to hold 24 after the election. As a result, the council remained hung with no party having a majority on the council. The most high-profile result saw the United Kingdom Independence Party win their first local council seat after John Cornforth defeated the independent councillor, John Considine, in Derringham ward by 7 votes after 6 recounts. However the independents immediately said that they would mount a legal challenge to the result.


2004 Hull City Council election, Legal challenge
The independent candidate in Derringham said he would make a legal challenge to the result as the Returning Officer had said 3,540 ballot papers had been returned but that when the results were declared 140 ballot papers were missing. The independents claimed that these missing papers had ended up in counting rooms for other wards. They also said that people in Derringham had received ballots in the post that were intended for Marfleet ward and that no one knew how many people this had affected and were thus unable to vote.


2004 Hull City Council election, Legal challenge
The court challenge was successful with the High Court ruling that the result "may well have been affected". As a result, a new vote was ordered to be held, with the election set for 13 January 2005. The by-election was won by Michael Rouse-Deane of the Liberal Democrats who had come fourth in the original election in Derringham.


2004 Hull City Council election, Ward results
No elections were held in Bransholme East, Bransholme West and University wards.


2004 Humanitarian Bowl
The 2004 Humanitarian Bowl was the 7th edition of the bowl game. The next edition was played in December 2004, almost a year from this game, and the name was changed after this contest to the "MPC Computers Bowl". This game featured the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, and the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. In this game Georgia Tech set several Humanitarian Bowl records. The 42 point margin of victory is a bowl game record.


2004 Humanitarian Bowl
Georgia Tech running back P. J. Daniels started the scoring on a 9-yard touchdown run, giving the Yellow Jackets a 7–0 lead. He would finish with a bowl game record 307 yards on 31 carries for the game. In the second quarter Tulsa's Brad DeVault kicked a 22-yard field goal to draw Tulsa to within 7–3. Georgia Tech kicker Dan Burnett kicked a 29-yard field goal in the second quarter to help Georgia Tech claim a 10-3 halftime lead.


2004 Humanitarian Bowl
In the third quarter, Daniels scored on a 1-yard touchdown run for Georgia Tech to bump its lead up to 17–3. Chris Woods added a 2-yard touchdown run to increase the lead to 24–3. Daniels scored on a 33-yard touchdown scamper to make the score 31–3, to close out the third quarter.


2004 Humanitarian Bowl
In the fourth quarter, Daniels went on a 38-yard touchdown scamper to increase the lead to 38–3. Jermaine Hatch added a 1-yard touchdown run to make it 45–3, as Georgia Tech had scored 38 unanswered points. Quarterback Paul Smith found Garrett Mills for a 13-yard touchdown, for Tulsa to cut it to 45–10. Jermaine Hatch scored from 8 yards out, as Georgia Tech completed the game 52–10. Georgia Tech held Tulsa to -56 rushing yards, the lowest ever in Tulsa history.


2004 Humanitarian Bowl
This was the third meeting between the schools - both previous meetings were also bowl games.


2004 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 2004 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University during the 2004 NCAA Division II football season. Humboldt State competed in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC).


2004 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 2004 Lumberjacks were led by fifth-year head coach Doug Adkins. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished the season with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5, 3–3 GNAC). The Lumberjacks were outscored by their opponents 221–253 for the 2004 season. This season marked a change in scheduling for the GNAC. Each team played the other conference teams twice during the season (home and away) instead of just once. That practice would continue through the 2013 season.


2004 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL
No Humboldt State players were selected in the 2005 NFL Draft.


2004 Hungarian Figure Skating Championships
The 2004 Hungarian Figure Skating Championships (Hungarian: Senior Országos Bajnokság 2004) took place on January 17 and 18, 2004 in Budapest. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior level. The results were used to choose the Hungarian teams to the 2004 World Championships and the 2004 European Championships.


2004 Hungarian Grand Prix
The 2004 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Marlboro Magyar Nagydíj 2004) was a Formula One motor race held on 15 August 2004 at the Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary. It was Race 13 of 18 in the 2004 FIA Formula One World Championship and the 20th Hungarian Grand Prix. The 70-lap race was won from pole position by Michael Schumacher, driving a Ferrari, with teammate Rubens Barrichello second and Fernando Alonso third in a Renault.


2004 Hungarian Grand Prix
The win was Michael Schumacher's twelfth of the season and his seventh in succession. The result meant that Schumacher increased his lead in the Drivers' Championship to 38 points over Barrichello. Jenson Button, who finished fifth in the race in his BAR-Honda, remained in third but was mathematically eliminated from the championship. Ferrari's one-two finish meant that they secured their sixth consecutive Constructors' Championship.


2004 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Background
Heading into the thirteenth race of the season, Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher led the Drivers' Championship with 110 points, ahead of teammate Rubens Barrichello on 74 points and Jenson Button on 65. Jarno Trulli was fourth with 46 points with his Renault teammate Fernando Alonso in fifth place on 39 points. Ferrari were leading the Constructors' Championship with 184 points; Renault (85 points) and BAR (76) contended for second place with Williams in fourth on 47 points and McLaren were a further ten points adrift in fifth place. Ferrari had dominated the championship; Michael Schumacher had won eleven races for the team, while Trulli had clinched the victory in the Monaco Grand Prix. Barrichello, Button, Alonso, Juan Pablo Montoya and Kimi Räikkönen had finished in second and third positions during the season.


2004 Hungarian Grand Prix, Report, Background
There was one driver change heading into the race. Cristiano da Matta was dropped by Toyota and was replaced by the team's third driver Ricardo Zonta. Da Matta was dropped because of his poor performance relative to teammate Olivier Panis, but remained at the team as a driver and would perform marketing work while Toyota test driver Ryan Briscoe assumed Zonta's former position.


2004 Hungarian Grand Prix, Friday drivers
The bottom 6 teams in the 2003 Constructors' Championship were entitled to run a third car in free practice on Friday. These drivers drove on Friday but did not compete in qualifying or the race.


2004 Hungarian dual citizenship referendum
A two-part referendum was held in Hungary on 5 December 2004. Voters were asked two questions:


2004 Hungarian dual citizenship referendum
Both measures were approved by voters, but the referendum failed due to a voter turnout of 37.5%.


2004 Huntingdonshire District Council election
The 2004 Huntingdonshire District Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Huntingdonshire District Council in Cambridgeshire, England. The whole council was up for election after boundary changes reduced the number of seats by 1. The Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 Hyndburn Borough Council election
Elections to Hyndburn Borough Council, England were held on 10 June 2004. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 Hypo-Meeting
The 30th edition of the annual Hypo-Meeting took place on May 29 and May 30, 2004 in Götzis, Austria. The track and field competition, featuring a decathlon (men) and a heptathlon (women) event was part of the 2004 IAAF World Combined Events Challenge.


2004 IAAF Golden League
The 2004 IAAF Golden League was a series of track and field meetings organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations.


2004 IAAF Golden League
Originally taking place in Oslo, Rome, Monaco, Zürich, Brussels and Berlin, the Bislett Games was temporarily moved from Oslo to Fana (Bergen) due to the redevelopment of the Bislett stadion. The athletes (in selected events) who won their event at all six meetings took a share of a $1 million jackpot.


2004 IAAF World Athletics Final
The 2nd IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Stade Louis II, in Monte Carlo, Monaco on September 18, and September 19, 2004.


2004 IAAF World Athletics Final
The hammer throw event for men and women had to take place in Szombathely, Hungary a week previous as the Monaco stadium was not large enough to hold the event.


2004 IAAF World Athletics Final
One of the main highlights was the men's 3000 metres steeplechase. This was won by Saif Saeed Shaheen of Qatar, (formerly Stephen Cherono of Kenya), who won in a championship record of 7:56.94 despite the fact that the field had been held up by Wesley Kiprotich clattering into the first barrier. Shaheen had been unable to compete in the recent 2004 Summer Olympics due to his change of nationality but had set the world record of 7:53.63 minutes in Brussels just ten days after the Olympic final.


2004 IAAF World Athletics Final
Another highlight was the pole vault competition where Timothy Mack cleared 6.01 m to join the exclusive 6 metres club.


2004 IAAF World Athletics Final – Results
These are the results of the 2004 IAAF World Athletics Final, which took place in at the Stade Louis II in Monte Carlo, Monaco on 18–19 September. The hammer throw events were staged separately on 5 September in Szombathely, Hungary, due to stadium limitations in Monaco.


2004 IAAF World Athletics Final – Results
The year's top seven athletes, based on their points ranking of the 2004 IAAF World Athletics Tour, qualified to compete in each event, with an extra four athletes selected for races of 1500 metres and above. One additional athlete, a wildcard, was allocated to each event by the IAAF and replacement athletes were admitted to replace the qualified athletes that could not attend the final.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
The 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 20/21, 2004. The races were held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, and for the IAAF.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
The new team scores introduced in 2002 were reverted to the original form as used in 2001 and earlier.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Complete results for senior men, for senior men's teams, for men's short race, for men's short race teams, for junior men, for junior men's teams, senior women, for senior women's teams, for women's short race, for women's short race teams, for junior women,  for junior women's teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 673 athletes from 72 countries participated. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athletes from  Guinea did not show.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
The Junior men's race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, Belgium, on March 21, 2004. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, and for the IAAF.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 120 athletes from 40 countries participated in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athlete from  Guinea did not show.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race
The Junior women's race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, Belgium, on March 20, 2004. Reports on the event were given in The New York Times, and for the IAAF.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race
Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 115 athletes from 35 countries participated in the Junior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athlete from  Zimbabwe did not show.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race
The Men's short race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, Belgium, on March 20, 2004. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, and for the IAAF.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race
Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 140 athletes from 47 countries participated in the Men's short race.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
The Senior men's race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, Belgium, on March 21, 2004. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, and for the IAAF.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 136 athletes from 48 countries participated in the Senior men's race. The announced athletes from  Burundi did not show.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
The Senior women's race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, Belgium, on March 20, 2004. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, and for the IAAF.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 97 athletes from 30 countries participated in the Senior women's race. The announced athlete from  Malawi did not show.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race
The Women's short race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, Belgium, on March 21, 2004. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, and for the IAAF.


2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race
Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.