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2004 FH 2004 FH is a near-Earth asteroid that was discovered on March 15, 2004 by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey. The object is roughly 30 metres in diameter and passed just 43,000 km (26,000 miles) above the Earth's surface on March 18, 2004 at 22:08 UTC; making it the second closest approach to Earth ever recorded at the time (see the diagram below).
2004 FIA GT Championship season The 2004 FIA GT Championship season was the 8th season of FIA GT Championship. It is a series comprised of Grand Touring style cars broken into two classes based on power and manufacturer involvement, called GT and N-GT.
2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship The 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship was held from November 10 to November 27 2004. It was the second edition of the youth tournament for women put together by FIFA, before being renamed FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship for the 2006 edition.
2004 Formula Three Euroseries season The 2004 Formula Three Euroseries season was the second championship year of Europe's premier F3 series. The championship was comprised of ten rounds – each with two races – held at a variety of European circuits.
2004 Golden Raspberry Awards The 25th annual Golden Raspberry Awards were held on February 26, 2005 at the Ivar Theatre in Hollywood, California to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 2004. Also, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Golden Raspberry Awards, four special categories—Worst Razzie Loser Of Our First 25 Years, Worst "Comedy" Of Our First 25 Years, Worst "Drama" Of Our First 25 Years, and Worst "Musical" Of Our First 25 Years—were added.
2004 Governor General's Awards The nominees for the 2004 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 26. The children's literature winners were announced on November 15, and the other winners were announced on November 16.
2004 Green Bay Packers season The 2004 Green Bay Packers season started with the Packers losing four of their first five games, then winning their next six games, and finally ending in a Wild Card playoff loss to the Minnesota Vikings. They finished with an overall record of 10-7.
2004 Haiti coup d'État The 2004 Haiti coup d'État was a regime overthrow that happened as the result of conflicts fought for several weeks in Haiti during February 2004. It resulted in the premature end of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's second term, and the installment of an interim government led by Prime Minister Gérard Latortue and President Boniface Alexandre.
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 college football season. Hawaii finished the 2004 season with a 8-5 record, going 4-4 in WAC play.
2004 Chase for the NEXTEL Cup The 2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup served as the ten-race playoff series among the top ten drivers in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. After the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 on September 11, 2004, the ten drivers atop the standings were locked into the playoff, with the participants as follows:
2004 Chicago earthquake The 2004 Chicago Earthquake was a 4.2 magnitude earthquake that occurred on June 28, 2004 at about 1:11 am which affected the Chicagoland area and was mostly felt in Utica, Illinois and surrounding rural towns.
2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm The 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm was a rare weather event that took place in Louisiana and Texas in the United States on December 24, 2004 before the storm moved northeast to affect the coastal sections of the Mid-Atlantic states and New England in the succeeding few days. This was a different storm from the historic event that struck the Midwest and southern Canada around December 23 from another cyclone which preceded this storm.
2004 in British music This is a summary of 2004 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. The year was special for many successful artists, including Eminem, Scissor Sisters, Usher, Natasha Bedingfield, Jamelia and The Streets.
2004 in IRL The 2004 Indy Racing League season was dominated by two teams, Andretti Green Racing and Rahal Letterman Racing. While there was great parity in 2003 between Honda and Toyota powered teams, in 2004 Honda began to outshine Toyota bringing their teams Penske Racing and Chip Ganassi Racing down with it, leaving Scott Dixon winless and in 10th place in his attempt to defend his 2003 championship.
2004 ICC Champions Trophy The 2004 ICC Champions Trophy was held in England in September 2004. Twelve teams, including the Test nations, together with Kenya, and – making their one-day international debut – the USA, competed in fifteen matches spread over sixteen days at three venues Edgbaston, The Rose Bowl and The Oval.
2004 Indianapolis Colts season The 2004 Indianapolis Colts season began with the team trying to maintain or improve on their 12-4 record from 2003, and advance farther into the playoffs. The Colts finished the season 12-4, and defeated the Denver Broncos for the second straight time in the playoffs, but they were halted in the Divisional round by the New England Patriots.
2004 Israel-New Zealand spy scandal On July 15, 2004, New Zealand imposed diplomatic sanctions against Israel and suspended high-level contacts between the two countries in July of 2005 after two Israeli citizens, Uriel Zosha Kelman and Eli Cara, were convicted of passport fraud in Auckland.
2004 ISSF World Cup Final The 2004 ISSF World Cup Final in the seventeen Olympic shooting events was held in September 2004 in Maribor, Slovenia for the shotgun events, and in October 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand for the rifle, pistol and running target events. It was the last World Cup Final for the women's Double Trap event and the men's 10 m Running Target event, as they were taken off the Olympic program after 2004.
2004 Japanese Grand Prix The 2004 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on October 10, 2004 at the Suzuka Circuit. The first qualifying session was pushed back to Saturday, and the second to race day Sunday, thanks to Typhoon Ma-on.
2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic The 2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, promoted at the time as the Las Vegas Desert Classic III, was the third year that the Professional Darts Corporation held a major darts tournament in the United States. It was held between 30 June and July 4, 2004.
2004 Liberal Party of Canada infighting The period between Paul Martin's assumption of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada on November 14, 2003, and the 2004 federal election being called on May 23, 2004, saw a considerable amount of infighting within the party. The divisions in the Liberal Party, a united Conservative opposition, and damaging allegations from the Gomery Inquiry, all combined to end 13 continuous years of Liberal rule.
2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game 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 two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 13, 2004 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, the home of the Houston Astros of the National League.
2004 Memorial Cup The 2004 Memorial Cup occurred May 15-23 at Prospera Place in Kelowna, British Columbia. It featured the host team, the Kelowna Rockets as well as the winners of the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League which were the Guelph Storm, Gatineau Olympiques and the Medicine Hat Tigers respectively.
2004 Men's Hockey Olympic Qualifier The Men's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier for the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the two artificial pitches of Club de Campo in Madrid, Spain, from March 2 until 13, 2004. Twelve nations took part, and they played a round robin in two groups of six.
2004 Mexican UFO Incident On May 13 2004 Jaime Maussan released his interview of Mexican Air Force pilots showing an infrared video footage from a military air patrol on March 05, 2004 against drug smuggling, that shows at least 11 very hot "spheres" moving irregularly with apparent great speed. The objects could not be seen with the naked eye, neither the crew on board nor ground personal confirmed any radar contact with the objects in question.
2004 MLS SuperDraft The 2004 MLS SuperDraft, held in Charlotte, North Carolina on January 16, 2004, was the fifth incarnation of the annual Major League Soccer SuperDraft, and was most notable for the selection of one of the youngest athletes in American sporting history, Freddy Adu, with the first pick.
2004 Moldovan Census The 2004 Republic of Moldova Census was carried October 5–October 12, 2004. The separatist Transnistria failed to come into an agreement with the Chişinău government and carried out its census during November 11–November 18; the results of the Transnistrian census are questioned.
2004 National League Division Series The 2004 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 2004 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 5, and ended on Monday, October 11, with the champions of the three NL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. They were:
2004 National League Championship Series The 2004 National League Championship Series was a Major League Baseball playoff series played from October 13 to 21 to determine the champion of the National League, between the Central Division champion St. Louis Cardinals and the wild-card qualifying Houston Astros.
2004 NBA All-Star Game The 2004 National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on February 15, 2004 in front of an attendance of 19,662 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, home of the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers. Behind a combined 44 points from host-city stars Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, the Western Conference All-Stars beat the Eastern Conference by a score of 136-132.
2004 NBA Finals The 2004 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2003-04 National Basketball Association season. The Los Angeles Lakers of the Western Conference battled the Detroit Pistons of the Eastern Conference for the NBA title, with the Lakers holding home court advantage.
2004 NCAA Division I-A football rankings Three human polls and one formulaic ranking make up the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football rankings, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), does not bestow a National Championship title for Division I-A football.
2004 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2004 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 16, 2004, and ended with the championship game on April 5 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
2004 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament The 2004 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 16 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. It began on March 26, 2004, and ended with the championship game on April 10.
2004 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2004 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament began on March 20, 2004 and concluded on April 6, 2004 when Connecticut won a third consecutive national championship, becoming only the second school in history to accomplish such a feat. The Final Four was held at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 4 - April 6, 2004, and was hosted by Tulane University.
2004 NFL Draft The 2004 NFL Draft, in which National Football League (NFL) teams take turns selecting amateur college American football players and other first-time eligible players, took place on April 24 and April 25 2004 at the theater at Madison Square Garden.Facts & Figures.
2004 NHL Entry Draft The 2004 NHL Entry Draft was held on June 26 at the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is especially notable because it was the last NHL event to take place before the beginning of the lockout that prevented the 2004-05 NHL season.
2004 Nokia Brier The 2004 Nokia Brier was held at Saskatchewan Place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, from March 6 to March 14, 2004. The Nova Scotia team skipped by Mark Dacey defeated the Alberta team of Randy Ferbey in dramatic fashion in the final game played on March 14.
2004 NRL Finals Series The National Rugby League's final series ran from 10 September to 3 October 2004, as the teams making up the final 8 vied to play in the Grand Final for the NRL Premiership. After an exciting home-and-away season that was headed by two teams most of the way but where upsets by any team possible the final placings and first-week match-ups were decided as the final few rounds of the regular saeson were completed.
2004 OFC Nations Cup The 2004 Oceania Nations Cup doubled as the qualification tournament to the 2006 Football World Cup, except the two-legged final (A separate playoff (between Australia and Solomon Islands) was held in September 2005, for World Cup Qualifying purposes).
2004 Olympic Torch Relay The 2004 Olympic Torch Relay took the Olympic flame across every habitable continent, returning to Athens, Greece for the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad. Every city which had hosted the Summer Olympics was revisited by the torch, as well as several other cities chosen for their international importance.
2004 Osama bin Laden video On October 29, 2004, at 21:00 UTC, the Arab television network, Al Jazeera, broadcast excerpts from a videotape of Osama bin Laden addressing the people of the United States, in which he accepted responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks, condemns the Bush government's response to those attacks and presents those attacks as part of a campaign of revenge and deterrence motivated by his witnessing of the destruction in the Lebanese Civil War in 1982.
2004 putative Venezuelan coup d'état attempt The putative Venezuelan coup of 2004 was a hypothesized plot to overthrow Hugo Chávez, who is the current President of Venezuela. According to Chávez and his supporters, the capture of several dozen individuals in May 2004 and other developments prove the existence of the purported coup plot, while the anti-Chávez opposition discounts the notion that any deeper meaning can be imputed to the raid and capture of the Colombian detainees or to other events.
2004 Pacific hurricane season The 2004 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15 2004 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1 2004 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30 2004. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
2004 Philadelphia Eagles season The 2004 Philadelphia Eagles season was the best in the modern history of the team. The Eagles had been one of the most successful teams in the league after the Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb era began in 1999, making it to the playoffs for four straight seasons and to the NFC Championship Game in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
2004 Pro Bowl The 2004 AFC-NFC Pro Bowl was played in front of 50,127 on February 8, 2004 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The final Score was NFC 55, AFC 52, which is the record for most points scored in a Pro Bowl game.
2004 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada The table below lists the reasons delivered from the bench by the Supreme Court of Canada during 2004. The table illustrates what reasons were filed by each justice in each case, and which justices joined each reason.
2004 rugby league betting scandal 2004 saw a scandal in the sport of rugby league involving Great Britain international players Sean Long and Martin Gleeson. Both players were playing for St Helens at the time; the match in question was between Bradford Bulls and St Helens on Easter Monday, April 2004.
2004 Racism Watch 2004 Racism Watch was an organization founded in January of 2004 that called upon the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign to change or pull a political ad they deemed offensive from the air. The ad in question contained a partial face shot of a man who could be construed as "Middle Eastern.
2004 Republican National Convention The 2004 Republican National Convention, the presidential nominating convention of the Republican Party of the United States, took place from August 30 to September 2, 2004 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The convention is one of a series of historic quadrennial meetings at which the Republican candidate for President of the United States and party platform are formally adopted.
2004 Republican National Convention protest activity 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity includes the broad range of marches, rallies, performances, demonstrations, exhibits, and acts of civil disobedience in New York City to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention and the nomination of President George W. Bush for the 2004 U.
2004 Rugby League Tri-Nations The second Rugby League Tri-Nations tournament was contested between 16 October and 27 November of 2004. The format of the competition differed from the previous event in that the teams played each other twice, rather than once, prior to the final.
2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts The 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts was held at the Enmax Centrium in Red Deer, Alberta from February 21 to 29, 2004. The defending champion, Colleen Jones won the right to represent "Canada" and she would go on to win her fourth straight championship.
2004 Six Nations Championship The 2004 Six Nations Championship was the fifth series of the rugby union Six Nations Championship to be held since the competition expanded in 2000 to include Italy. Before 1910 the competition was the Home Nations and was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
2004 South American Summit The 2004 South American Summit – the third of its kind, after earlier events in Brasília (September 2000) and Guayaquil (July 2002) – was held in Cuzco and Ayacucho, Peru, on 7–9 December 2004. Officially it constituted the Extraordinary Meeting of the Andean Presidential Council (Reunión Extraordinaria del Consejo Presidencial Andino and was also billed as the Third Meeting of Presidents of South America (III Reunión de Presidentes de América del Sur).
2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs The 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs for the National Hockey League began on April 7, 2004, following the 2003-04 regular season. The playoffs ended with the Tampa Bay Lightning securing the Stanley Cup with a seven-game series win over the Calgary Flames on June 7.
2004 STCC Season The 2004 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 9th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. In total nine racing weekends at five different circuits were held; each round comprising two races, making an eighteen-round competition in total.
2004 Summer Olympic bids Five cities made the shortlist to host the 2004 Summer Olympics which were awarded to Athens, Greece on September 5, 1997. The other cities were Rome (Italy), Cape Town (South Africa), Stockholm (Sweden) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).
2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004. 11,099 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries.
2004 Summer Olympics medal count This is the full table of the medal count of the 2004 Summer Olympics. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee).
2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony The Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 13, 2004 at the Olympic Stadium in Maroussi, Greece, a suburb of Athens. 72,000 spectators attended the event, with approximately 15,000 athletes from 202 countries participating in the ceremony as well.
2004 Summer Paralympics The 2004 Summer Paralympics were held in Athens, Greece, from September 17 to September 28. The twelfth Paralympic Games, an estimated 4,000 athletes took part in the Athens programme, with ages ranging from 11 to 66.
2004 Summer Paralympics medal count This is the full table of the medal count of the 2004 Summer Paralympics. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee).
2004 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The table below lists the opinions delivered from the bench by the Supreme Court of the United States during the 2004 Term, which lasted from October 4, 2004, until October 3, 2005. The table illustrates what opinions were filed by each justice in each case, and which justices joined each opinion.
2004 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down six per curiam opinions during its 2004 term, which lasted from October 4, 2004 until October 3, 2005. These were all decisions in which the Court either dismissed a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted, or summarily reversed the lower court based on the information and arguments presented in the petitions for certiorari and oppositions alone.
2004 Texas Longhorn football team The 2004 Texas Longhorn football team represented The University of Texas (UT) in the college football season of 2004-2005. The team was coached by head football coach Mack Brown and led on the field by quarterback Vince Young.
2004 Thomas & Uber Cup The 2004 Thomas & Uber Cup was held from May 7 to May 16, 2004 in Senayan, Indonesia. It was the 23rd tournament of World Men's Team Badminton Championships, Thomas Cup and 20th tournament of World Women's Team Badminton Championships, Uber Cup.
2004 Tiger Cup The 2004 ASEAN Football Championship, also known as the 2004 Tiger Cup was an ASEAN football championship jointly hosted by Vietnam and Malaysia, and participated by the national football teams of various countries in South-East Asia.
2004 Tri Nations Series The 2004 Tri Nations Series, an annual rugby union competition between the national teams of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, was the ninth in the series. The competition is organised by SANZAR, a consortium of the three countries' rugby union federations.
2004 unrest in Kosovo Violent unrest in Kosovo (a United Nations-administered province of Serbia) broke out on March 17, 2004. Serbian communities and cultural sites were attacked, leading to the largest violent incident since the 1999 Kosovo War.
2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities Concerns were raised, following the 2004 election, on various aspects of the voting process: whether voting had been made accessible to everyone entitled to vote, whether the votes cast had been correctly counted, and whether these irregularities decisively affected the reported outcome of the election.
2004 UEFA European Football Championship - Group C Play in Group C of the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship completed on June 22 2004. The top three teams all finished with five points, with Sweden winning the group on goal difference, and advancing to the second round, along with Denmark.
2004 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying The finals of the 2004 UEFA European Championship, commonly called EURO 2004, were held in Portugal between 12 June and 4 July 2004. The UEFA European Championship is a quadrennial football competition between national teams organised by UEFA, the sport's governing body in Europe.
2004 UEFA Champions League Final The 2004 UEFA Champions League Final took place at the Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on May 26, 2004. The match was between French club AS Monaco, in their first European final, and Portuguese club FC Porto, the UEFA Cup winners the previous season UEFA Cup Final.
2004 Ukrainian child pornography raids The 2004 Ukrainian child pornography raids occurred in July 2004, when police in Ukraine raided a child pornography ring operating in the cities of Kiev, Kharkiv and Simferopol. The ring had operated since 2001, and used a modeling agency as a front.
2004 UK Open Darts The 2004 Budweiser UK Open was the second time the Professional Darts Corporation held the tournament which had quickly earned the nickname the "FA Cup of Darts". It was held at Bolton Wanderer's Reebok Stadium between June 4 and June 6, 2004.
2004 United States election voting controversies After the November 2, 2004 election in the United States, concerns were raised about various aspects of the voting process, including whether voting had been made accessible to all those entitled to vote (and no one else), and whether the votes cast had been correctly counted. More controversial was the charge that these issues might have affected the reported outcome of the presidential election, in which the incumbent, Republican President George W.
2004 Universal Forum of Cultures The 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures - (Catalan: Fòrum Universal de les Cultures, Spanish: Fórum Universal de las Culturas) was a 141-day international event that took place in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from May 9 to September 26, 2004.
2004 world oil market chronology *January 18: Saudi Aramco formally inaugurates its new Haradh oil and natural gas facility. The Haradh plant is expected to boost Saudi natural gas production capacity by roughly 25%, most of which is slated for the domestic market.
2004 World Cup of Hockey [2004 World Cup of Hockey is the second World Cup of Hockey] (WCH), an international [[ice hockey tournament. Prior to the first World Cup of Hockey in 1996, the Canada Cup was the name of the international competition between nations.
2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships The 2004 World Junior (Under 20) Ice Hockey Championships was held between December 26, 2003 and January 5, 2004 in Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, Finland. The United States won their first ever gold medal, defeating Canada 4-3 in the Final.
2004 World Matchplay Darts The 2004 Stan James World Matchplay Darts Championship was held from 25-31 July 2004 at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. 32 Players once again assembled in their bid to take the World Matchplay title of Phil Taylor for the first time since 1999 when Rod Harrington took the title.
2004 World Series of Poker The 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe after Harrah's Entertainment purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January. Harrah's announced that future WSOP tournaments will be held in a moving circuit of member casinos.
2004-05 Calgary Flames season The 2004-05 Calgary Flames season would have been 25th National Hockey League season in Calgary, however it was cancelled as the 2004-05 NHL lockout could not be resolved in time to save the season. As a result, the Flames were unable to raise their Western Conference Championship banner until the start of 2005-06 season.
2004-05 Heineken Cup The 2004-5 Heineken Cup (the rugby union club championship of Europe) was the tenth of the series. Competing teams, from England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales, were divided into six pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other.
2004-05 NHL lockout The 2004-05 NHL lockout resulted in the cancellation of what would have been the 88th season of the National Hockey League (NHL). It was the first time the Stanley Cup was not awarded (although not the property of the NHL) since 1919, and the first time a major professional sports league in North America cancelled a complete season due to a labor dispute.
2004-05 NHL season The 2004-05 NHL season would have been the 88th regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL). The season was officially cancelled on February 16, 2005 due to an unresolved lockout that began on September 16, 2004.
2004-05 PBA season [2004-2005 PBA season is the 30th season of the Philippine Basketball Association]. Instead of the usual calendar year of [[February-December, the league changed its schedule to the current October-July format, while limiting the number of conferences from three to two.
2004-2005 in Argentine football The 2004-05 Argentine First Division season saw Américo Gallego's Newell's Old Boys get away with the Apertura title after a fierce battle against Vélez Sársfield for the supremacy. Revenge, though, will come soon enough since they won the Clausura with a stellar performance and Banfield (with most of the tournament playing with a young second team due was also playing the Copa Libertadores de América) reaching second place.
2004: The Stupid Version 2004: The Stupid Version was a satirical documentary written by Armando Iannucci, broadcast in two parts on BBC Three on New Year's Eve 2004. The one-off programme was a parody of New Year review programmes broadcast at that time of year.
2005 12 Hours of Sebring The 2005 12 Hours of Sebring was the 53rd running of this event, and took place on March 19, 2005. The race was sponsored by Mobil 1 and was the opening race of the 2005 American Le Mans Series season run by IMSA.
2005 amendment to the Finnish Copyright Act and Penal Code The 2005 amendment to the Finnish Copyright Act and Penal Code was an amendment to make the Finnish copyright legislation and criminal code comply with the EU Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC. It was presented to the President of Finland by Culture Minister Tanja Saarela (previously Karpela).
2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations The Anti-Japanese demonstrations of 2005 are demonstrations that happened in Spring, 2005 in China and Korea to protest against a Japanese history textbook called "Atarashii Rekishi Kyokasho" (新しい歴史教科書) or "New History Textbook" which downplays or whitewashes the nature of Japan's military aggression in the First Sino-Japanese War, in Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, in the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in World War II.
2005 ADAC Procar-Serie Season The 2005 ADAC Procar-Serie Season was the sixth season of the ADAC Procar Series, the German championship for Super 2000 cars. The season consisted of eight separate race weekends with two races each, spread over six different tracks.
2005 Afro-Asian Cup The Afro-Asian Cup was a cricket competition played for the first time in 2005 and which is intended to run for at least three years. The stated aim is to provide funds for cricket's grassroots in Asia and Africa.
2005 AFL Draft The 2005 AFL Draft consisted of a pre-season draft, a national draft, a trade period and a rookie elevation. The AFL Draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.
2005 AFL finals series The Australian Football League's 2005 Finals Series began on the weekend of September 2, 2005 and ended with the 109th AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24 September 2005, won by the Sydney Swans.
2005 American Le Mans Series season The 2005 American Le Mans Series season was the 7th season for the IMSA American Le Mans Series. It is a series comprised of Le Mans prototypes and Grand Touring race cars divided into 4 classes: LMP1, LMP2, GT1, and GT2.
2005 American League Division Series The 2005 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 2005 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 4, and ended on Monday, October 10, with the champions of the three AL divisions – along with a "wild card" team – participating in two best-of-five series. They were:
2005 American League Championship Series The 2005 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the 2005 American League playoffs, matched the Central Division champion Chicago White Sox against the Western Division champion Los Angeles Angels. The White Sox, by virtue of having the best record in the AL during the 2005 season, had the home field advantage.

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