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Consortium of American, British and Dutch investors led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co makes 1.43 billion euro ($1.75 billion) bid to buy Dutch retail group Royal Vendex (S)
Martha Stewart's Lawyers Are Seeking a New Trial Lawyers for Martha Stewart sought a new trial, saying a juror failed to disclose he was arrested on an accusation of assault and provided other false information. Ms. Stewart, the former chairwoman and chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, was convicted on March 5 of lying to government investigators about her sale of nearly 4,000 shares of ImClone Systems in 2001. [C3.]
Virginia Heffernan reviews Frontline episode Ghosts of Rwanda; photo (M)
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn contains remains of many of baseball's early heroes and innovators; historians say this suggests that game started in cities, perhaps even Manhattan; research shows that early baseball players also fought in Civil War and that baseball helped reconnect nation after war; photos (L)
David Pogue State of the Art column discusses file sharing programs from ShareALot and OurPictures designed to share picture files with family and friends; both transfer files peer-to-peer eliminating the need to use e-mail; photo; drawing (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 31, 2004, covering April 1, 2004.
Norah Jones
Cassidy
Evanescence
Jessica Simpson
Godsmack
2004Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (born 1952)[†]
Giannis Kyrastas was a Greek footballer and a later manager.
2004Carrie Snodgress, American actress (born 1945)[†]
Caroline Louise Snodgress was an American actress. She is best remembered for her role in the film Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award as well as winning two Golden Globes and two Laurel Awards.
2004Google launches its Email service Gmail.[†]
Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" by the BBC and is one of the world's most valuable brands. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the five Big Tech companies alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]