August 12, 2004

Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as the 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore. (Taipei Times) (VOA)
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey resigns his post effective November 15, saying that his extramarital homosexual affair would leave the governor's office "vulnerable to rumors, false allegations and threats of disclosure.". (CNN)
Unanimously determining that San Francisco's same-sex marriages are illegal, the California Supreme Court votes 5-2 to annul all 4,000 such marriages performed in San Francisco this year. (San Francisco Chronicle) (CNN) (BBC)
EU Commission President-designate José M. Durão Barroso announces the portfolios assigned to the members of his new European Commission. (EU Press Release)
A Roman Catholic seminary at St Poelten in Austria is shut down following allegations of sexual impropriety. (BBC)
In Najaf, US forces besiege the Imam Ali Mosque, where followers of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr are barricaded. (BBC)