2005
*
January 4 - Death of the Governor of
Baghdad,
Ali Al-Haidri, assassinated by gunmen.
*
January 9 - The same storm which pounded the US earlier in the month hits
England and
Scandinavia, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.
*
January 9 -
Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed
Yasser Arafat as
Palestinian Authority President in the
Palestinian election.
*
January 12 -
Deep Impact is launched from
Kennedy Space Center by a
Delta 2 rocket.
*
January 13 - Armed militants enter into
Israel from Gaza and open fire near the
border, killing 6 people and wounding 5 others.
Hamas and
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility for attack.[
1]
*
January 14 - The
Huygens probe lands on
Titan, largest moon of
Saturn.
*
January 16 -
Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so.
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Iraqi police officers hold up their index fingers marked with purple indelible ink, a security measure to prevent double voting. |
*
January 16 - Armed militants kill 1 person and wound 8 people in the
Gush Katif settlement,
Gaza Strip. Hamas claims responsibility.
*
January 20 -
George W. Bush is inaugurated in
Washington, D.C. for his second term as the 43rd
President of the United States.
*
January 20 -
Ireland completes
metrication.
*
January 21 - In Belize's capital city of
Belmopan, the
unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into
riots.
*
January 25 - A
stampede at
Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi during a religious
pilgrimage in
India kills at least 215, mostly women and small children.
*
January 26 -
Glendale train crash, two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in
Glendale, California near
Los Angeles.
*
January 30 - The
first free Parliamentary elections in Iraq since
1958 take place.
*
January 30 - A
Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in
Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgents release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.
*
February 6 - The
New England Patriots defeat the
Philadelphia Eagles 24-21 in
Super Bowl XXXIX. The Patriots capture their second consecutive Super Bowl title.
*
February 8 -
Danish parliamentary elections continue the center-right coalition led by Prime Minister
Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his
Liberal Party.
*
February 9 - An
ETA car bomb injures 31 people at a conference centre in
Madrid.
*
February 10 -
North Korea announces that it possesses
nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the
United States.
*
February 10 -
Saudi Arabia holds its first ever elections for municipal authorities, in which only men are allowed to vote.
*
February 11 - The Computer game
World of Warcraft is launched in
Europe.
*
February 12 - Fire devastates the
Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in
Madrid.
*
February 13 -
Lúcia Santos, the last of the three surviving shepherd children to whom
Our Lady of Fatima appeared in
1917, dies.
[Catholic World News, February 14, 2005, "Sister Lucia, last Fatima seer, dead at 97"] *
February 14 - A massive suicide bomb blast in central
Beirut kills
Lebanon's former
prime minister Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people are also hurt.
*
February 14 - Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in
Tehran,
Iran.
*
February 16 - The
Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, without the support of the
United States and
Australia.
*
February 16 - The
National Hockey League cancels its
2004-2005 season becoming the first North American professional league to cancel a season due to a labour dispute.
*
February 19 - Suicide bombers kill more than 30 people in Iraq as Shia Muslims mark
Ashura, their holiest day.
*
February 20 -
Spanish referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
*
February 20 - Early
Legislative elections in
Portugal result in a landslide victory for
José Sócrates and the
Socialist Party.
*
February 22 - More than 500 people are killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages are flattened in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale in the
Zarand region of
Kerman province in southern
Iran.
*
February 23 — Vote of the controversed
French law on colonialism, repealed start of 2006.
*
February 24 -
David Hernandez Arroyo goes on a
shooting rampage at the
Smith County Courthouse in
Tyler, Texas. He kills two, including his ex-wife, and wounds four others before being killed in a police chase.
*
February 25 - American police apprehend the so-called BTK serial killer
Dennis Rader, 31 years after his first murder.
*
February 25 - Terrorists kill 5 people and wound 50 people in Tel Aviv, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
*
February 25 - 60th anniversary of
Radio Canada International.
*
February 26 - Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak asks Parliament to amend the constitution to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before
September 2005.
*
March 1 - The
U.S. Supreme Court rules the
death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes under age 18.
*
March 3 - The freighter
M/V Karen Danielsen crashes into the
Great Belt Bridge of
Denmark. All traffic across the bridge is closed, effectively separating Denmark in two.
*
March 3 -
Millionaire Steve Fossett breaks a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo
flight around the world in the
Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.
*
March 4 - The car of released
Italian hostage
Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by
US soldiers in
Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.
*
March 4 - The
United Nations warns that about 90 million
Africans could be infected by the
HIV virus in the future, without further action against the spread of the disease.
*
March 5 - The 27th
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held in
Australia.
*
March 8 - The
Pakistan Army opens fire on aggressing insurgents in
Baluchistan, the first armed uprising since General
Rahimuddin Khan's
stabilization of the
province in
1978.
*
March 10 -
Tung Chee Hwa, the
Chief Executive of
Hong Kong, resigns.
*
March 10 -
Garry Kasparov announces his retirement from professional chess.
*
March 11 - In the
UK, the controversial
Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is finally given
Royal Assent after one of the longest ever sittings by the
House of Lords.
*
March 11 - Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the
Fulton County Courthouse in
Atlanta,
Georgia; the main suspect,
Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.
*
March 13 - First round of
Central African Republic elections.
*
March 14 - The
People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-
secession law, aimed at preventing
Taiwan from declaring independence.
*
March 14 - Nearly one million people gathered for an opposition rally in
Beirut, a month after the death of former Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri " the largest rally in
Lebanon history.
*
March 16 -
Ripudaman Singh Malik and
Ajaib Singh Bagri, accused of the bombing of the
Air India Flight 182 in
1985, are found not guilty on all counts.
*
March 19 - A suspected
suicide bomber in
Doha,
Qatar, kills one person and injures about 12 others.
*
March 19 - A time bomb explodes in a Muslim shrine in
Quetta, southwestern
Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40.
*
March 19 - A mine blast occurrs at the Xishui coal mine in
Shuozhou,
China, and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine, killing up to 59.
*
March 20 - At least 250 people in
Japan are injured and at least one killed, when a magnitude 7 earthquake strikes west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
*
March 21 - Ten are killed in the
Red Lake High School massacre in
Minnesota, the worst
school shooting since the
Columbine High School massacre.
*
March 23 - The United States'
11th Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 decision refuses to order the reinsertion of
Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
*
March 24 - The
Tulip Revolution in
Kyrgyzstan reaches its climax with the overthrow of president
Askar Akayev.
*
March 26 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million
Taiwanese to demonstrate in
Taipei, in opposition to the
Anti-Secession Law of
Mainland China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
*
March 28 - The
2005 Sumatran earthquake strikes off
Sumatra, 3 months after the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since
1965.
*
Japanese history textbooks controversy*
April 2 -
Pope John Paul II dies; over 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.
*
April 6 - First
13th root calculation of a 200-digit number, computed by the Frenchman
Alexis Lemaire.
*
April 6 -
Rainier III of Monaco dies, succeeded by his son
Albert II.
*
April 7 -
MG Rover, the UK's sole remaining volume producer, goes into receivership after a planned alliance with Chinese manufacturer,
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, collapses.
*
April 7 - A suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing two foreign tourists and wounding seventeen others. A group called "Islamic Pride Brigades" claims responsibility.
*
April 8 - Referendum in
Curaçao on independence vs. integration with the
Netherlands.
*
April 9 - Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters of
Shia cleric
Moqtada Sadr, marched through
Baghdad denouncing the U.S. occupation of Iraq, two years after the fall of
Saddam Hussein, and rallied in the square where his statue was toppled in
2003.
*
April 9 - The marriage of
The Prince of Wales and
Camilla Parker Bowles takes place, after being briefly postponed after the Pope's death. Camilla assumes the titles
Her Royal Highness and The
Duchess of Cornwall.
*
April 15 - At least twenty one people die and around fifty people are injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central
Paris.
*
April 16 - President
Lucio Gutierrez of
Ecuador declares a state of emergency in the capital city and dissolves the Supreme Court.
*
April 17 - Twelve holidaymakers are killed in southern
Switzerland when a bus carrying twenty seven people plunges 656 feet into a ravine.
*
April 18 - Five people die in ethnic clashes in
Iran's south-west
Khuzestan province.
*
April 19 - Joseph Ratzinger elected
Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the
Papal conclave.
*
April 20 - Fifty six hurt as earthquake hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale.
*
April 20 - President
Lucio Gutiérrez of
Ecuador is said to have fled after Congress voted to sack him amid growing protests.
*
April 21 - A bus crash in
Vietnam's Central Highlands kills thirty Vietnamese war veterans.
*
April 21 - A gunfight on the edge of the Saudi city of
Mecca kills two militants and two members of the security forces.
*
April 23 -
Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of
Italy, re-forms government after its dissolution three days earlier.
*
April 25 - A passenger train derails in
Amagasaki Hyogo Prefecture Japan killing 107 people and injuring another 456. (see
Amagasaki rail crash)
*
April 26 - Facing international pressure,
Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in
Lebanon ending its twenty nine year military domination of that country.
*
April 27 - The Superjumbo jet aircraft
Airbus A380 makes its first flight from
Toulouse.
*
April 29 -
Apple Computer releases
Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger."
*
April 30 - Attacks on tourists in the Egyptian capital
Cairo leave three militants dead and at least ten people injured.
*
April 30 - The satellite company
Voom ceases operations.
*
May 1 - A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern
Iraqi town of
Talafar, near
Mosul, and leaves at least 25 people dead and more than 30 others injured. Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad.
*
May 2 - A blast at an illegal munitions store in northern
Afghanistan kills 28 people and injures at least 13 others.
*
May 3 - At least 32 people are killed and nine others injured when three two-story buildings in the eastern
Pakistani city of
Lahore collapsed after gas cylinders stored in one of them exploded.
*
May 4 - In one of the largest
insurgent attacks in Iraq to date, at least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in
Irbil, northern Iraq.
*
May 5 - The
United Kingdom votes in the
2005 general election. The
Labour Party is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority.
*
May 5 - Two homemade bombs
explode outside the British consulate in
New York,
USA.
*
May 7 - Plane Crash in Lockhart River,
Australia kills 15 people.
*
May 9 - A town in Brazil declares Orgasm Day.
*
May 10 - A
hand grenade ostensibly thrown by
Vladimir Arutinian lands about 100 feet (30 m) from
United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in
Tbilisi,
Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
*
May 11 - Serial killer
Michael Ross became first person executed in
New England in 45 years.
*
May 12 - An
election was held in the
Cayman Islands 7 months later than originally scheduled due to
Hurricane Ivan. It resulted in a change of government, with the
United Democratic Party giving four seats to the then-opposition
People's Progressive Movement in the 15 member
Legislative Assembly.
*
May 13 -
Uzbek troops kill up to 700 during
protests in eastern Uzbekistan over the trials of 23 accused
Islamic extremists. President
Islam Karimov defends the act.
*
May 13 - The
United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the
Base Realignment and Closure process (
BRAC 2005).
*
May 13 - The final episode of the TV series
Star Trek: Enterprise is broadcast in the United States. This episode marks the first time since
1987 that a
Star Trek series is not in production.
*
May 15 - A passenger
ferry capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the
Bura Gauranga River in
Bangladesh, leaving over 100 people missing.
*
May 16 -
Sony officially unveiled its
PlayStation 3 game console at an
E3 conference.
*
May 16 -
George Galloway appears before a U.S.
Senate committee, to answer allegations of making money from the Iraqi
Oil-for-Food Programme.
*
May 17 - Kuwaiti women granted right to vote.
*
May 19 -
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith released, effectively completing the
Star Wars movie saga begun by
George Lucas in
1977 and shattering the opening day box-office record with $50,013,859.
*
May 19 - The
Canadian House of Commons members narrowly pass
two budget bills at
second reading allowing the
minority Liberal government of
Prime Minister Paul Martin to stay in power.
*
May 21 Greece wins the
Eurovision Song Contest in
Kiev,
Ukraine.
*
May 25 -
Liverpool F.C. win the
UEFA Champions League by defeating
AC Milan 3-2 in a penalty shootout in
Istanbul.
*
May 25 - The Acting
Chief Executive of
Hong Kong,
Donald Tsang, resigned for participating in the Chief Executive Election in July. As a result,
Henry Tang and
Michael Suen had become the Acting Chief Executive and Acting
Chief Secretary for Administration respectively.
*
May 29 -
French referendum on the European Constitution votes resoundingly to reject.
*
May 31 -
W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be
Deep Throat.
*
June 1 -
Dutch referendum on the European Constitution votes to reject, the second country to do so.
*
June 2 - The construction of
Northrop Grumman X-47B, the world's first unmanned surveillance attack aircraft that can operate from both land bases and aircraft carriers, was launched.
*
June 3 -
WCBS-FM in New York City abruptly drops its oldies format to become
Jack FM.
*
June 5 -
Switzerland votes to join the
Schengen area and to allow
same-sex partnerships.
*
June 6 -
Syrian
Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam resigns.
*
June 6 -
Apple Computer announces in a keynote address that they would begin production of Intel-chiped Macintosh computers in 2006.
*
June 13 - Singer
Michael Jackson acquitted of all charges of harming children (see
2005 trial of Michael Jackson).
*
June 17 - A 6.7 aftershock, which followed a 5.3
earthquake the previous day, hits
California making it the fourth earthquake since
June 12 in
California. (
California earthquakes of June 2005)
*
June 17 - Because of "quadruple-witching"
options and
futures expiration, the
New York Stock Exchange sees the heaviest first-hour trading on record. 704 million shares were traded between 9:30-10:30 A.M. 1.92 billion shares were traded for the day.
*
June 18 -
Green Day performes their biggest concert to date at
Milton Keynes, England, peforming the next day as well to a total of over 130,000 people. The concert was released on CD/DVD on
November 15 the same year, which is known as
Bullet in a Bible.
*
June 19 - Election in the
Autonomous Community of
Galicia,
Spain " preliminary results show that
Manuel Fraga and the
Partido Popular lose control of the autonomous parliament.
*
June 21 -
Volna booster
rocket carrying the first
light sail spacecraft (a joint
Russian-
United States project) failed 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
*
June 23 - The
San Antonio Spurs defeat the
Detroit Pistons in Game 7 of the
2005 NBA Finals. The series was the first NBA Finals in eleven years to go to a seventh game.
*
June 28 -
Queen Elizabeth II conducts the
International Fleet Review of 167 international warships in the
Solent, as part of the
Trafalgar 200 celebrations.
*
June 30 -
Spain joins
Belgium and the Netherlands in permitting
same-sex marriage.
*
July 2 -
Live 8, a series of 10 simultaneous concerts take place throughout the world, raising interest in the
Make Poverty History campaign.
*
July 4 -
NASA's "Copper bullet" from
Deep Impact spacecraft hits
Comet Tempel 1, creating a
crater for scientific studies.
*
July 4 - Violent
G8 demonstrations occur in
Gleneagles,
Scotland.
*
July 6 - The
European Parliament rejects the
Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading in the
codecision procedure.
*
July 6 - The
International Olympic Committee awards the
2012 Summer Olympics to
London.
*
July 7 - Four explosions rock the transport network in London, three on the
London Underground and one on a bus. 56 people died and over 700 were injured. See
7 July 2005 London bombings.
*
July 7 -
Al-Qaeda admits to the killing of
Egypt's Ambassador,
Ihab al-Sherif.
*
July 10 -
Luxembourgish referendum on the European Constitution votes to accept.
*
July 10 -
Hurricane Dennis strikes near
Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm killing 10 people, after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean.
*
July 12 - Terrorists kill 5 people and wound 90 people in a crowded mall in
Netanya, Israel.
Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
*
July 13 - Three trains collide in the
Ghotki rail crash in Ghotki,
Pakistan, killing over 150 people.
*
July 14 - A mortar fired from the Gaza strip kills Dana Galkowicz, in the Netiv Haasara Moshav.
*
July 16 -
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book of the
Harry Potter saga by the British writer
J. K. Rowling, is released.
*
July 17 - The
Disneyland Resort celebrates its 50th birthday.
*
July 19 -
President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge
John G. Roberts, Jr. to the
United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of
Sandra Day O'Connor.
*
July 20 -
Canada's Civil Marriage Act, legalizing same-sex marriage, receives
Royal Assent.
*
July 21 -
A terrorist attack on London, similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks on 3 Underground trains and a London bus. The bombs failed to explode properly, and only one injury was reported, later found out to be unconnected.
*
July 22 - A Brazilian electrician,
Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot dead at a London underground station by police who mistake him for a suicide bomber.
*
July 23 - A series of blasts in a resort town in
Egypt. See
July 23, 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks.
*
July 24 -
Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh straight
Tours de France before his scheduled retirement.
*
July 26 - Launch for
Space Shuttle Discovery "Return To Flight" mission
STS-114. This is the first Space Shuttle flight in nearly two and a half years since the breakup of
Columbia on its return from mission
STS-107.
*
July 26 -
Mumbai and
Mumbai Conurbation area was submerged in 5-7 ft water due to heavy rains and making nearby dams release water causing massive flood, which virtually stopped the financial capital of
India for 4-5 days.
*
July 28 - The
Provisional IRA issues a statement formally ordering an end to the armed campaign it has pursued since
1969 and ordering all its units to dump their arms.
*
August 1 - King
Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies, succeeded by his half-brother
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
*
August 2 -
Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at
Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive.
*
August 6 - An
ATR-72 heading from
Italy to
Tunisia crashes into the
Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of 39 on board.
*
August 9 -
Space Shuttle Discovery returns to
Edwards Air Force Base at 0814 EDT, completing
STS-114, "Return to Flight."
*
August 12 -
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.
*
August 14 -
Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes into a mountain in
Greece, killing 121.
*
August 16 -
West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in
Venezuela, killing 152 passengers.
*
August 16 - The
XX World Youth Day begins in
Cologne, Germany.
*
August 17 - The first forced
evacuation of
settlers, as part of the
Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
*
August 17 -
Bangladesh is hit by bomb explosions. [
2]
*
August 17 -
Sellapan Ramanathan gains victory in the
Singapore Presidential elections, 2005.
*
August 18 -
BTK killer Dennis Rader is sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences.
*
August 18 -
Peace Mission 2005, the first joint
China-
Russia military exercise, begins its 8-day training on the
Shandong peninsula.
*
August 21 British Rock Band
The Rolling Stones kicks off their
a Bigger Bang tour with a show in
Fenway Park,
Boston*
August 21 -
Martin Dillon, 48,
musician,
operatic tenor, and
professor of music, died in
Randolph, VT of a heart attack.
*
August 22 - A 4.1-kg (9-pound)
meteorite crashes into the
Dotito area of
Zambezi Escarpment in
Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch)
crater.
*
August 23 -
Israel's unilateral disengagement from 25 Jewish settlements in the
Gaza Strip and
West Bank ends.
*
August 24 -
Hong Kong High Court Judge
Michael Hartmann rules that sodomy laws were unconstitutional.
*
August 26 -
Jean Michel Jarre's "
Space of Freedom" concert in
Gdańsk,
Poland commemorating the 25th anniversary of the creation of
Solidarność ("Solidarity" trade union)
*
August 28 - Terrorist wounds 52 at bus station in Beersheba, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
*
August 29 - At least 1,836 are killed, and
severe damage is caused along the
U.S. Gulf Coast, as
Hurricane Katrina strikes the
Louisiana,
Mississippi and
Alabama coastal areas.
*
August 31 - A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in
Baghdad kills several hundred civilians (see
Baghdad bridge stampede).
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Gas price hike shown at a Shell station. |
*
September 1 -
Oil prices rise sharply following
economic effects of Hurricane Katrina.
*
September 1 -
Sellapan Ramanathan is sworn-in for a second term of office as the
President of Singapore.
*
September 2 - Clashes between protesters and Israeli forces in
Bil'in.
*
September 3 -
William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, dies.
*
September 5 -
Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in
Indonesia killing at least 117. (See
airplane accidents in 2005).
Euan Blair and
Rhoderick Gates in
intellectual property dispute.
*
September 5 -
John G. Roberts nominated by President
George W. Bush, for Chief Justice of the United States.
*
September 7 -
Incumbent Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak wins its first multi-party
presidential 'election'.
*
September 11 -
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the
Liberal Democratic Party are returned to power following the
Japanese general elections.
*
September 12 -
Norwegian parliamentary election, resulting in a victory for the red-green-coalition. New prime-minister is Jens Stoltenberg from Labour Party.
*
September 12 - The
Hong Kong Disneyland Resort officially opens.
*
September 12 -
English cricket team draw the final match to win
The 2005 Ashes.
*
September 13 -
The WB premieres
Supernatural at 9/8c
*
September 14 -
September 16 - Largest
UN World Summit in history, held in
New York City.
*
September 17 -
Helen Clark, leader of the
Labour Party is re-elected for a third term in the
New Zealand general election*
September 18 -
Angela Merkel of the
Christian Democratic Union and
Gerhard Schröder of the
Social Democratic Party both claim victory in the
German federal election.
*
September 18 -
Afghan parliamentary election*
September 19 -
North Korea agrees to stop building
nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.
*
September 21 - Popular
P2P client
WinMX is confirmed to be offline.
*
September 23 - Convicted bank thief and
Boricua Popular Army leader,
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos is killed in his home in
Hormigueros, Puerto Rico when members of the
FBI attempt to serve an arrest warrant.
*
September 24 -
Hurricane Rita hits the U.S. Gulf Coast. The 9th Ward section of New Orleans floods for the 2nd time in a month and a half. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama are also affected.
*
September 24 - Worldwide protests against the
Iraq War around the world, with over 150,000 protestors in
Washington DC. See
Opposition to the Iraq War.
*
September 25 -
Polish parliamentary election.
*
September 26 - U.S. army reservist
Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on six of seven counts in connection with the
Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
*
September 27 -
Michaëlle Jean, born in
Haiti, becomes the 27th
Governor General of Canada, and the first
black person to hold that position.
*
September 28 - American politician
Tom DeLay is indicted on charges of criminal conspiracy by a Texas grand jury.
*
September 29 -
John G. Roberts, Jr. is confirmed and sworn in as
Chief Justice of the United States.
*
September 30 - The
Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New
Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
*
September 30 - The
controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the
Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten.
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Visible image of Hurricane Wilma near record intensity with a central pressure of 882 millibars. |
*
October 1 - 26 people are killed and more than 100 are injured in the
2005 Bali bombings.
*
October 1 - The world's largest bank,
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is formed by the merger of two
Japanese banking conglomerates.
*
October 1 - An
Australian photojournalist in
Afghanistan, Stephen Dupont, films US soldiers burning two dead
Taliban militias' bodies.
*
October 2 - 20 people are killed in a shipwreck in
Lake George, NY.
*
October 3 -
St. Tammany Parish Schools reopen in
Louisiana just over a month after
Hurricane Katrina closed them.
*
October 4 -
Hurricane Stan hits
Mexico and
Central America killing over 1,620 people.
*
October 5 -
Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith charged with refusing to serve in the
Iraq war.
*
October 7 -
UN nuclear agency director
Mohamed ElBaradei is awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.
*
October 8 - An
earthquake in Kashmir kills about 80,000 people.
*
October 9 -
Polish presidential election, 1st round.
*
October 12 - The second
Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched, carrying
Fei Junlong and
Nie Haisheng for five days in orbit.
*
October 13 -
Veselin Topalov wins the
FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.
*
October 13 - The
Franco-Indian Lawyers Association is founded in
Paris.
*
October 15 - The
referendum on the new
Proposed Iraqi constitution is held.
*
October 15 -
Riot in
Toledo, Ohio during a Neo-Nazi rally surrounding racial issues; 114 arrested
*
October 15 -
Qinghai-Tibet Railway completed.
*
October 16 -
U.S. helicopters and warplanes
bomb two
villages near
Ramadi in western
Iraq, killing about 70 people.
*
October 17 -
Jens Stoltenberg becomes the
Prime Minister of Norway for the second time.
*
October 18 - The
UN tightens the rules for its staff, following several claims of financial impropriety and sexual abuse.
*
October 19 - The
Trials of Saddam Hussein begin.
*
October 19 -
Hurricane Wilma swells into a
Category 5 storm.
*
October 19 - The
Houston Astros won their first
National League Championship to advance to their first ever
World Series in franchise history.
*
October 20 Hurricane Wilma enters the Mexican Caribbean, passing through
Cozumel and then the
Yucatán Peninsula, staying over
Cancún for over 60 hours
*
October 21 - 200th Anniversary of the
Battle of Trafalgar, celebrations held around the
United Kingdom.
*
October 22 -
Tropical Storm Alpha forms making the
2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active on record.
*
October 22 -
Bellview Airlines Flight 210, a
Boeing 737 airliner crashes in
Nigeria.
*
October 23 -
Polish presidential election, 2nd round.
*
October 23 - Referendum on the merger of the
Kamchatka Oblast and the Autonomous District of
Koryakia.
*
October 23 -
Referendo Sobre a Proibição do Comércio de Armas e Munição no Brasil Guns and Ammo Ban Referendum in
Brazil*
October 24 -
Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in southwestern Florida as a category 3
hurricane.
*
October 26 -
Iranian president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for
Israel to be "wiped off the map" at "World Without Zionism" conference in
Tehran, Iran, and condemns peace process.
*
October 26 - The U.S. death toll in
Iraq reaches 2,000.
*
October 26- The Chicago White Sox beat the Houston Astros in 4 games to win their first World Series since 1917.
*
October 27 - Two
teenagers accidentally electrocute themselves in
Seine-Saint-Denis,
Paris,
France, leading to
widespread rioting.
*
October 28 - Vice presidential adviser
Lewis "Scooter" Libby resigns after being charged with obstruction of justice, perjury and making a false statement in the
CIA leak investigation.
*
October 29 - A train in
Andhra Pradesh,
India derails, killing at least 77 people.
*
October 29 - At least 61 people are dead and many others wounded in three powerful blasts in the
Indian capital,
Delhi. See
29 October 2005 Delhi bombings for full details.
*
October 30 -
Hurricane Beta hits the coast of
Nicaragua. It is the thirteenth hurricane of 2005, breaking the
1969 record of 12 hurricanes.
*
October 31 - Beginning of the revelation of the
2005 Sony CD copy protection scandal.
*
October 31 - President
George W. Bush nominates Federal Appeals Court Judge
Samuel Alito to be an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
*
November 1 -
The Prince of Wales and
The Duchess of Cornwall arrive in the United States for a state visit, their first overseas tour since their marriage.
*
November 1 - Justice
John Gomery releases the first part of the
Gomery Commission report on corruption in the
Liberal Party of Canada and the
sponsorship scandal.
*
November 1 -
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow
Democrats force a closed session of the
Senate over the
Lewis Libby indictment.
*
November 2 -
Madrid: the
Spanish Congress of Deputies approves the admission to formality of the new
Catalan Statute of Autonomy with the support of all the groups except the
People's Party (PP) that the same day filed an objection of unconstitutionality.
*
November 3 &
4 - Another severe aftershock measuring 6.3 on the
Richter scale hits affected areas of
Northern Pakistan.
*
November 4 - U.S. and Uruguay gouvernements sign bilateral investment treaty.
*
November 4 - Afghan police officers found
Nadia Anjuman body in her home in the western city of Herat. She had been beaten to death by her husband.
*
November 6 -
Evansville Tornado of November 2005: A
tornado hits western
Kentucky and southwestern
Indiana, killing at least 22.
*
November 6 -
Azerbaijan parliamentary election.
*
November 7 -
Microsoft launched
Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft BizTalk 2006 worldwide.
*
November 8 -
French President Jacques Chirac declares a state of emergency on the 12th day of the
French civil unrest, see
2005 civil unrest in France.
*
November 9 - At least fifty people are killed and more than 120 are injured in a series of coordinated
suicide bombings in
Amman,
Jordan. See
2005 Amman bombings.
*
November 12 -
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan makes his first visit to
Iraq since
Gulf War II began and urges Iraqis to embrace a process aiming to reconcile all the country's ethnic and religious groups.
*
November 13 -
Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year old
British man is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of
HIV.
*
November 13- Current WWE Wrestler,
Eddie Guerrero, sadly passes away at the age of 38.
*
November 15 -
Australia: Large workers' protest against the
Coalition government's planned Industrial Reform legislation in Australia.
*
November 15 -
An earthquake near Sanriku in
Japan occurs, prompting a tsunami warning to be issued.
*
November 18 - The film
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is released in the UK and USA.
*
November 20 -
The Washington Post rebukes journalist
Bob Woodward over his conduct in the
CIA leak probe.
*
November 21 - The
Prime Minister of Israel,
Ariel Sharon announces his resignation from
Likud and his intention to form a new party devoted to peace in the region,
Kadima, and asks the
President of Israel to call a
general election.
*
November 22 -
Microsoft releases the
Xbox 360 gaming console in
North America.
*
November 22 -
Ted Koppel steps down as host of
Nightline after 25 years with the program.
*
November 24 - The
Licensing Act 2003 comes into force in
England and Wales, introducing flexibility in the hours during which
alcoholic beverages may be sold.
*
November 27 -
Manuel Zelaya is elected the new
President of Honduras.
*
November 27 - The
Edmonton Eskimos defeat the
Montreal Alouettes 38-35 to win the 93rd
Grey Cup.
*
November 28 - The
Liberal Party minority government in
Canada is toppled by a
non-confidence vote in the
House of Commons tabled by the
Conservatives and backed by the
Bloc Québécois and the
New Democratic Party, paving the way for a
federal election on
January 23,
2006.
*
November 28 - The
United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in
Montreal,
Quebec. The conference lasted until
December 9, and featured a speech by former President
Bill Clinton that the
George W. Bush Administration objected to.
*
November 29 - Leo O'Connor and David Keogh appear in court (see
O'Connor - Keogh official secrets trial).
*
November 30 - Surgeons in
France carry out the first human
face transplant.
*
December 1 -
South Africa becomes the fifth country in the world where
same-sex marriages are recognized.
*
December 2 -
Kenneth Boyd becomes the 1,000th person to be
executed in the
USA since the re-introduction of
capital punishment in
1976.
*
December 2 - The £140m (US$240m) extension of the
Docklands Light Railway in
London, linking
Canning Town to
North Woolwich and
London City Airport opens.
|
The building, in Tehran, into which the C-130 plane crashed. |
*
December 4 - 250,000 people in
Hong Kong protest for democracy.
*
December 6 - An
Iranian
C-130 Hercules airplane
crashes into a ten-story building in a civilian area of
Tehran, the capital of
Iran, killing all 94 people aboard and 34 residents of the building - a total of 128 people.
*
December 7 - A
U.S. Federal Air Marshal fatally shoots
Rigoberto Alpizar on a
jetway at
Miami International Airport in
Florida.
*
December 7 -
European Union TLD .eu is launched, and replaced
.eu.int. Initially this will be only for business purposes. From
7 April 2006 onwards, EU citizens can also register .eu domains.
*
December 8 -
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 overshoots the runway at
Chicago Midway Airport, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring 11 other people.
*
December 9 -
Hurricane Epsilon dies in the eastern
Atlantic Ocean. It becomes the longest-lived December hurricane on record and ties for second-place being the 2nd strongest December hurricane.
*
December 11 -
2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire north of
London causes widespread damage, and is the largest explosion ever to occur in peacetime Europe.
*
December 12 - Scientists announced that they had created
mice with small amounts of human
brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of
neurological disorders.
*
December 13 - A 6.7 magnitude
earthquake rocks
South Asia.
*
December 13 - Mass
riots in
Sydney, Australia, involving up to 5,000 youths.
*
December 15 - The first
parliamentary elections under
Iraq's new constitution.
*
December 16 - 43rd
Mersenne prime found, 2
30,402,457 − 1. Discovered with the
GIMPS project by
Dr. Curtis Cooper and
Dr. Steven Boone, professors at
Central Missouri State University.
|
The Hertfordshire explosions seen from nearby on December 11. |
*
December 16 -
The West Wing Actor
John Spencer dies at 58.
*
December 18 -
Evo Morales wins the
Bolivian Presidential Elections.
*
December 18 -
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is hospitalized after suffering a minor
stroke. He was released from the hospital two days later.
*
December 18 - The
World Trade Organization 6th ministerial conference concludes in
Hong Kong with a limited trade deal being ratified.
*
December 20 -
2005 New York City transit strike:
New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on
strike for three days, shutting down all
New York City Subway and
Bus services.
*
December 22 - The
U.S. Census Bureau releases its population estimates for 2005.
*
December 22 - Industrial action by bus drivers in
Tehran leads to the arrest of
Mansour Osanlou and several other union activists.
*
December 23 -
Lech Kaczyński is sworn in as the
President of Poland in
Warsaw,
Poland.
*
December 23 -
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following
Iraqi elections.
*
December 23 -
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from
Baku, Azerbaijan to
Aktau, Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
*
December 23 -
Chad declares a
state of war against
Sudan following a December 18th attack on
Adre, which left about 100 people dead.
*
December 23 - Trial of
Tali Fahima ends in a plea bargain.
*
December 24 -
Pope Benedict XVI leads his first
Christmas Midnight
Mass as Pope, praying for peace in the
Middle East.
*
December 26 -
Indonesians mark the first moments of the
tsunami wave that came ashore exactly a year earlier, with thousands of people commemorating victims and relatives in many ceremonies.
*
December 31 - Another second was added, 23:59:60, called a
leap second, to end the year 2005. The last time this occurred was on
June 30,
1998.
*
April 8 -
Leah Isadora Behn, granddaughter of King
Harald V of Norway*
June 8 -
Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King
Juan Carlos I of Spain*
June 26 -
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of
Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands*
October 4 -
Prince Emmanuel of Belgium, son of
Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium*
October 15 -
Prince Christian of Denmark, son of
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark*
October 31 -
Infanta Leonor of Spain, daughter of
Felipe, Prince of Asturias and his wife
Letizia*
December 3 -
Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, grandson of King
Harald V of Norway*
December 13 -
Prince Nicolas of Belgium, grandson of King
Albert II of Belgium*
December 13 -
Prince Aymeric of Belgium, grandson of King
Albert II of BelgiumMain article: Deaths in 2005
January
*
January 1 -
Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Congresswoman (b.
1924)
*
January 1 -
Eugene J. Martin, U.S. artist (b.
1938)
*
January 1 -
Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (b.
1941)
*
January 4 -
Ali al-Haidri, Governor of Baghdad (assassinated)
*
January 10 -
Joséphine-Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b.
1927)
*
January 15 -
Victoria de los Ángeles, Catalan soprano (b.
1923)
*
January 17 -
Zhao Ziyang,
Premier of the People's Republic of China (b.
1919)
*
January 20 -
Per Borten,
Prime Minister of Norway (b.
1913)
*
January 23 -
Johnny Carson, American television host (b.
1925)
February
*
February 3 -
Zurab Zhvania,
Prime Minister of Georgia (b.
1963)
*
February 5 -
Gnassingbe Eyadema,
President of Togo (b.
1937)
*
February 6 -
Merle Kilgore, American singer and songwriter (b.1934)
*
February 14 -
Rafik Hariri,
Prime Minister of Lebanon (assassinated) (b.
1944)
*
February 17 -
Nariman Sadeq, Queen of Egypt (b.
1934)
*
February 20 -
Sandra Dee, American actress (b.
1944)
*
February 20 -
Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist (b.
1937)
March
*
March 6 -
Teresa Wright, American actress (b.
1918)
*
March 6 -
Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b.
1941)
*
March 9 -
Jeanette Schmid, German-born professional whistler (b.
1924)
*
March 9 -
Chris LeDoux, American rodeo performer and singer (b.
1949)
*
March 10 -
Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b.
1936)
*
March 22 -
Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Antipope Gregory XVII (b.
1946)
*
March 26 -
James Callaghan,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1912)
*
March 29 -
Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b.
1937)
*
March 29 -
Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b.
1968)
*
March 30 -
Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b.
1919)
*
March 31 -
Terri Schiavo, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b.
1963)
April
*
April 2 -
Pope John Paul II (b.
1920)
*
April 6 -
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b.
1923)
*
April 20 -
Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (b.
1943)
*
April 23 -
John Mills, English actor (b.
1908)
*
April 24 -
Ezer Weizman,
President of Israel (b.
1924)
*
April 28 -
Chris Candito, American professional wrestler (b.
1972)
May
*
May 2 -
Wee Kim Wee,
President of Singapore (b.
1915)
*
May 7 -
Peter Wallace Rodino, U.S. Congressman (b.
1909)
*
May 22 -
Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (b.
1914)
*
May 25 -
Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b.
1938)
June
*
June 6 -
Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist (b.
1932)
*
June 6 -
Anne Bancroft, American actress (b.
1931)
*
June 13 -
Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician
*
June 26 -
Richard Whiteley, British journalist and television presenter (b.
1943)
*
June 28 -
Brenda Howard, American activist (b.
1946)
July
*
July 17 -
Edward Heath,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1916)
*
July 18 -
William Westmoreland, U.S. general (b.
1914)
*
July 19 -
John Tyndall, British activist (b.
1934)
*
July 21 -
Long John Baldry, British musician (b.
1941)
*
July 21 -
Alfred Hayes, English wrestling announcer (b.
1928)
*
July 26 -
Robert C. Turner, American potter (b.
1913)
*
July 31 -
Wim Duisenberg, Dutch president of the European Central Bank (b.
1935)
August
*
August 1 - King
Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b.
1923)
*
August 6 -
Robin Cook, British politician (b.
1946)
*
August 6 -
Carlo Little, British drummer (b.
1938)
*
August 7 -
Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b.
1938)
*
August 12 -
Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister of Sri Lanka (assassinated) (b.
1932)
*
August 12 -
Frère Roger, Swiss founder of the Taizé Community (b.
1915)
*
August 13 -
David Lange,
Prime Minister of New Zealand (b.
1942)
*
August 16 -
Joe Ranft, American animator (b.
1960)
*
August 26 -
Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927)
September
*
September 2 -
Bob Denver, American actor (b.
1935)
*
September 3 -
William Rehnquist,
Chief Justice of the United States (b.
1924)
*
September 10 -
Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American musician (b.
1924)
*
September 14 -
Robert Wise, American film director (b.
1914)
*
September 20 -
Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b.
1908)
*
September 25 -
Don Adams, American actor (b.
1923)
*
September 26 -
Jerry Juhl, American writer (b.
1938)
October
*
October 2 -
Nipsey Russell, American game show personality (b.
1918)
*
October 3 -
Ronnie Barker, British comic actor (b.
1929)
*
October 7 -
Charles Rocket, American actor (b.
1949)
*
October 9 -
Louis Nye, American actor (b.
1913)
*
October 10 -
Milton Obote,
President of Uganda (b.
1925)
*
October 13 -
Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b.
1942)
*
October 15 -
Jason Collier, American basketball player (b.
1977)
*
October 24 -
Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b.
1913)
*
October 24 -
José Azcona del Hoyo,
President of Honduras (b.
1926)
*
October 28 -
Richard Smalley, American physicist (b. 1943)
November
*
November 4 -
Nadia Anjuman, Afghani poet and journalist (b.
1980)
*
November 6 -
Minako Honda, Japanese singer and actress (b.
1967)
*
November 9 -
K. R. Narayanan,
President of India (b.
1921)
*
November 11 -
Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b.
1939)
*
November 13 -
Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b.
1967)
*
November 19 -
Erik Balling, Danish television and film director (b.
1924)
*
November 24 -
Pat Morita, American actor (b.
1932)
*
November 25 -
George Best, Irish footballer (b.
1946)
*
November 25 -
Richard Burns, English race car driver (b.
1971)
December
*
December 6 -
Devan Nair,
President of Singapore (b.
1923)
*
December 10 -
Richard Pryor, American comedian (b.
1940)
*
December 13 -
Stanley Williams, American gang founder (executed) (b.
1953)
*
December 16 -
John Spencer, American actor (b.
1946)
*
December 18 -
Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b.
1922)
*
December 23 -
Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician (b.
1931)
*
December 25 -
Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b.
1918)
*
December 25 -
Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (b.
1922)
*
December 26 -
Kerry Packer, Australian media tycoon (b.
1937)
*
December 26 -
Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b.
1948)
*
Physics -
Roy J. Glauber,
John L. Hall,
Theodor W. Hänsch*
Chemistry -
Robert Grubbs,
Richard Schrock,
Yves Chauvin*
Physiology or Medicine -
Robin Warren,
Barry Marshall*
Literature -
Harold Pinter*
Peace -
Mohamed ElBaradei*
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel -
Robert J. Aumann,
Thomas Schelling*
Metal Gear Solid (videogame): In February of 2005, during a training mission on Shadow Moses, a nuclear weapons facility on a remote island off the coast of Alaska, the Next-Generation Special Forces unit rebels against the United States government, led by the covert black ops team FOXHOUND. The rebellion is put down by the US government.
*
March 25 to
March 26 - the events of the
Doctor Who episode
Rose take place in which the
Ninth Doctor is joined by new companion
Rose Tyler and they defeat the
Nestene Consciousness' plans of using plastic shop window dummies called
Autons to wipe out all
Human life on
Earth and turning the planet into a new food source.
*
April 3 - The wedding of Keitaro Urashima and Naru Narusegawa, the main characters of
Love Hina, takes place.
* In
Transformers: The Movie,
Decepticons lose control of the planet
Cybertron during 2005. The Great War between
Autobots and Decepticons rages on
Earth, on Cybertron, and in
space.
* In the
.hack universe, the internet is shut down due to a widespread virus on
December 24 2005. This event is called
Pluto's Kiss. The only
operating system able to withstand the virus is
ALTIMIT OS.
* The events of the television series
The King of Braves GaoGaiGar begin in April of 2005 with the emergence of the Zonder Metal-based
extraterrestrial intelligence classified as "EI-02," fused with a
Japanese vagrant named Kinzo Kodakarayama as its
host organism. Feeding off of the man's hatred toward his government for cancelling his now-bankrupt construction company's contract, EI-02 attempts to destroy the
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, but is stopped before doing so.
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