2005 EVENTS
Climate
Mean surface temperature
anomalies for 2005 compared to
average temperatures from 1951
to 1980 (source: NASA)
Based on estimates by
NASA 's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies ,
2005 was the warmest year since reliable
wide-spread instrumental measurements became
available in the late 1800s, beating the
previous record set in 1998 by a few
hundredths of a degree Celsius.
Other researchers place
1998 at the top of the temperature
record.[citation
needed
Geography Due to a combination of the aftermath of
the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake , and an
overactive
hurricane season and other factors, 2005
was also the costliest year for natural
disasters, with world wide damages estimated
at over 200 billion dollars.
Events
January
Iraqi police officers hold
up their index fingers marked
with purple indelible ink, a
security measure to prevent
double voting .
January 16 -
Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66,
the oldest woman in the world to do so.
January 16 - Armed militants kill
one person and wound eight people in the
Gush Katif settlement,
Gaza Strip . Hamas claims
responsibility.Confirmation
needed
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
Belmopan ,
Belize , unrest over the government's
new taxes erupts into
riots .
January 25 - A
stampede at the
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.Confirmation
needed
January 31 - The
Michael Jackson trial commences in
Santa Barbara, California , 14 months
after Jackson was arrested with much
publicity.
February
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 - Spain holds a
referendum on the 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 - A controversial
French law on colonialism , requiring
teachers to paint it in a positive
light, is passed by the national
legislature.
February 24 - David Hernandez Arroyo
goes on a
shooting rampage at the
Smith County Courthouse in
Tyler, Texas . He kills 2, including
his ex-wife, and wounds 4 others before
being killed in a police chase.
February 25 -
Wichita ,
Kansas police apprehend the
so-called BTK serial killer
Dennis Rader , 31 years after his
first murder.
February 25 - Terrorists kill 5 and
wound 50 in
Tel Aviv, Israel ; Islamic Jihad
claims responsibility for the attack.
February 25 -
Radio Canada International marks its
60th anniversary.
February 26 - Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak asks Parliament to
amend the constitution to allow
multi-candidate presidential elections
before
September 2005 .
March
March 1 - The prosecution begins its
testimony in the
Michael Jackson trial.
March 1 -
Roper v. Simmons : The
Supreme Court of the United States
rules the
death penalty unconstitutional for
juveniles who committed their crimes
before 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 U.S.
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 with
HIV 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 7 - Two young men are
intoxicated and die in a tequila contest
held in Blanc, a nightclub in
Santo Domingo ,
Dominican Republic . Others are left
in a coma.
March 8 - The
Pakistan Army opens fire on
insurgents in Baluchistan, in the first
armed uprising since General
Rahimuddin Khan 's
stabilization of the
province in
1978 .
March 10 - Singer
Michael Jackson arrives 90 minutes
late to his trial, still wearing his
pajamas. The singer had hurt his back
during the night and had just arrived
from the hospital.
March 10 -
Tung Chee Hwa , the
Chief Executive of
Hong Kong , resigns.
March 10 -
Garry Kasparov retires 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 11 -
Central African Republic elections, 2005 :
The first round leads to a runoff
between top candidates
Francois Bozize and
Martin Ziguele .
March 14 - The
People's Republic of China ratifies
an anti-secession
law, aimed at preventing
Taiwan from declaring independence.
March 14 - Approximately one million
people gather for an opposition rally in
Beirut , a month after the death of
former Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri . It is the largest
rally in
Lebanon 's history.
March 16 -
Ripudaman Singh Malik and
Ajaib Singh Bagri , accused of the
bombing of
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 blast occurs at the
Xishui
coal mine in
Shuozhou ,
China , and rocks nearby Kangjiayao
coal mine, killing up to 59.
March 19 -
John DeLorean , founder of the
DeLorean Motor Company and designer
of the
DMC-12 sports car, dies after
complications from a stroke.
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
refuses 2-1 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 the People's
Republic of China . Around 200,000 to
300,000 attend the walk.
March 28 - The
2005 Sumatran earthquake strikes off
Sumatra , three months after the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake . At a
magnitude of 8.7 it is the second
largest earthquake since
1965 .
April
April 9 - Tens of thousands of
demonstrators, many of them supporters
of
Shia cleric
Moqtada Sadr , march through
Baghdad denouncing the
U.S. occupation of Iraq , 2 years
after the fall of
Saddam Hussein , and rally in the
square where his statue was toppled in
2003 .
April 9 - The marriage of
Prince Charles 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 21 people die
and around 50 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 27
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 -
Papal conclave, 2005 :
Pope Benedict XVI (Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger ) succeeds
Pope John Paul II , becoming the
265th
pope .
April 20 - Fifty six are 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 30
Vietnamese war veterans.
April 21 - A gunfight on the edge of
the Saudi city of
Mecca kills 2 militants and 2
members of the security forces.
April 23 -
Silvio Berlusconi , prime minister of
Italy , re-forms the government after
its dissolution 3 days earlier.
April 25 -
Amagasaki rail crash ): A
passenger train derails in
Amagasaki
Hyogo Prefecture , Japan, killing 107
people and injuring another 456.
April 26 - Facing international
pressure,
Syria withdraws the last of its
14,000 troop military garrison in
Lebanon , ending its 29-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 3 militants dead and at
least 10 people injured.
April 30 -
Nickelodeon Studios in
Orlando ,
Florida closes its facilities there,
and moves all its production to
Burbank ,
California .
May
May 1 - A suicide attack targets a
Kurdish funeral in the northern
Iraqi town of
Talafar , near
Mosul , killing at least 25 people
and injuring more than 30 others.
Earlier, at least 5 policemen and 4
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 9 others injured when 3
two-story buildings in the eastern
Pakistani city of
Lahore collapse after
gas cylinders stored in one of them
explode.
May 4 - In one of the largest
insurgent attacks in Iraq, at least
60 people are killed and dozens wounded
in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police
recruitment center in
Irbil , northern Iraq.
May 5 -
United Kingdom general election, 2005 :
The
Labour Party is re-elected with a
substantially reduced majority.
May 5 - The defence begins stating
its case in the
Michael Jackson trial.
May 5 - Two homemade bombs
explode outside the British consulate
in
New York City .
May 7 - A plane crash in Lockhart
River,
Australia kills 15 people.
May 9 -
The Huffington Post debuts.
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 becomes the first
person executed in
New England in 45 years.
May 12 - An
election is held in the
Cayman Islands 7 months later than
originally scheduled due to
Hurricane Ivan . It results in a
change of government, with the
United Democratic Party giving 4
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 unveils 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 16 -
Everybody Loves Raymond
series finale aired on
CBS .
May 17 - Kuwaiti women are granted
the
right to vote .
May 19 -
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the
Sith is 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 a 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 21 - Last show of professional
wrestling federation
Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling (3PW )
May 25 -
Liverpool F.C. wins the
UEFA Champions League by defeating
AC Milan 3-2 in a
penalty shootout in
Istanbul .
May 25 - The defense rests its case
in the
Michael Jackson child molestation
trial.
May 25 - The Acting
Chief Executive of
Hong Kong ,
Donald Tsang , resigns for
participating in the Chief Executive
Election last July. As a result,
Henry Tang and
Michael Suen become the Acting Chief
Executive and Acting
Chief Secretary for Administration
respectively.
May 27 -
Mark Hobson is sentenced to life
imprisonment for four murders committed
in
Yorkshire the previous summer. The
trial judge recommends that Hobson, a
35-year-old former binman, should never
be released from prison.
May 29 - A
French referendum on the European
Constitution votes resoundingly to
reject it.
May 31 -
W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be
Deep Throat .
June
June 1 - A
Dutch referendum on the European
Constitution votes to reject it, 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 , begins.
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 will begin
production of Intel-chipped
Macintosh computers in 2006.
June 9 -
2005 Logan Airport runway incursion :
Almost 400 people narrowly avoid death
when 2 jet airliners nearly collide on
the runway.
June 13 -
2005 trial of Michael Jackson :
Singer
Michael Jackson is acquitted of all
charges in his child molestation trial.
June 17 - (California
earthquakes of June 2005 ): A 6.7
aftershock, which followed a 5.3
earthquake the previous day, hits
California , making it the 4th
earthquake since
June 12 in
California .
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 are traded between
9:30-10:30 A.M. (1.92 billion shares for
the day).
June 18 -June
19 -
Green Day performs their biggest
concert to date (and one of the biggest
rock concerts) at
Milton Keynes, England , performing
the next day as well to a total of over
130,000 people. The concert is released
on CD/DVD on
November 15 , which is known as
Bullet in a Bible .
June 19 - Preliminarty election
results in the
Autonomous Community of
Galicia ,
Spain show that
Manuel Fraga and the
Partido Popular have lost control of
the autonomous parliament.
June 21 - A
Volna booster
rocket carrying the first
light sail spacecraft (a joint
Russian -United
States project) fails 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 is the
first
NBA Finals in 11 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 .
June 30 - The Dominican
Republic–Central America Free Trade
Agreement (CAFTA )
is passed by the United States.
July
July 7 - Four explosions rock the
transport network in London, 3 on the
London Underground and 1 on a bus;
56 people die and over 700 are injured
(See
7 July 2005 London bombings ).
July 7 -
Al-Qaeda admits to killing
Egypt 's Ambassador,
Ihab al-Sherif .
July 10 - A
Luxembourgish referendum on the European
Constitution votes to accept it.
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 in a crowded mall in
Netanya, Israel .
Islamic Jihad claims responsibility
for attack.
July 13 -
Ghotki rail crash : Three trains
collide 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 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 fail to
explode properly, and only 1 injury is
reported, later found 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.
August
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 2 - The Dominican
Republic–Central America Free Trade
Agreement (CAFTA )
is signed into law in the
United States .
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 - The
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is
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.
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August 17 -
Sellapan Ramanathan gains victory in
the
Singapore Presidential elections, 2005 .
August 18 -
BTK killer Dennis Rader receives 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 - The British rock band
The Rolling Stones kicks off their
A Bigger Bang tour with a show
in
Fenway Park ,
Boston .
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 .
September
Gas price hike shown at a
Shell station.
September 1 -
Oil prices rise sharply following
the
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 - Protesters and Israeli
forces clash 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 ).
September 5 -
Euan Blair and Rhoderick Gates are
locked in an academic issue.
September 5 -
John G. Roberts is nominated by
President
George W. Bush for Chief Justice of
the United States.
September 7 -
Incumbent
Egyptian president
Hosni Mubarak wins the first
multi-party
presidential 'election' .
September 11 -
Japan general election, 2005 :
Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi and the
Liberal Democratic Party are
returned to power.
September 12 - The
Norwegian parliamentary election
results in a victory for the
red-green-coalition. The new
prime-minister is Jens Stoltenberg from
the Labour Party.
September 12 - The
Hong Kong Disneyland Resort
officially opens publically.
September 12 - The
English cricket team draw the final
match to win
The 2005 Ashes .
September 13 - The
Dawson College shooting left one
dead and 19 injured.
September 14 -September
16 - The largest
UN
World Summit in history is 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 :
Former
Northern Alliance
warlords and their followers claim
victory.
September 19 -
North Korea agrees to stop building
nuclear weapons in exchange for aid
and cooperation.
September 20 - The
NFL sees the groundbreaking ceremony
for two new stadiums, the
Indianapolis Colts '
Lucas Oil Stadium and the
Dallas Cowboys ' temporarily named
Dallas Cowboys New Stadium
September 21 - Popular
P2P client
WinMX is confirmed to be offline. *
September 21 -
Euan Blair -Rhoderick Gates academic
issue ends with Gates citing 'acceptable
ambiguity'.
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, devastating areas near
Beaumont, TX and
Lake Charles, LA . The
New Orleans's 9th Ward re-floods
since
Katrina , and
Mississippi and
Alabama are also affected.
September 24 - Worldwide protests
occur against the
Iraq War , with over 150,000
protestors in
Washington DC . See
Opposition to the Iraq War .
September 24 -
Polish parliamentary election : Two
center-right parties win the required
majoraty of seats.
September 26 - U.S. Army Reservist
Lynndie England is convicted by a
military jury on 6 of 7 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 29 - A
High Court judge rules that
Soham
murderer
Ian Huntley must spend at least 40
years in prison before being considered
for parole; a ruling which effectively
rules out his release until at least
2042 and the age of 68.
September 30 - The
Parliament of Catalonia passes, with
120 plus votes and 15 against, the
Project of New
Catalan Statute of Autonomy ,
proclaiming in Article 1, "Catalonia is
a nation".
September 30 -
Controversial drawings of Muhammad
are printed in the
Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten .
October
Chicago White Sox 2005 World
Series Champions logo.
October 1 - The
2005 Bali bombings kill 26 people
and injure more than 100.
October 1 - The world's largest
bank,
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group , is
formed by the merger of 2
Japanese banking conglomerates.
October 1 - An
Australian photojournalist in
Afghanistan , Stephen Dupont, films
U.S. soldiers burning 2 dead
Taliban militias' bodies with mixed
reviews.
October 2 - A shipwreck in
Lake George, NY kills 20 people.
October 3 -
St. Tammany Parish Schools reopen in
Louisiana , just over a month after
Hurricane Katrina closed them.
October 3 - U.S. President
George W. Bush nominates
Harriet Miers for the
Supreme Court of the United States .
October 4 -
Hurricane Stan hits
Mexico and
Central America , killing over 1,620
people.
October 5 -
Flight Lieutenant
Malcolm Kendall-Smith is 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 - The
2005 Kashmir earthquake kills about
80,000 people.
October 9 -
Polish presidential election : the
1st round results in a runoff between
top candidates
Donald Tusk and
Lech Kaczyński .
October 12 - Sony & Zipper
Interactive Release The Popular Online
Video Game SOCOM 3
October 12 - The second
Chinese
spacecraft ,
Shenzhou 6 , is launched,
carrying
Fei Junlong and
Nie Haisheng for 5 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 - A riot occurs in
Toledo, Ohio during a Neo-Nazi rally
on racial issues; 114 are arrested.
October 15 - The
Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed.
October 16 -
U.S.
helicopters and warplanes
bomb 2
villages near
Ramadi in western
Iraq , killing about 70 people.
October 17 -
Jens Stoltenberg becomes
Prime Minister of Norway for the
second time in history.
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 win 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 - The 200th Anniversary
of the
Battle of Trafalgar is observed,
with 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:
Lech Kaczyński is elected.
October 23 - A referendum is held on
the merger of
Kamchatka Oblast and
Koryak Autonomous Okrug .
October 23 -
Brazil holds a referendum about a
ban on the sale of firearms and
ammunition.
October 24 -
Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in
southwestern Florida as a category 3
hurricane .
October 24 - Civil rights icon
Rosa Parks dies at age 92 in
Detroit ,
Michigan .
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 the 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 -
Harriet Miers withdraws her name
from consideration for the
Supreme Court of the United States .
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 13th hurricane
of 2005, breaking the
1969 record of 12 hurricanes.
October 31 - The
2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal
is revealed.
October 31 - U.S. 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
November 3 -November
4 - Another severe aftershock
measuring 6.3 on the
Richter scale hits affected areas of
Northern Pakistan .
November 4 - The U.S. and Uruguay
governments sign a
Bilateral Investment Treaty .
November 4 - Afghan police officers
find
Nadia Anjuman 's body in her home in
the western city of Herat; she had been
beaten to death by her husband.
November 5 - 400th anniversary of
Guy Fawkes 's attempt to blow up
Parliament with
James I of England inside.
November 6 -
Evansville Tornado of November 2005 :
A
tornado hits western
Kentucky and southwestern
Indiana , killing at least 22.
November 6 -
Azerbaijan parliamentary election :
Results are disputed between the
New Azerbaijan Party and the Azadliq
Party opposition.
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 50 people are
killed and more than 120 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 the
Iraq War 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 15 -
Australia : Workers stage a massive
protest against the
Coalition government's planned
Industrial Reform legislation.
November 15 -
An earthquake hits near Sanriku in
Japan , 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. Rhoderick
Gates-Paris
Hilton
charity challenge for Paradise Kids
in
Queensland begins.
November 19 - Sri Lanka's Prime
Minister
Mahinda Rajapaksa took office as
President of
Sri Lanka after the Presidential
Election.
November 19 - American
Grammy Award winning singer
Christina Aguilera married
Jordan Bratman in
Napa Valley ,
CA .
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 26 - The
Safeway (UK) brand in the
United Kingdom retail disappears
after 43 years of operation due to its
takeover by
Wm Morrison Supermarkets .
December
The building, in
Tehran , into which the C-130
plane crashed.
December 8 -
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 - The
2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal
fire north of
London causes widespread damage, and
is the largest explosion ever to occur
in peacetime Europe.
December 11 - The
2005 Cronulla riots occur in
Sydney, Australia , involving up to
5,000 youths..
December 12 - Gebran Ghassan Tueni
is assassinated by a car bomb on
December 12, 2005. He is buried at Saint
Dimitrius Cemetery after a funeral at
Saint George Church in Beirut.
December 12 - Scientists announce
that they have 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 15 - The first
parliamentary elections take place
under
Iraq 's new federal constitution.
December 16 - The 43rd
Mersenne prime is found, 230,402,457
− 1. It was 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.
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Middle East .
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World population
World population
2005
2000
2010
World
6,453,628,000 6,070,581,000
383,047,000
Africa
887,964,000 795,671,000
92,293,000
Asia
3,917,508,000 3,679,737,000
237,771,000
Europe
724,722,000 727,986,000
3,264,000
Latin-America
558,281,000 520,229,000
38,052,000
Northern America
332,156,000 315,915,000
16,241,000
Oceania
32,998,000 31,043,000
1,955,000
Births
March 26 -
Countess Luana of Orange-Nassau,
Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg
April 8 -
Leah Isadora Behn , granddaughter of
King
Harald V of Norway
April 29 - Prince
Dipangkorn Rasmijoti , son of Crown
Prince
Maha Vajiralongkorn , grandson of
King
Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand
June 5 -
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 Belgium
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World
383,047,000
Africa
Asia
Europe
3,264,000
Latin-America
Northern America
Oceania