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'''2005''' '''(MMV)''' is a Common_year_starting_on_Saturday of the Gregorian_calendar.
2005 is the World Year of Physics, the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese_calendar, and the International Year of the Eucharist in Catholicism.
See also Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.
==Events==
===January===
* 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. {{noMention}}
* 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 - Terrorists enter into Israel from Gaza and open fire on civilians near Border, killing 6 and wounding 5 others. Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility for attack.{{noMention}}
* 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.
Image:Iraqi_voters_inked_fingers.jpgi police officers hold up their index fingers marked with purple indelible ink, a security measure to prevent double voting.]]
* January_18 - Terrorists murder 1 Person and wound 8 people in Gush Katif, Israel. Hamas claims responsibility.{{noMention}}
* January_20 - George_W._Bush is inaugurated in Washington,_D.C. for his second term as 43rd President_of_the_United_States.
* January_20 - Ireland completes Metrication.
* January_21 - In Belize's capital city Belmopan, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into Riots.
* January_23 - Viktor_Yushchenko is sworn in as the third President_of_Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine.
* 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_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.{{noMention}}
===February===
* February_6 - The New_England_Patriots defeat the Philadelphia_Eagles 24-21 to win their third Super_Bowl in four years.
* 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_12 - Fire devastates the Windsor_Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid.
* 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 were also hurt.
* February_14 - Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran.
Image:Major_greenhouse_gas_trends.png is intended to cut global emissions of Greenhouse_gases.]]
* February_16 - The Kyoto_Protocol comes 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 Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
* February_25 - The Serial Killer Dennis_Rader is apprehended by Wichita Police and the FBI.
* February_25 - Terrorists murder 5 people and wound 50 people in Tel Aviv, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
* February_26 - Hosni_Mubarak the president of Egypt asks parliament to amend the constitution to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September_2005.
===March===
* March_1 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the Death_penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes under age 18.
* March_3 - At 19:17 the 3500-ton freighter, M/V_Karen_Danielsen, crashes into the Western bridge of the Great_Belt_Bridge of Denmark, 800m from Funen. 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_10 - Tung_Chee_Hwa's_resignation: Tung_Chee_Hwa, the Chief Executive of Hong_Kong, resigns.
* March_11 - In the UK, the controversial Prevention_of_Terrorism_Act_2005 was finally given Royal_Assent after one of the longest ever sittings by the House_of_Lords.
* 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.
Image:Terri_Schiavo_protest.jpg's Pinellas Park, Florida hospice, March_27, 2005.]]
* 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 occurs at the Xishui coal mine in Shuozhou 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 by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
* March_21 - 10 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 called on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of Mainland_China. Around 200 000 to 300 000 attended the walk.
* March_28 - The 2005_Sumatran_earthquake struck off Sumatra, 3 months after the 2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965.
===April===
* Anti-Japanese demonstrations in China
* April_1 - Newsanchor Peter_Jennings hosts what will turn out to be his final World_News_Tonight telecast.
* April_2 - Pope_John_Paul_II dies, causing widespread grief in the world.
* 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.
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* 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. Camilla assumes the titles Her_Royal_Highness and The Duchess_of_Cornwall.
* April_12 - Fans hurl lit flares onto the field at San Siro Stadium in Milan during a Champions League quarter-final Soccer match.
* April_15 - At least twenty one people died and around fifty people were injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris.
* April_16 - President Lucio_Gutierrez of Ecuador declared a state of emergency in the capital city and dissolved the Supreme Court.
* April_17 - Twelve holidaymakers were killed in southern Switzerland when a bus carrying twenty seven people plunged 200 metres into a ravine.
* April_18 - Five people died 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 has left thirty Vietnamese war veterans dead and four other people hurt.
* April_21 - A gunfight on the edge of the Saudi city of Mecca has left two militants and two members of the security forces dead.
* 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 withdrew 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 made its first flight from Toulouse.
* April_30 - Attacks on tourists in the Egyptian capital Cairo leave three militants dead and at least ten people injured.
===May===
* 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 - 4th president of Singapore, Wee_Kim_Wee dies from Prostate_cancer.
* 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-storey 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_10 - A live Hand_grenade 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 may mark the end of the ''Star_Trek'' franchise itself, which dates back to 1966.
* 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 - 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.
* 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===
* June_1 - Dutch_referendum_on_the_European_Constitution votes to reject, the second country to do so.
* 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_9 - Glynn_Birch announced as new president of Mothers_Against_Drunk_Driving.
* 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_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 win the NBA World Championship title.
* 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===
* 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 in Gleneagles
* 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.
Image:London2005Bus.jpg after the 7_July_2005_London_bombings.]]
* July_7 - Four explosions rock the transport network in London, three on the London_Underground and one on a bus. Over 50 deaths were reported, and over 200 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 compromise budget is reached in Minnesota, ending the fourteen-day government shutdown.
* 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 failed to explode properly, and only one injury was reported.
* 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_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===
Image:Airfranceflight358_78.jpg the day after it crashes at Toronto Pearson International Airport]]
* 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_552 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_17 - The first forced Evacuation of Settlers, as part of the Israel_unilateral_disengagement_plan, starts.
* August_17 - Bangladesh is hit by bomb explosions. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bangladesh_hit_by_several_bomb_explosions
* 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_22 - A 4.1 kg Meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi_Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15 cm 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.
Image:Navy-FloodedNewOrleans.jpg, following the devastation of the city by Hurricane Katrina.]]
* August_28 - Terrorist wounds 52 at bus station in Beersheba, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
* August_29 - At least 1,300 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane_Katrina strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas. Within hours, levees give way and New_Orleans is flooded.
* August_31 - A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills several hundred civilians (see Baghdad_bridge_stampede).
===September===
* September_1 - Oil prices rise sharply following Economic_effects_of_Hurricane_Katrina.
* September_5 - Mandala_Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia killing at least 117. (See airplane accidents in 2005).
* September_7 - Incumbent Egyptian president Hosni_Mubarak wins its first multi-party presidential election.
* September_11 - Prime Minister Junichiro_Koizumi and the LDP are returned to power following the Japanese general elections.
* September_12 - Norwegian parliamentary election
* September_12 - English_cricket_team draw the final match to win The_2005_Ashes.
* 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 CDU and Gerhard_Schröder of the SDP both claim victory in 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_24 - Hurricane_Rita hits the US 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_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".
===October===
* 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 two dead Taliban militias' bodies.
* October_2 - 20 people are killed in a shipwreck in Lake George, NY.
* October_4 - Hurricane_Stan hits Mexico and Central_America killing over 1,153 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.
* 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_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 - US Helicopters and warplanes Bomb two Villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people.
* 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_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_23 - Polish presidential election.
* October_23 - Referendum on the merger of the Kamchatka_Oblast and the Autonomous District of Koryakia.
* October_23 - Guns and Amno Ban Referendum in Brazil
* October_23 - Bellview_Airlines_Flight_210 crashes in Nigeria.
* October_24 - Hurricane_Wilma makes landfall in southwestern Florida as a category 3 Hurricane.
* October_26 - The Chicago_White_Sox win the 2005_World_Series.
* 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_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.
===November===
* 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.
Image:Evanville_Tornado,_Nov_6,_2005.jpg.]]
* November_3 & 4 - Another severe aftershock measuring 6.3 on the Richter_scale hits affected areas of Northern_Pakistan.
* 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_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_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_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===
*December_1 - South_Africa becomes the fifth country in the world where Same-sex_marriages are recognized.
*December_2 - Kenneth_Boyd becomes the 1000th person to be executed in the USA since the re-introduction of Capital_punishment in 1976.Image:Iranian-crash-in-Tehran.jpg, to which the C-130 plane crashed into.]]
*December_4 - 250,000 people in Hong_Kong protest for democracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2005_protest_for_democracy_in_Hong_Kong
*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 American_Airlines_Flight_924 in a Jetway at Miami_International_Airport in Florida. Alpizar, a U.S. citizen who had disembarked from an American_Airlines flight from Medellín,_Colombia, claimed to have a bomb. No explosive has yet been found.
*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.
Image:Routemaster.JPG was the last day of service for Routemaster buses.]]
*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 - The final day of service for London's iconic Routemaster buses.
*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 - Massive explosions take place at the Hertfordshire_Oil_Storage_Terminal north of London. (See 2005_Hertfordshire_Oil_Storage_Terminal_fire.)
*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.
==Scheduled and expected events==
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===December===
* December_15 - The first parliamentary elections under Iraq's new constitution.
* December_16 - The £140m extension of the Docklands_Light_Railway in London, linking Canning_Town to North_Woolwich and London_City_Airport opens.
* December_31 - The first Leap_second since 1998.
==Births==
*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 - a son of Crown_Prince_Frederik_of_Denmark, who will possibly be named Prince_Christian_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
==Deaths==
''Main article: Deaths_in_2005''
===January===
*January_1 - Shirley_Chisholm, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1924)
*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_11 - Jimmy_Griffin, Singer and songwriter. (b. 1943)
*January_15 - Deem_Bristow, Voice actor in the Sonic_the_Hedgehog series. (b. 1947)
*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_22 - Consuelo_Velazquez, Mexican singer (b. 1920)
*January_23 - Johnny_Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
*January_29 - Ephraim_Kishon, Israeli writer and satirist (b. 1924)
===February===
*February_3 - Ernst_Mayr, American evolutionary biologist (b. 1904)
*February_3 - Zurab_Zhvania, Prime_Minister_of_Georgia (b. 1963)
*February_4 - Ossie_Davis, American actor (b. 1917)
*February_5 - Gnassingbe_Eyadema, President_of_Togo (b. 1937)
*February_6 - Merle_Kilgore, Singer, songwriter and manager (b. 1934)
*February_8 - Jimmy_Smith, American musician (b. 1925)
*February_10 - Arthur_Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
*February_12 - Sammi_Smith, Singer (b. 1943)
*February_14 - Rafik_Hariri, Prime_Minister_of_Lebanon (b. 1944)
*February_17 - Nariman_Sadeq, Queen of Egypt (b. 1934)
*February_20 - Sandra_Dee, American actress (b. 1942)
*February_20 - John_Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
*February_20 - Hunter_S._Thompson, American author (suicide) (b. 1937)
*February_26 - Jef_Raskin, GUI designer, creator of the Apple_Macintosh (b. 1943)
===March===
*March_6 - Hans_Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
*March_8 - Aslan_Maskhadov, Chechnyan separatist (b. 1951)
*March_10 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)
*March_16 - Bob_Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
*March_19 - John_De_Lorean, American Car Designer (b. 1925)
*March_22 - Clemente_Domínguez_y_Gómez, Antipope Gregory XVII (b. 1946)
*March_26 - James Callaghan, Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom (b. 1912)
*March_26 - Paul_Hester, Australian musician (Crowded_House) (b. 1958)
*March_29 - Johnnie_Cochran, American attorney (b. 1937)
*March_31 - Terri_Schiavo, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1963)
===April===
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(1920 - 2005)]] *April_2 - Pope_John_Paul_II (b. 1920) *April_5 - Saul_Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) *April_6 - Rainier_III,_Prince_of_Monaco (b. 1923) *April_9 - Andrea_Dworkin, American feminist (b. 1946) *April_11 - Lucien_Laurent, first player ever to score in the FIFA_World_Cup (b. 1907) *April_19 - Niels-Henning_Ørsted_Pedersen, Danish jazz musician (b. 1946) *April_21 - Zhang_Chunqiao, Chinese politician (b. 1917) *April_23 - Sir Joh_Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (b. 1911) *April_23 - Sir John_Mills, English actor (b. 1908) *April_24 - Ezer_Weizman, President_of_Israel (b. 1924) *April_28 - Raymundo_Punongbayan, Filipino seismologist (b. 1937) *April_30 - Ron_Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 - 1992) (b. 1927) ===May=== *May_2 - Wee_Kim_Wee, President_of_Singapore (b. 1915) *May_7 - Peter_Wallace_Rodino, U.S. Congressman (b. 1909) *May_26 - Eddie_Albert, American actor (b. 1906) ===June=== *June_1 - George_Mikan, Basketball player (b. 1924) *June_6 - Anne_Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931) *June_10 - Jim_Exon, Governor and U.S. Senator from Nebraska (b. 1921) *June_15 - Nick_Udall, Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona (b. 1913) *June_21 - Jaime_Cardinal_Sin, Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928) *June_26 - Richard_Whiteley, British journalist and television presenter (b. 1943) *June_27 - John_T._Walton, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam_Walton (b. 1946) ===July=== *July_1 - Luther_Vandross, American R&B; Singer (b. 1951) *July_5 - James_Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral and vice presidential candidate (b. 1923) *July_6 - L._Patrick_Gray, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (b. 1916) *July_6 - Claude_Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) *July_10 - Freddy_Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970) *July_17 - Sir Edward_Heath, Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom (b. 1916) *July_18 - William_Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Vietnam (b. 1914) *July_19 - John Tyndall, British extreme right-wing political activist (b. 1934) *July_20 - James_Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920) *July_21 - Long_John_Baldry, British Blues_musician (b. 1941) *July_22 - Jean_Charles_de_Menezes, Brazilian electrician (shot by police in London) (b. 1978) *July_28 - Bergur_Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (b. 1917) *July_31 - Wim_Duisenberg, Dutch president of the European Central Bank (b. 1935) ===August=== *August_1 - King Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia (b. 1923) *August_3 - Françoise_d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920) *August_4 - Sue_Gunter, American basketball coach (b. 1941) *August_5 - Robin_Cook, British politician (b. 1946) *August_5 - Jim_O'Hora, American college football coach (b. 1915) *August_5 - Raul_Roco, Philippine politician (b. 1941) *August_6 - Keter_Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928) *August_7 - Peter_Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938) *August_8 - Gene_Mauch, baseball manager (b. 1925) *August_8 - Barbara_Bel_Geddes, American actress (b. 1922) *August_13 - Lakshman_Kadirgamar, foreign minister of Sri Lanka (assassinated) (b. 1932) *August_13 - David_Lange, Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand (b. 1942) *August_14 - Coo_Coo_Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932) *August_16 - Vassar_Clements, Country Music fiddler (b. 1928) *August_19 - Mo_Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949) *August_22 - Luc_Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929) *August_22 - Robert_Moog, American inventor (b. 1934) *August_24 - Jack_Slipper, British police officer (b. 1924) *August_26 - Robert_Denning, interior designer (b. 1927) *August_26 - Gerry_Fitt, Irish politician (b. 1926) *August_31 - Sir Józef_Rotblat, Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (b. 1908) ===September=== *September_2 - Bob_Denver, American actor (b. 1935) *September_3 - William_Rehnquist, Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States (b. 1924) *September_8 - Noel_Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932) *September_9 - Lewis_Platt, American computer manufacturer (b. 1941) *September_13 - Julio_César_Turbay_Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916) *September_14 - Robert_Wise, American film director (b. 1914) *September_18 - Michael Park, English race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1966) *September_19 - Willie_Hutch, American singer (b. 1946) *September_20 - Simon_Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b. 1908) *September_21 - Ramón_Martín_Huerta, Mexican politician (b. 1957) *September_25 - Don_Adams, American actor (b. 1923) *September_25 - George_Archer, American golfer (b. 1939) *September_25 - Tommy_Bond, American actor (b. 1926) *September_25 - M._Scott_Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936) *September_26 - Helen_Cresswell, British author (b. 1934) *September_26 - Friedrich_Peter, Austrian politician and Waffen-SS member (b. 1921) *September_27 - Ronald_Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1929) ===October=== *October_2 - Nipsey_Russell, American actor (b. 1924) *October_2 - August_Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945) *October_3 - Ronnie_Barker, British comic actor (b. 1929) *October_4 - Stanley_K._Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924) *October_7 - Charles_Rocket, American actor (b. 1949) *October_10 - Wayne_Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921) *October_10 - Milton_Obote, President_of_Uganda (b. 1925) *October_12 - Jack White, American reporter (b. 1942) *October_13 - Vivian_Malone_Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942) *October_15 - Jason_Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977) *October_17 - Ba_Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904) *October_20 - Shirley_Horn, American jazz singer (b. 1934) *October_21 - Francisco_Alejandro_Gutierrez, Cuban-born musician (Captain Jack) (b. 1962) *October_21 - Sir Nigel_Mobbs, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1937) *October_24 - José_Azcona_del_Hoyo, President_of_Honduras (b. 1926) *October_24 - Rosa_Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913) *October_25 - Wellington_Mara, American football team owner (b. 1916) *October_27 - Bob_Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918) *October_28 - Richard_Smalley, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry (b. 1943) *October_29 - Lloyd_Bochner, Canadian-born actor (b. 1924) *October_30 - Al_Lopez, baseball player and manager (b. 1908) *October_31 - John_"Beatz"_Holohan, American musician (Bayside) ===November=== *November_1 - Skitch_Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918) *November_1 - Michael_Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948) *November_2 - Gordon_A._Craig, Scottish-born historian (b. 1913) *November_5 - Rod_Donald, New Zealand politician (b. 1957) *November_5 - John_Fowles, English writer (b. 1926) *November_6 - Minako_Honda, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1967) *November_9 - Azahari_Husin, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1957) *November_9 - K._R._Narayanan, President_of_India (b. 1921) *November_10 - Steve_Courson, American football player (b. 1955) *November_11 - Patrick_Anson,_5th_Earl_of_Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939) *November_11 - Casualty of the 2005_Amman_bombings: *November_11 - Moustapha_Akkad, Syrian-born film producer (b. 1930) *November_11 - Peter_Drucker, Austrian-born business theorist (b. 1909) *November_13 - Eddie_Guerrero, American professional wrestler (b. 1967) *November_13 - Vine_Deloria, Sioux activist (b. 1933) *November_15 - Adrian_Rogers, American religious leader (b. 1931) *November_15 - Preston_Robert_Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926) *November_15 - Louis_Sévèke, Dutch activist, journalist and writer (murdered)(b. 1964) *November_16 - Sharon_Beshenivsky, English female police officer (murdered) (b. 1967) *November_16 - Ralph_Edwards, American television personality (b. 1913) *November_16 - Henry_Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) *November_18 - Harold_J._Stone, American actor (b. 1913) *November_19 - Erik_Balling, Danish television and film director (b. 1924) *November_20 - James King, American tenor (b. 1925) *November_20 - Chris_Whitley, American musician (b. 1960) *November_21 - Alfred_Anderson, Scotland's last known World War I veteran (b. 1896) *November_24 - Pat_Morita, American actor (b. 1932) *November_25 - George_Best, Northern Irish soccer player (b. 1946) *November_25 - Richard_Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971) *November_26 - Stan Berenstain, American children's writer (b. 1923) *November_29 - Wendie_Jo_Sperber, American actress (b. 1958) *November_29 - Victor_Pellot, Puerto Rican-born baseball player (b. 1927) ===December=== *December_1 - Mary_Hayley_Bell, English actress (b. 1911) *December_2 - Van_Tuong_Nguyen, Australian citizen (executed) (b. 1980) *December_5 - Frits_Philips, former director of Philips (b. 1905) *December_6 - Charly_Gaul, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1932) *December_7 - Carroll_A._Campbell,_Jr., American politician (b. 1940) *December_7 - Devan_Nair, Third President of Singapore (b. 1923) *December_8 - Georgiy_Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915) *December_10 - Eugene_McCarthy, American politician and former presidential candidate (b. 1916) *December_10 - Richard_Pryor, American comedian (b. 1940) *December_13 - Stanley_Williams, American gang founder (b. 1953) ==Nobel Prizes== * 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 - International_Atomic_Energy_Agency, Mohamed_ElBaradei * Bank_of_Sweden_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences_in_Memory_of_Alfred_Nobel - Robert_J._Aumann, Thomas_Schelling ==2005 in fiction== * 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 theNestene_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. * In ''Transformers:_The_Movie'', Decepticons rule 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 24th 2005. This event is called Pluto's_Kiss. The only Operating System able to withstand the virus is Altimit_OS. == External links== {{commonscat|2005}} {{wikinewscat|2005}} * Af:2005 Als:2005 Ang:2005 Ar:2005 An:2005 Ast:2005 Bg:2005 Zh-min-nan:2005_nî Be:2005 Bs:2005 Br:2005 Ca:2005 Cv:2005 Cs:2005 Cy:2005 Da:2005 De:2005 Et:2005 El:2005 Es:2005 Eo:2005 Eu:2005 Fo:2005 Fr:2005 Fy:2005 Fur:2005 Ga:2005 Gl:2005 Ko:2005년 Hr:2005 Io:2005 Id:2005 Ia:2005 Is:2005 It:2005 He:2005 Kn:೨೦೦೫ Ka:2005 Csb:2005 Kw:2005 La:2005 Lt:2005 Lb:2005 Li:2005 Hu:2005 Mk:2005 Ml:2005 Mi:2005 Ms:2005 Mo:2005 Nap:2005 Nl:2005 Nds:2005 Ja:2005年 No:2005 Nn:2005 Os:2005 Pl:2005 Pt:2005 Ro:2005 Ru:2005 Se:2005 Sco:2005 Sq:2005 Sh:2005 Scn:2005 Simple:2005 Sk:2005 Sl:2005 Sr:2005 Fi:2005 Sv:2005 Tl:2005 Tt:2005 Te:2005 Th:พ.ศ._2548 Tpi:2005 Tr:2005 Uk:2005 Wa:2005 Zh:2005年
(1920 - 2005)]] *April_2 - Pope_John_Paul_II (b. 1920) *April_5 - Saul_Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) *April_6 - Rainier_III,_Prince_of_Monaco (b. 1923) *April_9 - Andrea_Dworkin, American feminist (b. 1946) *April_11 - Lucien_Laurent, first player ever to score in the FIFA_World_Cup (b. 1907) *April_19 - Niels-Henning_Ørsted_Pedersen, Danish jazz musician (b. 1946) *April_21 - Zhang_Chunqiao, Chinese politician (b. 1917) *April_23 - Sir Joh_Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (b. 1911) *April_23 - Sir John_Mills, English actor (b. 1908) *April_24 - Ezer_Weizman, President_of_Israel (b. 1924) *April_28 - Raymundo_Punongbayan, Filipino seismologist (b. 1937) *April_30 - Ron_Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 - 1992) (b. 1927) ===May=== *May_2 - Wee_Kim_Wee, President_of_Singapore (b. 1915) *May_7 - Peter_Wallace_Rodino, U.S. Congressman (b. 1909) *May_26 - Eddie_Albert, American actor (b. 1906) ===June=== *June_1 - George_Mikan, Basketball player (b. 1924) *June_6 - Anne_Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931) *June_10 - Jim_Exon, Governor and U.S. Senator from Nebraska (b. 1921) *June_15 - Nick_Udall, Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona (b. 1913) *June_21 - Jaime_Cardinal_Sin, Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928) *June_26 - Richard_Whiteley, British journalist and television presenter (b. 1943) *June_27 - John_T._Walton, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam_Walton (b. 1946) ===July=== *July_1 - Luther_Vandross, American R&B; Singer (b. 1951) *July_5 - James_Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral and vice presidential candidate (b. 1923) *July_6 - L._Patrick_Gray, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (b. 1916) *July_6 - Claude_Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) *July_10 - Freddy_Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970) *July_17 - Sir Edward_Heath, Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom (b. 1916) *July_18 - William_Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Vietnam (b. 1914) *July_19 - John Tyndall, British extreme right-wing political activist (b. 1934) *July_20 - James_Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920) *July_21 - Long_John_Baldry, British Blues_musician (b. 1941) *July_22 - Jean_Charles_de_Menezes, Brazilian electrician (shot by police in London) (b. 1978) *July_28 - Bergur_Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (b. 1917) *July_31 - Wim_Duisenberg, Dutch president of the European Central Bank (b. 1935) ===August=== *August_1 - King Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia (b. 1923) *August_3 - Françoise_d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920) *August_4 - Sue_Gunter, American basketball coach (b. 1941) *August_5 - Robin_Cook, British politician (b. 1946) *August_5 - Jim_O'Hora, American college football coach (b. 1915) *August_5 - Raul_Roco, Philippine politician (b. 1941) *August_6 - Keter_Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928) *August_7 - Peter_Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938) *August_8 - Gene_Mauch, baseball manager (b. 1925) *August_8 - Barbara_Bel_Geddes, American actress (b. 1922) *August_13 - Lakshman_Kadirgamar, foreign minister of Sri Lanka (assassinated) (b. 1932) *August_13 - David_Lange, Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand (b. 1942) *August_14 - Coo_Coo_Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932) *August_16 - Vassar_Clements, Country Music fiddler (b. 1928) *August_19 - Mo_Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949) *August_22 - Luc_Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929) *August_22 - Robert_Moog, American inventor (b. 1934) *August_24 - Jack_Slipper, British police officer (b. 1924) *August_26 - Robert_Denning, interior designer (b. 1927) *August_26 - Gerry_Fitt, Irish politician (b. 1926) *August_31 - Sir Józef_Rotblat, Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (b. 1908) ===September=== *September_2 - Bob_Denver, American actor (b. 1935) *September_3 - William_Rehnquist, Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States (b. 1924) *September_8 - Noel_Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932) *September_9 - Lewis_Platt, American computer manufacturer (b. 1941) *September_13 - Julio_César_Turbay_Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916) *September_14 - Robert_Wise, American film director (b. 1914) *September_18 - Michael Park, English race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1966) *September_19 - Willie_Hutch, American singer (b. 1946) *September_20 - Simon_Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b. 1908) *September_21 - Ramón_Martín_Huerta, Mexican politician (b. 1957) *September_25 - Don_Adams, American actor (b. 1923) *September_25 - George_Archer, American golfer (b. 1939) *September_25 - Tommy_Bond, American actor (b. 1926) *September_25 - M._Scott_Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936) *September_26 - Helen_Cresswell, British author (b. 1934) *September_26 - Friedrich_Peter, Austrian politician and Waffen-SS member (b. 1921) *September_27 - Ronald_Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1929) ===October=== *October_2 - Nipsey_Russell, American actor (b. 1924) *October_2 - August_Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945) *October_3 - Ronnie_Barker, British comic actor (b. 1929) *October_4 - Stanley_K._Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924) *October_7 - Charles_Rocket, American actor (b. 1949) *October_10 - Wayne_Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921) *October_10 - Milton_Obote, President_of_Uganda (b. 1925) *October_12 - Jack White, American reporter (b. 1942) *October_13 - Vivian_Malone_Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942) *October_15 - Jason_Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977) *October_17 - Ba_Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904) *October_20 - Shirley_Horn, American jazz singer (b. 1934) *October_21 - Francisco_Alejandro_Gutierrez, Cuban-born musician (Captain Jack) (b. 1962) *October_21 - Sir Nigel_Mobbs, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1937) *October_24 - José_Azcona_del_Hoyo, President_of_Honduras (b. 1926) *October_24 - Rosa_Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913) *October_25 - Wellington_Mara, American football team owner (b. 1916) *October_27 - Bob_Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918) *October_28 - Richard_Smalley, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry (b. 1943) *October_29 - Lloyd_Bochner, Canadian-born actor (b. 1924) *October_30 - Al_Lopez, baseball player and manager (b. 1908) *October_31 - John_"Beatz"_Holohan, American musician (Bayside) ===November=== *November_1 - Skitch_Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918) *November_1 - Michael_Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948) *November_2 - Gordon_A._Craig, Scottish-born historian (b. 1913) *November_5 - Rod_Donald, New Zealand politician (b. 1957) *November_5 - John_Fowles, English writer (b. 1926) *November_6 - Minako_Honda, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1967) *November_9 - Azahari_Husin, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1957) *November_9 - K._R._Narayanan, President_of_India (b. 1921) *November_10 - Steve_Courson, American football player (b. 1955) *November_11 - Patrick_Anson,_5th_Earl_of_Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939) *November_11 - Casualty of the 2005_Amman_bombings: *November_11 - Moustapha_Akkad, Syrian-born film producer (b. 1930) *November_11 - Peter_Drucker, Austrian-born business theorist (b. 1909) *November_13 - Eddie_Guerrero, American professional wrestler (b. 1967) *November_13 - Vine_Deloria, Sioux activist (b. 1933) *November_15 - Adrian_Rogers, American religious leader (b. 1931) *November_15 - Preston_Robert_Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926) *November_15 - Louis_Sévèke, Dutch activist, journalist and writer (murdered)(b. 1964) *November_16 - Sharon_Beshenivsky, English female police officer (murdered) (b. 1967) *November_16 - Ralph_Edwards, American television personality (b. 1913) *November_16 - Henry_Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) *November_18 - Harold_J._Stone, American actor (b. 1913) *November_19 - Erik_Balling, Danish television and film director (b. 1924) *November_20 - James King, American tenor (b. 1925) *November_20 - Chris_Whitley, American musician (b. 1960) *November_21 - Alfred_Anderson, Scotland's last known World War I veteran (b. 1896) *November_24 - Pat_Morita, American actor (b. 1932) *November_25 - George_Best, Northern Irish soccer player (b. 1946) *November_25 - Richard_Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971) *November_26 - Stan Berenstain, American children's writer (b. 1923) *November_29 - Wendie_Jo_Sperber, American actress (b. 1958) *November_29 - Victor_Pellot, Puerto Rican-born baseball player (b. 1927) ===December=== *December_1 - Mary_Hayley_Bell, English actress (b. 1911) *December_2 - Van_Tuong_Nguyen, Australian citizen (executed) (b. 1980) *December_5 - Frits_Philips, former director of Philips (b. 1905) *December_6 - Charly_Gaul, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1932) *December_7 - Carroll_A._Campbell,_Jr., American politician (b. 1940) *December_7 - Devan_Nair, Third President of Singapore (b. 1923) *December_8 - Georgiy_Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915) *December_10 - Eugene_McCarthy, American politician and former presidential candidate (b. 1916) *December_10 - Richard_Pryor, American comedian (b. 1940) *December_13 - Stanley_Williams, American gang founder (b. 1953) ==Nobel Prizes== * 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 - International_Atomic_Energy_Agency, Mohamed_ElBaradei * Bank_of_Sweden_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences_in_Memory_of_Alfred_Nobel - Robert_J._Aumann, Thomas_Schelling ==2005 in fiction== * 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 theNestene_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. * In ''Transformers:_The_Movie'', Decepticons rule 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 24th 2005. This event is called Pluto's_Kiss. The only Operating System able to withstand the virus is Altimit_OS. == External links== {{commonscat|2005}} {{wikinewscat|2005}} * Af:2005 Als:2005 Ang:2005 Ar:2005 An:2005 Ast:2005 Bg:2005 Zh-min-nan:2005_nî Be:2005 Bs:2005 Br:2005 Ca:2005 Cv:2005 Cs:2005 Cy:2005 Da:2005 De:2005 Et:2005 El:2005 Es:2005 Eo:2005 Eu:2005 Fo:2005 Fr:2005 Fy:2005 Fur:2005 Ga:2005 Gl:2005 Ko:2005년 Hr:2005 Io:2005 Id:2005 Ia:2005 Is:2005 It:2005 He:2005 Kn:೨೦೦೫ Ka:2005 Csb:2005 Kw:2005 La:2005 Lt:2005 Lb:2005 Li:2005 Hu:2005 Mk:2005 Ml:2005 Mi:2005 Ms:2005 Mo:2005 Nap:2005 Nl:2005 Nds:2005 Ja:2005年 No:2005 Nn:2005 Os:2005 Pl:2005 Pt:2005 Ro:2005 Ru:2005 Se:2005 Sco:2005 Sq:2005 Sh:2005 Scn:2005 Simple:2005 Sk:2005 Sl:2005 Sr:2005 Fi:2005 Sv:2005 Tl:2005 Tt:2005 Te:2005 Th:พ.ศ._2548 Tpi:2005 Tr:2005 Uk:2005 Wa:2005 Zh:2005年