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| − | Year '''2005''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] (link displays full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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| − | The year 2005 was designated:
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| − | *The Year of the Volunteer by the [[Politics of the United Kingdom|UK government]]
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| − | *The [[World Year of Physics 2005|World Year of Physics]]
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| − | *The International [[Year of the Eucharist]] in [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]].
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| − | *The Year of [[Cork (city)|Cork]] City as [[European Capital of Culture]].
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| − | *The Year of the [[Veteran]] in [[Canada]].
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| − | *The Year of the Rooster (by the [[Chinese calendar]]).
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| − | ''Also see: [[Current events#Past events by month|Wikipedia's almanac]] of events for this year.''
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| − | * [[January 4]] - Gunmen assassinated the Governor of [[Baghdad Province|Baghdad]], [[Ali Al-Haidri]]<!--confirmed here-->.
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| − | * [[January 6]] - [[Graniteville train disaster]]: Nine people were killed during the incident and 250 more people were treated for [[chlorine]] inhalation in [[Graniteville, South Carolina]] near [[Augusta, Georgia]].
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| − | * [[January 9]] - The same storm which pounded the U.S. earlier in the month hits [[England]], [[Scandinavia]] and the [[Baltic States]], leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts. <!--confirmed here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/01/09/europe.storm-->
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| − | * [[January 9]] - [[Palestinian election]]: [[Mahmoud Abbas]] is elected to succeed [[Yasser Arafat]] as [[Palestinian Authority]] President.
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| − | * [[January 12]] - [[Deep Impact (space mission)|Deep Impact]] is launched from [[Cape Canaveral]] by a [[Delta 2]] rocket.
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| − | * [[January 13]] - Armed militants enter [[Israel]] from Gaza and open fire near the [[border]], killing six people and wounding five others. [[Hamas]] and [[Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades]] claim joint responsibility for the attack.[http://www1.idf.il/dover/site/mainpage.asp?sl=EN&id=7&docid=48258.EN]
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| − | * [[January 14]] - The [[Huygens probe]] lands on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], the largest moon of [[Saturn]].
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| − | * [[January 16]] - [[Adriana Iliescu]] gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so.
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| − | * [[January 16]] - Armed militants kill one person and wound eight people in the [[Gush Katif]] settlement, [[Gaza Strip]]. Hamas claims responsibility.{{noMention}}
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| − | * [[January 20]] - [[George W. Bush]] is inaugurated in [[Washington, D.C.]] for his second term as the 43rd [[President of the United States]].
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| − | * [[January 20]] - [[Ireland]] completes [[metrication]].<!--confirmed here-->
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| − | * [[January 21]] - In [[Belmopan]], [[Belize]], unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into [[riot]]s.
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| − | * [[January 25]] - A [[stampede]] at the [[Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi]]<!--confirmed here--> during a religious [[pilgrimage]] in [[India]] kills at least 215, mostly women and small children.
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| − | * [[January 26]] - [[Glendale train crash]]: Two trains derail, killing 11 and injuring 200, in [[Glendale, California]] near [[Los Angeles]].
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| − | * [[January 30]] - The [[Iraqi legislative election, January 2005|first free Parliamentary elections in Iraq]] since [[1958]] take place.
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| − | * [[January 30]] - A [[Royal Air Force]] [[C-130 Hercules]] transport plane crashes in [[Iraq]], killing 10 British servicemen. [[Iraqi insurgency|Iraqi insurgents]] release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.{{noMention}}
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| − | * [[January 31]] - The [[Michael Jackson]] trial commences in [[Santa Barbara, California]], 14 months after Jackson was arrested with much publicity.
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| − | * [[February 1]] - Sir [[Ian Blair]] is appointed [[Metropolitan Police Commissioner]] of [[London]].
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| − | * [[February 4]] - [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] became the 13th prime-minister of [[Ukraine]].
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| − | * [[February 6]] - [[Super Bowl XXXIX]]: The [[New England Patriots]] win their second consecutive [[Super Bowl]] title, defeating the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] 24-21.
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| − | * [[February 8]] - [[Danish parliamentary election, 2005]]: The center-right coalition led by Prime Minister [[Anders Fogh Rasmussen]] and his [[Liberal Party (Denmark)|Liberal Party]] wins another term.
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| − | * [[February 9]] - An [[ETA]] [[car bomb]] injures 31 people at a conference centre in [[Madrid]].
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| − | * [[February 10]] - [[North Korea]] announces that it possesses [[nuclear weapon]]s as a protection against the hostility it feels from the [[United States]].
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| − | * [[February 10]] - [[Saudi Arabia]] holds its first ever municipal elections, in which only male citizens are allowed to vote.
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| − | * [[February 12]] - Fire devastates the [[Windsor Building]], a 32 story office block, in [[Madrid]].
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| − | * [[February 14]] - A massive suicide bomb blast in central [[Beirut]] kills the former [[Prime Minister of Lebanon]] [[Rafik Hariri]] and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people are also hurt.
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| − | * [[February 14]] - Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in [[Tehran]], [[Iran]].
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| − | * [[February 16]] - The [[Kyoto Protocol]] goes into effect, without the support of the [[United States]] and [[Australia]].
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[February 19]] - Suicide bombers kill more than 30 people in Iraq as Shia Muslims mark [[Ashura]], their holiest day.
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| − | * [[February 20]] - Spain holds a referendum on the Constitution for Europe, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
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| − | * [[February 20]] - Early legislative elections in [[Portugal]] result in a landslide victory for [[José Sócrates]] and the [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]].
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| − | * [[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, Iran|Zarand]] region of [[Kerman]] province in southern [[Iran]].
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| − | * [[February 23]] - A controversial [[French law on colonialism]], requiring teachers to paint it in a positive light, is passed by the national legislature.
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| − | * [[February 24]] - David Hernandez Arroyo goes on a [[Tyler courthouse shooting|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.
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| − | * [[February 25]] - [[Wichita]], [[Kansas]] police apprehend the so-called BTK serial killer [[Dennis Rader]], 31 years after his first murder.
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| − | * [[February 25]] - Terrorists kill 5 and wound 50 in [[Tel Aviv|Tel Aviv, Israel]]; Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for the attack.
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| − | * [[February 26]] - Egyptian President [[Hosni Mubarak]] asks Parliament to amend the [[Constitution of Egypt|constitution]] to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before [[September 2005]].
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| − | * [[February 27]] - The [[77th Academy Awards]], hosted by [[Chris Rock]] are held at the [[Kodak Theatre]] in [[Hollywood, California]], with ''[[Million Dollar Baby]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
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| − | * [[March 1]] - The prosecution begins its testimony in the [[Michael Jackson]] trial.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[March 4]] - The car of released [[Italy|Italian]] hostage [[Giuliana Sgrena]] is fired on by U.S. soldiers in [[Iraq]], causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[March 10]] - [[Tung Chee Hwa]], the [[Chief Executive]] of [[Hong Kong]], resigns.
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| − | * [[March 11]] - In the [[United Kingdom|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]].
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| − | * [[March 11]] - Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the [[Fulton County]] Courthouse in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]; the main suspect, [[Brian Nichols]], surrenders to police the next day.
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| − | * [[March 11]] - [[Central African Republic elections, 2005]]: The first round leads to a runoff between top candidates [[Francois Bozize]] and [[Martin Ziguele]].
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| − | * [[March 14]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] ratifies an anti-[[secession]] law, aimed at preventing [[Taiwan]] from declaring independence.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[March 19]] - A suspected [[suicide bomber]] in [[Doha]], [[Qatar]] kills one person and injures about 12 others.
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| − | * [[March 19]] - A [[Time bomb (explosive)|time bomb]] explodes in a Muslim shrine in [[Quetta]], southwestern [[Pakistan]], killing at least 29 people and wounding 40.
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| − | * [[March 19]] - A blast occurs at the Xishui [[Coal mining|coal mine]] in [[Shuozhou]], [[China]], and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine, killing up to 59.
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| − | * [[March 19]] - Wales beat Ireland 32 - 20 to win their first Grand Slam since 1978 in Rugby Union's Six Nations tournament.
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| − | * [[March 19]] - [[Monster Jam World Finals]] 6 takes place
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| − | * [[March 20]] - At least 250 people in [[Japan]] are injured and at least one killed, when a magnitude 7 earthquake strikes west of [[Kyūshū|Kyushu Island]], just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
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| − | * [[March 21]] - Ten are killed in the [[Red Lake High School massacre]] in [[Minnesota]], the worst [[school shooting]] since the [[Columbine High School massacre]].
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| − | * [[March 23]] - The United States' [[11th Circuit Court of Appeals]] refuses 2-1 to order the reinsertion of [[Terri Schiavo]]'s [[feeding tube]].
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| − | * [[March 24]] - The [[Tulip Revolution]] in [[Kyrgyzstan]] reaches its climax with the overthrow of president [[Askar Akayev]].
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| − | * [[March 26]] - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million [[Taiwan]]ese 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.
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| − | * [[March 26]] - The [[BBC]] series, [[Doctor Who]] makes its return after 16 years.
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[April 2]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] dies; over 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.
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| − | * [[April 4]] - [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|North Carolina]] defeats [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|Illinois]] 75-70 to win the [[2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|2005 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship]] at the [[Edward Jones Dome]] in [[Saint Louis, Missouri]].
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| − | * [[April 6]] - The first [[13th root]] calculation of a 200-digit number is computed by Frenchman [[Alexis Lemaire]].
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| − | * [[April 6]] - [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco]] dies, succeeded by his son [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco|Albert II]].
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| − | * [[April 7]] - [[MG Rover]], the UK's sole remaining automotive mass-production facility, goes into receivership after a planned alliance with Chinese manufacturer, [[Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation]], collapses.
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| − | * [[April 7]] - A suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing 2 foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. A group called "Islamic Pride Brigades" claims responsibility.
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| − | * [[April 8]] - A referendum is held 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]], march through [[Baghdad]] denouncing the [[Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–2006|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]].
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[April 15]] - At least 21 people die and around 50 are injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central [[Paris]].
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| − | * [[April 15]] - Shanghai Automotive rules out any possibility of going back on its decision to pull out of a venture with [[MG Rover]]. This results in the largest independent British carmaker finishing production with the loss of more than 6,000 jobs at its huge [[Longbridge plant]] in [[Birmingham]].
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| − | * [[April 16]] - President [[Lucio Gutierrez]] of [[Ecuador]] declares a [[state of emergency]] in the capital city and dissolves the Supreme Court.
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| − | * [[April 17]] - Twelve holidaymakers are killed in southern [[Switzerland]] when a bus carrying 27 people plunges 656 feet into a ravine.
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| − | * [[April 18]] - Five people die in ethnic clashes in [[Iran]]'s south-west [[Khuzestan]] province.
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| − | * [[April 19]] - [[Papal conclave, 2005]]: [[Pope Benedict XVI]] ([[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] [[Joseph Ratzinger]]) succeeds [[Pope John Paul II]], becoming the 265th [[pope]].
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[April 20]] - President [[Lucio Gutiérrez]] of [[Ecuador]] is said to have fled after Congress voted to sack him amid growing protests.
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| − | * [[April 21]] - A bus crash in [[Vietnam]]'s [[Central Highlands]] kills 30 Vietnamese war veterans.
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| − | * [[April 21]] - A gunfight on the edge of the Saudi city of [[Mecca]] kills 2 militants and 2 members of the security forces.
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| − | * [[April 23]] - [[Silvio Berlusconi]], prime minister of [[Italy]], re-forms the government after its dissolution 3 days earlier.
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| − | * [[April 25]] - [[Amagasaki rail crash]]: A [[Train|passenger train]] derails in [[Amagasaki, Hyogo|Amagasaki]] [[Hyōgo Prefecture]], Japan, killing 107 people and injuring another 456.
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| − | * [[April 26]] - Facing international pressure, [[Syria]] withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in [[Lebanon]], ending its 29 year military domination of that country.
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| − | * [[April 26]] - [[2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China]]
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| − | * [[April 27]] - The Superjumbo [[jet aircraft]] [[Airbus A380]] makes its first flight from [[Toulouse]].
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| − | * [[April 28]] - The $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas has its grand opening.
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| − | * [[April 30]] - Attacks on tourists in the Egyptian capital [[Cairo]] leave 3 militants dead and at least 10 people injured.
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| − | * [[May 1]] - A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern [[Iraq]]i 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.
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| − | * [[May 2]] - A blast at an illegal munitions store in northern [[Afghanistan]] kills 28 people and injures at least 13 others.
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| − | * [[May 3]] - At least 32 people are killed and 9 others injured when 3 two-story buildings in the eastern [[Pakistan]]i city of [[Lahore]] collapse after [[gas cylinder]]s stored in one of them explode.
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| − | * [[May 4]] - In one of the largest [[Insurgency|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.
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| − | * [[May 5]] - [[United Kingdom general election, 2005]]: The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority.
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| − | * [[May 7]] - A plane crash in Lockhart River, [[Australia]] kills 15 people.
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| − | * [[May 10]] - A [[hand grenade]] ostensibly thrown by [[Vladimir Arutinian]] lands about 100 feet (30 m) from [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[George W. Bush]] while he is giving a speech to a crowd in [[Tbilisi]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], but malfunctions and does not detonate.
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| − | * [[May 11]] - [[Serial killer]] [[Michael Ross]] becomes the first person executed in [[New England]] in 45 years.
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[May 13]] - [[Uzbekistan|Uzbek]] [[Military of Uzbekistan|troops]] kill up to 700 during [[May 2005 unrest in Uzbekistan|protests in eastern Uzbekistan]] over the trials of 23 accused [[Islamism|Islamic extremists]]. President [[Islom Karimov]] defends the act.
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| − | * [[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 ([[Base Realignment and Closure, 2005|BRAC 2005]]).
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| − | * [[May 15]] - A passenger [[ferry]] capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the [[Bura Gauranga River]] in [[Bangladesh]], leaving over 100 people missing.
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| − | * [[May 16]] - [[George Galloway]] appears before a U.S. [[Senate]] committee, to answer allegations of making money from the Iraqi [[Oil-for-Food Programme]].
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[Kuwait]]i women are granted the [[Suffrage|right to vote]].
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| − | * [[May 19]] - The [[Canadian House of Commons]] [[38th Canadian Parliament|members]] narrowly pass [[Canadian federal budget, 2005|two budget bills]] at a second reading, allowing the minority [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] government of [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Paul Martin]] to stay in power.
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| − | * [[May 21]] - [[Elena Paparizou]] wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2005]] for [[Greece]] with the song [[My Number One]], in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]].
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| − | * [[May 25]] - [[Liverpool F.C.]] wins the [[UEFA Champions League]] by defeating [[AC Milan]] 3-2 in a [[penalty shootout]] in [[Istanbul, Turkey|Istanbul]].KKM ,; G,../I.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[May 29]] - A [[French referendum on the European Constitution]] votes resoundingly to reject it.
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| − | * [[May 31]] - [[W. Mark Felt]] is confirmed to be "[[Deep Throat (Watergate)|Deep Throat]]."
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| − | * [[June 1]] - A [[Dutch referendum on the European Constitution]] votes to reject it, the second country to do so.
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| − | * [[June 2]] - The construction of [[Northrop Grumman X-47B]], the world's first unmanned surveillance [[Ground attack aircraft|attack aircraft]] that can operate from both land bases and [[aircraft carrier]]s, begins.
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| − | * [[June 5]] - [[Switzerland]] votes to join the [[Schengen treaty|Schengen]] area and to allow [[civil unions|same-sex partnerships]].
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| − | * [[June 6]] - [[Syria]]n [[Vice President]] [[Abdul Halim Khaddam]] resigns.
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| − | * [[June 7]] - [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]] is re-released.
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| − | * [[June 9]] - [[2005 Logan Airport runway incursion]]: Almost 400 people narrowly avoid death when 2 jet airliners nearly collide on the runway.
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| − | * [[June 13]] - [[2005 trial of Michael Jackson]]: Singer [[Michael Jackson]] is acquitted of all charges in his child molestation trial.
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[June 17]] - Because of "quadruple-witching" [[Option (finance)|option]]s and [[Futures contract|future]]s 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).
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| − | * [[June 19]] - Preliminarty election results in the [[Autonomous Community]] of [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], [[Spain]] show that [[Manuel Fraga]] and the [[Partido Popular]] have lost control of the autonomous parliament.
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| − | * [[June 21]] - A [[Volna]] booster [[rocket]] carrying the first [[light sail]] spacecraft (a joint [[Russia]]n-[[United States]] project) fails 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[June 28]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] conducts the [[International Fleet Review]] of 167 international warships in the [[Solent]], as part of the [[Trafalgar 200]] celebrations.
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| − | * [[June 30]] - [[Spain]] joins [[Belgium]] and the Netherlands in permitting [[same-sex marriage]].
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| − | * [[June 30]] - The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement ([[CAFTA]]) is passed by the United States.
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| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Live 8]], a series of 10 simultaneous concerts take place throughout the world, raising interest in the [[Make Poverty History]] campaign.
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| − | * [[July 4]] - [[NASA]]'s "Copper bullet" from [[Deep Impact (space mission)|Deep Impact]] spacecraft hits [[Comet Tempel 1]], creating a [[Impact crater|crater]] for scientific studies.
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| − | * [[July 4]] - Violent anti-[[G8]] demonstrations occur in [[Gleneagles]], [[Scotland]].
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| − | * [[July 4]] - [[Italy-USA Foundation]] was established in [[Rome]], [[Italy]].
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| − | * [[July 6]] - The [[European Parliament]] rejects the [[Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions]] in its second reading in the [[codecision procedure]].
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| − | * [[July 6]] - The [[International Olympic Committee]] awards the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] to [[London]].
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| − | * [[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]]).
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| − | * [[July 7]] - [[Al-Qaeda]] admits to killing [[Egypt]]'s Ambassador, [[Ihab al-Sherif]].
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| − | * [[July 10]] - A [[Luxembourgish referendum on the European Constitution]] votes to accept it.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[July 12]] - Terrorists kill 5 people and wound 90 in a crowded mall in [[Netanya, Israel]]. [[Islamic Jihad]] claims responsibility for attack.
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| − | * [[July 17]] - [[Disneyland]] commemorates its [[Happiest Homecoming on Earth|fiftieth anniversary]].
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| − | * [[July 19]] - [[George W. Bush|President Bush]] nominates Appeals Court Judge [[John G. Roberts, Jr.]] to the [[United States Supreme Court]], following the retirement of [[Sandra Day O'Connor]].
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| − | * [[July 20]] - [[Canada]]'s [[Civil Marriage Act]], legalizing same-sex marriage, receives [[Royal Assent]].
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| − | * [[July 21]] - [[21 July 2005 London bombings|A terrorist attack on London]], similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks on 3 underground trains and a [[Buses in London|London bus]]. The bombs fail to explode properly, and only 1 injury is reported, later found to be unconnected.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[July 23]] - A series of blasts hit a [[resort town]] in [[Egypt]]. See [[July 23, 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks]].
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| − | * [[July 24]] - [[Lance Armstrong]] wins a record 7th straight [[Tour de France|Tours de France]] before his scheduled retirement.
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| − | * [[July 25]] - The [[2004-2005 NHL lockout]] ends.
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| − | * [[July 26]] - ''[[STS-114]]'': The Space Shuttle ''[[Discovery]]'' is launched on its "Return To Flight" mission. This is the first space shuttle flight in nearly 2 1/2 years since the breakup of [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']] on its return from mission ''[[STS-107]]''.
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| − | * [[July 26]] - [[Mumbai]] and the [[Mumbai Conurbation]] area is submerged in 5-7 ft. of water due to heavy rains, making nearby dams release water causing a massive flood, which virtually stops the financial capital of [[India]] for 4-5 days.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[August 1]] - King [[Fahd of Saudi Arabia]] dies, succeeded by his half-brother [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]].
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| − | * [[August 2]] - [[Air France Flight 358]] bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at [[Toronto Pearson International Airport]]; all aboard survive.
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| − | * [[August 2]] - The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement ([[CAFTA]]) is signed into law in the [[United States]].
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| − | * [[August 6]] - An [[ATR-72]] heading from [[Italy]] to [[Tunisia]] crashes into the [[Mediterranean Sea]], killing 16 of 39 on board.
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| − | * [[August 9]] - Space Shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]'' returns to [[Edwards Air Force Base]] at 0814 EDT, completing ''[[STS-114]]'', "Return to Flight."
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| − | * [[August 10]] - A [[2005 Tallinn Sikorsky S-76 crash|passenger helicopter]] en route to [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]] crashes into the sea near [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], killing 14.
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| − | * [[August 12]] - The [[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]] is launched.
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| − | * [[August 14]] - [[Helios Airways Flight 522]] crashes into a mountain in [[Greece]], killing 121.
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| − | * [[August 16]] - [[West Caribbean Airways Flight 708]] crashes into a mountain in [[Venezuela]], killing 152 passengers.
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| − | * [[August 16]] - The [[XX World Youth Day]] begins in [[Cologne, Germany]].
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| − | * [[August 17]] - The first forced [[evacuation (Israeli politics)|evacuation]] of [[settlers]], as part of the [[Israel unilateral disengagement plan]], starts.
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| − | * [[August 17]] - [[Bangladesh]] is hit by bomb explosions. [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bangladesh_hit_by_several_bomb_explosions]
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| − | * [[August 17]] - [[Sellapan Ramanathan]] gains victory in the [[Singapore Presidential elections, 2005]].
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| − | * [[August 18]] - [[BTK killer]] Dennis Rader receives 10 consecutive life sentences.
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| − | * [[August 18]] - [[Peace Mission 2005]], the first joint [[China]]-[[Russia]] [[military exercise]], begins its 8-day training on the [[Shandong peninsula]].
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| − | * [[August 22]] - A {{kg to lb|4.1|precision=2}} [[meteorite]] crashes into the Dotito area of [[Zambezi Escarpment]] in [[Zimbabwe]], leaving a {{cm to in|15|precision=0}} [[Impact crater|crater]].
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| − | * [[August 23]] - [[Israel unilateral disengagement plan|Israel's unilateral disengagement]] from 25 [[Israeli settlement|Jewish settlements]] in the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[West Bank]] ends.
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| − | * [[August 24]] - [[Hong Kong]] [[High Court (Hong Kong)|High Court]] Judge Michael Hartmann rules that [[sodomy law]]s are unconstitutional.
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| − | * [[August 26]] - [[Jean Michel Jarre]]'s "Space of Freedom" concert is held in [[Gdańsk]], [[Poland]], commemorating the 25th anniversary of the creation of [[Solidarność]] ("Solidarity" trade union).
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| − | * [[August 29]] - At least 1,836 are killed, and [[Hurricane Katrina effects by region|severe damage]] is caused along the [[U.S. Gulf Coast]], as [[Hurricane Katrina]] strikes coastal areas from [[Louisiana]] to [[Alabama]], and travels up the [[Effect of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi|entire state of Mississippi]] (flooding coast 31 feet/10 [[meter|m]]), affecting most of eastern North America.
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| − | * [[August 31]] - A crowd crush on the [[Al-Aaimmah bridge]] in [[Baghdad]] kills several hundred civilians (see [[Baghdad bridge stampede]]).
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| − | * [[September 1]] - [[Oil price increases of 2004 and 2005#Hurricane Katrina|Oil prices]] rise sharply following the [[economic effects of Hurricane Katrina]].
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| − | * [[September 2]] - Protesters and Israeli forces clash in [[Bil'in]].
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| − | * [[September 5]] - [[Mandala Airlines Flight 091]] 737 crashes in [[Indonesia]], killing at least 117. (See [[list of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by year#2005|airplane accidents in 2005]]).
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| − | * [[September 5]] - [[John G. Roberts]] is nominated by President [[George Walker Bush|George W. Bush]] for Chief Justice of the United States, replacing [[William Rehnquist]], who had died two days previously.
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| − | * [[September 7]] - [[Incumbent]] [[Rulers and heads of state of Egypt|Egyptian president]] [[Hosni Mubarak]] wins the first multi-party [[Egyptian presidential election, 2005|presidential 'election']].
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| − | * [[September 11]] - [[Japan general election, 2005]]: [[Japanese Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] [[Junichiro Koizumi]] and the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] are returned to power.
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| − | * [[September 12]] - The [[Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005|Norwegian parliamentary election]] results in a victory for the red-green-coalition. The new prime-minister is Jens Stoltenberg from the Labour Party.
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| − | * [[September 12]] - The [[Hong Kong Disneyland Resort]] officially opens publicly.
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| − | * [[September 12]] - The [[English cricket team]] draw the final match to win [[The 2005 Ashes]].
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| − | * [[September 14]]-[[September 16]] - The largest [[UN]] [[2005 World Summit|World Summit]] in history is held in [[New York City]].
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| − | * [[September 17]] - [[Helen Clark]], leader of the [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party]], is re-elected for a third term in the [[New Zealand general election 2005|New Zealand general election]].
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| − | * [[September 18]] - [[Angela Merkel]] of the [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]] and [[Gerhard Schröder]] of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]] both claim victory in the [[German federal election, 2005|German federal election]].
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| − | * [[September 18]] - [[Afghan parliamentary election, 2005|Afghan parliamentary election]]: Former [[Afghan Northern Alliance|Northern Alliance]] [[warlords]] and their followers claim victory.
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| − | * [[September 19]] - [[North Korea]] agrees to stop building [[nuclear weapons]] in exchange for aid and cooperation.
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| − | * [[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]]
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[September 24]] - [[Hurricane Rita]] hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, devastating areas near [[Beaumont, TX]] and [[Lake Charles, LA]]. The [[Ninth Ward of New Orleans|New Orleans's 9th Ward]] re-floods since [[Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]], and [[Mississippi]] and [[Alabama]] are also affected.
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| − | * [[September 24]] - Worldwide protests occur against the [[Iraq War]], with over 150,000 protestors in [[Washington DC]]. See [[Opposition to the Iraq War]].
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| − | * [[September 24]] - [[Polish parliamentary election, 2005|Polish parliamentary election]]: Two center-right parties win the required majority of seats.
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| − | * [[September 24]] - [[Australian Rules Football]] team the [[Sydney Swans]] win the [[2005]] Grand Final, to become the [[Australian Football League|AFL]] Premiers, defeating the [[West Coast Eagles]] at the [[MCG]] to end a 72 year Premiership drought.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[September 27]] - [[Michaëlle Jean]], born in [[Haiti]], becomes the 27th [[Governor General of Canada]], and the first [[Black Canadian|black]] person to hold that position.
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| − | * [[September 28]] - American politician [[Tom DeLay]] is indicted on charges of [[Conspiracy (crime)|criminal conspiracy]] by a Texas grand jury.
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| − | * [[September 29]] - [[John G. Roberts, Jr.]] is confirmed and sworn in as [[Chief Justice of the United States]].
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| − | * [[September 29]] - A [[High Court of Justice|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.
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| − | * [[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".
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| − | * [[September 30]] - [[Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy|Controversial drawings of Muhammad]] are printed in the [[Denmark|Danish]] newspaper [[Jyllands-Posten]].
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| − | * [[October 1]] - The [[2005 Bali bombings]] kill 26 people and injure more than 100.
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| − | * [[October 1]] - The world's largest bank, [[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group]], is formed by the merger of 2 [[Japan]]ese banking conglomerates.
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| − | * [[October 1]] - An [[Australia]]n photojournalist in [[Afghanistan]], Stephen Dupont, films U.S. soldiers burning 2 dead [[Taliban]] militias' bodies with mixed reviews.
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| − | * [[October 2]] - [[Ethan Allen boating accident|A shipwreck]] in [[Lake George, New York|Lake George]], [[New York|NY]] kills 20 people.
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| − | * [[October 3]] - [[St. Tammany Parish]] Schools reopen in [[Louisiana]], just over a month after [[Hurricane Katrina]] closed them.
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| − | * [[October 3]] - U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] nominates [[Harriet Miers]] for the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].
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| − | * [[October 4]] - [[Hurricane Stan]] hits [[Mexico]] and [[Central America]], killing over 1,620 people.
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| − | * [[October 5]] - [[Flight Lieutenant]] [[Malcolm Kendall-Smith]] is charged with refusing to serve in the [[Iraq]] war.
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| − | * [[October 7]] - [[UN]] [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear]] agency director [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] is awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
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| − | * [[October 8]] - The [[2005 Kashmir earthquake]] kills about 80,000 people.
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| − | * [[October 9]] - [[Polish presidential election, 2005|Polish presidential election]]: the 1st round results in a runoff between top candidates [[Donald Tusk]] and [[Lech Kaczyński]].
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| − | * [[October 12]] - The second [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] [[spacecraft]], ''[[Shenzhou 6]]'', is launched, carrying [[Fei Junlong]] and [[Nie Haisheng]] for 5 days in orbit.
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| − | * [[October 13]] - [[Veselin Topalov]] wins the [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2005]].
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| − | * [[October 15]] - The [[Iraqi constitution ratification vote, 2005|referendum]] on the new [[Proposed Iraqi constitution]] is held.
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| − | * [[October 15]] - A riot occurs in [[Toledo, Ohio]] during a Neo-Nazi rally on racial issues; 114 are arrested.
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| − | * [[October 15]] - The [[Qinghai-Tibet Railway]] is completed.
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| − | * [[October 16]] - [[United States|U.S.]] [[helicopter]]s and warplanes [[bomb]] 2 [[villages]] near [[Ramadi]] in western [[Iraq]], killing about 70 people.
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| − | * [[October 17]] - [[Jens Stoltenberg]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Norway]] for the second time.
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| − | * [[October 18]] - The [[UN]] tightens the rules for its staff, following several claims of financial impropriety and [[sexual abuse]].
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| − | * [[October 19]] - The [[Trials of Saddam Hussein]] begin.
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| − | * [[October 19]] - [[Hurricane Wilma]] swells into a [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 5]] storm.
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| − | * [[October 19]] - The [[Houston Astros]] win their first [[National League]] Championship to advance to their first-ever [[World Series]] in franchise history.
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| − | * [[October 20]] - [[Hurricane Wilma]] enters the Mexican Caribbean, passing through [[Cozumel]] and then the [[Yucatán Peninsula]], staying over [[Cancún]] for over 60 hours.
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| − | * [[October 21]] - The 200th Anniversary of the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] is observed, with celebrations held around the [[United Kingdom]].
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| − | * [[October 22]] - [[Tropical Storm Alpha]] forms, making the [[2005 Atlantic hurricane season]] the most active on record.
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| − | * [[October 22]] - [[Bellview Airlines Flight 210]], a [[Boeing 737]] airliner, crashes in [[Nigeria]].
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| − | * [[October 23]] - [[Polish presidential election, 2005|Polish presidential election]], 2nd round: [[Lech Kaczyński]] is elected.
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| − | * [[October 23]] - A referendum is held on the merger of [[Kamchatka Oblast]] and [[Koryak Autonomous Okrug]].
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| − | * [[October 23]] - [[Brazil]] holds a referendum about a ban on the sale of firearms and ammunition.
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| − | * [[October 24]] - [[Hurricane Wilma]] makes landfall in southwestern Florida as a category 3 [[hurricane]].
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| − | * [[October 26]] - [[Iran]]ian 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.
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| − | * [[October 26]] - The U.S. death toll in [[Iraq]] reaches 2,000.
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| − | * [[October 26]] - The [[Chicago White Sox]] beat the [[Houston Astros]] in 4 games to win their first World Series since 1917.
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| − | * [[October 27]] - [[Harriet Miers]] withdraws her name from consideration for the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].
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| − | * [[October 27]] - Two [[teenager]]s accidentally electrocute themselves in [[Seine-Saint-Denis]], [[Paris]], [[France]], leading to [[2005 Paris suburb riots|widespread rioting]].
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| − | * [[October 28]] - Vice presidential adviser [[Lewis "Scooter" Libby]] resigns after being charged with [[obstruction of justice]], perjury and making a false statement in the [[Plame Affair|CIA leak investigation]].
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| − | * [[October 29]] - A train in [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]] derails, killing at least 77 people.
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| − | * [[October 29]] - At least 61 people are dead and many others wounded in three powerful blasts in the [[India]]n capital, [[Delhi]] (See [[29 October 2005 Delhi bombings]] for full details).
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| − | * [[October 30]] - [[Hurricane Beta]] hits the coast of [[Nicaragua]]. It is the 13th hurricane of 2005, breaking the [[1969]] record of 12 hurricanes.
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[November 1]] - [[Charles, Prince of Wales|The Prince of Wales]] and [[Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall|The Duchess of Cornwall]] arrive in the United States for a state visit, their first overseas tour since their marriage.
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[November 1]] - [[United States Senate Minority Leader]] [[Harry Reid]] and his fellow [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] force a closed session of the [[United States Senate|Senate]] over the [[Lewis Libby]] indictment.
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| − | * [[November 2]] - [[Madrid]]: the [[Congress of Deputies (Spain)|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 (Spain)|People's Party]] (PP), which the same day files an objection of unconstitutionality.
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| − | * [[November 3]]-[[November 4]] - Another severe aftershock measuring 6.3 on the [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] hits affected areas of [[Northern Pakistan]].
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| − | * [[November 4]] - The U.S. and Uruguay governments sign a [[Bilateral Investment Treaty]].
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[November 6]] - [[Evansville Tornado of November 2005]]: A [[tornado]] hits western [[Kentucky]] and southwestern [[Indiana]], killing at least 22.
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| − | * [[November 6]] - [[Azerbaijan parliamentary election, 2005|Azerbaijan parliamentary election]]: Results are disputed between the [[New Azerbaijan Party]] and the Azadliq Party opposition.
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| − | * [[November 8]] - [[President of the French Republic|French President]] [[Jacques Chirac]] declares a state of emergency on the 12th day of the [[France|French]] [[civil unrest]] (see [[2005 civil unrest in France]]).
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| − | * [[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]]).
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[November 13]] - [[Andrew Stimpson]], a 25-year old [[United Kingdom|British]] man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of [[HIV]].
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| − | * [[November 15]] - [[Australia]]: Workers stage a massive protest against the [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] government's planned Industrial Reform legislation.
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| − | * [[November 15]] - [[2005 Sanriku Japan Earthquake|An earthquake hits near Sanriku]] in [[Japan]], prompting a tsunami warning to be issued.
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| − | * [[November 19]] - [[United States|American]] [[Grammy Award]] winning singer [[Christina Aguilera]] married music executive [[Jordan Bratman]] in [[Napa Valley, California]].
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| − | * [[November 19]] - Sri Lanka's Prime Minister [[Mahinda Rajapaksa]] took office as President of [[Sri Lanka]] after the Presidential Election.
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| − | * [[November 20]] - ''[[The Washington Post]]'' rebukes journalist [[Bob Woodward]] over his conduct in the [[Plame Affair|CIA leak probe]].
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[November 22]] - [[Ted Koppel]] steps down as host of ''[[Nightline]]'' after 25 years with the program.
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| − | * [[November 24]] - The [[Licensing Act 2003]] comes into force in [[England and Wales]], introducing flexibility in the hours during which [[alcoholic beverage]]s may be sold.
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| − | * [[November 25]] - The [[Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2005|twentieth Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting]] opens in [[Valletta]], [[Malta]].
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[November 27]] - [[Philippines]] hosted the [[23rd Southeast Asian Games]] for the third time and the opening ceremonies was held at the [[Quirino Grandstand]] in [[Manila]], making the very first time to held the ceremonies in the [[Luneta|large open field park]] despite the capital city [[Manila]] has many sports stadiums. It was also marks as the most number of athletes and delegates participated, and the most number of audience reaching 200,000 during ceremonies in the history of [[SEA Games]].
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| − | * [[November 27]] - For the second time in three years, the [[Edmonton Eskimos]] defeat the [[Montreal Alouettes]] 38-35 in an overtime thriller to win the [[93rd Grey Cup]] at [[B.C. Place Stadium]] in [[Vancouver]].
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| − | * [[November 27]] - [[Manuel Zelaya]] is elected the new [[President of Honduras]].
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| − | * [[November 27]] - The [[Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2005|twentieth Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting]] closes in [[Valletta]], [[Malta]].
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| − | * [[November 28]] - The [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] [[minority government]] in [[Canada]] is toppled by a [[non-confidence vote]] in the [[Canadian House of Commons|House of Commons]], tabled by the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservatives]] and backed by the [[Bloc Québécois]] and the [[New Democratic Party]], paving the way for a [[Canadian federal election, 2006|federal election]] on [[January 23]], [[2006]].
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| − | * [[November 28]]-[[December 9]] - The [[United Nations Climate Change Conference]] is held in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]].
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| − | * [[November 29]] - Leo O'Connor and David Keogh appear in court (see [[O'Connor - Keogh official secrets trial]]).
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| − | * [[November 30]] - Surgeons in [[France]] carry out the first human [[face transplant]].
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| − | * [[December 1]] - [[South Africa]] becomes the 5th country in the world where [[same-sex marriages]] are recognized.
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| − | * [[December 2]] - In [[Wentworth, North Carolina]], [[Kenneth Boyd]] becomes the 1,000th person to be executed in the [[United States]] since the re-introduction of [[capital punishment]] in [[1976]].
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[December 4]] - The [[December 2005 protest for democracy in Hong Kong]] draws 250,000 people.
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| − | * [[December 6]] - An [[Iran]]ian [[C-130 Hercules]] airplane [[Iranian Air Force C-130 crash in Tehran|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 (128 total).
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| − | * [[December 7]] - A [[United States|U.S.]] [[Federal Air Marshal]] fatally shoots [[Rigoberto Alpizar]] on a [[jetway]] at [[Miami International Airport]] in [[Florida]].
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| − | * [[December 7]] - [[European Union]] [[top-level domain|TLD]] ''.eu'' is launched, and replaces ''.eu.int''. Initially this will be only for business purposes. From [[7 April]] [[2006]] onwards, EU citizens can also register .eu domains.
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| − | * [[December 8]] - [[Southwest Airlines Flight 1248]] overshoots the runway at [[Chicago Midway Airport]], killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring 11 other people.
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| − | * [[December 8]] - [[2005 Atlantic hurricane season#Hurricane Epsilon|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.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[December 11]] - The [[2005 Cronulla riots]] occur in [[Sydney, Australia]], involving up to 5,000 youths..
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[December 12]] - Scientists announce that they have created [[mouse|mice]] with small amounts of human [[brain cells]] in an effort to make realistic models of [[neurological disorders]].
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| − | * [[December 13]] - A 6.7 magnitude [[December 2005 Afghan-Pakistan earthquake|earthquake]] rocks [[South Asia]].
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| − | * [[December 14]] - [[Shakidor Dam]] fails in [[Pakistan]] due to heavy rain.
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| − | * [[December 15]] - The first [[Iraqi legislative election, December 2005|parliamentary elections]] take place under [[Iraq]]'s new federal constitution.
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| − | * [[December 16]] - The 43rd [[Mersenne prime]] is found, 2<sup>30,402,457</sup> − 1. It was discovered with the [[GIMPS]] project by [[Dr. Curtis Cooper]] and [[Dr. Steven Boone]], professors at [[Central Missouri State University]].
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| − | * [[December 18]] - [[Evo Morales]] wins the [[Bolivian presidential election, 2005|Bolivian Presidential Elections]].
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| − | * [[December 18]] - [[Prime Minister of Israel|Israeli Prime Minister]] [[Ariel Sharon]] is hospitalized after suffering a minor [[stroke]]. He is released from the hospital 2 days later.
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| − | * [[December 18]] - The [[World Trade Organization]] [[WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005|6th ministerial conference]] concludes in [[Hong Kong]] with a limited trade deal being ratified.
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| − | * [[December 20]] - [[2005 New York City transit strike]]: [[New York City]]'s [[Transport Workers Union]] Local 100 goes on [[Strike action|strike]] for 3 days, shutting down all [[New York City Subway]] and [[New York City Bus|Bus]] services.
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| − | * [[December 22]] - An industrial action by bus drivers in [[Tehran]] leads to the arrest of [[Mansour Osanlou]] and several other union activists.
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[Lech Kaczyński]] is sworn in as the [[President of Poland]] in [[Warsaw]].
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following the [[Iraqi elections]].
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[Azerbaijan Airlines]] Flight 217 from [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan]], to [[Aktau]], [[Kazakhstan]], crashes shortly after takeoff, killing 23 people.
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[Chad]] declares a [[Chadian-Sudanese conflict|state of war]] against [[Sudan]] following a December 18 attack on [[Battle of Adre|Adre]], which left about 100 people dead.
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| − | * [[December 23]] - In [[Israel]], the trial of [[Tali Fahima]] ends in a [[plea bargain]].
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| − | * [[December 24]] - [[Pope Benedict XVI]] leads his first [[Christmas]] Midnight [[Mass]] as Pope, praying for peace in the [[Middle East]].
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| − | * [[December 31]] - Another second is added, 23:59:60, called a [[leap second]], to end the year 2005. The last time this occurred was on [[June 30]], [[1998]].
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| − | * [[March 5]] - the events of the 2005 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''[[Rose (Doctor Who)|Rose]]'' begin.
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| − | |align="left"|[[Image:Globe.svg|50px]] [[World]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''6,453,628,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|6,070,581,000
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| − | |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 383,047,000
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| − | |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 383,047,000
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| − | |align="left"|[[Image:Africa satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] [[Africa]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''887,964,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|795,671,000
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| − | |align="right"|{{#switch: u
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| − | |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 92,293,000
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| − | |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 92,293,000
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| − | |align="left"|[[Image:Two-point-equidistant-asia.jpg|50px]] [[Asia]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''3,917,508,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|3,679,737,000
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| − | |align="right"|{{#switch: u
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| − | |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 237,771,000
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| − | |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 237,771,000
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| − | |align="left"|[[Image:Europe satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] [[Europe]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''724,722,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|727,986,000
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| − | |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 3,264,000
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| − | |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 3,264,000
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| − | |align="left"|[[Image:Latin America terrain.jpg|50px]] [[Latin America]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''558,281,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|520,229,000
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| − | |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 38,052,000
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| − | |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 38,052,000
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| − | |align="left"|[[Image:LocationWHNorthernAmerica.png|50px]] [[Northern America]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''332,156,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|315,915,000
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| − | |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 16,241,000
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| − | |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 16,241,000
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| − | |align="left"|[[Image:Oceania.jpg|50px]] [[Oceania]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''32,998,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|31,043,000
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| − | |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 1,955,000
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| − | |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 1,955,000
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| − | *[[January 30]] - [[Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II]]
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| − | *[[March 27]] - [[Countess Luana of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg]]
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| − | *[[April 8]] - [[Leah Isadora Behn]], granddaughter of King [[Harald V of Norway]]
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| − | *[[April 29]] - Prince [[Dipangkorn Rasmijoti]], son of Crown Prince [[Maha Vajiralongkorn]], grandson of King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand
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| − | *[[June 5]] - [[Irene Urdangarin]], granddaughter of King [[Juan Carlos I of Spain]]
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| − | *[[July 27]] - [[Princess Alexia of the Netherlands]], daughter of [[Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands]]
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| − | *[[October 4]] - [[Prince Emmanuel of Belgium]], son of [[Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant|Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium]]
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| − | *[[October 15]] - [[Prince Christian of Denmark]], son of [[Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark]] and his wife [[Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark]]
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| − | *[[October 31]] - [[Infanta Leonor of Spain]], daughter of [[Felipe, Prince of Asturias]] and his wife [[Letizia, Princess of Asturias|Letizia]]
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| − | *[[December 3]] - [[Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway]], grandson of King [[Harald V of Norway]]
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| − | *[[December 13]] - [[Prince Nicolas of Belgium]], grandson of King [[Albert II of Belgium]]
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| − | *[[December 13]] - [[Prince Aymeric of Belgium]], grandson of King [[Albert II of Belgium]]
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| − | *[[January 1]] - [[Shirley Chisholm]], U.S. Congresswoman (b. [[1924]])
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| − | *[[January 1]] - [[Eugene J. Martin]], U.S. artist (b. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[January 1]] - [[Bob Matsui]], U.S. Congressman from California (b. [[1941]])
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| − | *[[January 2]] - [[John Ziman]], Condensed-matter physicist (b. [[1925]])
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| − | *[[January 4]] - [[Ali al-Haidri]], Governor of Baghdad (assassinated)
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| − | *[[January 4]] - [[Alton Tobey]], American artist (b. [[1914]])
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| − | *[[January 4]] - [[Guy Davenport]], American author, artist, and scholar (b. [[1927]])
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| − | *[[January 7]] - [[Pierre Daninos]], French writer and humorist (b. [[1913]])
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| − | *[[January 10]] - [[Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium|Joséphine-Charlotte]], Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. [[1927]])
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| − | *[[January 10]] - [[Gene Baylos]], Comedian (b. [[1906]])
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| − | *[[January 12]] - [[Alessia di Matteo]], first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. [[2003]])
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| − | *[[January 12]] - [[Amrish Puri]], Indian actor (b. [[1932]])
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| − | *[[January 15]] - [[Victoria de los Ángeles]], Catalan soprano (b. [[1923]])
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| − | *[[January 15]] - [[Deem Bristow]], voice actor best known as the voice of [[Doctor Eggman]] (b. [[1947]])
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| − | *[[January 17]] - [[Zhao Ziyang]], [[Premier of the People's Republic of China]] (b. [[1919]])
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| − | *[[January 18]] - [[Lamont Bentley]], American television and film actor (b. [[1973]])
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| − | *[[January 19]] - [[Anita Kulcsár]], [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[team handball|handball]] player (b. [[1976]])
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| − | *[[January 19]] - [[Bill Andersen]], New Zealand trade union leader (b. [[1924]])
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| − | *[[January 20]] - [[Per Borten]], [[Prime Minister of Norway]] (b. [[1913]])
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| − | *[[January 21]] - [[Don Poier]], U.S. [[play-by-play announcer|play-by-play man]] for the [[Memphis Grizzlies]] (b. [[1951]])
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| − | *[[January 21]] - [[Theun de Vries]], Dutch writer (b. [[1907]])
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| − | *[[January 23]] - [[Johnny Carson]], American television host (b. [[1925]])
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| − | *[[January 25]] - [[Philip Johnson]], American architect (b. [[1906]])
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| − | *[[February 2]] - [[Max Schmeling]], German boxer (b.[[1905]])
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| − | *[[February 3]] - [[Zurab Zhvania]], [[Prime Minister of Georgia]] (b. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[February 5]] - [[Gnassingbe Eyadema]], [[President of Togo]] (b. [[1937]])
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| − | *[[February 6]] - [[Merle Kilgore]], American singer and songwriter (b. [[1934]])
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| − | *[[February 10]] - [[Arthur Miller]], American playwright (b. [[1915]])
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| − | *[[February 11]] - [[Stan Richards]], Former [[Emmerdale]] actor (b. [[1930]])
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| − | *[[February 13]] - [[Lucia dos Santos]]. (b. [[1907]])
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| − | *[[February 14]] - [[Rafik Hariri]], [[Prime Minister of Lebanon]] (assassinated) (b. [[1944]]
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| − | *[[February 16]] - [[Nicole DeHuff]], American actress (b. [[1974]])
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| − | *[[February 17]] - [[Nariman Sadeq]], Queen of Egypt (b. [[1934]])
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| − | *[[February 20]] - [[Sandra Dee]], American actress (b. [[1944]])
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| − | *[[February 20]] - [[Hunter S. Thompson]], American journalist (b. [[1937]])
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| − | *[[February 22]] - [[Lee Eun Joo]], Korean actress (b. [[1980]])
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| − | *[[February 25]] - [[Peter Benenson]], lawyer and founder of [[Amnesty International]] (b. [[1921]])
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| − | *[[February 27]] - [[Jessica Lunsford]], Girl abducted
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| − | *[[March 3]] - [[Rinus Michels]], Dutch soccer player and coach (b. [[1928]])
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| − | *[[March 6]] - [[Teresa Wright]], American actress (b. [[1918]])
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| − | *[[March 6]] - [[Tommy Vance]], British radio [[disc jockey]] (b. [[1941]])
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| − | *[[March 9]] - [[Jeanette Schmid]], German-born professional whistler (b. [[1924]])
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| − | *[[March 9]] - [[Chris LeDoux]], American rodeo performer and singer (b. [[1949]])
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| − | *[[March 10]] - [[Dave Allen (comedian)|Dave Allen]], Irish comedian (b. [[1936]])
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| − | *[[March 19]] - [[John Z. DeLorean]], American car maker ([[DMC-12]]) (b.[[1925]])
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| − | *[[March 21]] - [[Bobby Short]], American entertainer (b. [[1924]])
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| − | *[[March 21]] - [[Jeff Weise]], American murderer (b. [[1988]])
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| − | *[[March 22]] - [[Clemente Domínguez y Gómez]], Antipope Gregory XVII (b. [[1946]])
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| − | *[[March 26]] - [[Lord Callaghan of Cardiff|James Callaghan]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1912]])
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| − | *[[March 26]] - [[Paul Hester]], Australian musician (b. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[March 29]] - [[Johnnie Cochran]], American lawyer (b. [[1937]])
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| − | *[[March 29]] - [[Mitch Hedberg]], American comedian (b. [[1968]])
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| − | *[[March 30]] - [[Fred Korematsu]], American civil rights activist (b. [[1919]])
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| − | *[[March 31]] - [[Terri Schiavo]], American [[Euthanasia|right-to-die]] cause célèbre (b. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[April 2]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] (b. [[1920]])
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| − | *[[April 5]] - [[John Sichel]], British film and television director
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| − | *[[April 6]] - [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco]] (b. [[1923]])
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| − | *[[April 20]] - [[Zygfryd Blaut]], Polish footballer (b. [[1943]])
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| − | *[[April 22]] - [[Norman Bird]], British actor (b. [[1920]])
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| − | *[[April 23]] - [[John Mills]], English actor (b. [[1908]])
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| − | *[[April 24]] - [[Ezer Weizman]], former [[President of Israel]] (b. [[1924]])
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| − | *[[April 26]] - [[Mason Adams]], American actor (b. [[1919]])
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| − | *[[April 28]] - [[Chris Candido]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1972]])
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| − | *[[May 2]] - [[Wee Kim Wee]], [[President of Singapore]] (b. [[1915]])
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| − | *[[May 7]] - [[Peter Wallace Rodino]], U.S. Congressman (b. [[1909]])
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| − | *[[May 8]] - [[Lloyd Cutler]], American attorney and Presidential advisor (b. [[1917]])
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| − | *[[May 13]] - [[George Dantzig]], American mathematician (b. [[1914]])
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| − | *[[May 14]] - [[Jimmy Martin]], American musician (b. [[1927]])
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| − | *[[May 18]] - [[Frank Gorshin]], American actor (b. [[1933]])
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| − | *[[May 22]] - [[Thurl Ravenscroft]], American voice actor (b. [[1914]])
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| − | *[[May 25]] - [[Robert Jankel]], British coachbuilder (b. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[May 26]] - [[Eddie Albert]], American actor (b. [[1906]])
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| − | *[[June 6]] - [[Maurice Rabb, Jr.]], American ophthalmologist (b. [[1932]])
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| − | *[[June 6]] - [[Anne Bancroft]], American actress (b. [[1931]])
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| − | *[[June 13]] - [[Jonathan Adams]], American actor (b. [[1931]])
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| − | *[[June 13]] - [[Álvaro Cunhal]], Portuguese politician (b. [[1913]])
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| − | *[[June 13]] - [[Lane Smith]], American actor (b.[[1936]])
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| − | *[[June 25]] - [[Domino Harvey]], British born bounty hunter who moved to [[Los Angeles]] (b. [[1969]])
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| − | *[[June 26]] - [[Richard Whiteley]], British journalist and television presenter (b. [[1943]])
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| − | *[[June 28]] - [[Brenda Howard]], American activist (b. [[1946]])
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| − | * [[July 1]] - [[Luther Vandross]], American R&B singer (b. [[1951]])
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| − | * [[July 9]] - [[Alex Shibicky]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[July 11]] - [[Shinya Hashimoto]], Japanese professional wrestler (b. [[1965]])
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| − | * [[July 17]] - [[Edward Heath]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1916]])
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| − | * [[July 18]] - [[William Westmoreland]], U.S. general (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[July 19]] - [[John Tyndall (politician)|John Tyndall]], British activist (b. [[1934]])
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| − | * [[July 21]] - [[Long John Baldry]], British musician (b. [[1941]])
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| − | * [[July 21]] - [[Alfred Hayes]], English wrestling announcer (b. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[July 23]] - [[Myron Floren]], American accordianist & musician (b. [[1919]])
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| − | * [[July 26]] - [[Jack Hirshleifer]], American economist (b. [[1925]])
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| − | * [[July 26]] - [[Robert C. Turner]], American potter (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[July 31]] - [[Wim Duisenberg]], Dutch president of the European Central Bank (b. [[1935]])
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| − | *[[August 1]] - King [[Fahd of Saudi Arabia]] (b. [[1923]])
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| − | *[[August 6]] - [[Robin Cook]], British politician (b. [[1946]])
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| − | *[[August 6]] - [[Carlo Little]], British drummer (b.[[1938]])
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| − | *[[August 7]] - [[Peter Jennings]], Canadian-born news anchor (former host of World News Tonight on ABC) (b. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[August 12]] - [[Lakshman Kadirgamar]], foreign minister of [[Sri Lanka]] (assassinated) (b. [[1932]])
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| − | *[[August 12]] - [[Frère Roger]], Swiss founder of the [[Taizé Community]] (b. [[1915]])
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| − | *[[August 13]] - [[David Lange]], [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. [[1942]])
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| − | *[[August 16]] - [[Joe Ranft]], American animator (b. [[1960]])
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| − | *[[August 19]] - [[Mo Mowlam]], British politician (b. [[1949]])
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| − | *[[August 20]] - [[Thomas Herrion]], American football player (b. [[1981]])
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| − | *[[August 21]] - [[István Cserháti]], Hungarian keyboardist ([[P. Box (band)|P.Box]]) (b. [[1954]])
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| − | *[[August 21]] - [[Dahlia Ravikovitch]], Israeli poet (b. [[1936]])
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| − | *[[August 26]] - [[Robert Denning]], American interior designer (b. [[1927]])
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| − | *[[September 2]] - [[Bob Denver]], American actor (b. [[1935]])
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| − | *[[September 3]] - [[William Rehnquist]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1924]])
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| − | *[[September 10]] - [[Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown]], American musician (b. [[1924]])
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| − | *[[September 14]] - [[Robert Wise]], American film director (b. [[1914]])
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| − | *[[September 17]] - [[Alfred Reed]], American Composer and Conductor (b. [[1921]])
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| − | *[[September 20]] - [[Simon Wiesenthal]], Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b. [[1908]])
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| − | *[[September 23]] - [[Roger Brierley]], English actor (b. [[1935]])
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| − | *[[September 25]] - [[Don Adams]], American actor (b. [[1923]])
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| − | *[[September 26]] - [[Jerry Juhl]], American writer (b. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[September 26]] - [[Shawntinice Polk]], American basketball player (b. [[1983]])
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| − | *[[September 27]] - [[Brett Kebble]], South African mining magnate (b. [[1964]])
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| − | *[[October 2]] - [[Nipsey Russell]], American actor and game show personality (b. [[1918]])
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| − | *[[October 3]] - [[Ronnie Barker]], British comic actor (b. [[1929]])
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| − | *[[October 7]] - [[Charles Rocket]], American actor (b. [[1949]])
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| − | *[[October 9]] - [[Louis Nye]], American actor (b. [[1913]])
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| − | *[[October 10]] - [[Milton Obote]], [[President of Uganda]] (b. [[1925]])
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| − | *[[October 13]] - [[Vivian Malone Jones]], American civil rights activist (b. [[1942]])
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| − | *[[October 15]] - [[Jason Collier]], American basketball player (b. [[1977]])
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| − | *[[October 17]] - [[Ba Jin]], Chinese writer (b. [[1904]])
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| − | *[[October 21]] - [[Tara Correa-McMullen]], Teen Actor (b. [[1989]])
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| − | *[[October 24]] - [[Rosa Parks]], American civil rights activist (b. [[1913]])
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| − | *[[October 24]] - [[José Azcona del Hoyo]], [[President of Honduras]] (b. [[1926]])
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| − | *[[October 24]] - [[Robert Sloman]], writer (b. [[1926]])
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| − | *[[October 28]] - [[Richard Smalley]], American physicist (b. [[1943]])
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| − | *[[November 4]] - [[Nadia Anjuman]], Afghani poet and journalist (b. [[1980]])
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| − | *[[November 6]] - [[Minako Honda]], Japanese singer and actress (b. [[1967]])
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| − | *[[November 9]] - [[K. R. Narayanan]], [[President of India]] (b. [[1921]])
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| − | *[[November 11]] - [[Moustapha Akkad]], film producer (''[[Halloween (1978 film)|Halloween]]'' films) (b. [[1930]])
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| − | *[[November 11]] - [[Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield]], British photographer (b. [[1939]])
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| − | *[[November 13]] - [[Eddie Guerrero]], Mexican-American professional wrestler (heart failure) (b. [[1967]])
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| − | *[[November 18]] - [[Sharon Beshenivsky]], Murdered English police constable (b. [[1967]])
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| − | *[[November 19]] - [[Erik Balling]], Danish television and film director (b. [[1924]])
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| − | *[[November 24]] - [[Pat Morita]], American actor (b. [[1932]])
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| − | *[[November 25]] - [[George Best]], Northern Irish footballer (b. [[1946]])
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| − | *[[November 25]] - [[Richard Burns]], English race car driver (b. [[1971]])
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| − | *[[December 2]] - [[Mohammed Amza Zubeidi]], former prime minister of [[Iraq]]
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| − | *[[December 2]] - [[Nguyen Tuong Van]] executed in [[Singapore]] for drug trafficking
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| − | *[[December 4]] - Greg Hoffman, producer (''[[Saw]]'', ''[[Saw II]]'') (b. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[December 6]] - [[Devan Nair]], [[President of Singapore]] (b. [[1923]])
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| − | *[[December 10]] - [[Richard Pryor]], American comedian (b. [[1940]])
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| − | *[[December 12]] - [[Ramanand Sagar]], Indian film director (b. [[1917]])
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| − | *[[December 13]] - [[Stanley Williams]], American gang founder (executed) (b. [[1953]])
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| − | *[[December 16]] - [[John Spencer (actor)|John Spencer]], American actor (b. [[1946]])
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| − | *[[December 18]] - [[Alan Voorhees]], American engineer and urban planner (b. [[1922]])
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| − | *[[December 21]] - [[William C. Rodgers]], American arsonist (b. unknown)
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| − | *[[December 23]] - [[Yao Wenyuan]], Chinese politician (b. [[1931]])
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| − | *[[December 25]] - [[Birgit Nilsson]], Swedish soprano (b. [[1918]])
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| − | *[[December 25]] - [[Charles Socarides]], American psychiatrist (b. [[1922]])
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| − | *[[December 26]] - [[Kerry Packer]], Australian media tycoon (b. [[1937]])
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| − | *[[December 26]] - [[Vincent Schiavelli]], American actor (b. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[December 29]] - [[Gerda Boyesen]], Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. [[1922]])
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| − | * Ten years after reaching the millionth mark, U.S. prison population reaches 1.5 million inmates<ref>{{cite book |last=Gaines |first=Larry |authorlink= |coauthors=Miller, LeRoy |title=Criminal Justice In Action: The Core |year=2006 |publisher=Thomson/Wadsworth |location= |isbn=0-495-00305-0 }}</ref>
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| − | ==Climate==
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| − | [[Image:TempAnomaly 2005 cmp 1951-80.gif|thumb|250px|right|Mean surface temperature anomalies for 2005 compared to average temperatures from 1951 to 1980 (source: NASA)]]
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| − | 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.
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| − | After replaced by 2007 as the warmest year.
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| − | Other researchers place [[1998]] at the top of the temperature record.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
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| − | ==Nobel Prizes==
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Roy J. Glauber]], [[John L. Hall]], [[Theodor W. Hänsch]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Robert Grubbs]], [[Richard Schrock]], [[Yves Chauvin]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Robin Warren]], [[Barry Marshall]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Harold Pinter]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Mohamed ElBaradei]]
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| − | * [[Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]] - [[Robert J. Aumann]], [[Thomas Schelling]]
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| − | == Ship events ==
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| − | * [[List of ship launches in 2005]]
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| − | * [[List of ship commissionings in 2005]]
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| − | * [[List of ship decommissionings in 2005]]
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| − | ==Geography==
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| − | Due to a combination of the aftermath of the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]], and an overactive [[2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season|hurricane season]] and other factors, 2005 was also the costliest year for natural disasters, with world wide damages estimated at over $200 billion.
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| − | ==See also==
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| − | * [[21st century]].
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| − | ==Notes==
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