2005 - What happened in 2005 ?

January 2005

Wednesday 12:

Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.

Sunday 16:

Adriana Iliescu gives birth at age 66 and becomes the oldest woman in the world to do so.

Tuesday 18:

A U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan begins

Sunday 23:

Viktor Yushchenko sworn in as the third President of Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine.

Sunday 30:

Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953.

February 2005

Sunday 06:

Jerrick De Leon, born 13 weeks premature, becomes the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an arterial switch.

Thursday 10:

North Korea and weapons of mass destruction: North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.

Saturday 12:

Former Vermont governor and presidential candidate Howard Dean becomes chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Wednesday 16:

2005 - The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labour dispute.

Wednesday 23:

Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; Bush and Putin are in attendance.

March 2005

Wednesday 09:

Dan Rather presents his final broadcast of the CBS Evening News.

Thursday 10:

In Edmonton, Alberta, the largest memorial (of its kind) in Canadian history was held for four RCMP constables who were gunned down March 3, 2005.

Monday 14:

The online statistics service SOTKAnet is opened for the public in Finland.

Monday 21:

In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.

Wednesday 23:

The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.

April 2005

Tuesday 05:

ABC News anchor Peter Jennings announces on World News Tonight that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer. It would be his last on-air appearance.

Friday 08:

Funeral of Pope John Paul II

Monday 18:

2005 - Laonastidae, first new family of mammals since 1974, is described.

Tuesday 26:

Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.

Friday 29:

2005 Apple releases Mac OS X v10.4

May 2005

Sunday 08:

The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day.

Friday 13:

The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).

Monday 16:

Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.

Sunday 29:

France, one of the founders of a united Europe, resoundingly rejects the European Constitution, throwing the idea of a European Union into question and leaving the continent in a state of anxiety and uncertainty (see French referendum on the European Constitution)

Tuesday 31:

W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair published today that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal. The Washington Post would confirm this on June 1st. Felt was at the time (1972) the number two man at the FBI.

June 2005

Saturday 04:

First day of Einstein Symposium in Alexandria, Egypt.

Saturday 11:

G8 finance ministers agree to cancel the debt owed by 18 of the poorest countries.

Sunday 19:

Unknown - The Rossetta Stone one is found and destroyed.

Monday 20:

Terri Schiavo's remains are buried in Clearwater, Florida.

Tuesday 28:

AMD files suit against Intel corporation, charging monopolization and antitrust violations.

July 2005

Thursday 07:

Terrorist explosions occur on the London Underground network and on a London Bus.

Tuesday 12:

Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco.

Thursday 14:

São Paulo FC becomes Libertadores Cup 2005 champions. They won the tournament for the third time in their history.

Thursday 21:

Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers escape.

Sunday 24:

Lance Armstrong wins his seventh Tour de France.

August 2005

Tuesday 09:

Space Shuttle Discovery makes successful touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base, California

Friday 12:

Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives

Wednesday 17:

President Sellapan Ramanathan is declared President of Singapore for a second term at noon.

Thursday 25:

2005 - Tom Boonen wins the World Championship cycling in Madrid, Spain.

Tuesday 30:

The 17th Street Canal in New Orleans is breached by Hurricane Katrina, leading to massive flooding and destruction.

September 2005

Tuesday 06:

The California Legislature becomes the first legislative body in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage without a pre-emptive judicial order to do so.

Tuesday 13:

2005 - Major Japanese Pop group Do As Infinity announces their disbanding.

Tuesday 20:

The Opera Web Browser is rereleased as freeware.

Saturday 24:

Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and Houston, Texas.

Sunday 25:

Fernando Alonso wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 3rd in the Brazilian Grand Prix.

October 2005

Tuesday 04:

Americans John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber and German Theodor W. Haensch win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Saturday 08:

2005 South Asia earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.

Sunday 09:

China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the new accurate height of Everest is 8848.43 m.

Monday 24:

Rockstar Games releases ' for the Sony Playstation Portable. Also, Firaxis Games will release Civilization 4 for the PC.

Saturday 29:

2005-Animusic 2 will be released.

November 2005

Tuesday 01:

2005 - released on dvd.

Tuesday 15:

DVD release of huge-hit television serial Friends.The One with All Ten Seasons

Tuesday 22:

Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is due to debut in North America.

December 2005

Friday 02:

Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Europe.

Saturday 10:

Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan.