2005 - What happened in 2005 ?

January 2005

Sunday 09:

Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat.

Friday 14:

Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.

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

Wednesday 26:

A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.

February 2005

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.

Friday 18:

The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.

Sunday 20:

Jeff Gordon wins his third Daytona 500.

Tuesday 22:

2005- Milford, Connecticut's Mayor James Richetelli Jr. named February 22nd, 2005 as Christy Carlson Romano Day. She also received the "Connecticut's Finest Citizen Award" the same day.

March 2005

Thursday 03:

The freighter M/V Karen Danielsen, crashes into part of the Great Belt Bridge of Denmark, 800 m from Funen. All traffic across the bridge stops, effectively separating Denmark in two.

Friday 11:

Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Brandau and deputy Hoyt Teasley are all murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia; the main suspect being Brian Nichols who surrendered to police on the 12th.

Saturday 12:

Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.

Sunday 20:

2005 – The Sports Central Re-Opens

Monday 21:

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

April 2005

Saturday 09:

HRH Charles, Prince of Wales weds Camilla Parker Bowles

Saturday 16:

BBC announces David Tennant's casting as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running science-fiction series, Doctor Who

Monday 18:

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

Thursday 28:

The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.

Friday 29:

2005 Apple releases Mac OS X v10.4

May 2005

Thursday 05:

The United Kingdom general election takes place

Monday 16:

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

Saturday 21:

In Kiev, Ukraine, Greece wins the fiftieth Eurovision Song Contest with "My Number One" performed by Elena Paparizou.

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 11:

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

Tuesday 14:

Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.

Sunday 19:

Unknown - The Rossetta Stone one is found and destroyed.

Monday 20:

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

Thursday 23:

The IWW Centennial in Chicago, Illinois

July 2005

Friday 01:

2005 - Conflict between the State Senate and the House of Representatives results in a partial shutdown of the government of the State of Minnesota.

Sunday 03:

Part of Australia's Twelve Apostles rock formation collapses. The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.

Monday 04:

The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.

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.

Thursday 28:

Larry Brown is introduced as the head coach of the New York Knicks NBA franchise, at a press conference in Madison Square Garden.

August 2005

Sunday 14:

Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.

Tuesday 16:

West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.

Thursday 18:

A Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.

Thursday 25:

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

Monday 29:

Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing thousands and costing over 100 billion dollars in damage.

September 2005

Wednesday 07:

Apple Computer announced iTunes 5.

Sunday 11:

The State of Israel officially declares an end to military rule in the Gaza Strip after 38 years of occupation.

Monday 12:

Blackouts across Los Angeles, California lasting throughout the afternoon and into the evening.

Saturday 17:

The B.C. Lions make CFL history by winning 11 straight games, become the first team ever to do so in the CFL.

Tuesday 20:

The Opera Web Browser is rereleased as freeware.

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.

Monday 10:

Channel 4's new documentary channel More4 starts broadcasting on ntl, Sky Digital and Freeview in the UK.

Tuesday 11:

Sevendust releases its fifth album, Next.

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.