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

Friday 21:

In Belize's capital city, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.

Sunday 23:

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

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.

Tuesday 08:

Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.

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

Wednesday 09:

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

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.

Monday 14:

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

Thursday 31:

2005- Terri Schiavo dies at the age of 41 after national controversy.

April 2005

Friday 08:

Funeral of Pope John Paul II

Saturday 16:

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

Sunday 24:

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

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

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).

Saturday 14:

Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York City. They celebrate the grand opening with a block party in Rockefeller Plaza.

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)

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.

Monday 13:

Michael Jackson found not guilty on all 10 counts during his child molestation trial.

Tuesday 14:

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

Tuesday 21:

Donald Tsang Yam Kuen is appointed by the People's Republic of China to take over from Tung Chee Hwa as the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

July 2005

Thursday 07:

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

Friday 15:

Disneyland "re-launches" Space Mountain in Anaheim, California.

Saturday 16:

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the sixth in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published in English-speaking countries.

Friday 22:

Microsoft releases the final name for its next-gen operating system, Longhorn. The name will be "Windows Vista".

Friday 29:

Astonomers discover 10th planet.

August 2005

Monday 01:

Disneyland Resort Line of the Hong Kong MTR opens to public.

Tuesday 02:

Air France Flight 358 skids off the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport outside Toronto, Canada, destroying the plane but resulting in no loss of life.

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.

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.

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.

Saturday 24:

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

Monday 26:

The shock elimination of favoured to win, Teresa Bergman, on New Zealand Idol.

October 2005

Saturday 01:

Another bombing happens in Bali, almost three years to the anniversary of a similar event which occurred in 2002.

Sunday 02:

The Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty-one people.

Tuesday 04:

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

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.

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.