January 2005

Thursday 06:

Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.

Saturday 08:

The trans-Neptunian object 2003 UB<sub>313</SUB> is discovered.

Sunday 09:

Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat.

Wednesday 12:

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

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

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.

Tuesday 25:

A stampede during a pilgrimage in India kills at least 215.

Wednesday 26:

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

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.