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.

Saturday 02:

Ten Live 8 concerts are held around the world in an attempt to force G8 countries to address poverty.

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.

Wednesday 06:

Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper agrees to testify to a grand jury that Karl Rove revealed to him Valerie Plame's secret CIA identity.

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.

Wednesday 13:

Three trains collide in the Ghotki rail crash in Ghotki, Pakistan, killing over 150 people.

Thursday 14:

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

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.

Wednesday 20:

Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 received its Royal Assent. See Same-sex marriage in Canada

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.

Friday 22:

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

Sunday 24:

Lance Armstrong wins his seventh Tour de France.

Tuesday 26:

receives 995mm of rain within 24 hours bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.

Wednesday 27:

STS-114: NASA makes the decision to ground the Space shuttle pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam shed problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery shed a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam did not strike the spacecraft.

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.

Friday 29:

Astonomers discover 10th planet.