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Gregorian Year 2005 (MMV) was
a common year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2005th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 5th year of the 3rd millennium, the 5th year of
the 21st century,
and the 6th year of the 2000s decade. 2005 was designated as: ·
International
Year for Sport and Physical Education ·
International
Year of Microcredit The year 2005 was the end of the
International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (19952005). Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5New English
words and terms Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 5 Eris, the
most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by a team led
by Michael E. Brown using
images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.[1] ·
January 7 Crevalcore train
crash in Italy: 17 dead and dozens
injured. ·
January 12 Deep Impact is
launched from Cape Canaveral with
the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1.[2] ·
January 14 The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.[3] ·
January 20 George W. Bush is inaugurated
for a second term as President of the United States. February[edit] ·
February 10 North Korea announces that it
possesses nuclear weapons as
a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.[4] ·
February 14 Former Lebanese
Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated,
along with 21 others, by a suicide bomber in Beirut.[5] ·
February 16 The Kyoto Protocol officially goes into
effect.[6] March[edit] ·
March 14 The People's Republic of China ratifies
an anti-secession law,
aimed at preventing Taiwan from
declaring independence.[7] ·
March 24 The President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev is overthrown following mass anti-government
demonstrations and flees the country.[8] ·
March 28 The 8.6 Mw NiasSimeulue
earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli
intensityof VI (Strong), leaving 9151,314 people dead and
3401,146 injured. April[edit] ·
April 2 Pope John Paul II dies;
over four million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.[9][10][11] Pope Benedict XVI succeeds
him on April 19, becoming the 265th pope.[12][13] ·
April 9 Charles, Prince
of Wales marries Camilla
Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's
Guildhall. Camilla receives the title Duchess of Cornwall.[14] ·
April 23 The first ever YouTube video is uploaded, titled Me at the zoo. ·
April 26 Syria withdraws the last of its
military garrison from Lebanon, ending
its 29-year
military occupation of the country.[15] ·
April 27 The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight
from Toulouse.[16] May[edit] ·
May 13 Uzbek Interior Ministry and National
Security Service troops massacre at least 200 protesters in the
city of Andijan.[17] June[edit] ·
June 21 A Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft fails 83 seconds
after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.[18] July[edit] ·
July 2 Live 8, a set of 10 simultaneous concerts,
takes place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.[19] ·
July 6 ·
The European Parliament rejects
the Proposed directive on the patentability of
computer-implemented inventionsin its second reading.[20] ·
The International
Olympic Committee awards London the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics.[21] ·
July 7 Four
coordinated suicide bombings hit central London, killing 52 people and injuring over
700.[22] ·
July 23 A series of
bombings hit the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh,
Egypt, killing over 80 people.[23] ·
July 28 The Provisional
Irish Republican Army announces an end to the armed campaign
it has pursued since 1969, and orders all its units to drop their arms.[24] August[edit] ·
August 12 The Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape
Canaveral, designed to explore Mars.[25] ·
August 14 Helios Airways
Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via
Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers
and crew. ·
August 16 West
Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 160 passengers and crew.[26] ·
August 18 Peace Mission 2005,
the first joint ChinaRussia military exercise,
begins its eight-day training on the Shandong Peninsula.[27] ·
August 29 Hurricane Katrina makes
landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe
damage and killing over a thousand people and dealing an
estimated $108 billion in damage.[28] ·
August 31 A stampede
at the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 953 Shia Muslim
pilgrims who were celebrating a religious festival.[29] September[edit] ·
September 7 Egypt holds its first
ever multi-party presidential election, which is marred with
allegations of fraud.[30] ·
September 12 Israel
demolishes multiple settlements and withdraws its army from
the Gaza Strip.[31] ·
September 19 North Korea agrees to stop
building nuclear
weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.[32] ·
September 30 Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in
the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sparking outrage and
violent riots by Muslims around the world.[33] October[edit] ·
October 8 The 7.6 Mw Kashmir
earthquake strikes Azad Kashmir,
Pakistan and nearby areas with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe), killing more than 86,000
people and displacing several million more.[34] ·
October 12 The second manned Chinese spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched.[35] ·
October 19 The trial of Saddam
Hussein begins.[36] ·
October 24 Hurricane Wilma made landfall
near Cape Romano.[37] November[edit] ·
November 9 At least 60 people are
killed and 115 more are wounded in a series of coordinated
suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan.[38] ·
November 11 In Kazakhstan, Zamanbek Nurkadilov,
former mayor of Almaty, government minister and a political opponent of Nursultan Nazarbayev is
found dead at his family compound.[39] ·
November 13 Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old Scottish man,
is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.[40] ·
November 22 Angela Merkel assumes office as the
first female Chancellor of
Germany.[41] ·
November 23 Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf wins the Liberian
general election, making her the first democratically elected
female head of state in Africa.[42] ·
November 28 The United
Nations Climate Change conference is held in Montreal.[43] ·
November 30 Surgeons in France carry
out the first human face transplant with Isabelle Dinoire becoming the first
person to undergo it.[44] December[edit] ·
December 12 Scientists announce that
they have created mice with small
amounts of human brain cells in
an effort to make realistic models of neurological
disorders.[45] ·
December 18 Chad descends
into civil war after
various rebel forces, with support from Sudan, attack the capital, N'Djamena. ·
December 31 Another second is added, 23:59:60, to
end the year 2005, the first time since 1998.[46] Births[edit] ·
February
Alma Deutscher,
English composer, violinist, pianist and child prodigy ·
February 10 Rio Suzuki, Japanese actress and tarento ·
February 21 Hong Hwa-ri, South Korean actress ·
February 25 Noah Jupe, English actor ·
March 26 Ella Anderson, American actress ·
April 29 Prince Dipangkorn
Rasmijoti of Thailand, son of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, Rama X of Thailand and
his wife Srirasmi Suwadee ·
June 26 Princess
Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander,
Prince of Orange ·
July 25 Pierce Gagnon, American actor ·
October 4 Rina Endō, Japanese actress ·
October 15 Prince
Christian of Denmark, son of Frederik,
Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife Mary,
Crown Princess of Denmark ·
October 31 Leonor,
Princess of Asturias, daughter of Felipe VI of Spain and
his wife Letizia ·
December 3 Prince
Sverre Magnus of Norway, grandson of King Harald V of Norway Deaths[edit] January[edit] Main article: Deaths in January
2005 ·
Shirley Chisholm, American politician
(b. 1924) ·
Eugene J. Martin, American artist (b. 1938) ·
January 4 Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914) ·
January 10 Princess
Josιphine Charlotte of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
(b. 1927) ·
January 12 Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932) ·
January 15 Victoria de los
Αngeles, Spanish Catalan soprano (b. 1923) ·
Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920) ·
Zhao Ziyang, 3rd Premier of China (b. 1919) ·
January 20 Per Borten, 14th Prime Minister of Norway
(b. 1913) ·
January 23 Johnny Carson, American television host
(b. 1925) ·
January 25 Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906) February[edit] Main article: Deaths in
February 2005 ·
February 2 Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905) ·
February 3 Zurab Zhvania, 4th Prime Minister of Georgia
(b. 1963) ·
February 4 Ossie Davis, American actor (b. 1917) ·
February 5 Gnassingbι Eyadιma,
3rd President of Togo (b. 1935) ·
February 7 Atli Dam, 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe
Islands (b. 1932) ·
Ben Jones,
7th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1924) ·
Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915) ·
February 13 Lϊcia Santos, Portuguese nun (b. 1907) ·
February 14 Rafic Hariri, 2-Time Prime Minister of
Lebanon (b. 1944) ·
Narriman Sadek, Queen of Egypt (b. 1933) ·
Omar Sνvori, Argentinian footballer
(b. 1935) ·
Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942) ·
Hunter S. Thompson,
American journalist (b. 1937) ·
February 22 Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910) ·
Peter Benenson, British lawyer and founder
of Amnesty International (b. 1921) ·
Atef Sedky, 45th Prime Minister of Egypt
(b. 1930) March[edit] Main article: Deaths in March 2005 ·
March 3 Rinus Michels, Dutch soccer player and coach
(b. 1928) ·
March 6 ·
Hans Bethe, German-American physicist
(b. 1906) ·
Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918) ·
March 17 George F. Kennan, American diplomat and
political advisor (b. 1904) ·
March 19 John Z. DeLorean, American car maker (b.1925) ·
March 22 ·
Clemente
Domνnguez y Gσmez, Spanish spiritual leader (b. 1946) ·
Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect
(b. 1913) ·
March 26 James Callaghan, 70th Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom (b. 1912) ·
March 30 Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926) April[edit] Main article: Deaths in April 2005 ·
April 1 Miguel Vila Luna, Dominican architect and
painter (b. 1964) ·
April 2 Pope John Paul II (b. 1920) ·
April 5 Saul Bellow, Canadian-American writer
(b. 1915) ·
April 6 Rainier
III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923) ·
April 13 Nikola
Ljubičić, Serbian general and politician, 10th President
of Serbia (b. 1916) ·
April 23 John Mills, English actor (b. 1908) ·
April 24 Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel
(b. 1924) ·
April 26 Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926) May[edit] Main article: Deaths in May 2005 ·
May 2 Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore
(b. 1915) ·
May 13 George Dantzig, American mathematician
(b. 1914) ·
May 25 Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer
(b. 1936) ·
May 26 ·
Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906) ·
Sangoulι Lamizana,
2nd President and 2nd Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1916) June[edit] Main article: Deaths in June 2005 ·
June 6 ·
Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931) ·
Bolνvar Urrutia
Parrilla, 21st President of Panama (b. 1918) ·
June 11 Vasco Gonηalves,
103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1921) ·
June 13 Αlvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician
(b. 1913) ·
June 20 Jack Kilby, American engineer (b. 1923) ·
June 21 Jaime Sin, 30th Archbishop of Manila
(b. 1928) ·
June 25 ·
Domino Harvey, British-American bounty
hunter (b. 1969) ·
John Fiedler, American actor and voice actor
(b. 1925) July[edit] Main article: Deaths in July 2005 ·
July 1 Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951) ·
July 4 June Haver, American actress and singer
(b. 1926) ·
July 6 ·
Evan Hunter, American writer (b. 1926) ·
Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and
critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) ·
July 17 Edward Heath, 68th Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom (b. 1916) ·
July 18 William Westmoreland,
American army general (b. 1914) ·
July 20 James Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920) ·
July 21 Long John Baldry, British musician (b. 1941) ·
July 31 Wim Duisenberg, Dutch politician (b. 1935) August[edit] Main article: Deaths in August
2005 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia ·
August 1 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1921) ·
August 6 Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946) ·
August 7 Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news
anchor (b. 1938) ·
August 8 ·
Barbara Bel Geddes,
American actress, artist, and children's author (b. 1922) ·
Ahmed Deedat, South African preacher
(b. 1918) ·
August 9 Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973) ·
August 12 Lakshman Kadirgamar,
foreign minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1932) ·
August 13 David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New
Zealand (b. 1942) ·
August 16 Brother Roger, Swiss monastic and founder of
the Taizι Community (b. 1915) ·
Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
(b. 1940) ·
Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949) ·
August 31 Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist
(b. 1908) September[edit] Main article: Deaths in
September 2005 ·
September 3 William Rehnquist,
American lawyer and 16th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924) ·
September 6 Eugenia Charles, 3rd Prime Minister
of Dominica (b. 1919) ·
September 13 Julio Cιsar
Turbay Ayala, 25th President of Colombia (b. 1916) ·
September 14 Robert Wise, American film director
(b. 1914) ·
September 18 Michael Park,
English Rally driver (b. 1966) ·
September 20 Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust
survivor and Nazi hunter (b. 1908) ·
September 23 Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935) ·
September 25 Don Adams, American actor (b. 1923) October[edit] Main article: Deaths in October
2005 ·
October 10 Milton Obote, 2nd President of Uganda
(b. 1925) ·
October 17 Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904) ·
October 22 Arman, French-American artist (b. 1928) ·
Josι Azcona del Hoyo,
61st President of Honduras (b. 1926) ·
Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist
(b. 1913) ·
October 28 Richard Smalley, American chemist and
physicist (b. 1943) November[edit] Main article: Deaths in
November 2005 ·
November 1 Michael Piller, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1948) ·
November 2 Ferruccio Valcareggi,
Italian football player and manager (b. 1919) ·
November 5 John Fowles, English novelist (b. 1926) ·
November 9 K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
(b. 1920) ·
November 11 ·
Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film
producer (b. 1930) ·
Zamanbek Nurkadilov,
Kazakh politician (b. 1944) ·
November 13 Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American
professional wrestler (b. 1967) ·
November 16 Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) ·
November 19 Erik Balling, Danish television and film
director (b. 1924) ·
November 24 Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932) ·
George Best, Northern Irish footballer
(b. 1946) ·
Richard Burns, English rally driver
(b. 1971) ·
November 28 Tony Meehan, English drummer (The Shadows) (b. 1943) December[edit] Main article: Deaths in
December 2005 ·
December 2 Mohammed Hamza
Zubeidi, 59th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1938) ·
December 6 Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore
(b. 1923) ·
December 10 Richard Pryor, American comedian (b. 1940) ·
December 13 Stanley Williams, American gang leader
(b. 1953) ·
December 16 John Spencer,
American actor (b. 1946) ·
December 23 Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician (b. 1931) ·
December 25 Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918) ·
December 26 Vincent Schiavelli,
American actor (b. 1948) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Chemistry Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock, and Yves Chauvin ·
Economics Robert J. Aumann, and Thomas Schelling ·
Physics Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, and Theodor W. Hδnsch ·
Physiology
or Medicine Robin Warren, and Barry Marshall New English words and terms[edit] ·
didymo ·
functional
calculus ·
glamping ·
locavore ·
microblogging ·
pre-exposure
prophylaxis ·
ransomware ·
rock
snot ·
sexting ·
truther ·
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