January 2005
Thursday 06:
Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen isarrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rightsworkers.
Sunday 09:
Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat.
Wednesday 12:
Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral by aDelta 2 rocket.
Wednesday 26:
A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United Statessoldiers.
Sunday 30:
Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds anelection for its National Assembly, the country's first freeelection since 1953.
February 2005
Thursday 10:
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction: North Koreasuspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its armsprogram and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.
Wednesday 16:
The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regularseason and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league inNorth America to do so over a labour dispute.
Friday 18:
The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing andother sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from thisdate.
Sunday 20:
Jeff Gordon wins his third Daytona 500.
Tuesday 22:
Milford, Connecticut's Mayor James Richetelli Jr. named February22nd, 2005 as Christy Carlson Romano Day. She also received the"Connecticut's Finest Citizen Award" the same day.
March 2005
Thursday 10:
In Edmonton, Alberta, the largest memorial (of its kind) inCanadian history was held for four RCMP constables who were gunneddown March 3, 2005.
Saturday 12:
Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, stepsdown from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinesecentral government.
Monday 14:
The online statistics service SOTKAnet is opened for the publicin Finland.
Friday 18:
Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of herhusband, fueling a nationwide debate about her.
Tuesday 22:
Pat Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols(women's College Basketball), becomes the all-time leader invictories for both men's and women's College Basketball, gettingher 880th win as coach of the team.
April 2005
Saturday 16:
BBC announces David Tennant's casting as the Tenth Doctor in thelong-running science-fiction series, Doctor Who
Friday 22:
Mordechai Vanunu installed as Lord Rector of the University ofGlasgow.
Sunday 24:
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope ofthe Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Tuesday 26:
Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-yearmilitary domination of that country.
Thursday 28:
The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.
May 2005
Sunday 08:
The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60thanniversary of V-E Day.
Friday 13:
The United States Department of Defense issues a list of basesto be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process(BRAC 2005).
Saturday 14:
Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, inRockefeller Center in New York City. They celebrate the grandopening with a block party in Rockefeller Plaza.
Saturday 21:
In Kiev, Ukraine, Greece wins the fiftieth Eurovision SongContest with "My Number One" performed by Elena Paparizou.
Tuesday 31:
W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair published todaythat he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergatescandal. The Washington Post would confirm this on June 1st. Feltwas at the time (1972) the number two man at the FBI.
June 2005
Thursday 02:
Sun Microsystems announces it will purchase Storage TechnologyCorporation for US$4.1 billion.
Saturday 04:
First day of Einstein Symposium in Alexandria, Egypt.
Monday 13:
Michael Jackson found not guilty on all 10 counts during hischild molestation trial.
Tuesday 14:
Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 msprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.
Thursday 23:
The IWW Centennial in Chicago, Illinois
July 2005
Thursday 07:
Terrorist explosions occur on the London Underground network andon a London Bus.
Tuesday 12:
Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality ofMonaco.
Wednesday 20:
Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalizesame-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 received its Royal Assent.See Same-sex marriage in Canada
Sunday 24:
Lance Armstrong wins his seventh Tour de France.
Wednesday 27:
STS-114: NASA makes the decision to ground the Space shuttlepending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam shedproblem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space ShuttleDiscovery shed a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece thatcaused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam did notstrike the spacecraft.
August 2005
Friday 12:
Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
Sunday 14:
Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the121 on board.
Sunday 21:
Pope Benedict XVI concludes World Youth Day with a mass. Over800,000 people attended the closing liturgy.
Friday 26:
Fiji's High Court rules that the island's sodomy law isunconstitutional.
Monday 29:
Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast fromLouisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing thousands and costingover 100 billion dollars in damage.
September 2005
Wednesday 07:
Apple Computer announced iTunes 5.
Tuesday 20:
The Opera Web Browser is rereleased as freeware.
Saturday 24:
Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastatingBeaumont, Texas and Houston, Texas.
Sunday 25:
Fernando Alonso wins his first Formula 1 World DriversChampionship by finishing 3rd in the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Monday 26:
The shock elimination of favoured to win, Teresa Bergman, on NewZealand Idol.
October 2005
Saturday 01:
Another bombing happens in Bali, almost three years to theanniversary of a similar event which occurred in 2002.
Sunday 02:
The Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George in Upstate NewYork, killing twenty-one people.
Thursday 13:
The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 is scheduled tocarry two astronauts for five days in orbit.
Tuesday 18:
The Nameless Novel aka Book The Twelfth of Lemony Snicket's ASeries of Unfortunate Events is released to the public.
Saturday 29:
2005-Animusic 2 will be released.
November 2005
Tuesday 15:
DVD release of huge-hit television serial Friends. The One withAll Ten Seasons
Tuesday 22:
Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is due to debut in NorthAmerica.
December 2005
Friday 02:
Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console inEurope.
Saturday 10:
Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan.
