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2005


2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

  • Worldwide aid effort continues to develop in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
  • January 3 - Violence in Iraq: Assassination of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri.
  • January 6 - In Graniteville, South Carolina, a train carrying a cargo of chlorine gas collides with a parked train, releasing a toxic cloud which kills 9 and injures 200. The town of 5,400 is evacuated.
  • January 7 - A train crash near Bologna, Italy kills 18 people.
  • January 9 -
  • * The same storm which pounded the US earlier in the month slams into England and Scandinavia. At least 13 are dead among hurricane force winds and the worst flooding in northwest England in 40 years.
  • * Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority president in the Palestinian general election.
  • January 10 - Record rainfall causes a mudslide in La Conchita, California, killing 10.
  • January 13 - Photos of Prince Harry dressed as a Nazi at a fancy dress party cause worldwide condemnation.
  • January 14 - The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of planet Saturn.
  • January 16 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at age 66 and becomes the oldest woman in the world to do so.
  • January 17 - New Zealand's controversial Foreshore and Seabed legislation comes into force. Some indigenous Maori citizens consider it a day of mourning and will stage a march ("hikoi") in Christchurch.
  • January 18 - Mark Latham resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party and as a Member of the Australian House of Representatives.
  • January 20 - U.S. Presidential inauguration day for the second term of George W. Bush.
  • January 21 - In Belize's capital city Belmopan, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
  • January 23 - Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in as the third President of Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine.
  • January 25 - A stampede during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 215, mostly women and small children.
  • January 26 -
  • * A train crash involving three trains kills 11 and injures 200 in Glendale, California near Los Angeles early in the morning peak hours.
  • * A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.
  • January 30 -
  • * The first Parliamentary elections in Iraq since the overthrow of the Ba'ath Party government led by Saddam Hussein take place.
  • * A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgents release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.

    February

  • February 8 - Danish parliamentary elections continue the center-right coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his Liberal Party.
  • February 9 - An ETA car bomb injures 31 people at a conference centre in Madrid.
  • February 10 -
  • *North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.
  • *Saudi Arabia holds it first ever elections for municipal authorities, in which only men are allowed to vote.
  • February 12 - Fire devastates the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid.
  • February 14 -
  • * A massive suicide bomb blast in central Beirut killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people were also hurt.
  • * Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at mosque in Tehran, Iran.
  • February 15 - More than 200 people have been killed by a blast at a mine in in Fuxin north-east China.
  • February 16 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into effect, without the support of the United States and Australia.
  • February 19 - Suicide bombers kill more than 30 people in Iraq as Shia Muslims marked Ashura, their holiest day.
  • February 20 -
  • * Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
  • * Early Legislative elections in Portugal result in a landslide victory for José Sócrates and the Socialist Party.
  • February 22 - More than 500 people have been killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages were flatted in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale, hit the Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
  • February 26 - Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt ordered the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking parliament to amend Article 76 of the Egyptian constitution.

    March

  • March 1 - The US Supreme Court abolishes the death penalty for juveniles who committed their crimes under age 18.
  • March 3 -
  • *At 19.17 the 3500-ton freighter, M/V Karen Danielsen, crashes into the Western bridge of the Great Belt Bridge of Denmark, 800m from Funen. All traffic across the bridge is closed, effectively separating Denmark in two.
  • * Millionaire Steve Fossett breaks a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.
  • March 10 - Resignation of Tung Chee-hwa, the chief executive of Hong Kong, China.
  • March 11 - In the UK, the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 was finally given Royal Assent after one of the longest ever sittings by the House of Lords.
  • March 13 - First round of Central African Republic elections.
  • March 14 -
  • * The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.
  • * Nearly one million people gathered for an opposition rally in Beirut, a month after the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The largest rally in Lebanon history.
  • March 16 - Suspects Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri in the bombing of the Air India Flight 182 in 1985 are found to be not guilty on all accounts.
  • March 19 -
  • * A suspected suicide bomber in Doha, Qatar, killed one Briton and injured about 12 other people.
  • * A time bomb exploded in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40.
  • * A mine blast occurred at the Xishui coal mine in Shuozhou and rocked nearby Kangjiayao coal mine. The death toll is up to 59.
  • March 20 - At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
  • March 21 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
  • March 23 - The United States' 11th Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 decision refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
  • March 24 - The "Tulip Revolution" in Kyrgyzstan (ex-USSR republic) reaches it's climax when president Askar Akayev is overthrown and the protesting crowd storms the Government House. Acts of looting and marauding occured everywhere in country's capital immediately after these events.
  • March 26 - 1 million Taiwanese walk in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of Mainland China.
  • March 28 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake struck off Sumatra, 3 months after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965.

    April

  • Anti-Japanese demonstrations in China
  • April 7:
  • *MG Rover, the UK's sole remaining volume producer goes into receivership after a planned alliance with Chinese manufacturer, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation collapses.
  • * A suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing two foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. A group called "Islamic Pride Brigades" claims responsibility.
  • April 8 - Referendum in Curacao on independence vs. integration with the Netherlands.
  • April 9:
  • *Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, marched through Baghdad denouncing the US occupation of Iraq, two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and rallied in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.
  • *The marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place in the Guildhall, Windsor; followed by a church blessing at St George's Chapel.
  • April 15 - At least 21 people died and around 50 people were injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris.
  • April 16 - President Lucia Gutierrez of Ecuador declared a state of emergency in the capital city and dissolved the Supreme Court.
  • April 17 - Twelve holidaymakers were killed in southern Switzerland when a bus carrying 27 people plunged 200 metres into a ravine.
  • April 18 - Five people died in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.
  • April 19: Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
  • April 20:
  • *At least 46 workers have been killed and several others injured in a blast at an explosives factory in Zambia.
  • *56 hurt as earthquake hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale.
  • *President Lucia Gutierrez of Ecuadoris said to have fled after Congress voted to sack him amid growing protests.

    Scheduled and expected events

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