2005

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

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 3 - Assassination of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri.
• January 9 -
  • The same storm which pounded the United States earlier in the month hits 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 election.
• January 12 - Deep Impact (space mission) is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
• January 14 - The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of planet Saturn.
• January 16 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so.

• January 20 - George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington D.C. for his second term as the 43rd President of the United States.
• 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 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.

[edit] April

• April 2 - Pope John Paul II dies.
• April 19 - Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict XVI.

[edit] July

• July 7 - Four suicide bombers kill 56 people (including the bombers) on London's public transport system - three Tube trains and one bus. The attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda.
• July 21 - Four attempted suicide bombers fail to detonate their bombs on London's public transport system. All four bombers escape, but are later captured.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• January 23 - Johnny Carson
• February 20 - Hunter S. Thompson
• April 2 - Pope John Paul II
• October 24 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist
• November 25 - George Best

[edit] Movies

• February 18 - Constantine
• April 1 - Sin City
• May 19 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
• July 29 - Sky High
• September 30 - Serenity
• October 21 - North Country
• November 18 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• December 9 - Brokeback Mountain
• December 14 - King Kong

[edit] Songs

• "1 Thing" - Amerie
• "Best of You" - Foo Fighters
• "DARE" - Gorillaz
• "Gasolina" - Daddy Yankee
• "Hung Up" - Madonna
• "Lonely" - Akon
• "Lyla" - Oasis
• "Photograph" - Nickelback
• "Talk" - Coldplay

[edit] Books

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

[edit] Nobel prize winners

• Chemistry - Yves Chauvin
• Chemistry - Robert H. Grubbs
• Chemistry - Richard R. Schrock
• Economics - Robert J. Aumann
• Economics - Thomas C. Schelling
• Literature - Harold Pinter
• Medicine - Barry J. Marshall
• Medicine - J. Robin Warren
• Peace - International Atomic Energy Agency
• Peace - Mohamed ElBaradei
• Physics - Roy J. Glauber
• Physics - John L. Hall
• Physics - Theodor W. Hänsch