2005 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2005?
- January 26, 2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
- February 9, 2005 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 23, 2005 – Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
- April 14, 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
- May 13, 2005 – The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
- May 21, 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure.
- May 31, 2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
- June 28, 2005 – War in Afghanistan: Three U.S. Navy SEALs, 16 American Special Operations Forces soldiers, and an unknown number of Taliban insurgents are killed
- July 27, 2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
- July 29, 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
- August 17, 2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
- August 29, 2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.
- September 12, 2005 – Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
- October 19, 2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
- October 27, 2005 – The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
- November 9, 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- December 6, 2005 – Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
- December 11, 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
- December 15, 2005 – Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
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