2005 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2005?
- January 25, 2005 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
- February 9, 2005 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 16, 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
- February 23, 2005 – The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the “positive values of colonialism”. After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
- February 28, 2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
- March 3, 2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
- April 14, 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
- June 6, 2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
- July 24, 2005 – Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
- 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 28, 2005 – Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
- August 17, 2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
- August 18, 2005 – A Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the largest and most widespread power outage in history.
- September 30, 2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
- November 15, 2005 – Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
- December 3, 2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
- December 7, 2005 – Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
- December 17, 2005 – Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
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