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2005 (MMV)
was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2005th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 5th year of the 3rd millennium, the 5th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2000s decade.
2005 was designated as:
The year 2005 was the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
- August 12 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape Canaveral, designed to explore Mars.[25]
- August 14 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
- August 16 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 160 passengers and crew.[26]
- August 18 – Peace Mission 2005, the first joint China–Russia military exercise, begins its eight-day training on the Shandong Peninsula.[27]
- August 29 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage and killing over a thousand people and dealing an estimated $108 billion in damage.[28]
- August 31 – A stampede at the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 953 Shia Muslim pilgrims who were celebrating a religious festival.[29]
September
October
November
December
Births
- January 11 – Roksana Węgiel, Polish singer, winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
- February – Alma Deutscher, English composer, violinist, pianist and child prodigy
- February 10 – Rio Suzuki, Japanese actress and tarento
- February 21 – Hong Hwa-ri, South Korean actress
- February 25 – Noah Jupe, English actor
- March 26 – Ella Anderson, American actress
- April 29 – Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti of Thailand, son of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, Rama X of Thailand and his wife Srirasmi Suwadee
- June 26 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
- July 25 – Pierce Gagnon, American actor
- October 4 – Rina Endō, Japanese actress
- October 15 – Prince Christian of Denmark, son of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
- October 31 – Leonor, Princess of Asturias, daughter of Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Letizia
- December 3 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, grandson of King Harald V of Norway
Deaths
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
- November 1 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
- November 2 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and manager (b. 1919)
- November 5 – John Fowles, English novelist (b. 1926)
- November 9 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (b. 1920)
- November 11 –
- November 13 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
- November 16 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- November 19 – Erik Balling, Danish television and film director (b. 1924)
- November 24 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
- November 25
- November 28 – Tony Meehan, English drummer (The Shadows) (b. 1943)
December
Nobel Prizes
New English words and terms
- didymo
- functional calculus
- glamping
- locavore
- microblogging
- pre-exposure prophylaxis
- ransomware
- rock snot
- sexting
- truther
- vodcast[47]
See also
References
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- ^ Library, C. N. N. "Hurricane Katrina Statistics Fast Facts". CNN. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
- ^ "Iraq stampede deaths near 1,000". BBC. 2005-08-31. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
- ^ "Egypt's Ugly Election". The Washington Post. 2005-12-10. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
- ^ "Demolition of Gaza homes completed". Ynetnews News. September 12, 2005. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
- ^ Traynor, Ian; Watts, Jonathan; Borger, Julian (2005-09-19). "North Korea vows to abandon nuclear weapons project". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
- ^ "French court clears weekly in Mohammad cartoon row". Reuters. 2007-03-22. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
- ^ Associated Press (2005-10-20). "New figures put quake toll at more than 79,000". MSNBC. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
- ^ Malik, Tariq (October 11, 2005). "Shenzhou 6 Away! China Launches Two Astronauts in Second Manned Spaceflight". Space.com. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
- ^ "2005: Trial of Saddam Hussein Begins". National Geographic. October 19, 2005. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
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- ^ Fickling, David (2005-11-23). "Johnson-Sirleaf declared Liberian president". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
- ^ "UN summit seeks climate solutions". BBC. 2005-11-29. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
- ^ "'My face transplant saved me'". BBC. 2006-10-17. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
- ^ Handwerk, Brian (December 14, 2005). "Mice With Human Brain Cells Created". National Geographic. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
- ^ Khamsi, Roxanne (July 6, 2005). "Leap second to be added to 2005". Nature. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
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