2005 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2005?
- January 12, 2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
- January 15, 2005 – An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.
- February 9, 2005 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 14, 2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
- February 16, 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labor dispute.
- February 28, 2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
- March 16, 2005 – Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control.
- April 25, 2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
- May 21, 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure.
- 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 2, 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
- August 17, 2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
- August 31, 2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
- November 27, 2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
- November 30, 2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
- December 7, 2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
- December 24, 2005 – Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.
- December 26, 2005 – A gang-related shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto kills one and injures six.
- December 30, 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
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