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1. Compare - without doubt the biggest advantage that the 2005 offers shoppers today is the ability to compare thousands of 2005 at a time. This is a great thing, but not necessarily all the time! Too much can be daunting at times so take advantage of the great comparison sites and where possible let them do the hard work for you.

2. Research - if it has been said it will be on the internet. Ignorance is no longer a justifiable reason for buying the wrong thing. Take the time to research in detail everything that you could possible want to know about

3. Testimonials - don't know anybody that has bought a 2005? Wrong! If the 2005 is good the internet will let you know. Use the Internet as a friend and get testimonials before you buy.

4. Questions - Got a question about 2005 then search the Forums, FAQ's, Blogs etc. Don't be afraid to ask .....

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6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your 2005 wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.

7. Feedback - happy with your 2005 then let people know, after all you are depending on others people input in your buying decision, so why not give a little back.

8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the 2005 site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site

9. Contact - got a question about 2005, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.

10. Payment - ready to pay for your 2005, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.

Year 2005 (Roman numerals) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

The year 2005 was designated:

• The Year of the Volunteer by the Politics of the United Kingdom
• The World Year of Physics 2005
• The International Year of the Eucharist in Roman Catholic Church.
• The Year of Cork (city) City as European Capital of Culture.
• The Year of the Veteran in Canada.
• The Year of the Rooster (by the Chinese calendar).
• The Hottest Year on Record
• The Year of the Gun in Toronto, Ontario, Canada because of its crime rate during the year.

Also see: Current events#Past events by month of events for this year.

Events of 2005 January

• January 4 - Gunmen assassinated the Governor of Baghdad Province, Ali Al-Haidri.
• January 9 - The same storm which pounded the U.S. earlier in the month hits England, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.
• January 9 - Palestinian election: Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority President.

i police officers hold up their index fingers marked with purple indelible ink, a security measure to prevent Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005.

• January 12 - Deep Impact (space mission) is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
• January 13 - Armed militants enter Israel from Gaza and open fire near the border, killing six people and wounding five others. Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility for the attack.
• January 14 - The Huygens probe lands on Titan (moon), the largest moon of Saturn.
• January 16 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so.
• January 16 - Armed militants kill one person and wound eight people in the Gush Katif settlement, Gaza Strip. Hamas claims responsibility.
• January 20 - George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. for his second term as the 43rd President of the United States.
• January 20 - Ireland completes metrication.
• January 21 - In Belmopan, Belize, unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
• January 25 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 215, mostly women and small children.
• January 26 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail, killing 11 and injuring 200, in Glendale, California near Los Angeles.
• January 30 - The Iraqi legislative election, January 2005 since 1958 take place.
• January 30 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgency release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.
• January 31 - The Michael Jackson trial commences in Santa Barbara, California, 14 months after Jackson was arrested with much publicity.

February is intended to cut Earth emissions of greenhouse gases.

• February 1 - Sir Ian Blair is appointed Metropolitan Police Commissioner of London.
• February 6 - Super Bowl XXXIX: The New England Patriots win their second consecutive Super Bowl title, defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21.
• February 8 - Danish parliamentary election, 2005: The center-right coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his Liberal Party (Denmark) wins another term.
• February 9 - An ETA car bomb injures 31 people at a conference centre in Madrid.
• February 10 - North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.
• February 10 - Saudi Arabia holds its first ever municipal elections, in which only male citizens are allowed to vote.
• February 12 - Fire devastates the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid.
• February 14 - A massive suicide bomb blast in central Beirut kills the former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people are also hurt.
• February 14 - Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran.
• February 16 - The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, without the support of the United States and Australia.
• February 16 - The National Hockey League cancels its 2004-2005 season, becoming the first North American professional league to cancel a season due to a labour dispute.
• February 19 - Suicide bombers kill more than 30 people in Iraq as Shia Muslims mark Ashura, their holiest day.
• February 20 - Spain holds a referendum on the Constitution for Europe, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
• February 20 - Early legislative elections in Portugal result in a landslide victory for José Sócrates and the Socialist Party (Portugal).
• February 22 - More than 500 people are killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages are flattened in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale in the Zarand, Iran region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
• February 23 - A controversial French law on colonialism, requiring teachers to paint it in a positive light, is passed by the national legislature.
• February 24 - David Hernandez Arroyo goes on a Tyler courthouse shooting at the Smith County Courthouse in Tyler, Texas. He kills two, including his ex-wife, and wounds four others before being killed in a police chase.
• February 25 - Wichita, Kansas police apprehend the so-called BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, 31 years after his first murder.
• February 25 - Terrorists kill 5 and wound 50 in Tel Aviv; Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for the attack.
• February 26 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak asks Parliament to amend the Constitution of Egypt to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005.

March 's Pinellas Park, Florida hospice, March 27, 2005.

• March 1 - The prosecution begins its testimony in the Michael Jackson trial.
• March 1 - Roper v. Simmons: The Supreme Court of the United States rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes before age 18.
• March 3 - The freighter M/V Karen Danielsen crashes into the Great Belt Bridge of Denmark. All traffic across the bridge is closed, effectively separating Denmark in two.
• March 3 - Millionaire Steve Fossett breaks a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.
• March 4 - The car of released Italy hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.
• March 4 - The United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected with HIV in the future, without further action against the spread of the disease.
• March 8 - The Pakistan Army opens fire on insurgents in Baluchistan, in the first armed uprising since General Rahimuddin Khan's stabilization of the province in 1978.
• March 10 - Tung Chee Hwa, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, resigns.
• March 11 - In the United Kingdom, the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is finally given Royal Assent after one of the longest ever sittings by the House of Lords.
• March 11 - Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state); the main suspect, Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.
• March 11 - Central African Republic elections, 2005: The first round leads to a runoff between top candidates Francois Bozize and Martin Ziguele.
• March 14 - The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.
• March 14 - Approximately one million people gather for an opposition rally in Beirut, a month after the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. It is the largest rally in Lebanon's history.
• March 16 - Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, accused of the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, are found not guilty on all counts.
• March 19 - A suspected suicide bomber in Doha, Qatar kills one person and injures about 12 others.
• March 19 - A Time bomb (explosive) explodes in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40.
• March 19 - A blast occurs at the Xishui Coal mining in Shuozhou, China, and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine, killing up to 59.
• March 19 - Wales beat Ireland 32 - 20 to win their first Grand Slam since 1978 in Rugby Union's Six Nations tournament.
• March 19 - Monster Jam World Finals 6 takes place
• March 20 - At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed, when a magnitude 7 earthquake strikes west of Kyūshū, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
• March 21 - Ten are killed in the Red Lake High School massacre in Minnesota, the worst school shooting since the Columbine High School massacre.
• March 23 - The United States' 11th Circuit Court of Appeals refuses 2-1 to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
• March 24 - The Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan reaches its climax with the overthrow of president Askar Akayev.
• March 26 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
• March 26 - The BBC series, Doctor Who makes its return after 16 years.
• March 28 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake strikes off Sumatra, three months after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965.

April

• April 2 - Pope John Paul II dies; over 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.
• April 4 - University of North Carolina defeats University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 75-70 to win the 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament at the Edward Jones Dome in Saint Louis, Missouri.
• April 6 - The first 13th root calculation of a 200-digit number is computed by Frenchman Alexis Lemaire.
• April 6 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco dies, succeeded by his son Albert II, Prince of Monaco.
• April 7 - MG Rover, the UK's sole remaining automotive mass-production facility, goes into receivership after a planned alliance with Chinese manufacturer, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, collapses.
• April 7 - A suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing 2 foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. A group called "Islamic Pride Brigades" claims responsibility.
• April 8 - A referendum is held in Curaçao on independence vs. integration with the Netherlands.
• April 9 - Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, march through Baghdad denouncing the Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–2006, 2 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and rally in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.
• April 9 - The marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place, after being briefly postponed after the Pope's death. Camilla assumes the titles Her Royal Highness and The Duchess of Cornwall.
• April 15 - At least 21 people die and around 50 are injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris.
• April 15 - Shanghai Automotive rules out any possibility of going back on its decision to pull out of a venture with MG Rover. This results in the largest independent British carmaker finishing production with the loss of more than 6,000 jobs at its huge Longbridge plant in Birmingham.
• April 16 - President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador declares a state of emergency in the capital city and dissolves the Supreme Court.
• April 17 - Twelve holidaymakers are killed in southern Switzerland when a bus carrying 27 people plunges 656 feet into a ravine.
• April 18 - Five people die in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.
• April 19 - Papal conclave, 2005: Pope Benedict XVI (Cardinal (Catholicism) Joseph Ratzinger) succeeds Pope John Paul II, becoming the 265th pope.
• April 20 - Fifty six are hurt as earthquake hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale.
• April 20 - President Lucio Gutiérrez of Ecuador is said to have fled after Congress voted to sack him amid growing protests.
• April 21 - A bus crash in Vietnam's Central Highlands kills 30 Vietnamese war veterans.
• April 21 - A gunfight on the edge of the Saudi city of Mecca kills 2 militants and 2 members of the security forces.
• April 23 - Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, re-forms the government after its dissolution 3 days earlier.
• April 25 - Amagasaki rail crash): A Train derails in Amagasaki, Hyogo Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, killing 107 people and injuring another 456.
• April 26 - Facing international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29 year military domination of that country.
• April 26 - 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China
• April 27 - The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse.
• April 30 - Attacks on tourists in the Egyptian capital Cairo leave 3 militants dead and at least 10 people injured.

May

• May 1 - A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 30 others. Earlier, at least 5 policemen and 4 civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad.
• May 2 - A blast at an illegal munitions store in northern Afghanistan kills 28 people and injures at least 13 others.
• May 3 - At least 32 people are killed and 9 others injured when 3 two-story buildings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore collapse after gas cylinders stored in one of them explode.
• May 4 - In one of the largest Insurgency attacks in Iraq, at least 60 people are killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.
• May 5 - United Kingdom general election, 2005: The Labour Party (UK) is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority.
• May 7 - A plane crash in Lockhart River, Australia kills 15 people.
• May 10 - A hand grenade ostensibly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 100 feet (30 m) from President of the United States George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia (country), but malfunctions and does not detonate.
• May 11 - Serial killer Michael Ross becomes the first person executed in New England in 45 years.
• May 12 - An election is held in the Cayman Islands 7 months later than originally scheduled due to Hurricane Ivan. It results in a change of government, with the United Democratic Party giving 4 seats to the then-opposition People's Progressive Movement in the 15 member Legislative Assembly.
• May 13 - Uzbekistan Military of Uzbekistan kill up to 700 during May 2005 unrest in Uzbekistan over the trials of 23 accused Islamism. President Islom Karimov defends the act.
• May 13 - The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (Base Realignment and Closure, 2005).
• May 15 - A passenger ferry capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the Bura Gauranga River in Bangladesh, leaving over 100 people missing.
• May 16 - George Galloway appears before a U.S. Senate committee, to answer allegations of making money from the Iraqi Oil-for-Food Programme.
• May 17 - Kuwaiti women are granted the Suffrage.
• May 19 - The Canadian House of Commons 38th Canadian Parliament narrowly pass Canadian federal budget, 2005 at a second reading, allowing the minority Liberal Party of Canada government of Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin to stay in power.
• May 21 - Elena Paparizou wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece with the song My Number One, in Kiev, Ukraine.
• May 25 - Liverpool F.C. wins the UEFA Champions League by defeating AC Milan 3-2 in a penalty shootout in Istanbul, Turkey.
• May 25 - The Acting Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Donald Tsang, resigns for participating in the Chief Executive Election last July. As a result, Henry Tang and Michael Suen become the Acting Chief Executive and Acting Chief Secretary for Administration respectively.
• May 27 - Mark Hobson is sentenced to life imprisonment for four murders committed in Yorkshire the previous summer. The trial judge recommends that Hobson, a 35-year-old former binman, should never be released from prison.
• May 29 - A French referendum on the European Constitution votes resoundingly to reject it.
• May 31 - W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be "Deep Throat (Watergate)."

June

• June 1 - A Dutch referendum on the European Constitution votes to reject it, the second country to do so.
• June 2 - The construction of Northrop Grumman X-47B, the world's first unmanned surveillance Ground attack aircraft that can operate from both land bases and aircraft carriers, begins.
• June 5 - Switzerland votes to join the Schengen treaty area and to allow civil unions.
• June 6 - Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam resigns.
• June 9 - 2005 Logan Airport runway incursion: Almost 400 people narrowly avoid death when 2 jet airliners nearly collide on the runway.
• June 13 - 2005 trial of Michael Jackson: Singer Michael Jackson is acquitted of all charges in his child molestation trial.
• June 17 - (California earthquakes of June 2005): A 6.7 aftershock, which followed a 5.3 earthquake the previous day, hits California, making it the 4th earthquake since June 12 in California.
• June 17 - Because of "quadruple-witching" Option (finance)s and Futures contracts expiration, the New York Stock Exchange sees the heaviest first-hour trading on record. 704 million shares are traded between 9:30-10:30 A.M. (1.92 billion shares for the day).
• June 19 - Preliminarty election results in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain), Spain show that Manuel Fraga and the Partido Popular have lost control of the autonomous parliament.
• June 21 - A Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft (a joint Russian-United States project) fails 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
• June 23 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Detroit Pistons in Game 7 of the 2005 NBA Finals. The series is the first NBA Finals in 11 years to go to a seventh game.
• June 28 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom conducts the International Fleet Review of 167 international warships in the Solent, as part of the Trafalgar 200 celebrations.
• June 30 - Spain joins Belgium and the Netherlands in permitting same-sex marriage.
• June 30 - The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is passed by the United States.

July : Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launch.

• July 2 - Live 8, a series of 10 simultaneous concerts take place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.
• July 4 - NASA's "Copper bullet" from Deep Impact (space mission) spacecraft hits Comet Tempel 1, creating a Impact crater for scientific studies.
• July 4 - Violent anti-G8 demonstrations occur in Gleneagles, Scotland.
• July 4 - Italy-USA Foundation was established in Rome, Italy.
• July 6 - The European Parliament rejects the Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading in the codecision procedure.
• July 6 - The International Olympic Committee awards the 2012 Summer Olympics to London.
• July 7 - Four explosions rock the transport network in London, 3 on the London Underground and 1 on a bus; 56 people die and over 700 are injured (See 7 July 2005 London bombings).
• July 7 - Al-Qaeda admits to killing Egypt's Ambassador, Ihab al-Sherif.
• July 10 - A Luxembourgish referendum on the European Constitution votes to accept it.
• July 10 - Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm, killing 10 people after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean.
• July 12 - Terrorists kill 5 people and wound 90 in a crowded mall in Netanya, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
• July 13 - Ghotki rail crash: Three trains collide in Ghotki, Pakistan, killing over 150 people.
• July 19 - George W. Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
• July 20 - Canada's Civil Marriage Act, legalizing same-sex marriage, receives Royal Assent.
• July 21 - 21 July 2005 London bombings, similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks on 3 underground trains and a Buses in London. The bombs fail to explode properly, and only 1 injury is reported, later found to be unconnected.
• July 22 - A Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot dead at a London underground station by police who mistake him for a suicide bomber.
• July 23 - A series of blasts hit a resort town in Egypt. See July 23, 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks.
• July 24 - Lance Armstrong wins a record 7th straight Tour de France before his scheduled retirement.
• July 25 - The 2004-2005 NHL lockout ends.
• July 26 - STS-114: The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on its "Return To Flight" mission. This is the first space shuttle flight in nearly 2 1/2 years since the breakup of Space Shuttle Columbia on its return from mission STS-107.
• July 26 - Mumbai and the Mumbai Conurbation area is submerged in 5-7 ft. of water due to heavy rains, making nearby dams release water causing a massive flood, which virtually stops the financial capital of India for 4-5 days.
• July 26 - Paramore released their first album AllWeKnowIsFalling and the singles Pressure and Emergency
• July 28 - The Provisional IRA issues a statement formally ordering an end to the armed campaign it has pursued since 1969 and ordering all its units to dump their arms.

August : Aerial view of later flooding near downtown New Orleans, following the Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans.

• August 1 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies, succeeded by his half-brother Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
• August 2 - Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive.
• August 2 - The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is signed into law in the United States.
• August 6 - An ATR-72 heading from Italy to Tunisia crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of 39 on board.
• August 9 - Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Discovery returns to Edwards Air Force Base at 0814 EDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight."
• August 10 - A 2005 Tallinn Sikorsky S-76 crash en route to Helsinki, Finland crashes into the sea near Tallinn, Estonia, killing 14.
• August 12 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched.
• August 14 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes into a mountain in Greece, killing 121.
• August 16 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 152 passengers.
• August 16 - The XX World Youth Day begins in Cologne, Germany.
• August 17 - The first forced evacuation (Israeli politics) of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
• August 17 - Bangladesh is hit by bomb explosions.
• August 17 - Sellapan Ramanathan gains victory in the Singapore Presidential elections, 2005.
• August 18 - BTK killer Dennis Rader receives 10 consecutive life sentences.
• August 18 - Peace Mission 2005, the first joint China-Russia military exercise, begins its 8-day training on the Shandong peninsula.
• August 22 - A 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) Impact crater.
• August 23 - Israel unilateral disengagement plan from 25 Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip and West Bank ends.
• August 24 - Hong Kong High Court (Hong Kong) Judge Michael Hartmann rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• August 26 - Jean Michel Jarre's "Space of Freedom" concert is held in Gdańsk, Poland, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the creation of Solidarność ("Solidarity" trade union).
• August 29 - At least 1,836 are killed, and Hurricane Katrina effects by region is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina strikes coastal areas from Louisiana to Alabama, and travels up the Effect of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi (flooding coast 31 feet/10 meter), affecting most of eastern North America.
• August 31 - A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills several hundred civilians (see Baghdad bridge stampede).

September station.: Hurricane Rita, at Beaumont, TX & Lake Charles, LA.

• September 1 - Oil price increases of 2004 and 2005#Hurricane Katrina rise sharply following the economic effects of Hurricane Katrina.
• September 2 - Protesters and Israeli forces clash in Bil'in.
• September 5 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia, killing at least 117. (See list of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by year#2005).
• September 5 - John G. Roberts is nominated by President George Walker Bush for Chief Justice of the United States, replacing William Rehnquist, who had died two days previously.
• September 7 - Incumbent Rulers and heads of state of Egypt Hosni Mubarak wins the first multi-party Egyptian presidential election, 2005.
• September 11 - Japan general election, 2005: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) are returned to power.
• September 12 - The Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005 results in a victory for the red-green-coalition. The new prime-minister is Jens Stoltenberg from the Labour Party.
• September 12 - The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort officially opens publicly.
• September 12 - The English cricket team draw the final match to win The 2005 Ashes.
• September 14-September 16 - The largest UN 2005 World Summit in history is held in New York City.
• September 17 - Helen Clark, leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, is re-elected for a third term in the New Zealand general election 2005.
• September 18 - Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany) and Gerhard Schröder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany both claim victory in the German federal election, 2005.
• September 18 - Afghan parliamentary election, 2005: Former Afghan Northern Alliance warlords and their followers claim victory.
• September 19 - North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.
• September 20 - The NFL sees the groundbreaking ceremony for two new stadiums, the Indianapolis Colts' Lucas Oil Stadium and the Dallas Cowboys' temporarily named Dallas Cowboys New Stadium
• September 23 - Convicted bank thief and Boricua Popular Army leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, is killed in his home in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico when members of the FBI attempt to serve an arrest warrant.
• September 24 - Hurricane Rita hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, devastating areas near Beaumont, TX and Lake Charles, LA. The Ninth Ward of New Orleans re-floods since Hurricane Katrina, and Mississippi and Alabama are also affected.
• September 24 - Worldwide protests occur against the Iraq War, with over 150,000 protestors in Washington DC. See Opposition to the Iraq War.
• September 24 - Polish parliamentary election, 2005: Two center-right parties win the required majority of seats.
• September 24 - Australian Rules Football team the Sydney Swans win the 2005 Grand Final, to become the AFL Premiers, defeating the West Coast Eagles at the MCG to end a 72 year Premiership drought.
• September 26 - U.S. Army Reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on 6 of 7 counts in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
• September 27 - Michaëlle Jean, born in Haiti, becomes the 27th Governor General of Canada, and the first Black Canadian person to hold that position.
• September 28 - American politician Tom DeLay is indicted on charges of Conspiracy (crime) by a Texas grand jury.
• September 29 - John G. Roberts, Jr. is confirmed and sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
• September 29 - A High Court of Justice judge rules that Soham murderer Ian Huntley must spend at least 40 years in prison before being considered for parole; a ruling which effectively rules out his release until at least 2042 and the age of 68.
• September 30 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes, with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in Article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
• September 30 - Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy are printed in the Denmark newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

October at record intensity with a central pressure of 882 millibars.

• October 1 - The 2005 Bali bombings kill 26 people and injure more than 100.
• October 1 - The world's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is formed by the merger of 2 Japanese banking conglomerates.
• October 1 - An Australian photojournalist in Afghanistan, Stephen Dupont, films U.S. soldiers burning 2 dead Taliban militias' bodies with mixed reviews.
• October 2 - A shipwreck in Lake George, New York kills 20 people.
• October 3 - St. Tammany Parish Schools reopen in Louisiana, just over a month after Hurricane Katrina closed them.
• October 3 - U.S. President George W. Bush nominates Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court of the United States.
• October 4 - Hurricane Stan hits Mexico and Central America, killing over 1,620 people.
• October 5 - Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith is charged with refusing to serve in the Iraq war.
• October 7 - UN Nuclear warfare agency director Mohamed ElBaradei is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• October 8 - The 2005 Kashmir earthquake kills about 80,000 people.
• October 9 - Polish presidential election, 2005: the 1st round results in a runoff between top candidates Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczyński.
• October 12 - The second People's Republic of China spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng for 5 days in orbit.
• October 13 - Veselin Topalov wins the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.
• October 15 - The Iraqi constitution ratification vote, 2005 on the new Proposed Iraqi constitution is held.
• October 15 - A riot occurs in Toledo, Ohio during a Neo-Nazi rally on racial issues; 114 are arrested.
• October 15 - The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed.
• October 16 - United States helicopters and warplanes bomb 2 villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people.
• October 17 - Jens Stoltenberg becomes Prime Minister of Norway for the second time.
• October 18 - The UN tightens the rules for its staff, following several claims of financial impropriety and sexual abuse.
• October 19 - The Trials of Saddam Hussein begin.
• October 19 - Hurricane Wilma swells into a Year 2005 (Roman numerals) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
  
  The year 2005 was designated:
  • The Year of the Volunteer by the Politics of the United Kingdom
  • The World Year of Physics 2005
  • The International Year of the Eucharist in Roman Catholic Church.
  • The Year of Cork (city) City as European Capital of Culture.
  • The Year of the Veteran in Canada.
  • The Year of the Rooster (by the Chinese calendar).
  • The Hottest Year on Record
  • The Year of the Gun in Toronto, Ontario, Canada because of its crime rate during the year.
  
  
  Also see: Current events#Past events by month of events for this year.
  
  Events of 2005 January
  • January 4 - Gunmen assassinated the Governor of Baghdad Province, Ali Al-Haidri.
  • January 9 - The same storm which pounded the U.S. earlier in the month hits England, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.
  • January 9 - Palestinian election: Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority President.
  i police officers hold up their index fingers marked with purple indelible ink, a security measure to prevent Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005.
  • January 12 - Deep Impact (space mission) is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
  • January 13 - Armed militants enter Israel from Gaza and open fire near the border, killing six people and wounding five others. Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility for the attack.
  • January 14 - The Huygens probe lands on Titan (moon), the largest moon of Saturn.
  • January 16 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so.
  • January 16 - Armed militants kill one person and wound eight people in the Gush Katif settlement, Gaza Strip. Hamas claims responsibility.
  • January 20 - George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. for his second term as the 43rd President of the United States.
  • January 20 - Ireland completes metrication.
  • January 21 - In Belmopan, Belize, unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
  • January 25 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 215, mostly women and small children.
  • January 26 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail, killing 11 and injuring 200, in Glendale, California near Los Angeles.
  • January 30 - The Iraqi legislative election, January 2005 since 1958 take place.
  • January 30 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgency release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.
  • January 31 - The Michael Jackson trial commences in Santa Barbara, California, 14 months after Jackson was arrested with much publicity.
  
  
  February is intended to cut Earth emissions of greenhouse gases.
  • February 1 - Sir Ian Blair is appointed Metropolitan Police Commissioner of London.
  • February 6 - Super Bowl XXXIX: The New England Patriots win their second consecutive Super Bowl title, defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21.
  • February 8 - Danish parliamentary election, 2005: The center-right coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his Liberal Party (Denmark) wins another term.
  • February 9 - An ETA car bomb injures 31 people at a conference centre in Madrid.
  • February 10 - North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.
  • February 10 - Saudi Arabia holds its first ever municipal elections, in which only male citizens are allowed to vote.
  • February 12 - Fire devastates the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid.
  • February 14 - A massive suicide bomb blast in central Beirut kills the former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people are also hurt.
  • February 14 - Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran.
  • February 16 - The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, without the support of the United States and Australia.
  • February 16 - The National Hockey League cancels its 2004-2005 season, becoming the first North American professional league to cancel a season due to a labour dispute.
  • February 19 - Suicide bombers kill more than 30 people in Iraq as Shia Muslims mark Ashura, their holiest day.
  • February 20 - Spain holds a referendum on the Constitution for Europe, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
  • February 20 - Early legislative elections in Portugal result in a landslide victory for José Sócrates and the Socialist Party (Portugal).
  • February 22 - More than 500 people are killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages are flattened in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale in the Zarand, Iran region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
  • February 23 - A controversial French law on colonialism, requiring teachers to paint it in a positive light, is passed by the national legislature.
  • February 24 - David Hernandez Arroyo goes on a Tyler courthouse shooting at the Smith County Courthouse in Tyler, Texas. He kills two, including his ex-wife, and wounds four others before being killed in a police chase.
  • February 25 - Wichita, Kansas police apprehend the so-called BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, 31 years after his first murder.
  • February 25 - Terrorists kill 5 and wound 50 in Tel Aviv; Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for the attack.
  • February 26 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak asks Parliament to amend the Constitution of Egypt to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005.
  
  
  March 's Pinellas Park, Florida hospice, March 27, 2005.
  • March 1 - The prosecution begins its testimony in the Michael Jackson trial.
  • March 1 - Roper v. Simmons: The Supreme Court of the United States rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes before age 18.
  • March 3 - The freighter M/V Karen Danielsen crashes into the Great Belt Bridge of Denmark. All traffic across the bridge is closed, effectively separating Denmark in two.
  • March 3 - Millionaire Steve Fossett breaks a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.
  • March 4 - The car of released Italy hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.
  • March 4 - The United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected with HIV in the future, without further action against the spread of the disease.
  • March 8 - The Pakistan Army opens fire on insurgents in Baluchistan, in the first armed uprising since General Rahimuddin Khan's stabilization of the province in 1978.
  • March 10 - Tung Chee Hwa, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, resigns.
  • March 11 - In the United Kingdom, the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is finally given Royal Assent after one of the longest ever sittings by the House of Lords.
  • March 11 - Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state); the main suspect, Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.
  • March 11 - Central African Republic elections, 2005: The first round leads to a runoff between top candidates Francois Bozize and Martin Ziguele.
  • March 14 - The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.
  • March 14 - Approximately one million people gather for an opposition rally in Beirut, a month after the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. It is the largest rally in Lebanon's history.
  • March 16 - Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, accused of the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, are found not guilty on all counts.
  • March 19 - A suspected suicide bomber in Doha, Qatar kills one person and injures about 12 others.
  • March 19 - A Time bomb (explosive) explodes in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40.
  • March 19 - A blast occurs at the Xishui Coal mining in Shuozhou, China, and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine, killing up to 59.
  • March 19 - Wales beat Ireland 32 - 20 to win their first Grand Slam since 1978 in Rugby Union's Six Nations tournament.
  • March 19 - Monster Jam World Finals 6 takes place
  • March 20 - At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed, when a magnitude 7 earthquake strikes west of Kyūshū, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
  • March 21 - Ten are killed in the Red Lake High School massacre in Minnesota, the worst school shooting since the Columbine High School massacre.
  • March 23 - The United States' 11th Circuit Court of Appeals refuses 2-1 to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
  • March 24 - The Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan reaches its climax with the overthrow of president Askar Akayev.
  • March 26 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
  • March 26 - The BBC series, Doctor Who makes its return after 16 years.
  • March 28 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake strikes off Sumatra, three months after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965.
  
  
  April
  • April 2 - Pope John Paul II dies; over 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.
  • April 4 - University of North Carolina defeats University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 75-70 to win the 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament at the Edward Jones Dome in Saint Louis, Missouri.
  • April 6 - The first 13th root calculation of a 200-digit number is computed by Frenchman Alexis Lemaire.
  • April 6 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco dies, succeeded by his son Albert II, Prince of Monaco.
  • April 7 - MG Rover, the UK's sole remaining automotive mass-production facility, goes into receivership after a planned alliance with Chinese manufacturer, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, collapses.
  • April 7 - A suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing 2 foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. A group called "Islamic Pride Brigades" claims responsibility.
  • April 8 - A referendum is held in Curaçao on independence vs. integration with the Netherlands.
  • April 9 - Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, march through Baghdad denouncing the Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–2006, 2 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and rally in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.
  • April 9 - The marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place, after being briefly postponed after the Pope's death. Camilla assumes the titles Her Royal Highness and The Duchess of Cornwall.
  • April 15 - At least 21 people die and around 50 are injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris.
  • April 15 - Shanghai Automotive rules out any possibility of going back on its decision to pull out of a venture with MG Rover. This results in the largest independent British carmaker finishing production with the loss of more than 6,000 jobs at its huge Longbridge plant in Birmingham.
  • April 16 - President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador declares a state of emergency in the capital city and dissolves the Supreme Court.
  • April 17 - Twelve holidaymakers are killed in southern Switzerland when a bus carrying 27 people plunges 656 feet into a ravine.
  • April 18 - Five people die in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.
  • April 19 - Papal conclave, 2005: Pope Benedict XVI (Cardinal (Catholicism) Joseph Ratzinger) succeeds Pope John Paul II, becoming the 265th pope.
  • April 20 - Fifty six are hurt as earthquake hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale.
  • April 20 - President Lucio Gutiérrez of Ecuador is said to have fled after Congress voted to sack him amid growing protests.
  • April 21 - A bus crash in Vietnam's Central Highlands kills 30 Vietnamese war veterans.
  • April 21 - A gunfight on the edge of the Saudi city of Mecca kills 2 militants and 2 members of the security forces.
  • April 23 - Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, re-forms the government after its dissolution 3 days earlier.
  • April 25 - Amagasaki rail crash): A Train derails in Amagasaki, Hyogo Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, killing 107 people and injuring another 456.
  • April 26 - Facing international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29 year military domination of that country.
  • April 26 - 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China
  • April 27 - The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse.
  • April 30 - Attacks on tourists in the Egyptian capital Cairo leave 3 militants dead and at least 10 people injured.
  
  
  May
  • May 1 - A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 30 others. Earlier, at least 5 policemen and 4 civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad.
  • May 2 - A blast at an illegal munitions store in northern Afghanistan kills 28 people and injures at least 13 others.
  • May 3 - At least 32 people are killed and 9 others injured when 3 two-story buildings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore collapse after gas cylinders stored in one of them explode.
  • May 4 - In one of the largest Insurgency attacks in Iraq, at least 60 people are killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.
  • May 5 - United Kingdom general election, 2005: The Labour Party (UK) is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority.
  • May 7 - A plane crash in Lockhart River, Australia kills 15 people.
  • May 10 - A hand grenade ostensibly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 100 feet (30 m) from President of the United States George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia (country), but malfunctions and does not detonate.
  • May 11 - Serial killer Michael Ross becomes the first person executed in New England in 45 years.
  • May 12 - An election is held in the Cayman Islands 7 months later than originally scheduled due to Hurricane Ivan. It results in a change of government, with the United Democratic Party giving 4 seats to the then-opposition People's Progressive Movement in the 15 member Legislative Assembly.
  • May 13 - Uzbekistan Military of Uzbekistan kill up to 700 during May 2005 unrest in Uzbekistan over the trials of 23 accused Islamism. President Islom Karimov defends the act.
  • May 13 - The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (Base Realignment and Closure, 2005).
  • May 15 - A passenger ferry capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the Bura Gauranga River in Bangladesh, leaving over 100 people missing.
  • May 16 - George Galloway appears before a U.S. Senate committee, to answer allegations of making money from the Iraqi Oil-for-Food Programme.
  • May 17 - Kuwaiti women are granted the Suffrage.
  • May 19 - The Canadian House of Commons 38th Canadian Parliament narrowly pass Canadian federal budget, 2005 at a second reading, allowing the minority Liberal Party of Canada government of Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin to stay in power.
  • May 21 - Elena Paparizou wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece with the song My Number One, in Kiev, Ukraine.
  • May 25 - Liverpool F.C. wins the UEFA Champions League by defeating AC Milan 3-2 in a penalty shootout in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • May 25 - The Acting Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Donald Tsang, resigns for participating in the Chief Executive Election last July. As a result, Henry Tang and Michael Suen become the Acting Chief Executive and Acting Chief Secretary for Administration respectively.
  • May 27 - Mark Hobson is sentenced to life imprisonment for four murders committed in Yorkshire the previous summer. The trial judge recommends that Hobson, a 35-year-old former binman, should never be released from prison.
  • May 29 - A French referendum on the European Constitution votes resoundingly to reject it.
  • May 31 - W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be "Deep Throat (Watergate)."
  
  
  June
  • June 1 - A Dutch referendum on the European Constitution votes to reject it, the second country to do so.
  • June 2 - The construction of Northrop Grumman X-47B, the world's first unmanned surveillance Ground attack aircraft that can operate from both land bases and aircraft carriers, begins.
  • June 5 - Switzerland votes to join the Schengen treaty area and to allow civil unions.
  • June 6 - Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam resigns.
  • June 9 - 2005 Logan Airport runway incursion: Almost 400 people narrowly avoid death when 2 jet airliners nearly collide on the runway.
  • June 13 - 2005 trial of Michael Jackson: Singer Michael Jackson is acquitted of all charges in his child molestation trial.
  • June 17 - (California earthquakes of June 2005): A 6.7 aftershock, which followed a 5.3 earthquake the previous day, hits California, making it the 4th earthquake since June 12 in California.
  • June 17 - Because of "quadruple-witching" Option (finance)s and Futures contracts expiration, the New York Stock Exchange sees the heaviest first-hour trading on record. 704 million shares are traded between 9:30-10:30 A.M. (1.92 billion shares for the day).
  • June 19 - Preliminarty election results in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain), Spain show that Manuel Fraga and the Partido Popular have lost control of the autonomous parliament.
  • June 21 - A Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft (a joint Russian-United States project) fails 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
  • June 23 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Detroit Pistons in Game 7 of the 2005 NBA Finals. The series is the first NBA Finals in 11 years to go to a seventh game.
  • June 28 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom conducts the International Fleet Review of 167 international warships in the Solent, as part of the Trafalgar 200 celebrations.
  • June 30 - Spain joins Belgium and the Netherlands in permitting same-sex marriage.
  • June 30 - The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is passed by the United States.
  
  
  July : Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launch.
  • July 2 - Live 8, a series of 10 simultaneous concerts take place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.
  • July 4 - NASA's "Copper bullet" from Deep Impact (space mission) spacecraft hits Comet Tempel 1, creating a Impact crater for scientific studies.
  • July 4 - Violent anti-G8 demonstrations occur in Gleneagles, Scotland.
  • July 4 - Italy-USA Foundation was established in Rome, Italy.
  • July 6 - The European Parliament rejects the Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading in the codecision procedure.
  • July 6 - The International Olympic Committee awards the 2012 Summer Olympics to London.
  • July 7 - Four explosions rock the transport network in London, 3 on the London Underground and 1 on a bus; 56 people die and over 700 are injured (See 7 July 2005 London bombings).
  • July 7 - Al-Qaeda admits to killing Egypt's Ambassador, Ihab al-Sherif.
  • July 10 - A Luxembourgish referendum on the European Constitution votes to accept it.
  • July 10 - Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm, killing 10 people after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean.
  • July 12 - Terrorists kill 5 people and wound 90 in a crowded mall in Netanya, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
  • July 13 - Ghotki rail crash: Three trains collide in Ghotki, Pakistan, killing over 150 people.
  • July 19 - George W. Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
  • July 20 - Canada's Civil Marriage Act, legalizing same-sex marriage, receives Royal Assent.
  • July 21 - 21 July 2005 London bombings, similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks on 3 underground trains and a Buses in London. The bombs fail to explode properly, and only 1 injury is reported, later found to be unconnected.
  • July 22 - A Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot dead at a London underground station by police who mistake him for a suicide bomber.
  • July 23 - A series of blasts hit a resort town in Egypt. See July 23, 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks.
  • July 24 - Lance Armstrong wins a record 7th straight Tour de France before his scheduled retirement.
  • July 25 - The 2004-2005 NHL lockout ends.
  • July 26 - STS-114: The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on its "Return To Flight" mission. This is the first space shuttle flight in nearly 2 1/2 years since the breakup of Space Shuttle Columbia on its return from mission STS-107.
  • July 26 - Mumbai and the Mumbai Conurbation area is submerged in 5-7 ft. of water due to heavy rains, making nearby dams release water causing a massive flood, which virtually stops the financial capital of India for 4-5 days.
  • July 26 - Paramore released their first album AllWeKnowIsFalling and the singles Pressure and Emergency
  • July 28 - The Provisional IRA issues a statement formally ordering an end to the armed campaign it has pursued since 1969 and ordering all its units to dump their arms.
  
  
  August : Aerial view of later flooding near downtown New Orleans, following the Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans.
  • August 1 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies, succeeded by his half-brother Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
  • August 2 - Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive.
  • August 2 - The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is signed into law in the United States.
  • August 6 - An ATR-72 heading from Italy to Tunisia crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of 39 on board.
  • August 9 - Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Discovery returns to Edwards Air Force Base at 0814 EDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight."
  • August 10 - A 2005 Tallinn Sikorsky S-76 crash en route to Helsinki, Finland crashes into the sea near Tallinn, Estonia, killing 14.
  • August 12 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched.
  • August 14 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes into a mountain in Greece, killing 121.
  • August 16 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 152 passengers.
  • August 16 - The XX World Youth Day begins in Cologne, Germany.
  • August 17 - The first forced evacuation (Israeli politics) of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
  • August 17 - Bangladesh is hit by bomb explosions.
  • August 17 - Sellapan Ramanathan gains victory in the Singapore Presidential elections, 2005.
  • August 18 - BTK killer Dennis Rader receives 10 consecutive life sentences.
  • August 18 - Peace Mission 2005, the first joint China-Russia military exercise, begins its 8-day training on the Shandong peninsula.
  • August 22 - A 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) Impact crater.
  • August 23 - Israel unilateral disengagement plan from 25 Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip and West Bank ends.
  • August 24 - Hong Kong High Court (Hong Kong) Judge Michael Hartmann rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
  • August 26 - Jean Michel Jarre's "Space of Freedom" concert is held in Gdańsk, Poland, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the creation of Solidarność ("Solidarity" trade union).
  • August 29 - At least 1,836 are killed, and Hurricane Katrina effects by region is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina strikes coastal areas from Louisiana to Alabama, and travels up the Effect of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi (flooding coast 31 feet/10 meter), affecting most of eastern North America.
  • August 31 - A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills several hundred civilians (see Baghdad bridge stampede).
  
  
  September station.: Hurricane Rita, at Beaumont, TX & Lake Charles, LA.
  • September 1 - Oil price increases of 2004 and 2005#Hurricane Katrina rise sharply following the economic effects of Hurricane Katrina.
  • September 2 - Protesters and Israeli forces clash in Bil'in.
  • September 5 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia, killing at least 117. (See list of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by year#2005).
  • September 5 - John G. Roberts is nominated by President George Walker Bush for Chief Justice of the United States, replacing William Rehnquist, who had died two days previously.
  • September 7 - Incumbent Rulers and heads of state of Egypt Hosni Mubarak wins the first multi-party Egyptian presidential election, 2005.
  • September 11 - Japan general election, 2005: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) are returned to power.
  • September 12 - The Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005 results in a victory for the red-green-coalition. The new prime-minister is Jens Stoltenberg from the Labour Party.
  • September 12 - The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort officially opens publicly.
  • September 12 - The English cricket team draw the final match to win The 2005 Ashes.
  • September 14-September 16 - The largest UN 2005 World Summit in history is held in New York City.
  • September 17 - Helen Clark, leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, is re-elected for a third term in the New Zealand general election 2005.
  • September 18 - Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany) and Gerhard Schröder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany both claim victory in the German federal election, 2005.
  • September 18 - Afghan parliamentary election, 2005: Former Afghan Northern Alliance warlords and their followers claim victory.
  • September 19 - North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.
  • September 20 - The NFL sees the groundbreaking ceremony for two new stadiums, the Indianapolis Colts' Lucas Oil Stadium and the Dallas Cowboys' temporarily named Dallas Cowboys New Stadium
  • September 23 - Convicted bank thief and Boricua Popular Army leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, is killed in his home in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico when members of the FBI attempt to serve an arrest warrant.
  • September 24 - Hurricane Rita hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, devastating areas near Beaumont, TX and Lake Charles, LA. The Ninth Ward of New Orleans re-floods since Hurricane Katrina, and Mississippi and Alabama are also affected.
  • September 24 - Worldwide protests occur against the Iraq War, with over 150,000 protestors in Washington DC. See Opposition to the Iraq War.
  • September 24 - Polish parliamentary election, 2005: Two center-right parties win the required majority of seats.
  • September 24 - Australian Rules Football team the Sydney Swans win the 2005 Grand Final, to become the AFL Premiers, defeating the West Coast Eagles at the MCG to end a 72 year Premiership drought.
  • September 26 - U.S. Army Reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on 6 of 7 counts in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
  • September 27 - Michaëlle Jean, born in Haiti, becomes the 27th Governor General of Canada, and the first Black Canadian person to hold that position.
  • September 28 - American politician Tom DeLay is indicted on charges of Conspiracy (crime) by a Texas grand jury.
  • September 29 - John G. Roberts, Jr. is confirmed and sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
  • September 29 - A High Court of Justice judge rules that Soham murderer Ian Huntley must spend at least 40 years in prison before being considered for parole; a ruling which effectively rules out his release until at least 2042 and the age of 68.
  • September 30 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes, with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in Article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
  • September 30 - Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy are printed in the Denmark newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
  
  
  October at record intensity with a central pressure of 882 millibars.
  • October 1 - The 2005 Bali bombings kill 26 people and injure more than 100.
  • October 1 - The world's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is formed by the merger of 2 Japanese banking conglomerates.
  • October 1 - An Australian photojournalist in Afghanistan, Stephen Dupont, films U.S. soldiers burning 2 dead Taliban militias' bodies with mixed reviews.
  • October 2 - A shipwreck in Lake George, New York kills 20 people.
  • October 3 - St. Tammany Parish Schools reopen in Louisiana, just over a month after Hurricane Katrina closed them.
  • October 3 - U.S. President George W. Bush nominates Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • October 4 - Hurricane Stan hits Mexico and Central America, killing over 1,620 people.
  • October 5 - Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith is charged with refusing to serve in the Iraq war.
  • October 7 - UN Nuclear warfare agency director Mohamed ElBaradei is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • October 8 - The 2005 Kashmir earthquake kills about 80,000 people.
  • October 9 - Polish presidential election, 2005: the 1st round results in a runoff between top candidates Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczyński.
  • October 12 - The second People's Republic of China spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng for 5 days in orbit.
  • October 13 - Veselin Topalov wins the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.
  • October 15 - The Iraqi constitution ratification vote, 2005 on the new Proposed Iraqi constitution is held.
  • October 15 - A riot occurs in Toledo, Ohio during a Neo-Nazi rally on racial issues; 114 are arrested.
  • October 15 - The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed.
  • October 16 - United States helicopters and warplanes bomb 2 villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people.
  • October 17 - Jens Stoltenberg becomes Prime Minister of Norway for the second time.
  • October 18 - The UN tightens the rules for its staff, following several claims of financial impropriety and sexual abuse.
  • October 19 - The Trials of Saddam Hussein begin.
  • October 19 - Hurricane Wilma swells into a
    
    

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