2005

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From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina kills 1,836 people throughout the Southern United States; the funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo" is the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris and its satellite Dysnomia are discovered by a Palomar Observatory-based team, becoming the tenth planet to be discovered and breaking ground for the discovery of new dwarf planets such as Haumea and Makemake; Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge at a courthouse in Baghdad; the shrine and resting place for Rafic Hariri; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (designed to explore Mars) is launched from Cape Canaveral; the Live 8 concert in the Tiergarten, Berlin.

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2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005). Template:TOC limit

Events

January

January 1 – Jeanna Giese from Wisconsin, United States, comes home from the hospital and officially becomes the first person to ever survive rabies without a vaccination.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
January 5 – Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
January 9 – The Comprehensive Peace Agreement is signed, ending the Second Sudanese Civil War in Sudan.<ref name="nd">Template:Cite web</ref>
January 12 – Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral with the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
January 14 – The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
January 20 – The most intense solar particle event in recorded history is observed.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

February

February 10 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it says it perceives from the United States.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
February 14
- Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated, along with 21 others, by a suicide bomber in Beirut.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- YouTube, an American online video sharing and social media platform was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim headquartered in San Bruno, California.
February 16 – The Kyoto Protocol officially goes into effect.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

March

March 14 – China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
March 24 – The President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, is deposed following mass anti-government demonstrations and flees the country.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
March 28 – The 8.6 Template:M Nias–Simeulue earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
March 31 – The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown at the Palomar Observatory.<ref name=jpldata>Template:Cite web</ref>

April

April 2 – Pope John Paul II dies; over four million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pope Benedict XVI succeeds him on April 19, becoming the 265th pope.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
April 8 – The first solar eclipse of the year was a rare hybrid event, occurring at ascending node in Aries. This was 4.4 days after the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of -0.34733. A hybrid solar eclipse was visible from south Pacific, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela, and was the 51st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 129.
April 9 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall. Camilla receives the title Duchess of Cornwall.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
April 23 – The first ever YouTube video is uploaded, titled Me at the zoo.<ref name="BBCYouTubeZoo">Template:Cite news</ref>
April 24 – The first lunar eclipse of the year was a penumbral event, occurring at descending node in Virgo. This was 5 days before the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of -1.08851. A penumbral lunar eclipse was visible in eastern Asia, Australia, Pacific and Americas, and was the 23rd lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 141.
April 26 – Cedar Revolution: Syria withdraws the last of its military garrison from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military occupation of the country.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
April 27 – The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

May

May 5 – The 2005 United Kingdom general election is won by Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Labour Party for a third consecutive majority government.
May 13 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and National Security Service troops massacre at least 200 protesters in the city of Andijan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
May 18 – English whisky is re-established in England.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
May 19–21 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2005 takes place in Kyiv, Ukraine, and is won by Greek entrant Helena Paparizou with the song "My Number One".
May 21 – Kingda Ka is opened for the first time to the public at Six Flags Great Adventure, becoming the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster at the time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
May 21 - David Foster Wallace delivers his now-famous commencement address, This is Water at Kenyon College in Ohio.

June

June 4 – The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

July

July 2 – Live 8, a set of 10 simultaneous concerts, takes place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
July 6
- The European Parliament rejects the proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- The International Olympic Committee awards London the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
July 7 – Four coordinated suicide bombings hit central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
July 23 – A series of bombings hit the resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing over 80 people.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
July 28 – As a result of the Good Friday Agreement signed in 1998, the Provisional Irish Republican Army ends its armed campaign and decommissions their weapons, by ordering all its units to drop their arms under the supervision of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

August

August 12 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape Canaveral, designed to explore Mars.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
August 16 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 160 passengers and crew.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
August 18 – Peace Mission 2005, the first joint China–Russia military exercise, begins its eight-day training on the Shandong Peninsula.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
August 26 – The Constitution of Chile is heavily amended, eliminating senators for life, reducing the presidential terms from six to four years, giving the president exclusive rights to summon the National Security Council, and removes legal obstacles for the creation of new regions.<ref>Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia (26 de agosto de 2005), «Ley 20050: Reforma constitucional que introduce diversas modificaciones a la Constitución política de la República», Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile, consultado el 14 de mayo de 2011.</ref>
August 29 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage, killing over a thousand people and dealing an estimated $108 billion in damage.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
August 31 – The Al-Aimmah bridge disaster in Baghdad, Iraq kills 953 Shia Muslim pilgrims who were celebrating a religious festival.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

September

September 7 – Egypt holds its first ever multi-party presidential election, which is marred with allegations of fraud.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
September 12 – Israel demolishes multiple settlements and withdraws its army from the Gaza Strip.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
September 19 – North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
September 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Template:Lang, sparking outrage and violent riots by Muslims around the world.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

October

October 3
- Croatia and Turkey's accession negotiations to the European Union officially starts.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- The second solar eclipse of 2005 was an annular event, occurring at descending node in Virgo. This was 4.8 days after the Moon reached apogee. Gamma had a value of 0.33058. An annular solar eclipse was visible in Portugal, Spain, Libya, Sudan and Kenya, and was the 43rd solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134.
October 8 – The 7.6 Template:M Kashmir earthquake strikes Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and nearby areas with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing more than 86,000 people and displacing several million more.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
October 12 – The second crewed Chinese spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
October 17 – The final eclipse of 2005 was a partial lunar eclipse event, occurring at ascending node in Aries. This was 2.9 days after the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of 0.97960. A partial lunar eclipse was visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific and North America, and was the 10th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 146.
October 19 – The trial of Saddam Hussein begins.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
October 20 – The general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passes the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October 24
- Hurricane Wilma makes landfall near Cape Romano, causing an estimated $29.1 billion in damage.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Rosa Parks dies of natural causes.

November

November 9 – At least 60 people are killed and 115 more are wounded in a series of coordinated suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
November 11 – In Kazakhstan, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, former mayor of Almaty, government minister and a political opponent of Nursultan Nazarbayev is found dead at his family compound.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
November 13 – Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old Scottish man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
November 22
- Angela Merkel assumes office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Microsoft releases the Xbox 360.<ref name="nalaunch">Template:Cite web</ref>
November 23 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wins the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
November 28 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Montreal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
November 30 – Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant with Isabelle Dinoire becoming the first person to undergo it.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

December

December 12 – Scientists announce that they have created mice with small numbers of human neurons in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
December 16 – Find-a-drug medical distributed computing project is concluded.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
December 18 – Chad descends into civil war after various rebel forces, with support from Sudan, attack the capital, N'Djamena.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
December 25 – An express train bound for the city of Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is derailed by strong winds in Shonai, Yamagata Prefecture. Five people are killed and at least 33 injured.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
December 31 – Another second is added, 23:59:60, to end the year 2005, the first time since 1998.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>