2005 Calendar
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2005 Historical Event(s)
January 9, 2005
– Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
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 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.
May 13, 2005
– The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
October 19, 2005
– Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
October 27, 2005
– The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
December 4, 2005
– Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
December 6, 2005
– Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
December 11, 2005
– Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who are not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
Who Were Born On 2005?
January 30, 2005
– Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II of Jordan
March 26, 2005
– Countess Luana of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg
June 5, 2005
– Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
June 26, 2005
– Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
August 9, 2005
– Caylee Anthony, American child murder victim (d. 2008)
September 16, 2005
– Princess Jalilah bint Ali of Jordan
October 15, 2005
– Prince Christian of Denmark, Danish royal
October 31, 2005
– Infanta Leonor of Spain, Spanish royalty
December 3, 2005
– Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway