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2005 Calendar

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•  January 12, 2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
•  January 14, 2005 – Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn’s moon Titan.
•  February 9, 2005 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  March 10, 2005 – Tung Chee Hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.
•  April 27, 2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
•  June 6, 2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
•  July 26, 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
•  August 29, 2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.
•  October 8, 2005 – 2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
•  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.

•  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