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2005 Calendar

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•  February 9, 2005 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  February 10, 2005 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons.
•  February 16, 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
•  April 25, 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
•  June 6, 2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
•  July 24, 2005 – Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
•  August 15, 2005 – Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
•  August 18, 2005 – A Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the largest and most widespread power outage in history.
•  October 29, 2005 – Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60.
•  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