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2005 Calendar

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•  January 12, 2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
•  February 9, 2005 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  March 3, 2005 – Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
•  April 9, 2005 – Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor’s Guildhall.
•  May 10, 2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
•  June 6, 2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
•  June 13, 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
•  July 24, 2005 – Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
•  August 12, 2005 – Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.
•  August 17, 2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh

•  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