Historical Events in 2005 (Part 2)

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• Sep 12 Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
• Sep 12 Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.

• Sep 12 The bodies of more than 40 patients discovered in a flooded hospital in New Orleans.
• Sep 12 The red-green coalition, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election, taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament.

• Sep 16 Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples.

• Sep 23 FBI killing of Filiberto Ojeda on Plan Bonito Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.
• Sep 24 Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.

• Sep 27 Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New York Mets
• Sep 29 Amnesty referendum in Algeria
• Sep 29 Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season
• Sep 30 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
• Sep 30 The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
• Oct 1 Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
• Oct 2 NFL plays first regular season game outside the United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
• Oct 2 The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people
• Oct 4 "All the Right Reasons", fifth studio album by Nickelback, is released
• Oct 4 Palace of the Arts - the world's tallest opera house and last major structure of the City of Arts and Science's complex, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opens in Valencia, Spain [1]

• Oct 5 NHL opens regular season after 10-month lockout of entire 2004-05 season; Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson & Dany Heatley first players to score winning goals in a shoot out in NHL history; both score v Toronto goalie Ed Belfour in 3-2 OT victory

• Oct 8 NHL great Wayne Gretzky gets his first win as a coach as the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 at Jobing.com Arena, Phoenix
• Oct 8 The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.

• Oct 12 The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.

• Oct 15 Iraqi constitution ratification vote
• Oct 15 Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested

• Oct 19 Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb

• Oct 22 Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
• Oct 27 Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
• Oct 28 Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
• Oct 29 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
• Oct 30 The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
• Nov 1 First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in Canada.
• Nov 2 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 8, premieres with the Bruckner Orchester Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NYC

• Nov 6 The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
• Nov 6 The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.

• Nov 9 Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
• Nov 9 The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

• Nov 15 Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines

• Nov 17 Italy's choice of national anthem, "Il Canto degli Italiani", becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
• Nov 18 20th Century Fox releases "Walk the Line", starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, and directed by James Mangold; Witherspoon wins an Academy Award

• Nov 22 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany
• Nov 22 Ted Koppel retires from late night television news program "Nightline with Ted Koppel", after 25 years with the show, 41 Emmy Awards, and 42 years with ABC

• Nov 25 Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians showing maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, including the nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities by Soviet-controlled forces.
• Nov 27 First partial human face transplant is completed for Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France.
• Nov 27 President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, is re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term

• Nov 29 The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
• Nov 30 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York

• Dec 2 Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.
• Dec 3 XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
• Dec 4 Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage

• Dec 5 The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
• Dec 5 The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Dec 6 Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China
• Dec 7 Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
• Dec 7 U.S. debut of the second part of two-part TV biopic miniseries "Pope John Paul II" on CBS
• Dec 8 Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.

• Dec 10 71st Heisman Trophy Award: Reggie Bush, USC (RB); Bush later forfeits trophy
• Dec 11 Cronulla riots: thousands of white Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence, resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed by ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
• Dec 11 The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, England, is rocked by explosions, causing a huge oil fire.
• Dec 15 Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF.
• Dec 15 Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
• Dec 15 Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
• Dec 15 The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began.
• Dec 17 Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
• Dec 20 Geffen Records releases "The Breakthrough", the 7th studio album by Mary J. Blige; it wins 3 Grammy Awrds, and sells over 3 million copies
• Dec 20 New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike over pension and wage increases, shutting down all subway and bus services for three days
• Dec 20 The first same sex civil partnerships in Scotland are celebrated
• Dec 20 US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
• Dec 21 Civil Partnership Act comes into force in the UK, with singer Elton John and David Furnish one of the first couples to form a same-sex civil union

• Dec 23 Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashes shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
• Dec 23 Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead
• Dec 26 Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto kills 1 and wounds 6 others
• Dec 28 A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
• Dec 30 Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin

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