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2005

1 ________ – John Ziman, English-New Zealand physicist (b.

2 February 25 – Peter Benenson, lawyer and founder of ________ (b.

3 ________ – NASA's "Copper bullet" from the Deep Impact spacecraft hits Comet Tempel 1, creating a crater for scientific studies.

4 September 18 – Michael Park, English Rally Co- Driver of ________ (b.

5 ________ – The 43rd Mersenne prime is found.

6 March 8 – The Pakistan Army opens fire on insurgents in Baluchistan, in the first armed uprising since General Rahimuddin Khan's stabilization of the province in ________.

7 April 27 – The Superjumbo jet aircraft ________ makes its first flight from Toulouse.

8 May 15 – A passenger ferry capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the Bura Gauranga River in ________, leaving 200 people missing.

9 November 13 – ________, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b.

10 ________ – Shakidor Dam fails in Pakistan due to heavy rain.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 2005, Ghatam player Ghatam Udupa became the first Indian to perform at the Krakow International Percussion Festival?
  • director Fei Mu's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005?
  • reopening of the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (pictured) in 2005 marked a major improvement of Polish-Ukrainian relations?
  • the 1984 Murray Head hit "One Night In Bangkok," from the musical Chess, gained newfound popularity in 2005 due to a remix by the dance act Vinylshakerz?
  • the UK Government Decontamination Service was set up in 2005 after increased threats of terrorism to help the United Kingdom resist and recover from biological, chemical and nuclear incidents?
  • the Mifflin Street Block Party, which attracted around 20,000 participants in 2005, began as a street dance in protest against the Vietnam War?
  • That Summer Day is the first television drama for children about the bombings of the London public transport system on July 7, 2005?
  • Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003?
  • Bangalore Gayana Samaja, which celebrated its centenary in 2005, is one of the oldest cultural organisations in Bangalore?
  • professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005?
  • Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, the national library of Québec, and the public library of the city of Montréal, will share a facility beginning in 2005?
  • Kermit Roosevelt III, author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law, is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
  • Luis Ramirez was the 15th person executed in 2005 in the U.S. state of Texas?
  • "truthiness," a word made by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, was selected as the 2005 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society?
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