2005

2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. more...

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It was designated:

The Year of the Volunteer by the UK government; The World Year of Physics; The International Year of the Eucharist in Catholicism.; The Year of Cork City as European Capital of Culture.;

See also: Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.

Climate

Based on estimates by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 was the warmest year since reliable wide-spread instrumental measurements became available in the late 1800s, beating the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree Celsius.

Other researchers place 1998 at the top of the temperature record.

Geography

Due to a combination of the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and an overactive hurricane season and other factors, 2005 was also the costliest year for natural disasters, with world wide damages estimated at over 200 billion dollars.

Events

January

January 4 - Gunmen assassinate the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri.; January 9 - The same storm which pounded the U.S. earlier in the month hits England and Scandinavia, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.; January 9 - Palestinian election: Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority President.; January 12 - Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.; January 13 - Armed militants enter Israel from Gaza and open fire near the border, killing six people and wounding five others. Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility for the attack.; January 14 - The Huygens probe lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.;

January 16 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so.; January 16 - Armed militants kill one person and wound eight people in the Gush Katif settlement, Gaza Strip. Hamas claims responsibility.^{Confirmation needed}; January 20 - George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. for his second term as the 43rd President of the United States.; January 20 - Ireland completes metrication.; January 21 - In Belmopan, Belize, unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.; January 25 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 215, mostly women and small children.; January 26 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail, killing 11 and injuring 200, in Glendale, California near Los Angeles.; January 30 - The first free Parliamentary elections in Iraq since 1958 take place.; January 30 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgents release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.^{Confirmation needed}; January 31 - The Michael Jackson trial commences in Santa Barbara, California, 14 months after Jackson was arrested with much publicity.;

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