WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 2005
Find out what all happened May to October 2005

Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home. (12. August 2005)

A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people. (31. August 2005)

2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. (8. October 2005)

A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons: Nix and Hydra. (18. May 2005)

Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. (19. October 2005)

Same-sex marriage in Spain becomes legal. (3. July 2005)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran. (3. August 2005)

Tornadoes touch down in residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people. (28. July 2005)

Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. (29. July 2005)

STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft. (27. July 2005)

Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers. (27. October 2005)

Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. (26. July 2005)

The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. (30. September 2005)

The Bính Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam. (13. May 2005)

A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history. (18. August 2005)

Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities. (2. August 2005)

Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. (19. October 2005)

Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana. (24. September 2005)

Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60. (29. October 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. (10. May 2005)