WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 2005
Find out what all happened November to December 2005

Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport. (7. December 2005)

The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (9. November 2005)

The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France. (27. November 2005)

The civil war in Chad begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré. (18. December 2005)

John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. (30. November 2005)

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. (23. November 2005)

An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 more on the ground. (6. December 2005)

Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service. (15. December 2005)

Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people. (9. November 2005)

Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage. (4. December 2005)

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. (30. December 2005)

The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom. (11. December 2005)

Aleksandër Moisiu University was founded in Durrës, Albania. (20. December 2005)

Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. (22. November 2005)

The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (5. December 2005)

Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead. (24. December 2005)

Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China. (6. December 2005)

Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan. (17. December 2005)

Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who are not) in Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla. (11. December 2005)

Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. (17. December 2005)

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