WHAT HAPPENED IN 2005.
Look what happened the 2005.

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

Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. (28. October 2005)

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

The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. (30. October 2005)

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

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

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

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

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

XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California. (3. December 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)

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

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

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)

Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife, by Spanish police. (7. December 2005)

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

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

   
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