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Events on the year of 2005 in history

Events
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05 Jan 2005 Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
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06 Jan 2005 A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
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06 Jan 2005 American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
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08 Jan 2005 The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
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09 Jan 2005 The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
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09 Jan 2005 Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
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10 Jan 2005 A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
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12 Jan 2005 Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
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14 Jan 2005 The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan.
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15 Jan 2005 ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
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16 Jan 2005 Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
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18 Jan 2005 The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
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21 Jan 2005 In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
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26 Jan 2005 Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
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29 Jan 2005 The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
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01 Feb 2005 King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
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14 Feb 2005 YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
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14 Feb 2005 Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
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14 Feb 2005 Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafic Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
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16 Feb 2005 The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs.
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16 Feb 2005 The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
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20 Feb 2005 Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
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23 Feb 2005 The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the "positive values of colonialism". After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
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28 Feb 2005 A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
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01 Mar 2005 U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in "national standards,".
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03 Mar 2005 Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
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03 Mar 2005 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
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03 Mar 2005 Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
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10 Mar 2005 Tung Chee-hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.
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12 Mar 2005 Karolos Papoulias becomes President of Greece.
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16 Mar 2005 Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
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23 Mar 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
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26 Mar 2005 The Taiwanese government calls on one million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the demonstration.
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28 Mar 2005 The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
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06 Apr 2005 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
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08 Apr 2005 Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
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09 Apr 2005 Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall.
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14 Apr 2005 The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
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22 Apr 2005 Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
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23 Apr 2005 First YouTube video uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo".
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24 Apr 2005 Snuppy becomes world's first cloned dog.
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24 Apr 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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25 Apr 2005 One hundred seven people die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
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25 Apr 2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
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25 Apr 2005 The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
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26 Apr 2005 Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
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27 Apr 2005 The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
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29 Apr 2005 Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.[dubious – discuss]
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10 May 2005 A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 meters) 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.
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13 May 2005 The Bính Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
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13 May 2005 The Andijan massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
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16 May 2005 Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
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18 May 2005 A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
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21 May 2005 The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
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22 May 2005 A Presidential election is held in Mongolia; the result is a victory for Nambaryn Enkhbayar of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP).
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30 May 2005 American student Natalee Holloway disappears while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, and caused a media sensation in the United States.
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31 May 2005 Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
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06 Jun 2005 In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.
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13 Jun 2005 A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
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21 Jun 2005 Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been acquitted for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
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02 Jul 2005 The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa, More than 1,000 musicians performed and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
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04 Jul 2005 The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
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07 Jul 2005 A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
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10 Jul 2005 Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
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22 Jul 2005 Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
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26 Jul 2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
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26 Jul 2005 Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
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29 Jul 2005 Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
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02 Aug 2005 Air France Flight 358 crashes at Pearson Airport in Toronto; all passengers and crew survive.
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03 Aug 2005 President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
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03 Aug 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
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04 Aug 2005 Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.
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12 Aug 2005 Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.
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14 Aug 2005 Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
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15 Aug 2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
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29 Aug 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.
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31 Aug 2005 A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
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07 Sep 2005 Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.
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08 Sep 2005 Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
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12 Sep 2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
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16 Sep 2005 The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
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21 Sep 2005 Hurricane Rita becomes the third most intense hurricane (dropped to 4th on October 19, 2005).
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24 Sep 2005 Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
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27 Sep 2005 After 162 episodes, Tom and Jerry airs its final episode titled, The Karate Guard.
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30 Sep 2005 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
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02 Oct 2005 Ethan Allen boating accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
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08 Oct 2005 2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
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12 Oct 2005 The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
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15 Oct 2005 A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
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19 Oct 2005 Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
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19 Oct 2005 Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
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21 Oct 2005 Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
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22 Oct 2005 Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
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24 Oct 2005 Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
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27 Oct 2005 Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
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28 Oct 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.
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29 Oct 2005 Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60.
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30 Oct 2005 The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
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27 Nov 2005 The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
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30 Nov 2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
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03 Dec 2005 XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.
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04 Dec 2005 Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
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05 Dec 2005 The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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06 Dec 2005 Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
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06 Dec 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.
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07 Dec 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.
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07 Dec 2005 Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes but later acquitted, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife, by Spanish police.
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11 Dec 2005 The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom.
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11 Dec 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.
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15 Dec 2005 Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
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17 Dec 2005 Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
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17 Dec 2005 Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan.
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18 Dec 2005 The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
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20 Dec 2005 Aleksandër Moisiu University was founded in Durrës, Albania.
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24 Dec 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.
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30 Dec 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.
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