2005

2005 Events:

• Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral.
• The Huygens probe lands on Titan (Saturn's largest moon).
• Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 years of age - the oldest woman to do so.
• Ireland completes metrication.
• Yulia Tymoshenko becomes the 13th prime-minister of Ukraine.
• Internet site YouTube goes online.
• Steve Fossett breaks a world record - first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world.
• The Tulip Revolution (Kyrgyzstan) ends with the overthrow of president Askar Akayev.
• Pope John Paul II dies.
• Rainier III, Prince of Monaco dies.
• Marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles - follows after the Pope's funeral.
• Camilla assumes the titles Her Royal Highness and Duchess of Cornwall.
• Pope Benedict XVI (Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) succeeds Pope John Paul II, becoming the 265th pope.
• UK General election - Labour Party is re-elected with reduced majority.
• Kuwaiti women are granted the right to vote.
• W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be "Deep Throat."
• The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched.
• Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans leaving thousands dead and many homeless.
• Drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
• The 2005 Bali bombings occur - killing 26 and injuring > 100.
• Veselin Topalov wins FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.
• The Trials of Saddam Hussein begin.
• Andrew Stimpson, a British man, is reported as the first person proven HIV case 'cured'
• The Licensing Act 2003 comes into force in England and Wales - flexible licensing hours.
• First human face transplant (France).
• The 43rd Mersenne prime is found (230,402,457) - discovered by Dr. Curtis Cooper and Dr. Steven Boone.
• Leap second added to end of year.

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