* December 20 – [[2005 New York City transit strike]]: [[New York City]]'s [[Transport Workers Union]] Local 100 goes on [[strike action|strike]] for three days, shutting down all [[New York City Subway]] and [[New York City Bus|Bus]] services.
* December 20 – [[2005 New York City transit strike]]: [[New York City]]'s [[Transport Workers Union]] Local 100 goes on [[strike action|strike]] for three days, shutting down all [[New York City Subway]] and [[New York City Bus|Bus]] services.
* December 23 – [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following the [[Iraqi elections]].
* December 23 – [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following the [[Iraqi elections]].
* December 25 - Christmas day were santa comes to ur house and gives u presents
February 10 –
North Korea announces that it possesses
nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.[2]
February 15 – The Internet site
YouTube goes online.
February 16 – The
Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, without the support of the United States and
Australia.[3]
Based on estimates by
NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 is the warmest year since reliable widespread instrumental measurements became available in the late 19th century, beating the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree Celsius. It will be replaced by 2007 as the warmest year.[citation needed]
February 24 – David Hernandez Arroyo goes on a
shooting rampage at the
Smith County Courthouse in
Tyler, Texas. He kills two, including his ex-wife, and injures four people, before being killed in a police chase.[4]
February 25 –
Wichita,
Kansas police apprehend the BTK serial killer
Dennis Rader, 31 years after his first murder.[5]
Unusually high precipitation in the winter of 2005 caused an ephemeral lake to occur in the
Badwater Basin of
Death Valley National Park. Image from March 15, 2005.
March 4 – The car of released
Italian hostage
Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by U.S. soldiers in
Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.[7]
March 11 – Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the
Fulton County Courthouse in
Atlanta,
Georgia; the main suspect,
Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.[8]
April 9 – Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters of
Shia cleric
Moqtada Sadr, march through
Baghdad denouncing the
U.S. occupation of Iraq, two years after the fall of
Saddam Hussein, and rally in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.
April 30 – Newsweek reports that American interrogators and guards have
desecrated the Qur'an in attempts to rattle Islamic detainees.
June 17 – Because of "quadruple-witching"
options and
futures expiration, the
New York Stock Exchange sees the heaviest first-hour trading on record. 704 million shares are traded between 9:30–10:30 a.m. (1.92 billion shares for the day).
June 17 – A 6.7 aftershock, which followed a 5.3
earthquake the previous day, hits
California, making it the fourth earthquake since June 12 in
California.
June 21 – A
Volna booster rocket carrying the first
light sail spacecraft (a joint
Russian-United States project) fails 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
June 30 – The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (
CAFTA) is passed by the United States.
July 19 – President Bush nominated
John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill a vacancy that would be left by the resignation of Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor.
October 31 – Astronomers announce the discovery of two additional moons orbiting
Pluto,
Nix and
Hydra. The moons were found in images from the
Hubble Space Telescope.
* December 20 – [[2005 New York City transit strike]]: [[New York City]]'s [[Transport Workers Union]] Local 100 goes on [[strike action|strike]] for three days, shutting down all [[New York City Subway]] and [[New York City Bus|Bus]] services.
* December 20 – [[2005 New York City transit strike]]: [[New York City]]'s [[Transport Workers Union]] Local 100 goes on [[strike action|strike]] for three days, shutting down all [[New York City Subway]] and [[New York City Bus|Bus]] services.
* December 23 – [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following the [[Iraqi elections]].
* December 23 – [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following the [[Iraqi elections]].
* December 25 - Christmas day were santa comes to ur house and gives u presents
February 10 –
North Korea announces that it possesses
nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.[2]
February 15 – The Internet site
YouTube goes online.
February 16 – The
Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, without the support of the United States and
Australia.[3]
Based on estimates by
NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 is the warmest year since reliable widespread instrumental measurements became available in the late 19th century, beating the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree Celsius. It will be replaced by 2007 as the warmest year.[citation needed]
February 24 – David Hernandez Arroyo goes on a
shooting rampage at the
Smith County Courthouse in
Tyler, Texas. He kills two, including his ex-wife, and injures four people, before being killed in a police chase.[4]
February 25 –
Wichita,
Kansas police apprehend the BTK serial killer
Dennis Rader, 31 years after his first murder.[5]
Unusually high precipitation in the winter of 2005 caused an ephemeral lake to occur in the
Badwater Basin of
Death Valley National Park. Image from March 15, 2005.
March 4 – The car of released
Italian hostage
Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by U.S. soldiers in
Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.[7]
March 11 – Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the
Fulton County Courthouse in
Atlanta,
Georgia; the main suspect,
Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.[8]
April 9 – Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters of
Shia cleric
Moqtada Sadr, march through
Baghdad denouncing the
U.S. occupation of Iraq, two years after the fall of
Saddam Hussein, and rally in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.
April 30 – Newsweek reports that American interrogators and guards have
desecrated the Qur'an in attempts to rattle Islamic detainees.
June 17 – Because of "quadruple-witching"
options and
futures expiration, the
New York Stock Exchange sees the heaviest first-hour trading on record. 704 million shares are traded between 9:30–10:30 a.m. (1.92 billion shares for the day).
June 17 – A 6.7 aftershock, which followed a 5.3
earthquake the previous day, hits
California, making it the fourth earthquake since June 12 in
California.
June 21 – A
Volna booster rocket carrying the first
light sail spacecraft (a joint
Russian-United States project) fails 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
June 30 – The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (
CAFTA) is passed by the United States.
July 19 – President Bush nominated
John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill a vacancy that would be left by the resignation of Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor.
October 31 – Astronomers announce the discovery of two additional moons orbiting
Pluto,
Nix and
Hydra. The moons were found in images from the
Hubble Space Telescope.