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2005 (MMV) was a common year that started on a Saturday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 2005th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 5th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 6th of the 2000s decade.

2005 was designated as:

• The Year of the Volunteer by the UK government.
• The World Year of Physics by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.^[1]
• The International Year of the Eucharist in Catholicism.
• The Year of Cork City, Ireland as European Capital of Culture.
• The Year of the Veteran in Canada.
• The Year of Discovery.^{[citation needed]}

The year 2005 was the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005).

Events

January

• January 4 – Gunmen assassinate the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri.^[2]
• January 9 – The same storm which pounded the U.S. earlier in the month hits England, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.^[3]
• January 9 – Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority President.^[4]
• January 12 – Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.^[5]
• January 14 – The Huygens probe lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.^[6]
• January 20 – George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. for his second term as the 43rd President of the United States.^[7]
• January 25 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 250.^[8]
• January 30 – The first free Parliamentary elections in Iraq since 1958 take place.^[9]

February

• February 9 – An ETA car bomb injures at least 40 people at a conference centre in Madrid.^[10]
• February 10 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.^[11]
• February 10 – Saudi Arabia holds its first ever municipal elections, in which only male citizens are allowed to vote.^[12]
• February 14 – Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri is killed in Beirut after an assassination attempt by suicide bombing, it also kills at least 16 other people and injures 120 others.^[13]
• February 14 – 59 people are killed and 200 injured after a fire breaks out in a mosque in Tehran, Iran.^[14]
• February 16 – The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, without the support of the United States and Australia.^[15]
• February 19 – Suicide bombers kill more than 30 people in Iraq as Shia Muslims mark Ashura, their holiest day.^[16]
• February 22 – More than 500 people are killed and over 1,000 injured, after entire villages are flattened in an earthquake (6.4 on the Richter scale) in the Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran.^[17]
• February 26 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak asks Parliament to amend the constitution to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005.^[18]

March

• March 3 – The freighter M/V Karen Danielsen crashes into the Great Belt Bridge of Denmark. All traffic across the bridge is closed, effectively separating Denmark in two.^[19]
• March 3 – Millionaire Steve Fossett breaks a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.^[20]
• March 3 – Four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers are gunned down in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, Canada. It is deadliest day in Canadian law enforcement in over 120 years.^[21]
• March 4 – The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of 1 passenger and injuring 2 more.^[22]
• March 8 – The Pakistan Army opens fire on insurgents in Baluchistan, in the first armed uprising since General Rahimuddin Khan's stabilization of the province in 1978.
• March 14 – The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.^[23]
• March 14 – 800,000 people gather for an opposition rally in Beirut, a month after the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. It is the largest rally in Lebanon's history.^[24]
• March 19 – A time bomb explodes in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40.^[25]
• March 24 – The Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan reaches its climax with the overthrow of president Askar Akayev.^[26]
• March 26 – The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Between 200,000 and 300,000 attend the walk.^[27]

April

• April 2 – Pope John Paul II dies; over 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.^[28][29][30]
• April 6 – The first 13th root calculation of a 200-digit number is computed by Frenchman Alexis Lemaire.^[31]
• April 8 – A referendum is held in Curaçao on independence vs. integration with the Netherlands.^[32]
• 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, 2 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and rally in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.^[33]
• April 17 – Twelve holidaymakers are killed in southern Switzerland when a bus carrying 27 people plunges 656 feet into a ravine.^[34]
• April 18 – Five people die in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.^[35]
• April 19 – Papal conclave, 2005: Pope Benedict XVI (Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) succeeds Pope John Paul II, becoming the 265th pope.^[36][37]
• April 20 – An earthquake (5.8 on the Richter scale) hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, injuring 56.^[38]
• April 25 – Amagasaki rail crash: A passenger train derails in Amagasaki Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, killing 104 people and injuring at least another 450.^[39]
• April 26 – Facing international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.^[40]
• April 27 – The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse.^[41]

May

• May 3 – At least 32 people are killed and 9 others injured when 3 two-story buildings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore collapse after gas cylinders stored in one of them explode.^[42]
• May 4 – In one of the largest insurgent attacks in Iraq, at least 60 people are killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.^[43]
• May 13 – Uzbek troops kill up to 700 during protests in eastern Uzbekistan over the trials of 23 accused Islamic extremists. President Islom Karimov defends the act.^[44]
• May 15 – A passenger ferry capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the Bura Gauranga River in Bangladesh, leaving 200 people missing.^[45]
• May 16 – George Galloway appears before a United States Senate committee, to answer allegations of making money from the Iraqi Oil-for-Food Programme.^[46]
• May 17 – Kuwaiti women are granted the right to vote.^[47]

June

• 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.^[48]
• June 28 – Queen Elizabeth II conducts the International Fleet Review of 167 international warships in the Solent, as part of the Trafalgar 200 celebrations.^[49]

July

• July 2 – Live 8, a set of 10 simultaneous concerts, takes place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.^[50]
• July 4 – NASA's "Copper bullet" from the Deep Impact spacecraft hits Comet Tempel 1, creating a crater for scientific studies.^[51]
• July 4 – Violent anti-G8 demonstrations occur in Gleneagles, Scotland.
• July 4 – The Italy-USA Foundation is established in Rome, Italy.
• July 6 – The European Parliament rejects the Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading in the codecision procedure.^[52]
• July 6 – The International Olympic Committee awards the 2012 Summer Olympics to London.^[53]
• July 7 – Four explosions (3 on the London Underground and 1 on a bus) rock the transport network in London, killing 56 and injuring over 700.^[54]
• July 12 – Terrorists kill 5 people and wound 90 in a crowded mall in Netanya, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.^[55]
• July 23 – A series of blasts hits a resort town in Egypt.^[56]
• July 28 – The Provisional IRA issues a statement formally ordering an end to the armed campaign it has pursued since 1969, and ordering all its units to dump their arms.^[57]

August

• August 12 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched.
• August 16 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 152 passengers.
• August 18 – Peace Mission 2005, the first joint China–Russia military exercise, begins its 8-day training on the Shandong peninsula.
• August 22 – A 4.1 kilograms (9.0 lb) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 150 millimeters (5.9 in) crater.
• August 23 – Israel's unilateral disengagement from 25 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank ends.
• August 29 – At least 1,836 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina.
• August 31 – A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills several hundred civilians (see Baghdad bridge stampede).

September

• September 2 – Protesters and Israeli forces clash in Bil'in.
• September 11 – Japan general election, 2005: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the Liberal Democratic Party are returned to power.
• September 14–16 – The largest UN World Summit in history is held in New York City.
• September 18 – Afghan parliamentary election: Former Northern Alliance warlords and their followers claim victory.
• September 19 – North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.
• September 23 – Convicted bank thief and Boricua Popular Army leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, is killed in his home in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico when members of the FBI attempt to serve an arrest warrant.
• September 26 – U.S. Army Reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on 6 of 7 counts, in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
• September 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

October

• October 1 – The 2005 Bali bombings kill 26 people and injure more than 100.
• October 1 – The world's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is formed by the merger of 2 Japanese banking conglomerates.
• October 1 – An Australian photojournalist in Afghanistan, Stephen Dupont, films U.S. soldiers burning 2 dead Taliban militias' bodies.
• October 8 – The 2005 Kashmir earthquake kills about 80,000 people.
• October 12 – The second Chinese spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng for 5 days in orbit.
• October 15 – The referendum on the new Proposed Iraqi constitution is held.
• October 15 – The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed.
• October 19 – The Trials of Saddam Hussein begin.
• October 21 – The 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar is observed, with celebrations held around the United Kingdom.
• October 29 – At least 61 people are killed and many others wounded in 3 powerful blasts in the Indian capital, Delhi (see 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings).

November

• November 2 – The Spanish Congress of Deputies approves the admission to formality of the new Catalan Statute of Autonomy with the support of all the groups except the People's Party (PP), which the same day files an objection of unconstitutionality.
• November 4 – The U.S. and Uruguay governments sign a Bilateral Investment Treaty.
• November 9 – At least 50 people are killed and more than 120 injured in a series of coordinated suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan (See 2005 Amman bombings).
• November 13 – Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year old British man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.
• November 25 – The 20th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting opens in Valletta, Malta.
• November 28 – December 9 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Montreal, Quebec.
• November 30 – Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant.

December

• December 6 – An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashes into a ten-story building in a civilian area of Tehran, the capital of Iran, killing all 94 people aboard and 34 residents of the building (128 total).
• December 7 – The European Union TLD .eu is launched, and replaces .eu.int. Initially this will be only for business purposes. From 7 April 2006 onwards, EU citizens can also register .eu domains.
• December 11 – The 2005 Cronulla riots occur in Sydney, Australia, involving up to 5,000 youths.
• December 12 – Scientists announce that they have created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.
• December 14 – Shakidor Dam fails in Pakistan due to heavy rain.
• December 16 – The 43rd Mersenne prime is found.
• December 23 – Chad declares a state of war with Sudan, following a December 18 attack on Adre, which left about 100 people dead.
• December 31 – Another second is added, 23:59:60, called a leap second, to end the year 2005. The last time this occurred was on June 30, 1998.

World population

World population
	2005	2000		2010
World	6,453,628,000	6,070,581,000	383,047,000
Africa	887,964,000	795,671,000	92,293,000
Asia	3,917,508,000	3,679,737,000	237,771,000
Europe	724,722,000	727,986,000	3,264,000
Latin America	558,281,000	520,229,000	38,052,000
Northern America	332,156,000	315,915,000	16,241,000
Oceania	32,998,000	31,043,000	1,955,000

Births

• April 8 – Leah Isadora Behn, granddaughter of King Harald V of Norway
• July 27 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
• October 15 – Prince Christian of Denmark, son of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
• October 31 – Infanta Leonor of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and his wife Letizia
• December 3 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, grandson of King Harald V of Norway

Deaths

January

• January 1 – Shirley Chisholm, African-American politician (b. 1924)
• January 1 – Eugene J. Martin, American artist (b. 1938)
• January 2 – John Ziman, English-New Zealand physicist (b. 1925)
• January 4 – Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
• January 4 – Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
• January 4 – Robert Heilbroner, American writer (b. 1919)
• January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French writer and humorist (b. 1913)
• January 10 – Joséphine-Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
• January 12 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
• January 15 – Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
• January 17 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
• January 17 – Zhao Ziyang, Chinese premier (b. 1919)
• January 19 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
• January 19 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand trade union leader (b. 1924)
• January 20 – Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
• January 21 – Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1907)
• January 23 – Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
• January 25 – Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)

February

Max Schmeling

• February 1 – John Vernon, Canadian Actor (b.1932)
• February 2 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b.1905)
• February 3 – Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
• February 5 – Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
• February 6 – Merle Kilgore, American singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
• February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
• February 13 – Lucia dos Santos, Visionary to the Marian apparitions at Fátima (b. 1907) a Discalced Carmelite nun
• February 14 – Rafik Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1944)
• February 17 – Nariman Sadeq, Queen of Egypt (b. 1934)
• February 20 – Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
• February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist (b. 1937)
• February 22 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
• February 25 – Peter Benenson, lawyer and founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)

March

James Callaghan

Johnnie Cochran

• March 3 – Rinus Michels, Dutch soccer player and coach (b. 1928)
• March 6 – Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
• March 6 – Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1941)
• March 9 – Jeanette Schmid, German-born professional whistler (b. 1924)
• March 9 – Chris LeDoux, American rodeo performer and singer (b. 1949)
• March 10 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)
• March 19 – John Z. DeLorean, American car maker (b.1925)
• March 21 – Bobby Short, American entertainer (b. 1924)
• March 22 – Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Spanish spiritual leader (b. 1946)
• March 25 – George F. Kennan, American diplomat and political advisor (b. 1904)
• March 26 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
• March 29 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
• March 30 – Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
• March 31 – Terri Schiavo, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1963)
• March 31 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)

April

Pope John Paul II

• April 1 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (b. 1925)
• April 2 – Pope John Paul II, Polish Roman Catholic Pope (b. 1920)
• April 5 – John Sichel, British film and television director (b. 1937)
• April 5 – Saul Bellow, American writer (b. 1915)
• April 6 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
• April 19 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
• April 20 – Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (b. 1943)
• April 22 – Norman Bird, British actor (b. 1920)
• April 23 – John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
• April 24 – Ezer Weizman, former President of Israel (b. 1924)
• April 26 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
• April 26 - Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926)

May

Eddie Albert

• May 2 – Wee Kim Wee, President of Singapore (b. 1915)
• May 7 – Peter Wallace Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
• May 8 – Lloyd Cutler, American attorney and Presidential advisor (b. 1917)
• May 13 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
• May 14 – Jimmy Martin, American musician (b. 1927)
• May 22 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (b. 1914)
• May 25 – Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)
• May 25 - Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (b. 1936)
• May 26 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)

June

Anne Bancroft

• June 6 – Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist (b. 1932)
• June 6 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
• June 13 – Jonathan Adams, British actor (b. 1931)
• June 13 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (b. 1913)
• June 25 – Domino Harvey, British born bounty hunter who moved to Los Angeles (b. 1969)

July

Edward Heath

• July 1 – Luther Vandross, American R&B singer (b. 1951)
• July 6 - Evan Hunter A.K.A. Ed McBain, American crime writer (b. 1926)
• July 17 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• July 18 – William Westmoreland, U.S. general (b. 1914)
• July 19 – John Tyndall, British activist (b. 1934)
• July 20 – James Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
• July 21 – Long John Baldry, British musician (b. 1941)
• July 21 – Alfred Hayes, English wrestling announcer (b. 1928)
• July 23 – Myron Floren, American accordianist & musician (b. 1919)
• July 26 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
• July 26 – Robert C. Turner, American potter (b. 1913)
• July 31 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch president of the European Central Bank (b. 1935)

August

Peter Jennings

• August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
• August 6 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
• August 7 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (b. 1938)
• August 8 – Sheikh Ahmed Deedat, Indian author, lecturer, and orator (b. 1918)
• August 8 – John H. Johnson, American businessman and publisher. (b. 1918)
• August 12 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister of Sri Lanka (assassinated) (b. 1932)
• August 13 – David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
• August 16 – Frère Roger, Swiss founder of the Taizé Community (b. 1915)
• August 19 – Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)
• August 21 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)

September

William Rehnquist

• September 3 – William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
• September 10 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (b. 1924)
• September 14 – Robert Wise, American film director (b. 1914)
• September 17 – Alfred Reed, American Composer and Conductor (b. 1921)
• September 18 – Michael Park, English Rally Co- Driver of Markko Martin (b. 1966)
• September 20 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
• September 23 – Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
• September 25 – Don Adams, American actor (b. 1923)
• September 26 – Jerry Juhl, American writer (b. 1938)

October

Rosa Parks

• October 2 – Nipsey Russell, American actor and game show personality (b. 1918)
• October 3 – Ronnie Barker, British comic actor (b. 1929)
• October 10 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
• October 17 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
• October 24 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
• October 24 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• October 24 – Robert Sloman, English writer (b. 1926)
• October 28 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and physicist (b. 1943)

November

Eddie Guerrero

• November 5 - John Fowles, English novelist (b. 1926)
• November 9 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
• November 11 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer (b. 1930)
• November 11 – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
• November 13 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
• November 19 – Erik Balling, Danish television and film director (b. 1924)
• November 20 – Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1945)
• November 24 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
• November 25 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
• November 25 – Richard Burns, English race car driver (b. 1971)

December

• December 1 – Mary Hayley Bell (Lady Mary Mills), Actress & Writer (b. 1911)

Richard Pryor

• December 2 – Mohammed Amza Zubeidi, former prime minister of Iraq (b. 1938)
• December 2 – Nguyen Tuong Van, Vietnamese-Australian drug trafficker and capital punishment cause célèbre (b. 1980)
• December 2 – Christine Pullein-Thompson, British author (b. 1925)
• December 6 – Devan Nair, President of Singapore (b. 1923)
• December 10 – Richard Pryor, American comedian (b. 1940)
• December 12 – Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (b. 1917)
• December 13 – Stanley Williams, American gang founder (b. 1953)
• December 16 – John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
• December 18 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
• December 21 – William C. Rodgers, American arsonist (b. unknown)
• December 23 – Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician (b. 1931)
• December 25 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918)
• December 25 – Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (b. 1922)
• December 26 – Kerry Packer, Australian media tycoon (b. 1937)
• December 26 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
• December 28 – Patrick Cranshaw, American actor (b.1919)
• December 29 – Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch
• Chemistry – Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock, Yves Chauvin
• Physiology or Medicine – Robin Warren, Barry Marshall
• Literature – Harold Pinter
• Peace – Mohamed ElBaradei
• Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert J. Aumann, Thomas Schelling

2005 in fiction

Film

• The Transformers: The Movie (1986): The story takes place in 2005, 20 years after the events of the TV series.
• Bicentennial Man (1999): This movie is set in April, 2005.

Games

• Metal Gear Solid: Tactical Espionage Action (1998): The story is set in 2005, when the game itself was released in 1998.
• Twisted Metal (1995): The tenth "Twisted Metal" competition takes place on Christmas Eve in the streets of Los Angeles.

Ship events

• List of ship launches in 2005
• List of ship commissionings in 2005
• List of ship decommissionings in 2005

References

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Games released in 2005.

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Year 2005

Traditionally when Hardware Manufacturers are planning their Next Generation Console launches, there is always a systemtic market lull as consumers wait for the Next Generation to arrive. 2005 was no different than previous industry lull (the last one being 1999-2000, right before the end of Nintendo 64's life cycle and before PlayStation 2's debut.), and like other industry lull, it was a time where innovative software took the lead as developers have mastered the platform and attempted to sqeeze every bit of extra power from the aging systems. The end of 2005 also saw the first entrence into the Next Generation Console group with Microsoft's Xbox 360. Although the system suffered from major supply shortage, it still managed to become 2005's must have gift.

However, in contrast to the diminished home console segment, the Handheld arena overachieved beyond all expectations. After Nintendo DS's worldwide launch in 2004 (which was described as mediocre Japan or even abysmal North America) and Sony PlayStation Portable's "Paper Launch" in Japan, both handheld manage to perform better than expected, carrying the game market through 2005 with innovative titles and pinnacle franchises. What was even more suprising was the performance of Game Boy Advance and it's two redesign iterations: Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy micro, which manage to outsell the combine sales of the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable.

On the PC side, hardware news was dominated by two major announcement/product releases: Ageia's dedicated physics card PhysX; and the ongoing battle for video card supremacy between nVidia's GeForce 7 Series video cards and ATI's Radeon X1000 Series video cards.

Ageia's announcement of their PhysX Dedicated physics processing card created a stir as industry observers debated on the viability of a dedicated physics card in gaming machines, and how well the adoption rate of such technology will be. Although the product won't be released until 2006, many PC developers have expressed interest in the card and have pledge support of such an expansion card when it arrives.

In contrast, PC Software can be described with one word: WoW. World of Warcraft remains the talk of the industry, breaking 5 Million suscribers worldwide, becoming the biggest MMORPG and drawing in newbies to the genre who have never played a MMORPG before. The emphesis of highly detailed, rich graphics and atmosphere created by First-person shooters in 2004 like Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 fell wayside as many players have yet to upgrade to the latest video cards by nVidia or ATI (hardware shortage again is the culprit). Some were also wary of the continous flood of First-person shooters, even though there has been numerous AAA titles such as F.E.A.R., Battlefield 2, and Quake 4.

Duke Nukem Forever is now in it's 8th year of production, and now slated for a 2006 release.

Console Hardware Releases

GamePark Holdings

• GP2X
  • South Korea - November 10

Microsoft

The Xbox 360

• Xbox 360 (360)
  • North America/Puerto Rico - November 22
  • Europe - December 2
  • Japan - December 10

The Xbox 360 arrived towards the end of the year becoming one of this years most sought after Christmas gifts. The 360 quickly sold out in the western world leaving only those who were willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money on eBay able to get one. It was, however, a different story altogether in Japan where new consoles sat on shelves quietly waiting for buyers that never arrived. The 360 is what could be called the next logical step for Microsoft to take in the home console market. It takes a leap in computing power that all next gen consoles take and features a removable hard drive, an upgraded Live service that would feature downloadable content and would create a new virtual marketplace, as well as what could be described as a more refined Controller S.

The launch titles for the 360 were diverse, if you exclude RPG's, with some lacking in quality and some in features. Perfect Dark Zero for example, the much anticipated FPS released by Rare, was met with less than stellar criticism. This coming from a developer that many gamers held dear from the N64 days. Rare redeemed themselves with the release of Kameo: Elements of Power, an action game for the 360 which was met with positive reviews and praise among gamers. Call of Duty 2 by EA also hit the street at launch and was applauded for its immersive single player campaign but criticized for lacking a lobby system, among other issues with online play, that Xbox Live players are so accustomed to. Another title during the launch came from left field, Gun, released by Neversoft who are known for their Tony Hawk games, set in the wild west. The game based off of the remake of King Kong titled Peter Jackson's King Kong came out a shook some of the stereotype that all movie inspired games are horrible.

Nintendo

The Game Boy micro

• Game Boy micro (GBM)
  • Japan - September 13
  • North America - October 2
  • Europe - November 4
  • Australia - November 3

At this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo shocked the audience with the announcement of Game Boy micro, another revision of the Game Boy Advance hardware. Riding on the wave of portable electronic miniaturization, the Game Boy micro is roughly the size of three Game Boy Advance cartridges. The new portable system has a brighter screen, longer battery life than the Game Boy Advance SP, and a new digital volume control buttons (doubles as Start/Select button during gameplay) that replace the volume slider control in previous Game Boys. However, these upgrades are at the expense of a smaller screen and lack of Original Game Boy and Game Boy Color compatibility.

• Game Boy Advance SP ver2 (GBASP2)
  • Japan - September 13
  • North America - October 2

On the day of Game Boy micro's launch, some stores also received a new batch of Game Boy Advance SPs with a different packaging, stating that it has a brighter screen. The official packaging has the words, "Now with a Brighter Screen" and a whiter highlight glowing out of the Game Boy Advance SP. It was officially revealed that Nintendo has phased out the Game Boy Advance SP and is replacing them with a brighter screen, the same ones found on the Game Boy micro. Beyond the brightness functionality, it is no different than existing Game Boy Advance SP.

Sony

PSP

• PlayStation Portable (PSP)
  • North America - March 24
  • Europe/Australia - September 1

Tiger Telematics

• Gizmondo
  • United Kingdom - March 19
  • North America - October 22

Gaming Related PC Hardware Releases

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Notable Software Releases (Jan-June)

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• January 11 - Resident Evil 4 (GameCube/PS2(late 2005))

First original main Resident Evil game since Resident Evil 0, it was ported to PS2 in late 2005 as Capcom breaks it's exclusive deal with Nintendo.

• January 25 - Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Xbox)

Critically acclaimed title met with underwhelming sales, Oddworld Inhabitants's decision for making this title platform exclusive is often pointed as the source of failure. Lorne Lanning, co-founder and president, has since announced his departure from the gaming world.

• February 14 - WarioWare: Touched! (DS)

The first big killer app for the Nintendo DS, this game demonstrates the full potential of the touch screen and microphone with it's large variety of microgames.

• February 22 - Gran Turismo 4 (PS2)

Sony's long running Gran Turismo franchise is in it's fourth iteration. New this year: Photo mode - take pictures of cars and transfer them to USB devices; and 24 Hour Endurance race, a 24 hour endurance race.

• February 24 - Tekken 5 (PS2)

Largely considered the best Tekken yet, at the time of it's release.

• March 1 - Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (PS2)

A highly difficult action game that brought the Devil May Cry series back to its roots.

• March 21 - TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (PS2, Xbox, GameCube)

Another critically acclaimed title met with underwhelming sales, EA's lack of marketing for this title and their inability to wrestle attention away from platform exclusive First-person shooter titles such as Halo 2(Xbox) or even Killzone(PS2) is often cited as the source of failure.

• March 22 - God of War (PS2)

Innovative, violent, Game of the Year candidate by designer David Jaffe.

• March 22 - Lumines (PlayStation Portable)

Coinciding the launch of the North American PlayStation Portable, Tetsuya Mizuguchi's first title under his Q Entertainment label was considered one of the big three killer app for the PlayStation Portable.

• March 22 - WipEout Pure (PlayStation Portable)

One of the PSP's launch titles and the first PSP game to feature downloadable content.

• March 22 - Ridge Racers (PlayStation Portable)

A graphicaly impressive launch title for the PSP developed by Namco.

• March 22 - The Matrix Online (PC)

The long awaited MMORPG based on the Matrix universe finally arrives after being dropped from Ubisoft.

• April 12 - Jade Empire (Xbox)

Original release by BioWare following up their Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic success.

• April 19 - Psychonauts (Xbox/PS2/PC)

The first game developed by Double Fine Productions, this game from Tim Schafer featured stunning art direction and a unique story. It was met with horrible sales. Some gamers have said it would have faired better on the GameCube, the one platform it was not released on.

• May 23 - Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA)

The 2nd Fire Emblem game released in North America, first in series to allow replaying maps.

• May 23 - WarioWare: Twisted! (GBA)

This GBA game came in a cartridge with a built in gyro sensor that allowed for all new crazy microgames.

• June 13 - Kirby: Canvas Curse (DS)

First in wave of critically acclaimed DS games after post-launch drought.

• June 21 - Battlefield 2 (PC)

Critically acclaimed sequal to hit multiplayer craze, Battlefield: 1942.

• June 27 - Meteos (DS)

A popular puzzle game by developer Q Entertainment.

Notable Software Releases (July-Dec)

• August 8 - Madden NFL 06 (PS2, DS, GameCube)

Another entry in the best-selling Madden series.

• August 22 - Nintendogs (DS)

Japanese sleeper-hit that got 40/40 in Famitsu reaches western shores, to see if it would meet the same level of success.

• August 22 - Advance Wars: Dual Strike (DS)
• October 7 - Black & White 2 (PC)

Sequal to the critically acclaimed Black & White, this

• October 17 - F.E.A.R. (PC)
• October 18 - Quake 4 (PC, Xbox 360)
• October 18 - Age of Empires III (PC)

Third entry in the famous Age of Empires series in over 5 years.

• October 18 - Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)

First game by the development team since the cult hit ICO.

• October 19 - Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GameCube)

The first 3D Fire Emblem, and first to be on a home console since the SNES.

• October 25 - Call of Duty 2 (PC)
• October 25 - Civilization IV (PC)
• October 25 - Soul Calibur III (PS2)
• November 7 - Kameo: Elements of Power (Xbox 360)

After numerous delays and three platform moves (This game began life as a Nintendo 64 title, then moved to GameCube and eventually XBox), the long awaited game makes it debut as a launch title on the Xbox 360.

• November 8 - The Matrix: Path of Neo (PS2, Xbox, GameCube), (PC)
• November 9 - Resident Evil: Archives: Umbrella's Virus Uncovered (Paperback Book)
• November 14 - Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS)

This title marks Nintendo's first online enabled game on the Nintendo DS and the launch of the Nintendo WiFi service.

• November 14 - Shadow the Hedgehog (PS2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube)

Shadow's first starring role in a game.

• November 17 - Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360)
• December 5 - Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS)

The 2nd Nintendo WiFi Connection game for the DS.

• December 12 - Final Fantasy IV (GBA)

Key Events

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• February 1 - February 2 — DICE 2005 ?
• March 7 - March 11 — At the GDC Will Wright gave a presentation titled "Future of Content", and shows off what is perhaps the most ambitious game to date, Spore. Satoru Iwata gave an impassioned keynote speech titled "Heart of a Gamer" detailing his past work as a game designer and where he believes the video game business is heading.
• May 12 - The Xbox 360 was officially announced on MTV in a special hosted by Elijah Wood.
• May 16 - The PlayStation 3 was unveiled by Sony during a pre-E3 press conferece, at 21:25 GMT. At the same time, the press release was released through the Japanese PlayStation website.
• May 17 - May 20 — Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) takes place in Los Angeles, California. 400 exhibiting companies and 70,000 industry professionals representing 79 countries attended. Next-generation systems from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft were unveiled.
• September 16 - September 18 — Tokyo Game Show takes place at Makuhari Messe. 130 companies are expected to show with 1,429 booths.

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