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The social news site Reddit launches. The San Antonio Spurs win their third NBA Championship after defeating the Detroit Pistons, 81-74, in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. June 24 – 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.
2005 ( MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2005th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 5th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2000s decade. 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the ...
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from May 2005. May 1, 2005 (Sunday) edit. history. watch. Lenovo Group, the largest Chinese computer company acquires the personal computer business of IBM for US$ 1.25 billion in cash, and Lenovo assumes $500 million of IBM's debt. (Reuters) More than thirty Iraqis are killed and ...
October. 3 October – Actor and comedian Ronnie Barker dies of heart failure in a hospice in Oxfordshire, aged 76. 5 October – Three perpetrators of the racially motivated murder of Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald, arrive in Scotland to face trial after a one-off extradition agreement negotiated with Pakistan.
The year 2005 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy [ edit ] January 5 – Eris , the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System , is identified by a team the Palomar Observatory in California from images taken on October 21, 2003 (discovery announced July 29, 2005).
Current events/2005 October 24. Rosa Parks, whose famous refusal in 1955 to surrender her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama triggered a bus-boycott and the beginning of the modern U.S. civil rights movement, died at the age of 92. The recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was known to have suffered from dementia.
Portal. : Current events/2005 January 12. Conflict in Iraq: Iyad Allawi, the interim Prime Minister of Iraq has admitted parts of the country will not be voting in this month's election. (BBC) British Airways flight 175 from London to New York is turned back by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, who claim a passenger's name ...
Current events/2005 July 24. Francis Ona, the leader of the former Bougainville Revolutionary Army, has died in village on Bougainville following a short illness. Ona led the bloody 10-year secessionist war against Papua New Guinea that ended in 1997. (ABC News) (ABC News)