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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. 2005 January February March April May June July August September October November December From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina kills 1,836 people throughout the Southern United States ; the funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City ; "Me at the zoo" is the first video ...
(Rai News 24, with video) 2005 Sydney terrorism plot: Australian authorities arrest nine men, led by Abdul Nacer Benbrika, in a counterterrorism raid. Benbrika and six other men are later convicted of terrorism-related offenses. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Business and economy The Turkish currency is revalued at a rate of 1,000,000 "old" lira for 1 New Turkish Lira. (BBC) Law and crime A group of Peruvian army reservists from the Movimiento Etnocacerista seize a police station in Andahuaylas, Apurímac Region, demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo. Four police officers die in a shootout, another dozen police are taken as ...
2005 Paris riots continue for the fifth consecutive night, sparked by the death of two Muslim youths from electric shock. The controversy caused by police firing tear gas into a mosque on Sunday night led to families of the dead youths pulling out of a meeting with the French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy.
(Reporters Without Borders) (Minivan News, Maldives) The Egyptian parliament approves a constitutional amendment that would allow presidential elections to be contested. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili met in Tbilisi, Georgia and Bush gets a hand grenade thrown at him, but does not detonate.
The attacks come three days after Egypt's top envoy was ambushed in the street and injured. The attempted kidnappings are meant to discourage other nations from having ties with Iraq. Archived 2005-09-11 at the Wayback Machine; The government of Indonesia announced the extension of its immunization campaign against polio. The second round in ...
In Bangkok, Thailand, the Canadian contestant Natalie Glebova is crowned Miss Universe 2005. Vanity Fair magazine reports that Ex-FBI official W. Mark Felt admits that he was the Watergate source known as Deep Throat. Hamas have declared that they will be boycotting the re-vote which was requested in three Districts of the Gaza Strip.