[edit] Ongoing events
• 2005 Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes
• 2005 Maharashtra floods
• 2005 Gujarat Flood
• Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan
• Fuel prices
• Gomery Comm. (Sponsorship scandal)
• Bagram torture and prisoner abuse
• Downing Street memo
• Angola Marburg virus outbreak
• European Constitution Ratification
• London bombings investigation
• Zimbabwe Home Clearances
• 2005 Philippine electoral crisis
• Plame CIA leak investigation
• 2005 Maccabiah Games
• 2005 Niger food crisis
[edit] Upcoming events
September 6: John Roberts hearings
[edit] Deaths in July
July 31: Wim Duisenberg
July 31: John Garang
July 24: Francis Ona
July 24: Sir Richard Doll
July 23: Catherine Woolley
July 22: George Wallace
July 21: Long John Baldry
July 20: James Doohan
July 18: Amy Gillett
July 18: John Tyndall
July 18: William Westmoreland
July 17: Edward Heath
July 11: Gretchen Franklin
July 9: Rafiq Zakaria
July 6: L. Patrick Gray
July 6: Claude Simon
July 5: James Stockdale
July 4: Hank Stram
July 3: Nan Kempner
July 3: Gaylord Nelson
July 1: Luther Vandross
[edit] Upcoming elections
August 2: OH 2nd Congressional District (U.S.)
August 31: Singapore presidential
September 12: Norwegian parliamentary
September 17: New Zealand general
September 18: German federal
September 25: Polish parliamentary
October 9: Polish presidential
TBD: CA 48th Congressional District (U.S.)
[edit] Recent election results
June 1: Dutch EC referendum
June 17: Iran presidential
June 24: Iran presidential runoff
July 3: Albanian general election
July 10: Kyrgyz presidential
July 16: Kuomintang Chairmanship
July 24: Guinea-Bissau presidential
[edit] Ongoing armed conflicts
• Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
• Conflict in Chechnya
• Second Congo War
• Conflict in Iraq (Occupation of Iraq)
• Darfur conflict in Sudan
• Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire
[edit] Upcoming holidays
and observances
[edit] August
1: Emancipation Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
1: Civic Holiday (Canada)
9: National Day (Singapore)
14: Tisha B'Av (Judaism)
15: Dormition of the Theotokos (Eastern Orthodox)
15: Assumption of Mary (Roman Catholic)
29: Late Summer Holiday (UK)
[edit] September
5: Labor Day (Canada & USA)
[edit] Ongoing trials
Chile: Augusto Pinochet
ICTY: Slobodan Milošević
Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
— Saddam Hussein, among others
Singapore: Took Leng How
UK: Railtrack shareholders
US: Zacarias Moussaoui
US: Brian Nichols
US: Ali al-Tamimi
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