2005 in the United States
Events from the year 2005 in the United States.
Incumbents
Events
January
February
- February 6 – Super Bowl XXXIX: The New England Patriots win their second consecutive Super Bowl title, defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 24–21.[1]
- 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.
- 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]
- February 27 – The 77th Academy Awards, hosted by Chris Rock, are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, with Million Dollar Baby winning Best Picture.
March
April
May
June
- June 2 – The construction of Northrop Grumman X-47B, the world's first unmanned surveillance attack aircraft that can operate from both land bases and aircraft carriers, begins.
- 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
August
September
- September – The largest evacuation in Houston takes place as millions evacuate from Hurricane Rita.
- September 1 – Oil prices rise sharply following the economic effects of Hurricane Katrina.
- September 5 – John G. Roberts is nominated by President George W. Bush for Chief Justice of the United States, replacing William Rehnquist, who had died two days previously.
- September 14–16 – The largest UN World Summit in history is held in New York City.
- September 20 – The NFL sees the groundbreaking ceremony for two new stadiums, the Indianapolis Colts' Lucas Oil Stadium and the Dallas Cowboys' temporarily named Cowboys Stadium
- 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 24 – Worldwide protests occur against the Iraq War, with over 150,000 protestors in Washington DC (see Opposition to the Iraq War).
- September 24 – Hurricane Rita hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, devastating areas near Beaumont, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana. The Ninth Ward of New Orleans re-floods since Katrina, and Mississippi and Alabama are also affected.
- September 26 – U.S. Army Reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on six of seven counts, in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
- September 28 – American politician Tom DeLay is indicted on charges of criminal conspiracy by a Texas grand jury.
- September 29 – John G. Roberts, Jr. is confirmed and sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
October
- October 1 – An Australian photojournalist in Afghanistan, Stephen Dupont, films U.S. soldiers burning two dead Taliban militias' bodies.
- October 1 – The United States housing bubble begins to burst, causing home prices to stop rising unexpectedly and begin to decline.
- October 2 – The first regular-season NFL game played outside of the USA pits the San Francisco 49ers against the Arizona Cardinals at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico. The Cardinals win 31–14.
- October 2 – A shipwreck on Lake George kills 20 people.
- October 3 – U.S. President George W. Bush nominates Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court of the United States.
- October 3 – St. Tammany Parish Schools reopen in Louisiana, just over a month after Hurricane Katrina closed them.
- October 15 – A riot occurs in Toledo, Ohio during a Neo-Nazi rally on racial issues; 114 are arrested.
- October 16 – U.S. helicopters and warplanes bomb two villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people.
- October 19 – The Houston Astros win their first National League Championship, advancing to their first World Series in franchise history.
- October 24 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in southwestern Florida as a category 3 hurricane.
- October 26 – The Chicago White Sox beat the Houston Astros in four games to win their first World Series since 1917.
- October 26 – The U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000.
- October 27 – Harriet Miers withdraws her name from consideration for the Supreme Court of the United States.
- October 28 – Vice presidential adviser Lewis "Scooter" Libby resigns after being charged with obstruction of justice, perjury and making a false statement in the CIA leak investigation.
- October 31 – U.S. President George W. Bush nominates Federal Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 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.
November
December
Undated
- Ten years after reaching the million mark, the U.S. prison population reaches 1.5 million inmates.[12]
Ongoing
Sports
Births
Deaths
References
External links
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