2005

This page lists news articles and events for the year 2005.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Event: In January, hundreds of squid wash up off the coast of Orange County, California (cited in San Diego Menaced by Jumbo Squid)

January

• January 20:
  • News: Farang ghosts haunt local Thais in Phuket, Phi Phi, Khao Lak

February

March

April

May

June

• June 18:
  • News: No Paradox For Time-Travellers

July

• July 15:
  • News: Scientists developing more healthful meat

August

• August 23:
  • Event: Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas.
• August 29:
  • Event: Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans, Louisiana.

September

• September 2:
  • News: Tongue-eating bug found in fish
• September 11:
  • News: Police 'can't cope' as Vietnamese flood drugs trade

October

• October 5:
  • Event/News: Mystery Ocean Glow Confirmed in Satellite Photos

November

December

• December 20:
  • Event: End of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. U.S. District Judge John Jones rules that teaching Intelligent Design in public schools would violate the Constitutional separation of church and state. His 139-page opinion finds that ID is not scientific, but rather religious in nature.

• December 30:
  • News: Raiding the Icebox - Behind Its Warm Front, the United States Made Cold Calculations to Subdue Canada