July 2005

Four coordinated terrorist attacks on the London, England, subway and bus systems during rush hour killed 52 people, including the attackers, and wound more than 700 on July 7, 2005.

After a 6-month 83-million-mile journey, NASA's Deep Impact hits comet named Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005.

London, England was chosen over Paris, France, on July 6, 2005, as the site of the 2012 summer Olympic games. It will be the third time London has hosted the Olympics.

Lance Armstrong, American bicyclist, proved once again in July that he is the King of the Mountains, as he rode past his rivals to win a record-breaking seventh consecutive Tour de France race.

Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology find rocky, icy planet that's larger than Pluto and about nine billion miles away from the Sun on July 29, 2005.

Luther Vandross, Grammy Award–winning R&B singer dies July 1, 2005 at the age of 54.

August 2005

King Fahd bin Abdel Aziz al-Saud, 82, dies, August 1, 2005, after a bout with pneumonia. Prince Abdullah, 81, assumes the throne.

British and American rescuers save seven Russian sailors who were trapped in a submarine more than 600 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean on August 7. 2005.

Peter Jennings, Canadian-born broadcast journalist who anchored ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 to April 2005 died August 7, 2005 at the age of 67.

Discovery returns to Earth after a 14-day mission on August 9, 2005. The landing was moved to Edwards Air Force Base in California because of bad weather in Florida.

Hurricane Katrina, a Category 4 hurricane and one of the most powerful to hit the United States, devastated the Louisiana and Mississippi coast, landing just east of New Orleans with 140 mph winds on August 29, 2005.

Rumors of a suicide bomber caused a stampede of Shiite pilgrims as they crossed a bridge over the Tigris,in Iraq killing more than 950 on August 31, 2005.

September 2005

Michael Griffin, administrator of NASA, outlines $104 billion plan to have astronauts land on Moon by 2018, on September 18, 2005. Bob Denver, actor who played Gilligan, the first mate of the S.S. Minnow on television's cult hit Gilligan's Island dies Sept. 2, 2005 at the age of 70.

William Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who was appointed to the Court in 1971 by President Nixon dies September 3, 2005 at the age of 80.

Canadian rocker J.D. Fortune is named the winner of the television reality show Rock Star: INXS, becoming the new lead singer of popular Australian rock band INXS on September 20, 2005.

Don Adams, the actor who played secret agent Maxwell Smart on television’s Get Smart, dies Sept. 25, 2005 at the age of 82.

Michaëlle Jean succeeds Adrienne Clarkson as Governor General of Canada on September 27, 2005.

October 2005

At least 22 people die when several bombs explode at tourist sites on the Indonesian island of Bali, the location was also attacked in 2002.

Rosa Parks, a black seamstress who in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger dies October 24, 2005 at the age of 92.

November 2005

On November 11, 2005, researchers from the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University have found the skull of a sea-dwelling crocodile that lived 135 million years ago.

Pat Morita, Japanese-American actor who lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. He received an Oscar nomination for his role as the karate instructor in The Karate Kid (1984), dies November 24, 2005 at the age of 73.

Stan Berenstain, co-author and co-illustrator, of the best-selling Berenstain Bears series of children's books dies Nov. 26, 2005 at the age of 82.

The House of Commons passes a motion of no confidence in the Canadian government of Paul Martin. On November 29, 2005, the governor general, on the advice of the prime minister, dissolves Parliament and calls a general election for January 23, 2006.

December 2005

Richard Pryor, Grammy Award-winning actor and comedian dies December 10, 2005 at the age of 65.

John Spencer, American actor known for his role on The West Wing, dies December 16, 2005 at the age of 59.

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