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Rosa Parks Dies
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks died on October 24, 2005, at age 92 in her Detroit apartment, after a years-long decline attributed to progressive dementia diagnosed in 2004. Born February 4, 1913, in T...
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Rosa Parks Dies
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks died on October 24, 2005, at age 92 in her Detroit apartment, after a years-long decline attributed to progressive demen...
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Lech Kaczyński elected President of Poland
Lech Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice party, won Poland's 2005 presid...
Samuel Alito nominated to Supreme Court
President Bush nominated U.S. Circuit Judge Samuel Alito on October 31 to rep...
Saddam Hussein's Trial Begins
On 19 October 2005, the trial of Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq...
John Roberts Confirmed as Chief Justice of the Unite...
On September 29, 2005, the U.S. Senate confirmed John G. Roberts Jr. as the 1...
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Dover Trial Rejects Intelligent Design in Schools
On December 20, 2005, a federal judge ruled that Intelligent Design cannot be...
The Hwang Woo-suk Stem Cell Fraud
In December 2005, the celebrated South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk was ex...
World's First Partial Face Transplant
On November 27, 2005, a surgical team in Amiens, France, performed the world'...
Xbox 360 launch
Microsoft's Xbox 360 launched in North America on November 22, 2005 — the Tue...
Arts & Culture
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and th...
*The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe* was released...
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, is a neo-Western romantic drama that...
The Colbert Report premiere
The Colbert Report debuted on Comedy Central on October 17, 2005, as a spin-o...
Kanye West releases Late Registration
Kanye West released his second studio album Late Registration on August 30, 2...
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Lech Kaczyński elected President of Poland
Dec 23
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Dover Trial Rejects Intelligent Design in ...
Dec 20
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Evo Morales Elected President of Bolivia
Dec 18
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The Hwang Woo-suk Stem Cell Fraud
Dec 15
Arts & Culture
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Wi...
Dec 09
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