2005 in the United States
List of events
Events from the year 2005 in the United States .
Incumbents
Federal government
William Rehnquist (Virginia )[ 1] (until September 3)
John Roberts (Maryland )[ 2] (starting September 29)
Events
January
January 20: George W. Bush , the 43rd president of the United States , begins his second term.
January 20: Dick Cheney , the 46th vice president of the United States , begins his second term.
February
February 2 – State of the Union Address .
February 6
February 10 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.[ 9]
February 14 – The Internet site YouTube goes online.
February 16 – The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, without the support of the United States and Australia .[ 10]
February 21 – Avatar: The Last Airbender premieres on Nickelodeon .
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.[ 11]
February 25 – Wichita , Kansas police apprehend the "BTK" serial killer Dennis Rader , 31 years after his first murder.[ 12]
February 27 – The 77th Academy Awards , hosted by Chris Rock , are held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood , with Clint Eastwood 's Million Dollar Baby winning Best Picture and Best Director , Eastwood's second win for both. Martin Scorsese 's The Aviator wins five awards out of 11 nominations. The telecast garners over 42.1 million viewers.
March
March 15 : Unusually high precipitation in the winter of 2005 caused an ephemeral lake to occur in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley National Park .
March 1 – Roper v. Simmons : The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes before the age of 18.[ 13]
March 4 – The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by U.S. soldiers in Iraq , causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.[ 14]
March 11 – Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta , Georgia ; the main suspect, Brian Nichols , surrenders to police the next day.[ 15]
March 12 – Terry Ratzmann opens fire during a church sermon in New Berlin, Wisconsin , killing seven and injuring four before taking his own life.
March 21 – Ten are killed in the Red Lake shootings in Minnesota by teenager Jeff Weise , who commits suicide after a shootout with police. It is the worst school shooting since the Columbine High School massacre .[ 16]
March 23 – The United States' 11th Circuit Court of Appeals refuses (by a vote of 2–1) to stop the euthanasia of Terri Schiavo , who has been in a vegetative state since 1990, by not ordering the reinsertion of her feeding tube .[ 17]
March 24 – The Office debuts on NBC .
March 31 – Terri Schiavo dies at the age of 41 in Pinellas Park, Florida .
Monsters of Rock band is formed in California.[ 18]
April
May
June
June 2 : The Northrop Grumman X–47B unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV)
July
August
August 29 : Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast
September
September 29 : John Roberts , 17th Chief Justice of the United States .
October
November
December
December 8 : Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 overshoots the runway at Chicago Midway Airport
Undated
Ten years after reaching the million mark, the U.S. prison population reaches 2.5 million inmates.[ 25]
Ongoing
Births
January
Marley Dias
IShowSpeed
February
Sydney Barros
March
Taylor Gray
March 1 – Felipe Valencia , soccer player
March 2 – Poe Pinson , skateboarder
March 8 – Tate Carew , skateboarder
March 10 – Esmir Bajraktarevic , soccer player
March 11 – Riley Ann Sawyers , murder victim (d. 2007 )
March 18 – Sam Williams , soccer player
March 25 – Taylor Gray , racing driver
March 26 – Ella Anderson , actress[ 26]
March 29 – Brooklyn Shuck , actress
March 31 – Reed Baker-Whiting , soccer player
April
Shahadi Wright Joseph
May
Maxwell Jenkins
Alexandria Villaseñor
June
July
August
Alysa Liu
September
Jack Hoffman
October
November
December
Gisele Thompson
Unknown
Deaths
January
Shirley Chisholm
Johnny Carson
January 1
January 2
January 3 – Will Eisner , American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur (b. 1917 )[ 31]
January 4
January 7 – Rosemary Kennedy , socialite (b. 1918 )[ 32]
January 10 – James Forman , civil rights activist (b. 1928 )
January 11 – Spencer Dryden , rock drummer (b. 1938 )
January 15 – Ruth Warrick , singer, actress and political activist (b. 1916 )[ 33]
January 17 – Virginia Mayo , actress (b. 1920 )[ 34]
January 19 – Lamont Bentley , actor and rapper (b. 1973 )
January 20 – Roland Frye , theologian and critic (b. 1921 )
January 21 – Adrianne Leigh Reynolds , murder victim (b. 1988 )
January 22 – Rose Mary Woods , secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1917 )
January 23 – Johnny Carson , television host and comedian (b. 1925 )[ 35]
January 25 – Philip Johnson , architect (b. 1906 )
January 28 – Lucien Carr , key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s (b. 1925 )
January 29 – Bill Shadel , radio and television anchor (b. 1908 )
February
Arthur Miller
Sandra Dee
February 1 – John Vernon , Canadian actor (b. 1932 )
February 3 – Ernst Mayr , German-American evolutionary biologist (b. 1904 )
February 4 – Ossie Davis , American actor, director, poet, playwright, author and activist (b. 1917 )[ 36]
February 5 – Bob Brannum , American basketball player (b. 1925 )
February 6
February 8
February 10 – Arthur Miller , playwright and husband of Marilyn Monroe (b. 1915 )[ 37]
February 11 – Jack L. Chalker , American author and writer (b. 1944 )
February 12
February 13 – Nelson Briles , American baseball player (b. 1943 )
February 14 – Dick Weber , American boxer (b. 1929 )
February 14 – F. M. Busby , American author (b. 1921 )
February 15 – Samuel T. Francis , American Radical right columnist and writer. (b. 1947 )
February 17 – Dan O'Herlihy , Irish actor (b. 1919 )
February 20
February 24 – Hugh Nibley , American scholar and prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints (b. 1910 )
February 25 – Ben Bowen , child cancer patient (b. 2002 )
February 26 – Jef Raskin , computer scientist (b. 1943 )[ 39]
March
Hans Bethe
Johnnie Cochran
April
May
Eddie Albert
May 5 – Elisabeth Fraser , actress (b. 1920 )
May 7 – Peter Wallace Rodino , politician (b. 1909 )
May 8 – Lloyd Cutler , attorney and presidential advisor (b. 1917 )
May 13 – George Dantzig , mathematician (b. 1914 )
May 14 – Jimmy Martin , musician (b. 1927 )
May 16 – Eliza Jane Scovill , AIDS victim (b. 2001 )
May 17 – Frank Gorshin , American actor, impressionist and comedian (b. 1933 )
May 20 – J. D. Cannon , actor (b. 1922 )
May 21 – Howard Morris , actor (b. 1919 )
May 22 – Thurl Ravenscroft , voice actor (b. 1914 )
May 26 – Eddie Albert , actor (b. 1906 )
June
Anne Bancroft
June 1 – George Mikan , basketball player (b. 1924 )
June 4 – Ronald F. Marryott , admiral (b. 1934 )
June 6
June 7 - Terry Long , American football player (b. 1959 )
June 8 – Ed Bishop, actor (b. 1932 )
June 13 – Lane Smith , American actor (b. 1936 )
June 20
June 24 – Paul Winchell , ventriloquist, comedian, actor, voice artist, humanitarian and inventor (b. 1922 )
June 25
June 27
June 28
July
James Doohan
July 1
July 4
July 5 – James Stockdale , admiral and vice presidential candidate (b. 1923 )
July 6
July 9 – Kevin Hagen , television actor (b. 1928 )
July 11 – Frances Langford , radio and film actress and singer (b. 1913 )
July 14 – Joe Harnell , pianist and composer (b. 1924 )
July 16 – John Ostrom , paleontologist (b. 1928 )
July 17 – Geraldine Fitzgerald , Irish actress (b. 1913 )
July 18 – William Westmoreland , general (b. 1914 )
July 20 – James Doohan , Canadian actor (b. 1920 )
July 22 – Eugene Record , singer-songwriter (b. 1940 )
July 21 – Lord Alfred Hayes , English wrestler, manager, and commentator (b. 1928 )
July 23 – Myron Floren , accordionist (b. 1919 )
July 25 – Ford Rainey , actor (b. 1908 )
July 26 – Jack Hirshleifer , economist (b. 1925 )
July 29 – Pat McCormick , actor and comedy writer (b. 1927 )
August
August 1 – John Alevizos , businessman (b. 1919 )
August 2 – Jay Hammond , politician (b. 1922 )
August 4 — Ilen Getz , actress (b. 1961 )
August 7 – Peter Jennings , journalist (b. 1938)
August 8
August 9 – Matthew McGrory , screen actor noted for his height (b. 1973 )
August 16 – Joe Ranft , screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor (b. 1960 )
August 17 – John Norris Bahcall , astrophysicist (b. 1934 )
August 21 – Robert Moog , pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
August 23 – Brock Peters , actor (b. 1927 )
September
Don Adams
October
Rosa Parks
October 2 – Nipsey Russell , actor and comedian (b. 1918 )
October 7 – Charles Rocket , actor, comedian, musician, and reporter (b. 1949 )
October 9 – Louis Nye , actor (b. 1913 )
October 12 – Jack White , journalist and reporter (b. 1942 )
October 13 – Vivian Malone Jones , one of the first two black students at the University of Alabama (b. 1942 )
October 16 – Eugene "Porky" Lee , child actor (b. 1933 )
October 18 – Bill King , sports broadcaster (b. 1927 )
October 20 – Shirley Horn , jazz singer and pianist (b. 1934 )
October 21
October 22 – Arman , French-American artist (b. 1928 )
October 24 – Rosa Parks , civil rights activist (b. 1913 )[ 46]
October 28 – Richard Smalley , chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943 )
October 29 – Lloyd Bochner , Canadian actor (b. 1924 )
November
Pat Morita
December
Richard Pryor
See also
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