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• Gitmo Qur'an desecration allegations • 2005 Pacific hurricane season • 2005 Giro d'Italia • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. (Sponsorship scandal) • 2005 Cannes Film Festival • Unrest in Uzbekistan • Bagram torture and prisoner abuse • Downing Street memo • Angola Marburg virus outbreak
• June 1 - 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
May 25: Ismail Merchant May 25: Sunil Dutt May 25: Graham Kennedy May 22: Thurl Ravenscroft May 21: Howard Morris May 21: Subodh Mukherjee May 21: Stephen Elliott May 20: Paul Ricoeur May 19: Henry Corden May 19: Richard Lewine May 17: Frank Gorshin May 17: Piero Dorazio May 15: Les Bartley May 13: George Dantzig May 13: Michael Ross May 12: Monica Zetterlund May 7: Peter Wallace Rodino May 6: Narayan Pokharel May 4: David H. Hackworth May 3: Jagjit Singh Aurora May 3: Don Canham May 2: Bob Hunter
May 29: Lebanon general May 29: French EC referendum June 1: Dutch EC referendum June 17: Iran presidential June 19: Guinea-Bissau presidential September 12: Norwegian parliamentary September 25: Polish parliamentary October 9: Polish presidential 2005: New Zealand general 2005: German federal
March 31: Zimbabwe parliamentary April 24: Togo presidential May 5: UK general May 14: ROC (Taiwan) National Assembly May 15: Ethiopian general elections May 17: British Columbia general
• Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) • Conflict in Chechnya • Second Congo War • Conflict in Iraq (Occupation of Iraq) • Darfur conflict in Sudan • Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire
26: Feast of Corpus Christi (Catholicism) 26: Mother's Day (Poland) 27: Lag Ba'omer 29: Feast of Corpus Christi (Only U.S.) 30: Memorial Day (United States) 30: Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day (Fiji) 31: World No Tobacco Day
2: Republic Day (Italy) 5: UN World Environment Day (San Francisco) 6: Jerusalem Day (Israel) 6: Queen's Birthday (New Zealand) 14: Flag Day (U.S.) 24: St-Jean-Baptiste Day (French Canada)
Chile: Augusto Pinochet ICTY: Slobodan Milošević Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal — Saddam Hussein, among others India: Best Bakery case India: Jayendra Saraswathi Netherlands: Mohammed Bouyeri United States: Michael Jackson United States: Zacarias Moussaoui United States: Brian Nichols United States: Dennis Rader (BTK Killer) United States: Ali al-Tamimi
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