Ongoing events
• 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
Upcoming events
• June 1 - 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
Deaths in May
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
Upcoming elections
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
Recent election results
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
Ongoing armed conflicts
• 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
Upcoming holidays and observances
May
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
June
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)
Ongoing trials
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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