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Ongoing events

Gitmo Qur'an desecration allegations
2005 Pacific hurricane season
Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage)
Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan
Fuel prices
Gomery Comm. (Sponsorship scandal)
Unrest in Uzbekistan
Bagram torture and prisoner abuse
Downing Street memo
Angola Marburg virus outbreak
Ratification of the European Constitution

Upcoming events

June 1: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season

Deaths in May

May 26: Eddie Albert
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 16: Albert "Smiler" Marshall
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

June 1: Dutch EC referendum
June 17: Iran presidential
June 19: Guinea-Bissau presidential
September 12: Norwegian parliamentary
2005: German federal
2005: New Zealand general
September 25: Polish parliamentary
October 9: Polish presidential

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
May 29: Lebanon general
May 29: French EC referendum

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

June

2: Republic Day (Italy)
5: UN World Environment Day (San Francisco)
6: Jerusalem Day (Israel)
6: Queen's Birthday (New Zealand)
12: Independence Day (Philippines)
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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