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• Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes of 2005 • Cindy Sheehan Crawford Protest • Downing Street memo • Edinburgh Festival • European Constitution ratification • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. (sponsorship scandal) • Iran's nuclear program • Israeli withdrawal from Gaza • London bombings investigation • Niger food crisis • Peace Mission 2005 • Philippine electoral crisis • Plame CIA leak investigation • Zimbabwe home clearances
August 31: Venice Film Festival September 6: John Roberts hearings October 15: Millions More March
August 23: Brock Peters August 21: Robert Moog August 19: Mo Mowlam August 18: Gao Xiumin August 16: Frère Roger August 13: David Lange August 9: Judith Rossner August 8: John H. Johnson August 8: Ahmed Deedat August 8: Barbara Bel Geddes August 7: Peter Jennings August 6: Robin Cook August 6: Ibrahim Ferrer August 5: Raul Roco August 4: Little Milton August 3: Ernest Smith August 1: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
September 7: Egyptian presidential September 11: Japanese general September 12: Norwegian parliamentary September 17: New Zealand general September 18: German federal September 25: Polish parliamentary October 9: Polish presidential TBD: CA 48th Congressional District (U.S.)
June 24: Iran presidential runoff July 3: Albanian general election July 10: Kyrgyz presidential July 16: Kuomintang Chairmanship July 24: Guinea-Bissau presidential August 2: OH 2nd Congressional District (U.S.) August 10: Ethiopian presidential August 27: Singapore presidential
• Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) • Conflict in Chechnya • Second Congo War • Conflict in Iraq • Darfur conflict in Sudan • Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire
27: Janmashtami, Krishna's Birthday (Hinduism) 29: August Bank Holiday (UK) 29: Beheading of St. John the Forerunner (Eastern Christianity)
5: Labor Day (Canada & USA)
Chile: Augusto Pinochet Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal — Saddam Hussein, among others Neth.: ICTY — Slobodan Milošević, among others UK: Railtrack shareholders US: Zacarias Moussaoui US: Brian Nichols US: Ali al-Tamimi
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