2005

Events

 * March 21 - Red Lake shootings
 * July 4 - Karla Homolka is released from prison.
 * July 7 - Four radical Islamic terrorists separately detonate three homemade bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. 52 people of 18 different nationalities, all of whom were UK residents, are killed, and more than 700 are injured.
 * August 1 - Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud ascends to the throne of Saudi Arabia.
 * August 2 - John Bolton is appointed United States Ambassador to the United Nations by President George W. Bush.
 * August 18 - Dennis Rader, the BTK Strangler, is sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms in prison, one for each of his murders.
 * October 13 - The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) indicts Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Villain deaths

 * March 21 - Jeff Weise
 * October 10 - Milton Obote

Victim deaths

 * February 27 - Jessica Lunsford