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2005 was an eventful year that left a significant mark on history, with groundbreaking developments across various fields.
This year saw the maiden flight of Boeing’s Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, and the launch of YouTube, revolutionizing online video sharing.
In politics, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf made history as Liberia’s president, becoming the first female leader of an African country, while the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ended its 30-year campaign in Northern Ireland.
In the entertainment world, Destiny’s Child disbanded, marking the end of an era in pop music, while teenagers were more focused on the release of Guitar Hero on the Xbox 360. Television saw the debut of the US version of The Office, which, despite a rocky start, would become a cultural phenomenon.
Meanwhile, in the tech world, Mark Zuckerberg almost changed the course of social media history by considering the sale of Facebook to Myspace.
Continue reading to delve into the events, news headlines, insightful quotes, and the legacies left behind by famous individuals who passed away in 2005.\r\n\r\n
Here we’ll unveil the most unforgettable happenings that took place during the extraordinary year of 2005.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Deep Impact probe was designed to fly out to and study the Tempel 1 comet. Unlike all previous attempts at studying comets, this was not a fly-by mission. Instead, it released an impactor into the comet to analyze the composition of the dust and debris kicked up by the impactor. The results, which showed the comet to be composed mainly of dust-like particles, were surprising as scientists believed Tempel 1 to be made up of ice more than anything else.\r\n\r\n
Officially called the Airbus A380, it’s a double-decker 262 ft carrier and has a capacity of 555 passengers. Its first flight was on April 27, 2005.\r\n\r\n
The event happened at the Mandher Devi temple in Maharashtra, India. Three hundred thousand people attended the temple as part of an annual pilgrimage where pilgrims slipped on coconut water underfoot, causing fire and panic.\r\n\r\n
YouTube officially launched on December 15, 2005, by which time the site was receiving 8 million daily views.\r\n\r\n
The journey was a lengthy 25,000 miles (40,234 km) and was completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.\r\n\r\n
The TV medical drama was created by Shonda Rhimes, and stars included Ellen Pompeo and Sandra Oh.\r\n\r\n
While there were no issues with the launch, the mission ended when the spacecraft collided with the satellite.\r\n\r\n
The video was uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim and was titled “Me at the zoo.”\r\n\r\n
While giving a speech in Tbilisi, Georgia, a man threw a grenade that landed just 65 feet away from the President. It malfunctioned and did not explode, and the attacker was arrested.\r\n\r\n
He became the tenth doctor and was seen in the episode “The Parting of the Ways.”\r\n\r\n
This made Spain the fourth country in the world to do so.\r\n\r\n
On this day, terrorist attacks were made across four sites in London. Fifty-six people lost their lives, while 784 were injured.\r\n\r\n
STS-114 was the first space shuttle mission since the destruction of the Columbia space shuttle in 2003. While the launch of STS-114 seemed to go smoothly at first, video records of the launch were analyzed, and pieces of debris were discovered falling off the shuttle. NASA decided to suspend all shuttle missions again, this time for a year until all kinks could be worked out.\r\n\r\n
Peace Mission 2005 consisted of land, sea, and air elements with 8,000 Chinese and 2,000 Russian troops. The exercise took place on the Shandong Peninsula in eastern China.\r\n\r\n
Civ IV was a huge step up from the series’ third installment, with critics particularly impressed that the multiplayer function was actually worth playing, unlike its predecessor. It won a wide range of Game of the Year awards in 2005.\r\n\r\n
The riot resulted from longstanding tensions caused by unemployment, police harassment, and religious persecution.\r\n\r\n