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This article covers breaking news and events in August 2005.

Daily events

Monday August 1, 2005

Tuesday August 2, 2005

  • Istanbul / Turkey : According to police, six people were injured in the explosion of two bombs in the Turkish holiday resort of Antalya . The bombs exploded in trash cans in the city center.
  • Mumbai / India : Up to a thousand people drowned or were possibly killed in other related accidents (electric shocks, landslides) in the Indian city of Mumbai (former name: Bombay) and in the state of Maharashtra , the Indian authorities fear. The economic damage caused by the heavy rainfall and the resulting flooding in the Mumbai region is estimated at up to 30 billion rupees (approx. 526 million euros).
  • Toronto / Canada : In Toronto, an Air-France aircraft of the type Airbus A340 shot over the runway during landing and went up in flames. According to Air France, there are no deaths among the 298 passengers and 12 crew members and 42 mostly only slightly injured. Experts speak of one of the greatest wonders in aviation history ( Miracles of Toronto ).

Wednesday August 3, 2005

Sven Hannawald
  • Germany : Sven Hannawald has declared his ski jumping career over in a press release . After successfully treating burnout syndrome , he no longer wants to expose himself to the stress of professional sport.
  • Herzogenaurach / Germany : The sporting goods manufacturer Adidas- Salomon announces that the company has bought the US competitor Reebok . Adidas moves closer to the current world market leader Nike . The group specifies the purchase price at 3.1 billion euros .
  • Niamey / Niger : The famine in Niger is becoming more and more threatening. According to the international aid organization Care , more and more people are affected by the crisis. Many farmers have started to eat the seeds because they cannot find anything else to eat. The physical condition of the predominantly agricultural people raises fears that they will no longer be able to do their jobs at harvest time .
  • Nouakchott / Mauritania : Army units arrive in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott, block the entrance to the presidential palace and prevent radio and television broadcasts. A group of military officials declared the fall of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya .
  • Toronto / Canada : When departing from Paris , the Air France Airbus that crashed at Toronto airport had no technical problems. The machine was last checked on July 5, said Air France boss Jean-Cyril Spinetta at Paris Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport . After landing in Toronto, the Airbus went off the runway in a thunderstorm , fell into a depression and broke. All 310 inmates were saved. Shortly after evacuating via the emergency slides , the machine exploded and burned out.
  • Karstadt Quelle announces the sale of several companies and 74 department stores.

Friday 5th August 2005

  • Berlin / Germany : Axel Springer AG announces the takeover of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media group.
  • Jerusalem / Israel : After four Arabs were shot dead by an Israeli soldier, the Israeli police increased their presence. Hundreds of security forces guarded the streets in northern Israel and the squares in front of the mosques in Jerusalem's old town on Friday . The police expected rallies from angry Muslims after Friday prayers. The Arab population of Israel went on a general strike to protest the incident on Thursday. (According to AFP reports)

Saturday 6th August 2005

  • Helsinki / Finland : The 10th World Athletics Championships begin in Helsinki .
  • Munich / Germany : An apparently insane person runs amok in a Munich bus and stabs eight people with a knife, three of whom are in mortal danger. He also injured two other people at a bus stop. When he was questioned by the police, the heavily drunk man looked very confused; for example, he speaks of "saints" who would influence his behavior.
  • Palermo / Italy : An ATR 72 aircraft of Tuninter (charter subsidiary of Tunisair ) crashes into the sea after a failed emergency landing off Palermo ( Sicily ). Apparently 39 people (35 passengers, 4 crew members) were on board the machine, 14 people were killed.
  • Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky / Russia : The 7-person crew of the Russian Pris submarine "AS-28", which was damaged off the coast of Kamchatka, is to be rescued with international aid. The boat got caught in a sonar antenna system at a depth of 190 m on Thursday.

Sunday 7th August 2005

Monday August 8, 2005

  • Berlin / Germany : Eight people were killed in a fire in an apartment building in the Berlin-Moabit district that was mostly inhabited by foreigners . According to the fire brigade , all of the house residents might have survived if they had followed the firefighters' instructions to stay in the apartments and not fled to certain death in the burning stairwell. However, there were communication difficulties with the residents of Arab origin. 43 residents of the house had to be treated on site by emergency doctors with mild smoke poisoning , and 8 other mostly seriously injured people were taken to hospital . Initial investigation in view of a charred pram went Police of arson from. In view of the high number of victims, the fire brigade sees the events in Ufnaustraße 8 as the second worst fire disaster in Berlin after the Second World War .
  • Buenos Aires / Argentina : The Argentine tennis professional Guillermo Cañas was banned by the players' union ATP until 2007 because of proven doping . One could convict him on the basis of the excessive consumption of water-laxatives, which are usually taken to prevent the detection of anabolic steroids . He is already the fourth tennis player in his country to be convicted of drug abuse. Previously, Guillermo Coria , Mariano Puerta and Juan Ignacio Chela had become conspicuous.
  • Cape Canaveral / United States : The landing of the space shuttle Discovery ( STS-114 ) was initially postponed by 90 minutes and finally to Tuesday, August 9th due to bad weather conditions.
  • Cairo / Egypt : The Egyptian electoral commission has approved ten candidates for the presidential election on September 7th. According to the election committee, 20 applicants were not allowed to vote. Muhammad Husni Mubarak , President of Egypt since 1981, is aiming for a fifth term. The 77-year-old Mubarak is the successor to the murdered Anwar as-Sadat . An amendment to the constitution, which was adopted by referendum in May 2005, allows for the first time a presidential election with multiple candidates.
  • Beijing / China : 116 miners were probably killed in two mine accidents in southern China. A mining disaster occurred in Guandong Province in which 102 miners were buried in a flood. Another mining disaster occurred in Guizhou Province. 14 miners were killed here by a gas explosion .

Tuesday August 9, 2005

  • Cape Canaveral / United States : The landing of the Discovery ( STS-114 ) had to be relocated to California. Reason: The clouds over Cape Canaveral did not allow a landing there. The space shuttle landed safely, as planned, at 2:11 p.m. (CEST).
  • Genoa / Italy : After the forced relegation of FC Genoa to the 3rd division, frustrated " fans " devastated the city center and the train station on Tuesday morning. Around 2,000 hooligans can only be pushed out of the city center with decisive police action. Meanwhile, the Genoese judge Alvaro Vigotti prohibited the football association from setting a binding schedule for the coming season and thus creating facts to the detriment of Genoa FC.
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : The oral hearing in the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe began today on the organ disputes proceedings of two members of the Bundestag against the dissolution of the Bundestag by Federal President Horst Köhler on July 21, 2005.
  • Moscow / Russia : The imprisoned oil entrepreneur Mikhail Khodorkovsky will have to share the prison cell with ten other inmates in the future. Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, was moved to a communal cell on Tuesday and no longer has television or newspapers, confidants said. The Sailors Rest Prison gave no reason for the changed prison conditions. Rumors have it that he criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin while in prison .
  • Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : Largest bank robbery in the history of Brazil. Around 150 million real (approx. 55 million euros) loot. (= 3.5 t banknotes). Three months ago, six to ten men rented a house near the bank. After the house was renovated, the men opened a gardening market. The residents were not surprised that soil was regularly removed from the house. The tenants only used the renovation and shop as an excuse to dig a 70-meter-long tunnel to the bank.

Wednesday August 10, 2005

  • Basel / Switzerland : In the qualifying first leg of the Champions League between Bremen and Basel, the German team is defeated 2 to 1 despite the Klose goal.
  • New York / United States : The bribery scandal surrounding the former UN aid program for Iraq, oil for food, is widening. Around 2,000 companies are said to have bribed UN officials, including the head of the program, Benon Sevan , and UN official Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev , in order to receive preferential treatment. The commission of inquiry established informs the companies concerned about the allegations and offers them the opportunity to comment. Around 4,500 companies were involved in the aid program.
  • Tallinn / Estonia : A helicopter of the type Sikorsky S-76 with 14 passengers, 5 km off the coast of Estonia thrown into the sea. The occupants are locked in the wreck at a depth of about 50 meters, there is little hope of survivors. Strong winds of over 90 km / h are believed to be the cause of the accident. In addition to the two Finnish pilots, there were 6 passengers from Finland , 4 from Estonia and two US citizens on board.

Thursday August 11, 2005

  • Paris / France : As part of its program against unemployment, the French government has now decided to relax the protection against dismissal for companies with up to 20 people. The regulation provides that these companies can employ employees with a probationary period of two years and during the probationary period can terminate the contractual relationship at any time without giving reasons.

Friday August 12, 2005

  • Augsburg / Germany : The former State Secretary Ludwig-Holger Pfahls was found guilty of accepting benefits and tax evasion by the Augsburg Regional Court and sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in prison. The court thus followed the prosecutor's request. Pfahls had confessed to having accepted around 2 million euros in bribes from the gun lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber and not paying taxes. The longer pre-trial detention is taken into account.
  • Cape Canaveral / United States : NASA 's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches. Its task is to search for traces of water on Mars and to identify landing sites for future Mars missions. A high-resolution camera should enable the first complete map of Mars . The probe should reach its destination in early 2006.
  • Colombo / Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar is killed in an attack . The current armistice is therefore considered to be highly endangered.
  • Cologne / Germany : Preparations for World Youth Day begin . 27,000 volunteers are already on site.
  • Regensburg / Germany : There is a bomb explosion in Barbing near Regensburg. According to investigations by the LKA, it is a 67-year-old man from Munich who had planned an attack on a Turkish national. While trying to plant a pipe bomb on the Turk's car, the assassin blew himself up. Further explosives were found in the Barbinger apartment and in an apartment in Munich. The investigation continues.
  • Singapore / Singapore: Oil price reaches new record level. The price of a barrel of crude oil climbed to a peak of $ 66.11 . According to ADAC, new gasoline price records can be expected.


Sunday August 14, 2005

Monday August 15, 2005

  • Iraq : The deadline set in the transitional constitution for the adoption of a new Iraqi constitution by the National Assembly elected in January 2005 ends at midnight.
  • Israel : The ultimatum to the Jewish settlers to voluntarily evacuate the Gaza Strip ends at midnight .

Tuesday August 16, 2005

  • Afghanistan : 17 Spanish military personnel are killed in a helicopter crash in northern Afghanistan.
  • Japan : A 7.2 magnitude earthquake shakes northern Japan. The epicenter is about 80 km off the east coast of the main island of Honshu. At least 50 people are injured.
  • Taizé / France : Brother Roger , the 90-year-old founder of the Taizé ecumenical order , is fatally injured with a knife cut in the throat by a presumably insane 36-year-old woman from Romania during a service .
  • Venezuela : West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes in western Venezuela. 160 people are killed. The passengers were mostly French .

Wednesday August 17, 2005

Presidential Palace in Singapore

Thursday August 18, 2005

World Youth Day in Cologne

Friday 19th August 2005

Saturday 20th August 2005

  • Jerusalem / Israel : The Gaza withdrawal is currently suspended because of the Sabbath . Four of the total of 21 now illegal settlements have still not been completely cleared by Israeli settlers. A planned demolition of the houses in the Gaza Strip should be completed within two months. The costs for this are estimated at the equivalent of 370 million euros. By Friday, the Israeli army had partially cleared 18 settlements. The remaining settlements of Azmona, Katif and Netzarim are still to be evacuated.
  • Lisbon / Portugal : Since more than 50 forest fires are raging in Portugal , the majority of which were caused by arson , official calls for help are issued to neighboring Spain and the European Union .
  • Omsk / Russia : In the vicinity of the Siberian city of Omsk there are the first cases of bird flu H5N1 in a large poultry farm .
  • Quito / Ecuador : In the conflict over the blockade of oil production, President Alfredo Palacio has appointed retired general Oswaldo Jarrín as the new defense minister. He is said to intensify action against the demonstrators who have been occupying the oil production facilities in the provinces of Sucumbíos and Orellana for several days in order to force a fairer distribution of the oil revenues.

Sunday August 21, 2005

Monday August 22, 2005

  • Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territories : All Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to police. This was announced by an Israeli police spokesman in Jerusalem that evening. Netzarim was the last of the 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip to be evacuated. The evacuation had started on August 17th and was actually scheduled for three weeks. It was the first time that Israel left occupied Palestinian territory.
  • Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank despite international criticism : "The settlement blocks are under construction," the Jerusalem Post quoted him today as saying . The settlement expansion in the West Bank contradicts the Middle East peace plan, the so-called Road Map .
  • Leipzig / Germany : The fourth Games Convention , Europe's largest trade fair for computer and video games in Leipzig, achieved a record number of around 134,000 visitors, despite the World Youth Day in Cologne from Thursday to Sunday.
  • London / United Kingdom : Brazil sends a delegation to London to clarify the circumstances surrounding the violent death of Jean Charles de Menezes . Plainclothes officers shot de Menezes multiple times in the head on 22 July on the London Underground . Video recordings and testimonies, which were also published in TV reports, contradict the police's original information about the course of events.

Tuesday 23 Aug 2005

Wednesday August 24, 2005

  • Bavaria / Germany : When the floods in the foothills of the Alps , the situation eases noticeably, the water levels rise downstream. In Neu-Ulm on the Danube , a clinic is being completely evacuated, a senior citizens' home is being partially evacuated, and the first dam breaks on the Iller are becoming apparent. The situation in Landshut , Bad Tölz , Regensburg and Passau is currently still critical.
  • There are still doubts about the authenticity of Lance Armstrong's urine samples . This was announced today by a spokesman for the International Doping Control Committee for Cycling. It is still unclear how the said urine sample from 1999 could be assigned to Lance Armstrong. In addition, it is still suspicious that still no one knows exactly who the other six urine samples come from, which tested positive together with those allegedly belonging to Armstrong. Above all, however, the report is dubious because it was only released now - and not in 2004, when it was supposedly discovered. - The French sports newspaper L'Équipe reported on 12 frozen urine samples from 1999, which were re-checked in 2004. In this control, all 12 tested positive for EPO, which could not be proven in 1999. 6 of these samples are attributed to Lance Armstrong ...

Thursday August 25, 2005

Friday August 26, 2005

  • New York / United States : The 2005 World Social Report of the UN Secretariat for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) says that despite unprecedented economic growth in some countries, a large proportion of people are stuck in an “inequality trap”.
  • Washington, DC / United States : The US military makes the reduction of its troop strength in Iraq dependent on the reaction of the Sunni minority to the new Iraqi constitution . The commander in chief in Iraq, US General John Vines, told the US television broadcaster ABC that if the Sunnis felt excluded from participation in power, he expected the armed resistance to intensify. One of the most important prerequisites for the US troops withdrawal is the security situation in the country. It is therefore "vital" for Iraq to have an effective constitution and to hold a smooth referendum on it.

Saturday August 27, 2005

Landing of the A380 after its maiden flight in April
  • Baghdad / Iraq : In the most extensive prisoner release to date, the US army released around a thousand prisoners from the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. The Iraqis were released after a thorough review of the individual cases between Thursday and Saturday, said the US Army. All had acknowledged their actions, renounced violence and vowed to be "good citizens of a democratic Iraq". There was no one among those released who was accused of serious crimes such as "bomb attacks, torture, kidnapping or murder".
  • Berlin / Germany : Federal Finance Minister Hans Eichel ( SPD ) expects a national deficit of 3.7 percent of the German gross domestic product for 2005 . Eichel will report this value to the EU Commission in Brussels on Wednesday , reported " Welt am Sonntag ", citing government circles. In March, Eichel had forecast, in his last half-year report, a minus of only 2.9 percent for the federal, state, municipal and social insurance companies. According to “Welt am Sonntag”, Eichel's experts attribute the deterioration primarily to the sluggish economy , which has resulted in lower tax revenues and higher spending on unemployment .
  • Hamburg / Germany : The new A 380 reached Hamburg around 3 p.m. today and circled the Airbus plant in Finkenwerder several times. The largest passenger aircraft in the world did not land, but only simulated a landing approach and took off. The occasion for the visit was the family day at Airbus. The giant aviator returned to Toulouse straight away after its 20-minute visit.
  • Washington, DC / United States : US Chief of Staff Richard Myers has expressed concern about the dwindling US public support for the war in Iraq . While the US soldiers are highly motivated on the mission , they were also wondering what is currently going on in the US, Myers said on Friday ( local time ) in Washington. The troops wanted to be certain that they could finish what they had started “four years ago”. There is a "growing gap" between the perception of the US public and what is going on in the war zones. The most important thing in wartime is the “will and determination” of US citizens .

Sunday August 28, 2005

  • New Orleans / United States : The American city of New Orleans is threatened by Hurricane Katrina and is therefore completely evacuated . The entire dimensions of Hurricane Katrina exceed the area of ​​Germany. The residents are said to be in the interior of Louisiana to safety. Floods are expected for Monday. The tourists who are currently in the city have hardly any prospect of rental cars or flights and therefore often have to wait on the upper floors of the hotels and hope that they will survive the storm there with intact skin.

Monday August 29, 2005

Tuesday August 30, 2005

Wednesday August 31, 2005

See also

Web links

Canton of Lucerne in August 2005
Commons : August 2005  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Article Published August 2005  - In The News

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mother wants to have children alone. In: mz-web.de . August 2, 2005, accessed September 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Tobacco advertising is initially allowed in Germany. In: bdzv.de . August 5, 2005, accessed December 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Visit to Hamburg on July 19, 2004 and August 1, 2005. In: elbetreff.de, Andreas Glock. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The Saudi King. In: mofa.gov.sa . Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Wikinews: Up to a thousand deaths from monsoon rains
  6. ↑ Wikinews: Military takes power in Mauritania
  7. ^ Chronicle of the World Festival of Youth and Students. In: fdj.de . Retrieved April 28, 2017 .
  8. ^ Spiegel Online
  9. ^ Spiegel Online
  10. ↑ Wikinews: Election Commission admits ten candidates for presidential election
  11. ↑ Fans of Genoa FC devastate the city center. In: spiegel.de . August 9, 2005, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  12. ^ Wikinews: Negotiation of lawsuit against dissolution of parliament
  13. ↑ Bribery scandal spreads. In: derstandard.at . August 10, 2005, accessed May 9, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Wikinews: France relaxes protection against dismissal
  15. ↑ Wikinews: Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister killed in attack
  16. ↑ "As if we were still missing this scar". In: livenet.ch . August 16, 2006, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  17. ^ The President. (No longer available online.) In: istana.gov.sg . January 25, 2013, archived from the original on July 1, 2017 ; accessed on July 26, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.istana.gov.sg
  18. Jump up ↑ dismay at the murder of Brother Roger. In: spiegel.de . August 17, 2005, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Wikinews: Pope Benedict XVI. landed in Cologne
  20. ↑ Wikinews: Alleged Al Qaeda leader shot dead in Saudi Arabia
  21. ^ Original manuscript by Einstein found again. In: heise.de . August 21, 2005, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  22. ↑ netzeitung.de
  23. ↑ Brazil sends a delegation to investigate the Menezes case. In: derstandard.at . August 22, 2005. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .
  24. ↑ The bridge on A12 threatens to collapse. In: derstandard.at . August 24, 2005, accessed May 9, 2019 .
  25. ↑ The Crash of Lance Armstrong. In: faz.net . October 22, 2012, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  26. ^ Unsuccessful action by the two members of the Bundestag against the dissolution of the Bundestag. In: bundesverfassungsgericht.de . August 25, 2005. Retrieved August 8, 2017 .
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  28. ↑ overshootday.org, Global Footprint Network : Earth Overshoot Day 1970−2020 ( Memento from July 18, 2020 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  29. ↑ Wikinews: Today there is more inequality in the world than ten years ago
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  31. ↑ Where there's a will, there's a way. In: motorsport-total.com, sport media group GmbH. November 18, 2006, accessed October 15, 2018 .