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This article covers breaking news and events in January 2005.

Daily events

Saturday 1st January 2005

• Ankara / Turkey : The New Turkish Lira (YTL) has been the official currency since today. As a result of the currency reform , the bank note with its highest value to date of 20,000,000 TL becomes 20 YTL , which translates to around 11 euros . The highest value of a new note is 100 YTL. The inflation (since 1971 on average over 40%) fell in 2004 to 9%.
• Berlin / Germany : Unemployment benefit II is introduced in Germany, the Hartz IV laws come into effect. In addition, truck drivers now have to pay tolls on the highways using the new system. The third stage of the 2000 tax reform comes into force.
• Bern / Switzerland : SVP politician Samuel Schmid becomes Federal President of Switzerland.
• Brussels / Belgium : The EU emissions trading scheme comes into force in the European Union .
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The country takes over the presidency of the European Union from the Netherlands .
• New York / United States : Argentina , Denmark , Greece , Japan and Tanzania are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .
• Vienna / Austria : The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic combines this year with the musical greeting to all the world the request that the victims of the tsunami of December 26th. actively to commemorate. This is also reflected in the program. For the first time eliminated a traditional addition: The Radetzky March by Johann Strauss .

Sunday January 2, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : The Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) changes its name to “Die Linkspartei”. Printed matter circulating at the party congress also uses the names "Die Linkspartei.PDS" or "Die Linke.PDS" as an alternative.

Tuesday January 4, 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : Ali al Haidari , governor of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has been assassinated according to police reports.
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Republic increases the financial aid for the countries affected by the flood disaster to half a billion euros. This puts Germany at the top worldwide for a short time until it is overtaken by Australia.
• Nuremberg / Germany : The number of unemployed rose by 206,900 to 4.464 million, reports the Federal Employment Agency.

Wednesday January 5, 2005

• Bern / Switzerland : A national day of mourning and a national collection day in favor of the earthquake victims is being celebrated. The nationwide collection of Swiss Solidarity generates a record sum of over CHF 220 million for the benefit of the tsunami victims in Southeast Asia .

Thursday January 6, 2005

• Bischofshofen / Austria : Janne Ahonen from Finland wins the 53rd Four Hills Tournament ahead of Roar Ljøkelsøy from Norway .
• Washington, DC / United States : The US Defense Department announced a prisoner at the detention center for a new investigation into allegations of ill-treatment Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay ( Cuba on).

Friday 7th January 2005

• Bologna / Italy : At least 13 people were killed in a collision between a passenger and a freight train near Bolognina di Crevalcore, about 40 km north of Bologna.
• Philadelphia / United States : According to reports from various newspapers, one of the alleged perpetrators is being charged with murder in the US state of Mississippi 40 years after the murders of three civil rights activists by members of the Ku Klux Klan . The now 79-year-old was acquitted in 1967 because the jury had a tie.

Saturday January 8, 2005

• Chemnitz / Germany : The Kastelruther Spatzen win their fifth folk music crown .
• Cuxhaven / Germany : The alleged murderer of the girl Levke also killed the boy Felix from Neu Ebersdorf ( district of Rotenburg (Wümme) ), who had been missing for two months , as he confessed to his lawyer. The police found Felix's body on Friday in the Geeste river near Schiffdorf ( Cuxhaven district ) following information from the suspect .
• Northern Europe : A hurricane rages over Northern Europe with high wind speeds and sometimes very heavy downpours . Several people die in Denmark and Sweden , and in Germany, too, drivers were killed by falling trees. The ferry and air traffic in some Scandinavian countries had to be stopped. In Schleswig-Holstein the train service was also stopped. In Great Britain and Ireland , 50,000 and 60,000 people are without electricity.

Sunday January 9, 2005

• Nairobi / Kenya : In Nairobi a peace treaty is signed between the government of Sudan under Omar al-Bashir and the South Sudanese rebels under John Garang . The agreement ends the longest civil war on the African continent (it lasted over 20 years and cost 1.5 million lives) and provides for autonomy for the southern provinces. After six years at the earliest, the south should be given the opportunity to hold an independence referendum .
• Ramallah / Palestinian Territories : Presidential elections have started in the West Bank . The favorite is Mahmud Abbas , chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO .

Monday January 10, 2005

• Kiev / Ukraine : The Ukrainian electoral commission officially confirms Viktor Yushchenko's victory in the runoff election on December 26th with 51.99%. The Supreme Court had previously dismissed four more lawsuits by the failed presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych for formal errors. However, a complaint against the official final result is still possible before the Supreme Court.
• Ramallah / Palestinian Territories : Mahmud Abbas , chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declares himself the winner of the presidential elections in the West Bank after claiming two thirds of the votes. Independent election observers so far speak of “clean elections”.
• Rome / Italy : In Italy, a general smoking ban in restaurants and pubs comes into force today . The first fines are said to have been imposed that night.

Tuesday January 11, 2005

• Bergen / Germany : A British soldier is sentenced to imprisonment by a military tribunal in his home base in Lower Saxony for participating in the torture of civilians in Iraq . So far, only US soldiers had to answer for similar crimes .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The Supreme Court of Ukraine has again banned the mandatory official publication of the final results of the presidential election due to an urgent motion by the defeated presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych .

Wednesday January 12, 2005

• Cape Canaveral / United States : A NASA space probe was successfully launched, which is to collide with comet Tempel 1 in a controlled manner in June in order to obtain information about its internal structure.
• Paris / France : The French Minister for Education and Research François Fillon expressed the wish that more students study German .

Thursday January 13, 2005

• London / United Kingdom : British Prince Harry apologizes for appearing at a party in Nazi uniform with a swastika armband on January 8th.
• Paris / France : The Paris Club offers the states affected by the tsunami a debt freeze.

Friday January 14, 2005

Charles Graner became known through images like this one

Huygens image of the surface of titanium

• Bell County / United States : A military tribunal at the Fort Hood base convicts 36-year-old US soldier Charles Graner of mistreating Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghuraib prison near Baghdad and sentenced him to ten years in prison.
• Berlin / Germany : The SPD politician Jann-Peter Janssen resigns from his parliamentary mandate because of the salary payments made public by the VW group without any specific consideration.
• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territories : Three suicide bombers kill six Israelis in a bomb attack .
• Kenya : Due to the poor security situation in Somalia , the interim cabinet of the neighboring Kenyan country under Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi is confirmed on Kenyan soil. It includes warlords from all major factions in Somalia. With their involvement, Ali Mohammed Ghedi wants to stabilize the country.
• Munich / Germany : The fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer is found dead in his apartment by the driver . Moshammer's dog, Daisy, is doing well and is staying with the driver.
• Titan : The ESA - lander Huygens lands softly on the Saturn - moon Titan and collects data on wind conditions, atmosphere and surface finish. It transmits this to Earth via NASA's Cassini space probe , which is in orbit of Saturn.

Saturday 15th January 2005

• Ramallah / Palestinian Territories : Mahmud Abbas is sworn in as the new Palestinian head of government. He is the successor of the late Yasser Arafat .

Sunday January 16, 2005

• Munich / Germany : The police arrest the alleged murderer in the murder case Rudolph Moshammer . It is a 25-year-old Iraqi who was identified with the help of the genetic database. He confesses to the murder of Rudolph Moshammer, which happened after a dispute over payment for sexual acts.
• Zagreb / Croatia : The Croatian President Stjepan Mesić has been confirmed in office. According to the preliminary result of the runoff election, he won with 66 percent of the vote against Jadranka Kosor .

Monday January 17, 2005

• Zagreb / Croatia : The second round of the presidential election is taking place in Croatia . Around 4.4 million eligible voters voted in the first ballot, if they went to the vote, with a simple majority for incumbent Stjepan Mesić from the Croatian People's Party , who finally prevailed clearly against Jadranka Kosor from the Croatian Democratic Union in today's runoff election.

Tuesday January 18, 2005

Airbus A380 at the rollout

• Gush Katif / Palestinian Territories : Hamas carries out a suicide attack near Gush Katif in the southern Gaza Strip : one Israeli is killed, three others are injured.
• Toulouse / France : The new Airbus A380 , the largest passenger aircraft in the history of aviation, is presented to the public with a large light and laser show.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush does not rule out a military strike against Iran if Tehran does not provide comprehensive information about its nuclear program. The US president told NBC that he hoped for a peaceful solution to the conflict.
• The bad word of 2004 is “ human capital ”.

Wednesday January 19, 2005

• Leipzig / Germany : The Federal Administrative Court declares the drafting practice of the Bundeswehr to be constitutional.

Thursday January 20, 2005

George W. Bush (right)

Dissatisfaction with the Bush administration

• Berlin / Germany : Federal President Horst Köhler orders state mourning in memory of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The Supreme Court of Ukraine declares Yushchenko's election victory after the re- election final. All of Yanukovych's lawsuits have thus been dismissed.
• Paris / France : The country is extraditing the former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense Ludwig-Holger Pfahl's wanted for corruption and tax evasion to Germany.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Republican President of the United States George W. Bush takes the oath of his second term as US President. His central political concern is to free the world from "tyranny".
• Vienna / Austria : The legislators reach an agreement on the reform of the controversial head physician obligation .

Friday January 21, 2005

• Washington, DC / United States : The first two ministerial candidates for the second cabinet of President George W. Bush were confirmed by the US Senate. The future Foreign Minister, Condoleezza Rice , has to wait until Wednesday because the vote on her has been postponed.

Saturday January 22, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : outrage over the Holocaust comparison of the Saxony NPD with the "bomb holocaust" of Dresden . According to the Central Council of Jews, there is no justification or excuse for the comparisons.
• Göttingen / Germany : “Alternative election - WASG ” forms as a party. The meeting decided on the name "ASG".
• Munich / Germany : The murdered Rudolph Moshammer is buried in Munich .

Sunday January 23, 2005

• Göttingen / Germany : The top of one of the two steeples of the Gothic St. John's Church burned out during the night. The 72.5 meter high tower threatens to collapse.
• Kiev / Ukraine : Viktor Yushchenko from the bloc Our Ukraine - National Self-Defense is sworn in as the new President of Ukraine .
• Magdeburg / Germany : In Saxony-Anhalt , a referendum will take place for the first time , the duration of childcare differentiated according to the employment of the parents. According to the preliminary official final result, this initiative has failed .
• Rheinberg / Germany : The Apostolic Community is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a community independent of the New Apostolic Church with a large festive divine service with around 1,200 visitors in the Niederrhein exhibition halls.

Monday January 24, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : Volker Kauder is unanimously elected General Secretary by the CDU Federal Committee. He is the successor to Laurenz Meyer, who resigned in December because of the RWE affair .
• Berlin / Germany : After massive public criticism of payments by the Siemens group , the FDP politician Ulrike Flach resigns from her posts as chairwoman of the Bundestag committee for science and technology and as deputy chairwoman of the NRW- FDP.
• Essen / Germany : Deutsche Post AG takes over parts of the logistics of the KarstadtQuelle Group. The sale of the shares for around EUR 200 million is part of the restructuring concept.
• Göttingen / Germany : Two 15- and 19-year-old schoolchildren from the university town are arrested as the arsonists of the Johanniskirche.
• Kiev / Ukraine : The new Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko appoints Yulia Tymoshenko to the post of Prime Minister.

Tuesday January 25, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : Norbert Röttgen (Member of the Bundestag) from Meckenheim near Bonn becomes the new parliamentary director of the CDU .
• Berlin / Germany : On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp , Chancellor Gerhard Schröder confesses his shame about the murder of millions of Jews. He calls for the fight against anti-Semitism .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Only a third of the 3.2 million tickets for the 2006 World Cup will go on sale.
• Los Angeles / United States : The German film Der Untergang is nominated for an Oscar . The fictional film based on a script by producer Bernd Eichinger describes Adolf Hitler's last days in Berlin .
• Mumbai / India : Up to 300 people were killed in a mass panic at the Mandher Devi Temple in West India. The cause was a fire in a market street in the Hindu pilgrimage site, which is currently populated by around 300,000 pilgrims .

Wednesday January 26, 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : 31 marine infantrymen are killed in the crash of a US military helicopter in western Iraq .
• Davos / Switzerland : French President Jacques Chirac calls for more solidarity with the poor countries of the world at the opening of the 35th World Economic Forum .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : In the future, the federal states will be able to decide for themselves how to charge tuition fees . The Federal Constitutional Court declares the obligation of the federal states to be void of the principle of free study.
• Khartoum / Sudan : Around 100 people are killed in an attack on a village in the West Sudanese crisis province of Darfur . 10,000 people are on the run.
• Porto Alegre / Brazil : The fifth World Social Forum opens with a protest march and calls for a “different world”. Around 100,000 participants want to spend six days discussing the consequences of globalization and neoliberalism , the fight against poverty and the war in Iraq.
• Washington, DC / United States : Condoleezza Rice is confirmed as US Secretary of State by the Senate with a large majority.

Thursday January 27, 2005

• Munich / Germany : Siemens CEO Heinrich von Pierer changes to the supervisory board after more than twelve years at the top of the group . His successor, Klaus Kleinfeld, is faced with the task of bringing low-yield sectors back on the road to success.
• New York / United States : The US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble takes over Gillette . With this transaction, the volume of which is around 57 billion US dollars , Procter & Gamble intends to secure its position ahead of Unilever . The elimination of 6,000 jobs is expected.

Saturday January 29, 2005

• China , Taiwan : On the occasion of the Chinese New Year celebrations , direct flights between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan are taking place for the first time in more than 55 years. The final day of the campaign is February 20th.

Sunday January 30, 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : Around 60% of the electorate participate in the elections for the National Assembly , which is to draft a new constitution . Nationwide, 35 people are murdered in front of polling stations. It is the first parliamentary election since the end of the Ba'ath Party's 24-year reign . Despite terrorist attacks and other obstacles, it was not canceled because it is supposed to prove the democratic change in Iraq. The election result is expected in mid-February.

Monday January 31, 2005

Michael Jackson

• Israel , Palestinian Territories : Since the call for the Second Intifada in September 2000, over 4,400 people have died as a result of violence between Israelis and Palestinians . About a fifth of the dead were Israelis and about four fifths were Palestinians.
• Santa Maria / United States : The child abuse trial against the pop star Michael Jackson opens.

See also

• Nekrolog January 2005 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January

Web links

Italy in January 2005

Commons : January 2005  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published January 2005  - In The News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Turkey introduces the "New Lira". In: faz.net . December 30, 2004, accessed January 31, 2020 . 
2. ↑ History of the Federal Presidium: Federal Presidents. In: admin.ch . Retrieved February 22, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Wikinews: Emissions trading begins in the European Union
4. ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
5. ^ Countries Elected Members of the Security Council. In: un.org . Retrieved February 25, 2018 . 
6. ^ The metamorphosis of the PDS to the Left Party. In: zeit.de . January 5, 2005, accessed January 16, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Four Hills Tournament. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Accessed December 31, 2016 . 
8. ↑ View from Huygens on January 14, 2005. In: esa.int . January 14, 2005, accessed April 28, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Huygens' descent to Titan a complete success. In: esa.int . January 14, 2005, accessed January 31, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Croatia on the way to the EU. In: kas.de . 2005, accessed July 14, 2019 . 
11. ↑ George W. Bush's Inaugural Address. In: faz.net . January 21, 2005, accessed May 2, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Chronology since the Orange Revolution. In: kleinezeitung.at . February 19, 2014, accessed October 4, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Federal Committee in Berlin 2005. In: cdu.de . Retrieved September 20, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Direct cargo charter flights considered. In: chinadaily.com.cn . February 25, 2005, accessed August 4, 2019 . 
15. ^ Wikinews: Parliamentary Elections in Iraq
16. ↑ Middle East. In: planet-schule.de, Südwestrundfunk . Retrieved June 15, 2019 . 
17. ↑ acquittal! In: bravo.de . July 8, 2010, accessed November 24, 2018 .