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This article covers breaking news and events in July 2005.

Daily events

Friday 1st July 2005

• Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag expresses mistrust to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder , who asked the vote of confidence in accordance with Article 68 of the Basic Law in order to obtain early elections for the Bundestag 151 MPs vote yes, 296 no, 148 abstain.
• Berlin / Germany : The German Spelling Council concludes the complex of separate and combined spelling . In the future, it is not grammatical logic that will decide, but language usage. This means that more can be written together than in the spelling reform of the 1990s.
• London / United Kingdom : The country takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Luxembourg . As in 1998, the office of Prime Minister of the EC went to Tony Blair .
• Vienna / Austria : With the amalgamation of the police and the gendarmerie , one of the largest administrative reforms of the 2nd Republic takes place.

Saturday 2nd July 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : The Iraqi UN ambassador Samir al-Sumaidaie accuses the American army of having "murdered his cousin in cold blood". Mohammed al-Sumaidaie was killed by a shot in the neck during a house search in Ramadi by US soldiers last week.
• Johannesburg / South Africa : Former President Nelson Mandela appears at the Live 8 benefit concert , a new edition of Live Aid (1985). On the same day Live 8 concerts will take place in Chiba , Barrie , Berlin , Edinburgh , Moscow , London , Paris , Philadelphia , Rome and on the grounds of the Eden Project in St Blazey. Initiator Bob Geldof sees the events as an appeal against the indebtedness of African countries.
• London / United Kingdom : American Venus Williams wins the women's singles tournament of the Wimbledon Championships in tennis against her compatriot Lindsay Davenport .

Sunday 3rd July 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : The Iraqi government confirms British newspaper reports about torture of Sunni prisoners. They are a consequence of the Saddam regime.
• London / United Kingdom : In the final of the men's singles tournament of the Wimbledon Championships , there is a new edition of the previous year's final . Defending champion Roger Federer from Switzerland defeats Andy Roddick from the USA again , this time in three sets.
• Tirana / Albania : The Democratic Party of opposition leader Sali Berisha wins the parliamentary elections in Albania .

Monday 4th July 2005

• Solar system : The “impactor” of the American comet probe Deep Impact collides with the comet Tempel 1 as planned . The released matter cloud is observed by telescopes and measuring devices all over the world. The evaluation of the data obtained will take several years.

Wednesday July 6, 2005

• Auchterarder / United Kingdom : The heads of state of the Group of Eight and the President of the European Commission meet for the 31st World Economic Summit at the Gleneagles Hotel .
• Singapore / Singapore: The IOC is London to host the 30th Summer Olympic Games in 2012 known.
• Strasbourg / France : The controversial European Commission's directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions has been rejected by the European Parliament with a large majority of 648 of the 680 MPs who are entitled to vote.

Thursday July 7, 2005

Russell Square, London

Over 50 dead in London

• London / United Kingdom : In a series of four terrorist attacks , over 50 people die in London and around 700 are injured.

Friday July 8, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : In the 55th ceremony of the German Film Prize is Alles auf Zucker! Awarded as best film by director Dani Levy .

Saturday 9th July 2005

• Birmingham / United Kingdom : The entertainment district and Chinatown are evacuated by the police. There was a serious threat of assassination.
• Caribbean : A tropical cyclone causes severe flooding in the Caribbean. At least 20 people are killed in the Greater Antilles and more than 100 are missing. The storm continues towards Florida.
• Khartoum / Sudan : Following a constitutional amendment, the previous rebel leader John Garang is sworn in as the country's vice-president, and oil-rich South Sudan is granted limited autonomy. The agreement aims to end the more than 20-year civil war between the central government and the separatists of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA).

Sunday July 10, 2005

• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : In the nationwide referendum on the European Constitution, 56.52% of the votes cast are for acceptance and 43.48% for rejection of the negotiated agreement.

Monday July 11, 2005

Viktor Yushchenko

• Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates : The central bank of the United Arab Emirates has announced that it will increasingly invest its foreign exchange reserves in euros . The euro then rises from well below 1.20 US dollars to 1.209 dollars and thus again exceeds the exchange rate level 1.2045, which was temporarily reached immediately after the terrorist attacks became known on July 7, 2005 in London .
• Berlin / Germany : The federal executive committee of the CDU and the party executive committee of the CSU present a government program for the case of an election victory in the upcoming federal election , u. a. to the employment protection for companies with fewer than 20 employees account for new hires, there are the wage costs are reduced and the wage and income tax of the intended tax rate to 12% and the top tax rate be reduced to 39%.
• Salzburg / Austria : The heavy rains of the last 10 days, on the north side of the Alps and in the foothills of the Alps down have walked to increased risk of alpine debris flows out disposals. There were also regional floods , the worst in Mittersill , where 100 million euros in property damage occurred.
• Tres Cantos / Spain : After the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain on June 30th, the first homosexual couple celebrates their civil marriage . Besides Spain, only Belgium and the Netherlands allow marriages between people of the same sex in Europe .
• Vienna / Austria : A two-day working visit takes the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko to Austria's Chancellor Schüssel , who will take over the EU Presidency at the beginning of 2006 . Cooperations with industry as well as in the judiciary , administration and transport are also started.

Tuesday July 12, 2005

• Geneva / Switzerland : The Geneva University Institute for International Studies presented a new study according to which 39,000 locals were killed in the US-led invasion of Iraq . Two other sources speak of 26,000 dead. The British medical journal The Lancet , on the other hand, has even determined 100,000 dead civilians.
• Monaco / Monaco: Albert Grimaldi was named Albert II Prince of Monaco as the successor to his father Rainier III. enthroned . After the solemn mass there was a folk festival and a public ball in the evening.

Wednesday July 13, 2005

• Brussels / Belgium : The EU competition authority approves the takeover of the Austrian VA Technologie by the German Siemens AG if the new owner sells the VA hydropower plant construction division for antitrust reasons .

Thursday July 14, 2005

• Duisburg / Germany : Otto Schily declares the 7th World Games open. Around 3,500 athletes will compete in 40 non-Olympic sports in Duisburg, Bottrop , Mülheim an der Ruhr and Oberhausen over the next ten days .

Saturday July 16, 2005

• Romania : The series of severe floods is shifting downstream of the Danube . In addition to Romania, Bulgaria is also affected.

Monday July 18, 2005

• Belgrade / Serbia and Montenegro : In the trial against the alleged murderers of the fifth President of the Socialist Republic of Serbia Ivan Stambolić , the accused, several members of the “ Red Berets ” special unit and a high-ranking secret service agent, are sentenced to long prison terms.

Tuesday July 19, 2005

• Blackburn / United Kingdom : The German women's national football team wins the 9th European Championship with a 3-1 win in the final against Norway for the fourth time in a row. The record number of spectators set up in 2001 for a women's football championship was once again surpassed with 117,384 spectators in 15 games.
• Znamenskoye / Russia : At least 14 people are killed and 34 others are injured in a bomb attack on militiamen in Znamenskoye northwest of the Chechen capital Grozny .

Thursday July 21, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : Federal President Horst Köhler declares the dissolution of the 15th German Bundestag and orders early elections on September 18th.
• Yemen : Unrest continues following the government's increase in oil prices . Four people died in clashes between armed demonstrators and security forces in the city of al-Dali (almost 500,000 inhabitants), 250 kilometers south of the capital Sana'a . Ten people were also injured. The number of deaths from these unrest rises to 25.
• London / United Kingdom : Unconfirmed reports suggest that a backpack exploded in a London Underground station, injuring one person. Three subway stations have been evacuated and several subway lines have ceased operations. An explosion in a bus was also reported.

Friday July 22, 2005

Location of the Sahel

• Berlin / Germany : Before the Reichstag building , on the Republic Square , collapses microlight type Platzer Kiebitz an individual from. The authorities assume a suicide .
• Geneva / Switzerland : According to a report from the Chinese health minister to the World Health Organization, the bacterium Streptococcus suis , which circulates in pigs, has been identified as the cause of an infectious disease that killed several people in southwest China . More deaths are to be expected.
• Sahel zone : In the next few weeks, 3.6 million people in West Africa face starvation after crop failures. The World Food Organization of the United Nations (UN) is planning a rescue program for 1.2 million people, which the UN member countries would have to finance ad hoc through emergency aid.

Saturday July 23, 2005

• New York / United States : A humanitarian disaster is taking place in Zimbabwe as a result of forced relocation by the Zimbabwean government. This emerges from a report that Anna Tibaijuka , Executive Director of the United Nations Housing and Settlement Program ( UN-Habitat ) and special envoy of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan , presented on July 20. The government called the resettlements " Operation Murambatsvina ".
• Sharm el-Sheikh / Egypt : According to the latest official information, at least 88 people were killed and over 200 injured in several explosions in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on the night of July 22nd to 23rd, 2005.

Sunday July 24, 2005

• Bangkok / Thailand : After an earthquake measuring 7.2 M _w before the Nicobar give Thai authorities a tsunami warning out.
• Paris / France : The American Lance Armstrong wins ahead of Ivan Basso of Italy and Jan Ullrich of Germany for the seventh time the wheel - stage race Tour de France .

Tuesday July 26, 2005

• Augsburg / Germany : In their testimony before the Augsburg Regional Court, the former Federal Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and the former Federal Finance Minister Theo Waigel exonerated the former Defense State Secretary Ludwig-Holger Pfahls , who was responsible for the delivery of German Fuchs anti-tank vehicles to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia u. a. is on trial for bribery. Pfahls' influence on the business was minimal, both witnesses said during their testimony. The main responsibility rests with the government officials at the time, i. H. mostly located with Chancellor Helmut Kohl .
• Cape Canaveral / United States : Today at 10:39 a.m. local time (4:39 p.m. CEST) the space shuttle Discovery took off from the Cape Canaveral spaceport . With her seven astronauts set off for the International Space Station .
• New Delhi / India : After serious clashes between police officers and striking workers at a Honda plant in Gurgaon, a district of the Indian capital New Delhi, the riots continue on Tuesday. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh disapproved of the behavior of police officers in Gurgaon who hit protesters with bamboo sticks.

Thursday July 28, 2005

• Graubünden / Switzerland : A brown bear has been spotted in the wild at the Ofen Pass in the Swiss National Park . The last animal living in Switzerland was shot in 1904 . The last time an immigrant bear was sighted was in 1923 .
• Kampala / Uganda : A nationwide referendum is being held in Uganda on the introduction of a multi-party system. When President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni came to power in 1986, he introduced a “non-party system”. The influence of political parties has been very limited since then.
• United Kingdom : The IRA announces the end of the armed struggle.
• In the morning around 7:50 a.m. in Hamburg, Osdorf district, a savings bank was attacked. The perpetrator had taken a cleaner hostage. Traffic was cut off; the police are on site with a mobile task force [Q: N-TV.de]. The hostage-taking ended bloodlessly around noon after the hostage-taker had surrendered voluntarily.
• It is announced that Jürgen Schrempp will leave the DaimlerChrysler Group at the end of the year. His successor as CEO will be Dieter Zetsche .
• The space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station (ISS) without any problems . The sides of the space shuttle were photographed beforehand to document possible damage. Since no major problems are discovered, nothing stands in the way of a return to Earth, otherwise the crew would have had to stay on the ISS; the supplies are sufficient for max. a month off.

Friday July 29, 2005

• Solar System : The Mars - probe Mars Express of the European Space Agency photographed a crater in the Specialized an oval ice recognize structure that water indicated.

Sunday July 31, 2005

• Isfahan , Tehran / Iran : Iran claims to be building nuclear weapons again. The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna expressed concern, but the representatives of some European countries, including Joschka Fischer from Germany , want to continue to rely on the strategy of diplomatic exchange.
• Cairo / Egypt : On Saturday, a rally in downtown Cairo was violently ended by opponents of Egyptian President Muhammad Husni Mubarak . Police officers and government supporters hit demonstrators with clubs. Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt since 1981, announced on Thursday that he would run again in the presidential election in September.
• Montreal / Canada : The 11th World Swimming Championships the FINA going to end. Two German participants each win a gold medal, Mark Warnecke over 50 m chest and Thomas Lurz over 5,000 m.

See also

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

Web links

London in July 2005

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

 Wikinews: Article Published July 2005  - In The News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all elections for chancellor / questions of confidence. In: Wahlrecht.de . Retrieved March 2, 2017 . 
2. ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Live 8 concerts for debt relief in Africa. In: rollingstone.de . July 2, 2015, accessed October 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Day of global Live 8 concerts sees world vow to make African poverty history. In: bt.com . June 21, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Positive vibe is the key for Venus. In: theguardian.com . July 4, 2005, accessed March 8, 2020 . 
6. ^ Draws Archive - Gentlemen's Singles 2005. In: wimbledon.com . Accessed February 17, 2017 . 
7. ^ G8 Gleneagles Documents. In: g8.utoronto.ca, University of Toronto . Retrieved April 3, 2017 . 
8. ^ Critical voices before the film award ceremony. In: rp-online.de . July 8, 2005, accessed August 24, 2019 . 
9. ↑ deutscher-filmpreis.de : Deutscher Filmpreis, 2005 ( Memento from November 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Use Germany's opportunities. In: kas.de . July 11, 2005, accessed August 9, 2019 . 
11. ^ First homosexual marriage in Spain. In: derstandard.at . July 13, 2005, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Secret police convicted of murdering Milosević rivals. In: faz.net . July 18, 2005, accessed January 30, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Women's EM a milestone. In: uefa.com . Retrieved July 12, 2017 . 
14. ^ Resolution of the Second Senate of August 8, 2005. In: bundesverfassungsgericht.de . August 8, 2005. Retrieved August 8, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Wikinews: Bloody unrest in Yemen over oil price increases
16. ^ Wikinews: Explosions in London
17. ↑ Streptococcus suis Outbreak, Swine and Human, China. In: usda.gov . Retrieved June 8, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Wikinews: Humanitarian Disaster through Zimbabwean Resettlement Policy
19. ↑ Wikinews: Bomb attacks in Sharm El-Sheikh
20. ↑ The Crash of Lance Armstrong. In: faz.net . October 22, 2012, accessed July 31, 2019 . 
21. ^ Armstrong should get Tour titles back - Ullrich. In: stuff.co.nz, Stuff Limited. August 2, 2013, accessed July 31, 2019 . 
22. ↑ Wikinews: Serious clashes between police officers and striking workers
23. ^ Wikinews: Referendum on a multiparty system
24. ↑ Mars - the water ice planet. In: heise.de/tp . July 29, 2005, accessed August 21, 2019 . 
25. ↑ Wikinews: rally by Mubarak opponents in Cairo violently ended
26. ↑ German swimmers only extras. In: spiegel.de . July 26, 2005. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .