Editing 2005

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==Events==
*January 9 - End of the Second Sudanese Civil War.
*February 8 - End of the [[Second Intifada]].
*February 14 - Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated in Beirut during a truck bombing perpetrated by [[Hezbollah]], which kills 22 other people.
*February 15 - [[Christopher Pittman]] is found guilty of the 2001 murders of his grandparents, Joe and Joy Pittman, and is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
*March 1 - The [[Paraguayan People's Army]] is formed and begins an insurgency against the Paraguayan government.
*March 21 - [[Jeff Weise|Red Lake shootings]]
*May 15 - End of the Burundian Civil War.
*June 3 - [[Luka Magnotta]] is convicted of one count of impersonation and three counts of fraud after impersonating a woman to apply for a credit card and purchasing over $10,000 worth of goods. He pleaded guilty and received a nine-month conditional sentence with 12 months of probation.
*July 4 - [[Karla Homolka]] is released from prison.
*[[7 July 2005 London bombings|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 3 - [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]] is elected President of Iran.
*August 18 - [[Dennis Rader]], the BTK Strangler, is sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms in prison, one for each of his [[murder]]s.
*August 26 - [[Pierre Nkurunziza]] is sworn in as President of Burundi.
*October 1 - [[Nino Vieira]] is elected President of Guinea-Bissau for the second time.
*October 11 - Kelsey Smith-Briggs is killed by [[Raye Dawn Smith]] and [[Michael Lee Porter]].
*October 13 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) indicts [[Joseph Kony]], leader of the [[Lord's Resistance Army]], for [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]].
*December 18 - Beginning of the Chadian Civil War.

==Births==

==== Villain births ====

* Unknown - [[Boy A and Boy B]]
* Unknown - [[David Moore]]
* Unknown - [[Kashala Francis's Murderers]]

==== Victim births ====
*January 1 - Tate Myre
*January 2 - Kelly Holar
*January 9 - Paul Sykes 
*January 19 - Charles Powell
*February 7 - Sayyad Milne 
*February 20 - Gabriel Fernandez 
*March 11 - Riley Sawyers
*March 21 - Hania Aguilar
*April 12 - Benjamin Pardun 
*April 20 - Ciera Hart
*June 21 - Kashala Francis
*July 5 - Timea Batts 
*July 20 - Paulette Farah
*August 5 - Brianna Rodriguez
*August 9 - Caylee Anthony
*September 11 - Dominic Blackwell
*September 27 - Daniel Barden
*October - Max Benson
*October 28 - Chase Kowalski
*November 5 - Grace McDonnell
*December 1 - Josephine Gay
*December 23 - Veronica Moser-Sullivan 

==Deaths==
===Villain deaths===
*January 17 - [[Zhao Ziyang]]
*January 21 - [[Sergei Ryakhovsky]]
*February 5 - [[Gnassingbé Eyadéma]]
*February 19 - [[Giuseppe Piromalli (born 1921)|Giuseppe Piromalli]]
*March 16 - [[Mohammed Bijeh]]
*March 21 - [[Jeff Weise]]
*April 23 - [[J.B Stoner]]
*May 13 - [[Michael Bruce Ross]]
*July 7 - [[Germaine Lindsay]]
*September 9 - [[John Wayne Glover]]
*October 7 - [[David Birnie]]
*October 10 - [[Milton Obote]]
*October 21 - [[Alvin Neelley]]
*December 23 - [[Juvenal Uwilingiyimana]]

===Victim deaths===
*January 28 - Ronnie Paris 
*February 14 - Rafic Hariri
*February 27 - Jessica Lunsford
*June 11 - Phoenix Sinclair 
*October 11 - Kelsey Smith-Briggs