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| 1st Black President Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen |  |
| 12th Nov 1st elected female president of an African country |
| Aid to Africa Brown, Gordon |  |
| Jan Unveils a "Marshall Plan" for Africa, annual aid to double to 55 billion pounds |
| Apology Blair Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| 9th Feb Apologizes to the Conlon and McGuire families wrongly convicted of 1974 IRA bombing |
| Arrest Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| 9th Feb Apologizes to the Conlon and McGuire families wrongly convicted of 1974 IRA bombing |
| Arrest Fujimori, Alberto |  |
| 7th Nov Arrested in Chile whilst a Chilean judge considers a Peruvian extradition request |
| Arrest Tsvangirai, Morgan |  |
| Aug Prosecutors drop remaining treason charges against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai |
| Award Brit Award Williams, Robert Peter "Robbie" | |
| London Receives a special award at the 25th Brit Awards ceremony |
| Bombing of London Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| 7th July London Bombs were detonated in three crowded London subways and one bus during the peak of the city's rush hour, the suicide bombings, thought to be the work of al-Qaida, kill 56 people including the bombers and injur another 700 |
| 7th July London Four suicide bombers blow themselves up on London's transport system killing 52 people and wounding about 700 |
| Buzzcocks Peel, John | |
| Shelley re-records "Ever Fallen In Love" with an all-star group, including Roger Daltrey, David Gilmour, Peter Hook, Elton John, Robert Plant and several contemporary bands, as a tribute to John Peel |
| Buzzcocks Shelley, Pete | |
| Shelley re-records "Ever Fallen In Love" with an all-star group, including Roger Daltrey, David Gilmour, Peter Hook, Elton John, Robert Plant and several contemporary bands, as a tribute to John Peel |
| Chancellor Merkel, Angela Dorothea |  |
| 14th Nov Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany after working out a power-sharing agreement with outgoing Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's Social Democratic Party |
| 14th Nov Merkel is elected Chancellor by the majority of delegates (397 to 217) in the newly assembled Bundestag |
| Chief Minister Kumar, Ntish |  |
| 14th Nov Sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar |
| Composition Anderson, Ian | |
| Releases, "Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull" |
| Composition Bolan, Marc | |
| Bolan returns to the top of the UK charts in when the remastered, expanded Born to Boogie DVD hits No.1 in the Music DVD charts |
| Composition Gallagher, Liam | |
| The release of Oasis' sixth studio album "Don't Believe the Truth" which features a further three of Liam's songs, "The Meaning of Soul", "Love Like A Bomb" and "Guess God Thinks I'm Abel" |
| Composition Gallagher, Noel | |
| The release of Oasis' sixth studio album "Don't Believe the Truth" |
| Composition Weller, Paul | |
| Releases the solo album, "As Is Now" |
| Conference of African Union Annan, Kofi Atta |  |
| 31st Jan 25 African heads of state and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in attendance, Nigeria |
| Constitution Fabius, Laurent |  |
| 29th May Lead the rebel group of the PS advocating a 'no' vote in referendum on the European Constitution |
| Constitution Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Nov The ruling Zanu-PF party wins an overwhelming majority of seats in a newly-created upper house of parliament, the Senate, the opposition MDC splits over its leader's decision to boycott the poll |
| Death Berenson, Peter | |
| Death of Peter Berenson |
| Death Best, George | |
| 25th Nov Death of George Best |
| Death Britton, Edward | |
| 3rd Jan Death of Edward Britton |
| Death Callaghan, James | |
| 26th Mar Death of James Callaghan |
| Death John Paul II |  |
| 2nd April Death of John Paul II |
| Death Mandela, Makgatho |  |
| Jan Death of Makgatho Mandela from AIDS, Nelson Mandela's eldest son |
| Death Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla | |
| Jan Death of Makgatho Mandela from AIDS, Nelson Mandela's eldest son |
| Death De Lorean, John |  |
| 19th Mar New Jersey Death of John De Lorean |
| Death Helms, Chet | |
| 1st July Death of Chet Helms |
| Death Kennedy, Rosemary | |
| 7th Jan Death of Rosemary Kennedy, elder sister of JF Kennedy |
| Death Parks, Rosa | |
| 25th Oct Montgomery American civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies age 92 years old, 50 years earlier, Parks had famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and in doing so catalyzed the American civil rights movement |
| Death Vandross, Luther | |
| 1st July Death of Luther Vandross |
| Declaration of War Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| 1st May Leaked documents say Bush and Blair were determined to topple Saddam Hussein at least nine months before war |
| Declaration of War Bush, George Walker | |
| 15th Dec Admits responsibility for going to war in Iraq on the basis of faulty intelligence |
| Deep Throat Felt, Mark | |
| 31st May Watergate Former assistant FBI director Mark Felt announces that he was "Deep Throat," the secret source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal |
| 31st May Watergate The admission takes even legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who had promised to keep their source's identity a secret until his death, by surprise |
| Defeat Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| 9th Nov Tony Blair's 1st Commons defeat, report stage of the Terrorism Bill |
| Defection Jackson, Robert | |
| 15th Jan Wantage Jackson defects from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party |
| Diplomacy Merkel, Angela Dorothea | |
| 15th Nov Merkel's first foreign trMerkel travels to Paris for a meeting with the French president, Jacques Chirac, In his speech, Chirac emphasized the importance of the Franco-German Companionship for Europe |
| Diplomacy Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| July Leaders of the Group of Eight agree increase of $25 billion in annual aid for Africa at a summit hosted by Blair |
| Diplomacy Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud |  |
| Oct Ahmadinejad refers to Israel as a "disgraceful stain [on] the Islamic world" that would be eliminated |
| Oct Iran's new president repeats a remark from a former Ayatollah that Israel should be "wiped out from the map," insisting that a new series of attacks will destroy the Jewish state |
| Oct Quoted as saying, "God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism" |
| Diplomacy Abbas, Mahmoud |  |
| May Abbas travels to the White House and meets with President Bush, Bush, in return for Abbas ' crackdown on terrorists, pledges $50 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority and reiterates USAsupport or a free Palestinian state |
| Diplomacy Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich |  |
| Putin and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schrder negotiated the construction of a major gas pipeline over the Baltic exclusively between Russia and Germany |
| Diplomacy Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Jan The USAlabels Zimbabwe as one of the world's six "outposts of tyranny" |
| Dec After a four-day visit, UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland says Zimbabwe is in "meltdown" |
| Disaster Singh, Manmohan | |
| 8th Oct Kashmir A 7.6-magnitude earthquake devastates the Kashmir border region between India and Pakistan killing an estimated 80,000 people, injuring 70,000 more and leaving more than 3 million homeless and without food and basic supplies |
| 8th Oct Kashmir The disaster brings a temporary cessation of hostilities between enemies India and Pakistan, who worked together in rescue and relief efforts in the days after the quake |
| Earthquake Singh, Manmohan | |
| 8th Oct Kashmir A 7.6-magnitude earthquake devastates the Kashmir border region between India and Pakistan killing an estimated 80,000 people, injuring 70,000 more and leaving more than 3 million homeless and without food and basic supplies |
| 8th Oct Kashmir The disaster brings a temporary cessation of hostilities between enemies India and Pakistan, who worked together in rescue and relief efforts in the days after the quake |
| Economy Silva, Luiz Inacio Lula da |  |
| 15th Dec Announces that Brazil will clear its IMF debt of $15.5bn 2 yrs early |
| Economy Brown, Gordon | |
| Jan Unveils a "Marshall Plan" for Africa, annual aid to double to 55 billion pounds |
| Economy Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| Putin and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schrder negotiated the construction of a major gas pipeline over the Baltic exclusively between Russia and Germany |
| Economy Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| May Tens of thousands of shanty dwellings and illegal street stalls are destroyed as part of a "clean-up" programme, the UN estimates that the drive has left about 700,000 people homeless |
| Dec After a four-day visit, UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland says Zimbabwe is in "meltdown" |
| Election Merkel, Angela Dorothea | |
| After three weeks of negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD, the two parties reached a deal whereby Merkel would become Chancellor and the SPD would hold 8 of the 16 seats in the cabinet |
| Leads a Grand coalition with the sister party, the Chris tian Social Union (CSU), and with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), formed after the federal election |
| 10th May Merkel wins the CDU/CSU nomination as challenger to Chancellor Gerhard Schrder of the SPD in the 2005 national elections |
| 18th Sep Merkel's CDU/CSU and Schrder's SPD went head-to-head in the national elections, with the CDU/CSU winning 35.3% (CDU 27.8%/CSU 7.5%) of the second votes to the SPD's 34.2% |
| 14th Nov Merkel is elected Chancellor by the majority of delegates (397 to 217) in the newly assembled Bundestag |
| 14th Nov The coalition deal is approved by both CDU/CSU and SPD parties at party conferences |
| Election Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| 10th Feb Launches a whistlestop tour of marginal constituencies, unveiling 6 election pledges |
| 5th May Labour wins the election with 37% of the votes cast & 356 seats |
| 5th June 1s time a Labour Government wins 3 straight elections |
| 5th June 61% of people eligible to vote go to the polls, a 2% rise on 2001 |
| 5th June Sedgefield "Iraq..a divisive issue in this country but I hope now that we can unite again" |
| Election Brown, Gordon | |
| Kirkcaldy Elected Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath |
| Election Galloway, George | |
| 5th May The former Labour anti-Iraq war rebel wins the Bethnal Green seat |
| Election Kennedy, Charles | |
| 5th May With 62 seats, the Liberal Democrats have 10 more MPs than in 2001 |
| Election Kilroy-Silk, Robert | |
| 5th May Erewash Comes 4th in Erewash, 20,000 votes behind the Labour candidate |
| Election Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| 24th June Ahmadinejad sweeps to the presidential post with a stunning 17,046,441 votes out of a total of 27,536,069 votes cast |
| Election Peres, Shimon |  |
| 9th Nov Amir Peretz defeats the Party Leader, Shimon Peres |
| Election Peretz, Amir | |
| 9th Nov Amir Peretz defeats the Party Leader, Shimon Peres |
| Election Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen | |
| 12th Nov Elected President of Liberia |
| Election Abbas, Mahmoud | |
| Jan A mandate to secure a ceasefire, reform the corrupt PLA & resume peace talks |
| Jan Elected President with 62.3% of the votes cast |
| 9th Jan Abbas is elected with 62% of the vote as the new president of the Palestinian Authority |
| Election Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Mar Ruling Zanu-PF party wins two-thirds of the votes in parliamentary polls, the main opposition party says election was rigged against it |
| 31st Mar The Zimbabwe parliamentary elections are held, the ruling ZANU-PF wins 59.6 % of the popular vote and 78 out of 120 elected seats |
| Nov The ruling Zanu-PF party wins an overwhelming majority of seats in a newly-created upper house of parliament, the Senate, the opposition MDC splits over its leader's decision to boycott the poll |
| 26th Nov The leader of the opposition MDC party says, "We are deeply disturbed by the fraudulent activities we have unearthed," and various human rights groups report hundreds of thousands of 'ghost voters' had appeared on the electoral roll of 5.8 million |
| 26th Nov The Zimbabwe parliamentary elections are held, the ruling ZANU-PF wins 43 of 50 elected senators |
| Election Tsvangirai, Morgan | |
| Nov The leader of the opposition MDC party says, "We are deeply disturbed by the fraudulent activities we have unearthed," and various human rights groups report hundreds of thousands of 'ghost voters' had appeared on the electoral roll of 5.8 million |
| Nov The ruling Zanu-PF party wins an overwhelming majority of seats in a newly-created upper house of parliament, the Senate, the opposition MDC splits over its leader's decision to boycott the poll |
| European Union Erdogan, Recep Tayyip |  |
| the AKP is admitted as an observer member in the European People's Party (EPP), the conservative party of the EU |
| Exile of Fujimori Fujimori, Alberto | |
| 6th Nov Santiago Fujimori arrives in Santiago, Chile after being exiled in Japan since 2000 |
| Federal Reserve Board Bernanke, Ben | |
| 24th Oct President Bush nominates economist Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board when his term expires on January 31, 2006. The legendary Greenspan had served as the Fed's chairman for 18 years |
| Federal Reserve Board Bush, George Walker | |
