However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

Sidwell ( 2005 ) reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Mon – Khmer as follows:

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Benny Bailey, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer ( Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band ) ( d. 2005 )

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador ( b 1925 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley at the opening of the 2005 Revealing Chicago Exhibition in the Boeing Gallery and Chase Promenade in Millennium Park.

Editorship of The Spectator has often been part of a route to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK ; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet minister or a springboard for a greater role in public affairs, as with Boris Johnson ( 1999 to 2005 ), the Conservative Mayor of London.

On June 9, 2005, Mayor Thomas M. Leighton unveiled his I believe ... campaign for Wilkes-Barre, which was intended to boost the city's spirits.

Former mayor Fernando da Mata Pimentel was nominated for World Mayor in 2005 on the strength of these and other programs.

* Ann Darby ( Republican )-2003 to 2005 ( Deputy Mayor in 2004 )

Private Acts 2005, Chapter 27 redesignates the title of County Mayor as County Executive.

In 2005, Bethlehem Mayor Don Cunningham unseated incumbent County Executive Jane Ervin to become the first Democrat to be elected to the office.

In 2005 the Mayor of London and the London Development Agency ( LDA ) took control of the NSC as part of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, and it is now managed by Greenwich Leisure on their behalf.

Roland Methling ( Independent ), was elected Lord Mayor of Rostock in the first round by 58, 2 % of the voters on 27 February 2005.

In early 2005, Santa Paula Mayor Mary Ann Krause began a lobbying campaign to have Santa Paula declared Vinick's hometown.

Phillips had been the State Representative for all of Pontiac and neighboring Auburn Hills from January 2001 until his inauguration as mayor following his successful landslide November 2005 win over incumbent Mayor Willie Payne.

According to Scott Smith, former Mayor of Sturgis, in 2005 around 20, 000 visitors attended that year's rally.

He was then elected to this seat and sworn into office on May 6, 1996 and continued to be re-elected to serve in this capacity until he was elected Mayor and sworn into office on May 2, 2005.

* Steve Lonegan ( born 1956 ), conservative activist ; served for twelve years as Mayor of Bogota and candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 2005 and 2009.

Running on a good government platform and a call to reform the Democratic Party, Jun Choi won the June 2005 primary by a 56 – 44 % margin, defeating longtime incumbent Mayor George A. Spadoro, the first time in Edison history that a challenger won the Democratic primary.

* Robert D. Clifton ( born 1968 ), member of the New Jersey General Assembly who was Mayor of Matawan from 1996 to 2005.

In 2005, Republican Mayor Jo-Anne Shubert resigned as Mayor of South Bound Brook a week before admitting that she gave a $ 35, 000 no-bid computer contract to a company owned by her brother and where she was employed as an office manager.

It is governed by Mayor Elbert L. " Whit " Whitley, Jr. ( who was re-elected in 2005 after a 28-year hiatus from the same position ) and a seven-member City Council.

Former Irving City Council member Mayor Herbert Gears was elected to a three-year term in June, 2005 and re-elected in May, 2008 defeating Roland Jeter and Rigo Reza.

, the Mayor of the Borough of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey is Joseph Parisi, Jr. ( D, term ends December 31, 2015 ), who succeeded his father, Joseph Parisi Sr., 79, who was mayor for 29 years, and was halfway through a four-year term when he died on November 15, 2005.

*** Lee Ying-yuan 李應元 / 李应元 ( 1953 ; ancestral Zhao ' an, Fujian ; born in Lunbei, Yunlin, Taiwan ), Secretary-General, Executive Yuan, 2005 ; Secretary-General, Democratic Progressive Party, 2008 ; Ran and lost to Ma Ying-jeou, Taipei Mayor Elections, 2002

In 2005 the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, sought to overturn this protection and reduce it to ' half a dome '.

He has also appeared in the films Zoolander ( 2001 ), Mayor of the Sunset Strip ( 2004 ), Little Black Book ( 2004 ), The Game of Their Lives ( 2005 ) and How to Rob a Bank ( 2008 ).