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 )

* 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.

Former U. S. President George W. Bush and former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen hold a joint press conference outside Marienborg, July 2005.

In January 2005 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed a special panel composed of judges, university professors, and civil servants to study changes to the Imperial Household Law and to make recommendations to the government.

On 13 April 2005, Fiji's Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, rejected criticism from Australia and some other countries over the prosecution and imprisonment of two foreigners charged with committing homosexual acts, which are illegal in Fiji, and said that other countries needed to respect Fiji's independence.

On February 3, 2005, Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania died of carbon monoxide poisoning in an apparent gas leak at the home of Raul Usupov, deputy governor of Kvemo Kartli region.

The government of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior was elected in March 2004 in a free and fair election round, but was replaced by the government of Prime Minister Aristides Gomes which took office already in November 2005.

In the June 2005, the democratic coalition formed a government with Prime Minister Sali Berisha.

In a strong move, on 8 August 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a snap election to the lower house, as threatened, after LDP stalwarts and opposition DPJ parliamentarians defeated his proposal for a large-scale reform and privatisation of Japan Post, which besides being Japan's state-owned postal monopoly is arguably the world's largest financial institution, with nearly 331 trillion yen of assets.

* 1916 – Edward Heath, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 2005 )

On February 14, 2005, former Prime Minister Hariri was assassinated in a car-bomb attack which killed 21 and wounded 100.

With the return of Michel Aoun, the climate was right to try to heal wounds to help unite the country after former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005.

On 10 July 2005, after threats of resignation by Prime Minister Juncker, the proposed European Constitution was approved by 56. 52 % of voters.

At the 2005 general elections, the MLP led Alliance Sociale coalition won the elections and Navin Ramgoolam became Prime Minister while Sir Anerood Jugnauth remained the president.

** In the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes " Demons " and " Terra Prime " ( both 2005 ) it is revealed that Mars is in the process of being terraformed by use of the Verteron array which redirects comets to crashland on the planet's surface ; by 2155 the atmosphere had been sufficiently altered so that, in the lowlands, Humans could breathe the air unassisted, though temperatures were still cold enough to require thermal gear.

While on a state visit in March 2005, Prime Minister Somare was asked to submit to a security check and remove his shoes upon arriving at the airport in Brisbane.

The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 eliminated the Lord Chancellor's judicial functions and also reduced the office's salary below that of the Prime Minister.

He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005.

Its turf-cutting ceremony was carried out on 18 February 2002 by the Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, and it was officially opened on 29 April 2005.

On 3 October 2005, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Bali, just two days after the Bali bombings.

In 2005, Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon after the assassination of Lebanese Sunni Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on 14 February 2005.

* 1932 – Atli Dam, Faroese politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( d. 2005 )

President Mkapa, Vice President Ali Mohamed Shein, Prime Minister Frederick Sumaye, and National Assembly members will serve until the next general elections in 2005.