* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

* 2005 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d ' état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.

In 2004, Wray was approached by director Peter Jackson to appear in a small cameo for the 2005 remake of King Kong.

: King Kong ( 2005 )

In 2005, Lucas gave US $ 1 million to help build the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D. C. to commemorate American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Universal Studios itself released the English-language version of the film on DVD in widescreen as part of a 2-pack bundle with King Kong Escapes in 2005.

Notable visits include the King of Malaysia visiting Japan in 2005 while in 2006, the Emperor and Empress of Japan visited Malaysia.

* The King ( 2005 film ), a drama directed by James Marsh

On August 3, 2005 the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, performing a coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.

In 2005, Merlin appeared as leader of the Woads of Britton and father to Guinevere in King Arthur.

On 1 February 2005 King Gyanendra suspended the Parliament, appointed a government led by himself, and enforced martial law.

In 2005, Nepalese Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey called China " an all weather friend " and King Gyanendra's regime was also instrumental in inducting China into the SAARC.

Relations between the UK and Nepal have historically been friendly and there have been close links between the Royal Families, although relations deteriorated when the King took power in 2005.

Constance Baker Motley ( 1921 – 2005 ), who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King, Jr., has Nevisian heritage and owned a home in Brown Hill, Nevis, near her ancestral home.

Television credits include The Tracey Ullman Show, American Music Awards, the Academy Awards, and several commercials, such as The King's touchdown celebration, as seen in a string of popular Burger King television commercials that aired during the 2005 – 2006 NFL season.

Both King's sons are published authors: Owen King published his first collection of stories, We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories, in 2005.

Joseph Hillstrom King, who writes under the professional name Joe Hill, published a collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, in 2005.

In the 2005 film Fever Pitch, about an obsessive Boston Red Sox fan, King tosses out the first pitch of the Sox's opening day game.

* The 2005 Star Trek: Titan novel The Red King opens with the disappearance of a Romulan fleet and features Donatra, the Romulan commander featured in Star Trek: Nemesis, working alongside William Riker and his crew.

The government of Saudi Arabia is led by the monarch, King Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, who acceded to the throne in 2005.

King Khalid ( 1975 – 1982 ) left government largely to his Crown Prince, Fahd, who succeeded him as King ( 1982 – 2005 ).

King Abdullah, who came to the throne in 2005, is seen as a reformer and has introduced economic reforms ( limited deregulation, encouragement of foreign investment, and privatization ) and made modernizing changes to the judiciary and government ministries.

Since his accession to the throne in 2005, King Abdullah has taken steps to rein back the powers of the ulema, for instance transferring their control over girls ' education to the Ministry of Education.

With Dallas Boyes as the director, Camani began filming in 2005 and has been continuing with production since.

Playing with his new team, he finished the 2005 – 06 season with career-highs of 29 goals ( second on the team to centre Patrice Bergeron ), 30 assists and 59 points ( third on the team behind Bergeron and winger Brad Boyes over 74 games.

He played the majority of the season with linemates Brad Boyes and newcomer Marco Sturm, who had been acquired in a trade that sent captain Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks in November 2005.

* 1934 – Michael Chapman, English bassoonist ( d. 2005 )

* Ballif, Michelle, Michael G. Moran, Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

The Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois presented a staged concert on August 26 and 27, 2005, with Audra McDonald ( Fay ), Michael Cerveris ( Hapgood ) and Patti LuPone ( Cora ).

In 2005, Michael Dickinson and his Caltech colleagues studied honey bee flight with the assistance of high-speed cinematography and a giant robotic mock-up of a bee wing.

The range of times and places in which the horrors of the Mythos can be encountered was also expanded in late 2005 onwards with the addition of Cthulhu Dark Ages by Stéphane Gesbert, which gives a framework for playing games set in eleventh-century Europe, Secrets of Japan by Michael Dziesinski for gaming in modern day Japan, and Secrets of Kenya by David Conyers for gaming in interwar period Africa.

* Scott, Michael Lee, Programming Language Pragmatics, Morgan Kaufmann, 2005, 2nd edition, 912 pages.

In 2005, Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell told Dáil Éireann that the organisation had a maximum of 150 members.

However, a 2005 study by H. Michael Crowson and colleagues suggested a moderate gap between RWA and other conservative positions.

Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

As DSM-III chief architect Robert Spitzer and DSM-IV editor Michael First outlined in 2005, " little progress has been made toward understanding the pathophysiological processes and etiology of mental disorders.

* Prestwich, Michael ( 2005 ), Plantagenet England: 1225-1360, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

* Michael Givel ( December 2005 ) Philip Morris ’ FDA Gambit: Good for Public Health?

* Michael Rubin, " Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution " ( 2005 ) 0937404675

In 2005 Coleman appeared in WWE Superstar John Cena's music video for his single Bad, Bad Man ( from the album You Can't See Me ), Coleman played the part of himself as a bad guy taking the 1980s pop stars Madonna and Michael Jackson hostage.

Bug, a film directed by William Friedkin, is a psychological thriller filmed in 2005, starring Connick, Ashley Judd, and Michael Shannon.

* 2005 — Michael G. Wilson

* 1940 – Michael Sheard, English actor ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

* 1966 – Michael Park, English race car driver ( d. 2005 )

* 1959 – Michael Bruce Ross, American serial killer ( d. 2005 )

" Speaking at the opening of the Michael Reagan Center in Spring, Texas, October 7, 2005, Michael said, " At 8 years old, I thought I was going to hell.

Two further programmes followed on European painters ; Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse ( 2004 ) and Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershøi ( 2005 ), about the French artist Henri Matisse and Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi respectively.

* 1948 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter ( d. 2005 )