In 2005, President José Eduardo dos Santos visited Israel.

* 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 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.

The President of Germany, Horst Köhler, himself urged judicial review of the constitutionality of the Luftsicherheitsgesetz after he signed it into law in 2005.

Clinton with former President George H. W. Bush in January 2005

After Hurricane Katrina, Clinton joined with fellow former President George H. W. Bush to establish the Bush-Clinton Tsunami Fund in January 2005, and the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund in October of that year.

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

During the election in 2005, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso openly supported Bozizé.

In September 2005, President Ricardo Lagos signed into law several constitutional amendments passed by Congress.

On 6 May 2005, President Fidel Castro reiterated that the island nation would not " be part of a disgraceful institution that has only humiliated the honor of Latin American nations ".

On January 4, 2005, President Chirac urged changes that would provide greater consumer protection.

In 2005 over 50 reforms were approved, which eliminated some of the remaining undemocratic areas of the text, such as the existence of non-elected Senators ( appointed senators, or senators for life ) and the inability of the President to remove the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

The constitution, adopted by referendum in 2005, and promulgated by President Joseph Kabila in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation of powers between the three branches of government-executive, legislative and judiciary, and a distribution of prerogatives between the central government and the provinces.

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

In 2005, then American Psychiatric Association President Steven Sharfstein released a statement in which he conceded that psychiatrists had " allowed the biopsychosocial model to become the bio-bio-bio model ".

At the 2005 General Assembly, over 3000 delegates voted nearly unanimously to elect the Sharon E. Watkins as General Minister and President of the denomination.

In April 2005, the Ecuadorian Armed Forces declared that it " withdrew its support " for the President.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

President Bongo coasted to easy re-elections in December 1998 and November 2005, with large majorities of the vote against a divided opposition.

Former President Viera was once again elected as President in July 2005.

On 27 November 2005 the PLH candidate Manuel Zelaya beat the PNH candidate and current Head of Congress Porfirio " Pepe " Lobo, and became the new President on 27 January 2006.

* 1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras ( d. 2005 )

* Royal, George ( 2005 ) " Psychic Abilities and Parapsychology ", Ezine

The structure " Fiddler's Green " from George A. Romero's 2005 film Land of the Dead might be an arcology.

* Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare ( 1919 – 2005 )

* Arfken, George B. and Hans J. Weber, Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 6th edition ( Harcourt: San Diego, 2005 ).

* 2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1, 000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.

* 1904 – George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat ( d. 2005 )

* The Cinema of George Lucas ( Hardcover ) by Marcus Hearn, Publisher: Harry N. Abrams ( March 1, 2005 )

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

This resurgence led George A. Romero to return to his Living Dead series with Land of the Dead ( 2005 ), Diary of the Dead ( 2007 ) and Survival of the Dead ( 2010 ).

Two tantalizing photos were given to Louisiana State University museum director George Lowery in 1971 by a source who wished to remain anonymous but who came forward in 2005 as outdoorsman Fielding Lewis.

* Pappas, George ( 2005 ) " Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( Spring 2005 Edition ), Edward N. Zalta ( ed .).

* 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – George Mikan, American basketball player ( b. 1924 )

* 1918 – George Rochberg, American composer ( d. 2005 )

* Noszlopy, George Thomas and Fiona Waterhouse ( 2005 ).

President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984, and on March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush gave Robinson's widow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress ; Robinson was only the second baseball player to receive the award, after Roberto Clemente.

On November 9, 2004, following George W. Bush's re-election, Ashcroft announced his resignation, which took effect on February 3, 2005 when the Senate confirmed White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as the next attorney general.

* 2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet ( 20 metres ) from U. S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.

* 2005 – Anthony George, American actor ( b. 1921 )

In August 2005, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, a high-strung host of a fictional TV show on three episodes of Fox sitcom That ' 70s Show.

* 2005 – Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.