This is the name that was originally announced in 2003 ; however, the IAU Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature ( WGPSN ) decided in early 2005 to use an alternative transliteration of the Norse spelling.

The name was approved by the IAU Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature on January 21, 2005.

The name Methone was approved by the IAU Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature on January 21, 2005.

In 2005, the name Pallene was provisionally approved by the IAU Division III Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, and was ratified at the IAU General Assembly in 2006.

The name Polydeuces was approved by the IAU Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature on January 21, 2005.

Also, Sub-Saharan Africa was part of its region until April 2005, when AfriNIC was officially recognized by ICANN as the fifth Regional Internet Registry.

On October 4, 2005 Croatia finally received green light for accession negotiations after the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, Carla Del Ponte officially stated that Croatia is fully cooperating with the Tribunal.

On 19 May 2005, FIPS 46-3 was officially withdrawn, but NIST has approved Triple DES through the year 2030 for sensitive government information.

Sony officially discourages the payment of real-world money for online goods, except on certain " Station Exchange " servers in EQ2, launched in July 2005.

In January 2005, more than two years after the software was originally planned for completion, the FBI officially abandoned the project.

* European Petroleum Survey Group ( EPSG ) ( which despite being officially disbanded in 2005 continues to refine a well tested set of Geodetic Parameters )

The Ashcroft Group, LLC officially opened its doors in the fall of 2005 and as of March 2006 had twenty-one clients, turning down two for every one accepted.

Greater Malmö is one of Sweden's three officially recognized Metropolitan areas ( storstadsområden ) and since 2005 is defined as the municipality of Malmö and 11 other municipalities in the southwestern corner of Scania.

* 2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.

In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise and started calling their games in the 2005 – 2006 basketball season on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran, Mark Jackson.

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.

The non-government funded Saint FM Radio officially launched in January 2005.

A Second Network Operator was to be licensed to compete with Telkom across its spectrum of services in 2002, although this license was only officially handed over in late 2005 and has recently begun operating under the name, Neotel.

According to the Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau, there were 152, 050 officially registered foreigners in Shanghai as of 2009, an increase of 50 % from 100, 011 in 2005.

Wine officially entered beta with version 0. 9 on 25 October 2005.

Between 1990 and 2005, the number of officially recorded cases decreased from approximately 200, 000 to approximately 50, 000 cases.

On 1 January 1996, the community officially changed its name from Lac La Martre to the Tłı ̨ chǫ name " Wha Ti ", meaning " Marten Lake ," the same meaning as the French and then on 4 August 2005 to the current spelling.

After Israel publicly denied any involvement in the incident for 51 years, the surviving agents were officially honored in 2005 by being awarded certificates of appreciation by Israeli President Moshe Katzav.

In 2005, the Smithsonian published a year-long computer-aided geometry research which officially acknowledged that the Hope Diamond is, in fact, part of the stolen French Blue crown jewel.

In 2005, the Mozilla Foundation officially changed its policies and created the Mozilla Corporation to provide end-user support.

On 16 September 2005, the ICANN officially approved the domain. cat, the first domain for a language community.

On 18 November 2005, The Communist Party officially celebrated the 90th anniversary of Hu Yaobang's birth with activities at the People's Hall ( the date was changed to two days before it was officially scheduled ).

An agreement was made on July 13, 2005 and the lockout officially ended nine days later on July 22, 2005.

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

The central office of the National Trust in Swindon was named ' Heelis ' in 2005 in her memory.

The hotel was demolished in 2005 and replaced by the similarly named office building known as Southern Cross Tower.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by the Dan yr Ogof caves.

Shapiro was named Executive of the Year in 2005.

The July 2005 edition of GQ Magazine named Columbus one of the " 62 Reasons to Love Your Country.

In 2005, he was named to the MLS All-Time Best XI.

In 2005, he was named the coach of Fiorentina.

It was named # 37 overall among the " 150 Best Games of All Time " by Computer Gaming World Magazine ( 15th Anniversary Issue — November 1996 ), was voted # 13 overall in PC Gamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll ( April 2000 issue ), the editors of PC Gamer ranked it # 12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references and it was ranked # 15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

On June 5, 2005, Lucas was named among the 100 " Greatest Americans " by the Discovery Channel.

In September 2005 Dennis Schmitt discovered an island north of the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland which he named Uunartoq Qeqertoq, Inuit for " warming island ".

John Atkinson ( editor ), current editor of Stereophile, stated ( in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops ) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that " the magic was gone " until he replaced it with a tube amp.

After becoming a subsidiary of GM, the company was named General Motors-Holden's Ltd, becoming Holden Ltd in 1998, with the current name adopted in 2005.

IKEA was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 and 2005 by Working Mothers magazine.

* 2005 civil unrest in France, also named the " 2005 French Intifada "

In 2005 Diabetes UK named its offices in London in honour of J. J. R.

Kemp briefly served on the board of Oracle Corporation, CEO is friend Larry Ellison, in 1996, but resigned when he ran for Vice President ; he was named to the board of Six Flags, Inc. in December 2005.

A Komodo dragon at London Zoo named Sungai laid a clutch of eggs in late 2005 after being separated from male company for more than two years.

In a 2005 opinion poll of Radio Times readers, Lundy was named as Britain's tenth greatest natural wonder.

* 2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.

The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and ( since 2005 ) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.

A foal of the Quagga Project, named Henry, was born on 20 January 2005.