An appeal of the decision was dismissed on 16 March 2005.

On March 10, 2005, EPA issued the Clean Air Interstate Rule ( CAIR ).

In March 2005, he underwent surgery for a partially collapsed lung.

In March 2005, Lara declined selection for the West Indies team because of a dispute over his personal Cable & Wireless sponsorship deal, which clashed with the Cricket Board's main sponsor, Digicel.

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

A new sequence was introduced on 28 March 2005, designed and created by Red Bee Media and directed by Mark Chaudoir.

* In March 2006 it emerged that the Labour party had borrowed millions of pounds in 2005 to help fund their general election campaign.

Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

Elections were held on 13 March 2005.

In December 2004, the EU leaders announced that accession negotiations with Croatia would start on March 17, 2005 provided that Croatian government cooperates fully with the ICTY.

The main issue, the flight of general Gotovina, however, remained unsolved and despite the agreement on an accession negotiation framework, the negotiations did not begin in March 2005.

Reports from Central Russia beginning in March 2005 tell of a beast that kills animals and sucks out their blood.

On March 21, 2005, Lenny Kravitz performed there in front of 300, 000 people, on a Monday night.

On 26 March 2005 Hester committed suicide, aged 46.

On 26 March 2005 Paul Hester was found dead, after hanging himself from a tree in a park near his home in Melbourne.

Kane made her Wicked debut on the 1st National Tour, playing the role from March 9 through December 19, 2005.

The sale was completed in March 2005 after months of negotiations.

On March 16, 2005, KMOS, Inc. announced that it had completed all registrations with the State of Delaware to change its corporate name to Amiga, Inc. Several companies produce Amiga hardware and software today.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

This series became incredibly popular, and ended with 1, 787 episodes on March 25, 2005.

* Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Publishes DCMI Abstract Model ( Cover Pages, March 2005 )

Oxfam International, March 2005.

On 11 March 2005, Vanuatu imposed a ban in biscuit imports, ostensibly to protect its own biscuit manufacturing industry, giving a monopoly on the business to the Espiritu Santo-based Wong Sze Sing store.

In March 2005, the FBI announced it is beginning a new, more ambitious software project, code-named Sentinel, expected for completion by 2009.

The other four states end on varying dates: Alabama ( Sept. 30 ), New York ( March 31 ), Pennsylvania ( May 31 ), and Texas ( August 31 ).

In March 2006 Texas judges upheld the state blue law that requires car dealerships to close either Saturday or Sunday each weekend.

* Milan Williams ( keyboards, trombone, rhythm guitar ) – born March 28, 1948, Okolona, Mississippi, died of cancer, July 9, 2006, Houston, Texas.

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was listed as an endangered species on 11 March 1967, though the only evidence of its existence at the time was a possible recording of its call made in East Texas.

Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939, to Marguerite Frances ( née Claverie ; New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19, 1907 – Fort Worth, Texas, January 17, 1981 ) and Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. ( New Orleans, Louisiana, March 4, 1896 – New Orleans, August 19, 1939 ).

Lemmy premiered on March 2010 at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

* Texas Independence Day, March 2: State holiday in Texas, United States

Norman Hackerman ( March 2, 1912 – June 16, 2007 ) was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin ( 1967 – 1970 ) and Rice University ( 1970 – 1985 ).

The building was completed in late-2010, with the opening and dedication ceremony on March 2, 2011, which was both Hackerman's 99th Birthday and the 175th Anniversary of Texas Independence.

On March 26, 2003, ten days after Rachel Corrie's death, Smith appeared in Austin, Texas, and performed an anti-war concert.

The fire was brought under control on the morning on March 22 by local firefighters and those from surrounding cities in Texas and Hugo, Oklahoma.

The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign state in North America which existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

The Convention of 1836 declared independence on March 2, 1836, and officially formed the Republic of Texas.

On March 5, 1842, a Mexican force of over 500 men, led by Ráfael Vásquez, invaded Texas for the first time since the revolution.

On March 3, 1837, US President Andrew Jackson appointed Alcée La Branche American chargé d ' affaires to the Republic of Texas, thus officially recognizing Texas as an independent republic.

On March 1, 1990, SJG's offices in Austin, Texas were raided by the U. S. Secret Service.

# Texas ( March 4, 1918 )

William Marsh Rice ( March 14, 1816 – September 23, 1900 ) was an American businessman who bequeathed his fortune to found Rice University in Houston, Texas.

* March 27 – The Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.

* March 14 – A Dallas, Texas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

* March 2 – The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II under Captain James Gallagher lands in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight ( it was refueled in flight 4 times ).

* March 17 – The Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Texas, owned by oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy, has its grand opening.

* March 8 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas ( d. 2003 )