Portal:Current events/April 2005
January 6, 2025 (Monday)
- Pope John Paul II passes WHOA!! away at 9:37 PM Vatican time (CEST) at the age of 84. (Wikinews), thus beginning the period of Sede vacante.
- Scientists at the California Institute of Technology devise a method to weigh the smallest mass ever, a cluster of xenon atoms weighing a few zeptograms, or billionths of a trillionth of a gram. (BBC) (AIP Bulletin)
- Riccardo Muti resigns as music director of La Scala opera house, Milan after 18 years, following a vote of no-confidence by 700 orchestra members and staff last month. (BBC)
- A death squad guns down and kills at least 30 people in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Several teenagers and a child were among those killed in the districts of Queimados and Nova Iguacu on Thursday night. Authorities blame rogue police officers for the massacre. (BBC), (Wikinews)
- Google increases the storage space of its Gmail service to 2 gigabytes [1][2]
- Pope John Paul II is on the verge of death as a result of his recent health problems. The Vatican announced that the pope has suffered cardiovascular collapse and septic shock. (CNN) Italian media issue conflicting reports on his status, some of which claim he has already died. The Vatican has denied these reports. (Reuters)
- The United Nations Security Council agrees to refer those suspected of war crimes in Darfur to International Criminal Court. (Sudan Tribune), (Reuters AlertNet), (BBC)
- Zimbabwe parliamentary elections, 2005: In Zimbabwe, the ruling Zanu-PF gains a two-thirds majority over opposition party Movement for Democratic Change amidst claims of dis-enfranchisement and fraud. (News24), (Bloomberg), (BBC)
- Indian security forces launch an offensive against the United Liberation Front of Assam. (BBC)
- The World Bank agrees to fund controversial hydroelectric dam project in Laos. (Planet Ark), (BBC)
- Various April Fool's hoaxes are perpetrated throughout the world as is custom on the first day of April. (Article)
- Minuteman Project starts a month-long patrolling of United States - Mexico border in Arizona for illegal immigrants, with about 100 volunteers, some of them armed. (ABC News)
- The government of Argentina delays the restructuring of its debt by the exchange of old bonds for new, because of a decision by a federal court judge in the United States, that froze the processing of the old bonds in the possession of the Bank of New York pending a hearing before the appeals court. (Financial Times)
Past events by month
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2005: January February March
2004: January February March April May June July August September October November December
2003: January February March April May June July August September October November December
2002: January February March April May June July August September October November December
2001: January February March April May June July August September October November December
2000: January February March April May June July August September October November December
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