Events in March 2005
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Mar. 1
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The U.S. Supreme Court forbids the killing of murderers who were under 18 at the time of the crime undoing a practice that prevails in 19 states. |
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Tabare Vazquez (65) is sworn in Uruguay President becoming the first Leftist leader in the South American state’s 180 year history. |
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Barwaiz Mohammed Mahmoud, an Iraqi judge on a tribunal set up to try the former President, Saddam Hussein, and his son are killed outside their home. |
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Mar. 2
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Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, is awarded honorary knighthood by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace in London. |
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Mar. 3
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Abu Bakar Basayir, a high profile Muslim cleric of Indonesia, is jailed for his role in “a sinister conspiracy” that led to the terrorist carnage that killed 200 in Bali in October 2002. |
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American aviator Steve Fossett completes the first solo flight around the world without refuelling and lands his jet plane in Salina, Kansas. |
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Mar. 4
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Jiang Zemin resigns as China’s Central Military Commission Chairman. |
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Italian journalist Giulina Sgrena is freed by her captors but is injured as U.S. troops fire at her convoy as it was nearing Baghdad airport. |
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Mar. 5
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The Syrian President, Bashar Assad announces that his country will move its troops to the Lebanon-Syria border in a two-step pullback. |
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Mar. 6
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Moldovians vote in parliamentary polls. |
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Mar. 7
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At least 133 inmates of a prison in the Dominican Republic are killed in a fire. |
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Kuwaiti women stage an unprecedented protest before the Parliament in support of women’s rights. |
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South Africa’s capital Pretoria votes to rename itself Tshwane. |
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Mar. 8
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China debates draft anti-secession law that approves “use of force” over Taiwan. |
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The Chechen rebel leader, Aslan Mashkadov, the suspected mastermined behind the Beslan school tragedy, is killed in a raid in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village in north-central Chechnya. |
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The Bolivian President, Carlos Mesa, resigns after several days of massive protests against his Government. |
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The European Commission unveils plan for a European Union gender equality institute, in Brussels. |
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Women’s groups launch a world march in Sao Paulo, Brazil that is to culiminate in Burkina Faso on October 17. |
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Egypt’s most famous Pharaoh, Tutankhamun did not die unnaturally say scientists following the results of a computerised tomography scan. |
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The General Assembly approves the U.N. Declaration on Human Cloning urging member-states to ban the practice. |
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Mar. 10
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The U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, proposes a global strategy for fighting terrorism at an international conference in the Spanish capital Madrid being held to mark the first anniversary of the March 11 train bomb blasts. |
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Omar Karami is reappointed Lebanese Prime Minster. |
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The Indian steel tycoon, Lakshmi Mittal, becomes the third richest person in the world, trailing only the Microsoft chief, Bill Gates and the U.S. investment guru, Warren Buffett. |
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Mar. 11
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The bells in all the 650 churches in the Spanish capital, Madrid ring in unison as the nation remembers the zoo train blast victims of the 2004 terrorist act. |
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Nepal lifts the house arrest of the former Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba. |
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A Colombian drug don, Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela is extradited and flown to the U.S. |
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Mar. 12
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Britain approves a tough Prevention of Terrorism Bill after a 31-hour debate in the House of Lords. |
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Donald Tsang takes over as Hong Kong’s executive two days after the stepping down of Tung Chee Hwa. |
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Mar. 13
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The second and final phase of parliamentary polls is held in Kyrgyzstan. |
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Mar. 15
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Israel opens the world’s largest Holocaust museum on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to commemorate the six million Jews exterminated by the Nazis. |
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Mar. 16
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The British Columbia Supreme Court acquits Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri accused of killing 329 people by bombing the Air India plane Kanishka off the coast of Ireland in 1985. |
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Mohammad Bijeh (22), Iranian serial killer branded ” the vampire of the desert” is flogged and hanged in public is Pakdasht town for the kidnapping and murdering of 21 persons. |
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Israel hands back Jericho, a West Bank town to Palestinains. |
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Mar. 17
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Syria’s army completes first phase of pullback to eastern Lebanon and Syria. |
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The world’s first cloned water buffalo is born in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. |
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Mar. 18
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The feeding tube of Terri Schiavo (41), a brain damaged Florida woman in a coma strike 1990 is removed following a legal battle that pits Michael Schiavo against his in-laws, Robert and Mary Schindler. |
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Mar. 19
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Thirtynine persons are killed in an explosion at the shrine of a Sufi saint in Fatahpur town, 300 km from Quetta capital of Balochistan, Pakistan. |
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Sixtythree persons are killed in a coalmine blast in China’s top coal producing province of Shanxi. |
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Mar. 20
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An earthquake measuring seven on the Richter Scale rocks the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. |
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Moutaz Almallah Dabbas, a Spanish national is held in Slough, near London, for his role in the March 2004 Madrid blasts. |
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The U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, calls for an expansion of the Security Council from 15 to 24 members while unveiling a blueprint for a major reform of the world body. |
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Thirty one persons are killed and 800 injured in Gaibandha and Rangur districts, as tornadoes tear through northern Bangladesh. |
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The U.S. Senate passes a legislation to save Terri Schiavo’s life. |
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Mar. 21
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The founding President of Namibia, Sam Nujoma, steps down after being in power for 15 years and hands over charge to Hifikepunye Phomba. |
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Jeff Weise, a teenager kills nine persons, including his grandparents and shoots himself at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, the U.S. in the worst school shooting since the Colmbine High School massacre in 1999 that left 13 dead. |
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Opposition supporters seize government buildings in two major towns of Kyrgyzstan against alleged massive fraud in parliamentary polls. |
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Mar. 23
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Bajram Kosmi is elected Kosovo Prime Minister. |
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Mar. 24
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Opposition supporters overrun the Kyrgyzstan presidential compound in ‘tulip’ revolt and the President, Askar Akayev, flees the country. The Prime Minister, Nikolai Tanayev, resigns. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejects the appeal of Terri Schivavo’s parents to have feeding tube reinserted into their daughter. |
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The Tussauds Group, owner of the famous Madame Tussauds waxwork museums is sold for £800 million to Dubai International Capital. |
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Mar. 25
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The U.S. announces that it is going ahead with the sale of F-16 jet fighters to Pakistan. |
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The toll in an outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola touches 113 with a majority of the victims being children. |
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Mar. 26
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Bhutan unveils its first Constitution, proposes a two-party political system. |
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Russia grants asylum to the ousted Kyrgyzstan leader, Askar Akayev. |
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Mar. 28
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More than 1,000 people are killed in a massive undersea earthquake in the northwest Indonesian island of Nias. |
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Mar. 29
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A panel probing the oil-for-food programme in Iraq absolves the U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, of any wrongdoing in granting contract to Swiss firm Cotecna. |
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Mar. 30
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More than 15,000 seal cubs are killed in harp seal hunt on the frozen ice floes of Newfoundland, Canada. |
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Mar. 31
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India and Mauritius sign an agreement on setting up a joint working group for combating international terrorism; an MoU on allowing airlines to operate services to third countries and a plan for a Free Trade Agreement is endorsed after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Paul Berenger, in Port Louis. |
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Terri Schiavo (41), the brain-damaged Florida woman dies in the Pinellas Park hospice 13 days after the removal of her feeding tube. (She suffered from an undiagnosed potassium deficiency, possibly due to extreme weight loss or bulimia). |
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Israel’s Supreme Court recognises Non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism performed partially in the nation. The law grants automatic citizenship to any Jew. |
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The World Bank board gives its nod for the U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to be the next president. |
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Zimbabweans cast votes in parliamentary polls. |
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Thirty persons are killed by gunmen in the worst massacre ever in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. |
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