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2005
 
   
Fundamentalist politician Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected president of Iran      
2005
 
  
Four English suicide bombers cause 52 deaths on London's transport system during the morning rush hour     
2005
 
   
A Brazilian citizen, Jean Charles de Menezes, is killed on the London underground by police mistaking him for a terrorist      
2005
 
    
US cyclist Lance Armstrong retires from competition after winning a seventh successive victory in the Tour de France       
2005
 
   
The Provisional IRA announces a formal end to armed conflict and orders units to dump all their weapons      
2005
 
   
Israel uses force to remove settlers who refuse to leave Gaza in accordance with Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan      
2005
 
 
Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, is a sensitive account of a homosexual relationship between two Wyoming cowboys    
2005
 
   
Hurricane Katrina brings flooding and chaos to New Orleans and other coastal areas, causing more than 1500 deaths      
2005
 
   
In the New Zealand election Helen Clark wins a third term as prime minister      
2005
 
   
Controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad are published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten