What Happened In July 2005 In History

Historical Events for July, 2005

• 2nd » The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa, More than 1,000 musicians performed and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
• 4th » The Deep Impact (spacecraft) e.g Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
• 10th » Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
• 22nd » Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
• 26th » Mumbai, India receives Maharashtra floods of 2005 named 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
• 27th » STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the Space Shuttle external tank called external fuel tank. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discover
• 28th » The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
• 29th » Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris (dwarf planet) known as Eris.

Famous Deaths for July 2005

• 1st » Renaldo Benson, American singer, songwriter (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
• 1st » Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1923)
• 1st » Luther Vandross, American singer, songwriter and producer (Change (band) known as Change) (b. 1951)
• 2nd » Ernest Lehman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 2nd » Norm Prescott, American actor, composer, and producer, co-founded Filmation or Filmation Studios (b. 1927)
• 3rd » Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 3rd » Pierre Michelot, French bassist (b. 1928)
• 3rd » Gaylord Nelson, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1916)
• 4th » Cliff Goupille, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1915)
• 4th » Hank Stram, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
• 5th » Shirley Goodman, American singer (Shirley & Company) (b. 1936)
• 5th » James Stockdale, American admiral (b. 1923)
• 6th » Bruno Augenstein, German-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1923)
• 6th » L. Patrick Gray, American FBI director (b. 1916)
• 6th » Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 6th » Claude Simon, Malagasy-French author, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 6th » Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
• 9th » Chuck Cadman, Canadian engineer and politician (b. 1948)
• 9th » Yevgeny Grishin (speed skater) called Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
• 9th » Kevin Hagen, American actor (b. 1928)
• 9th » Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
• 10th » A. J. Quinnell, English author (b. 1940)
• 10th » Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
• 10th » Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio host (b. 1955)
• 11th » Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
• 11th » Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (b. 1965)
• 11th » Jesús Iglesias, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1922)
• 11th » Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
• 12th » John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, English businessman (b. 1917)
• 14th » Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
• 14th » Cicely Saunders, English nurse and physician (b. 1918)
• 16th » Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
• 16th » Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter and radio host (b. 1920)
• 16th » Yi Gu, Japanese son of Yi Bangja (b. 1931)
• 17th » Laurel Aitken, Cuban singer (b. 1927)
• 17th » Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
• 17th » Edward Heath, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 17th » Gavin Lambert, English screenwriter and author (b. 1924)
• 17th » Joe Vialls, Australian journalist and theorist (b. 1944)
• 18th » Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1938)
• 18th » William Westmoreland, American general (b. 1914)
• 19th » Edward Bunker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 19th » John Tyndall (politician) e.g John Tyndall, English politician (b. 1934)
• 20th » James Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
• 20th » Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
• 20th » Kayo Hatta, American director and cinematographer (b. 1958)
• 21st » Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer and actor (The Steampacket and Bluesology) (b. 1941)
• 21st » Michael Chapman (bassoonist) called Michael Chapman, English bassoon player (b. 1934)
• 21st » Lord Alfred Hayes, English-American wrestler and manager (b. 1928)
• 22nd » Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician (b. 1978)
• 22nd » Eugene Record, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
• 23rd » Ted Greene, American guitarist and journalist (Bluesberry Jam) (b. 1946)
• 24th » Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (b. 1912)
• 25th » Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (b. 1928)
• 26th » Betty Astell, English actress (b. 1912)
• 26th » Alexander Golitzen, Russian-American production designer (b. 1908)
• 26th » Jack Hirshleifer, American economist and educator (b. 1925)
• 26th » Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
• 27th » Marten Toonder, Dutch author and illustrator (b. 1912)
• 30th » Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 30th » John Garang, Sudanese politician, List of Presidents of South Sudan known as President of South Sudan (b. 1945)
• 31st » Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, 1st President of the European Central Bank (b. 1935)

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