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Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau is the second daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. Princess Alexia is a member of the Dutch royal house…
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
Tom Bischof is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or full-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.
Tom Bischof, German footballer
Francesco Pio Esposito is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team.
Pio Esposito, Italian footballer
Shane Michael Boose, known professionally as Sombr, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He released his debut single, "Nothing Left to Say", in 2021 and his fir…
Sombr, American singer and songwriter
People v. Jackson was a 2005 criminal trial held in Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Santa Maria, California. The American pop singer Michael Jackson was charged with molesti…
The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993
Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin SCA, commonly referred to as Michelin, is a French multinational tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Al…
Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an
Edgar Ray Killen was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists pa…
Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mick
Reddit is an American proprietary social news aggregation and forum social media platform. Registered users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos…
American social news and discussion site Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 conference and summit held at the Glene…
The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and…
Judea Skies "JuJu" Watkins is an American college basketball player for the USC Trojans of the Big Ten Conference.
JuJu Watkins, American basketball player
Connor Bedard is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre and alternate captain for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Considered one of t…
Connor Bedard, Canadian ice hockey player
Carlton Kaleel "Bub" Carrington III is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketb…
Bub Carrington, American basketball player
Deep Impact was a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 12, 2005. It was designed to study the interior composition of the comet Tempel 1 (9P/T…
The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
The Antonov An-24 is a 50-seat twin turboprop regional airliner designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau. Later variants saw other uses, such as military t…
An Antonov An-24 crashes near Baney in Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people.
On 21 July 2005, four attempted bomb attacks by four Islamist extremists disrupted part of London's public transport system as a follow-up attack to the 7 July 2005 London bombings…
Four attempted bomb attacks by Islamist extremists disrupt part of London's public transport system.
Jean Charles da Silva de Menezes was a Brazilian man fatally shot and wrongfully killed by the Metropolitan Police Service at Stockwell Station of the London Underground, after bei…
Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005…
The 2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings were committed by Islamist group Abdullah Azzam Brigades on 23 July 2005 in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, at the southern tip of th…
Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transpor…
Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia…
Alysa Liu is an American figure skater. She is the 2026 Olympic champion in both the women's singles and team events, the 2025 World champion, the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2…
Alysa Liu, American figure skater
Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva is an Andorran professional tennis player. On 16 March 2026, she reached a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 89, the first Andorran player, fema…
Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva, Andorran tennis player
Tidjane Abdoul Salaün is a French professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously played for Cholet Basket of t…
Tidjane Salaün, French basketball player
Mumbai, also known as Bombay, is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India, with an estimated …
Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to e…
The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in…
Eris is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the scattered disk and has a high-eccentricity orbit. Er…
Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.