Events in September 2005
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Sep. 1
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Sellappan Ramanathan is sworn in Singapore President for a second successive term of six years. |
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India and Pakistan agree to start a truck service on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route as a first step towards promotion of trade across the Line of Control, after Foreign Secretary-level talks in Islamabad. |
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Typhoon Talim pounds China’s Anhui province claiming 53 lives and inflicting a $290 million loss. |
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Sep. 2
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The U.S. Congress clears a $10.5 billion aid package for Katrina survivors as the President George Bush tours the Gulf coast. |
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Sep. 3
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India offers $5 million for relief in flood-ravaged New Orleans. |
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Teheran gives its green signal for the $21 billion LNG project involving India, Pakistan and Iran. |
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Nepal’s Maoist rebels announce a unilateral three-month ceasefire with immediate effect. |
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Relatives mourn the death of 319 hostages, killed in an attack by Chechen rebels last year at the ruins of the School Number One in Beslan, Russia.Sep. 3; The U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist (80), dies after battling thyroid cancer at his home in Arlington, Virginia. |
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Sep. 4
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The U.S. Government evacuates all survivors from Katrina-hit New Orleans.Sep. 4; The Swift satellite detects and measures a powerful cosmic explosion and its afterglow of gamma rays at a distance of 12.6 billion light years. |
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Sep. 5
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At least 147 persons including 47 on ground are killed after a Mandala Airlines plane crashes into a crowded area in Medan, Indonesia. |
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The U.S. President, George Bush nominates John Roberts for Chief Justice post. |
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Thirtytwo persons are killed after a fire at a theatre in the Egyptian town of Beni Suef. |
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A court martial hears a murder case involving seven British troops in Iraq in May 2003 in the biggest trial over rights abuse, in Colchester, Essex. |
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Sep. 6
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The Philippines President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, survives an impeachment move in Parliament for "electoral fraud". |
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The 51st Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference begins in the Fijian town of Nadi |
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Typhoon Nabi lashes Japan leaving 21 dead. |
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Sep. 7
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Egyptians cast votes in the first ever multi-candidate presidential polls. |
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Deep Impact probe reveals comets are fluffy balls of powder with an empty nucleus. |
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Sep. 8
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Germany and Russia sign a $5 billion North European Gas Pipeline deal, in Berlin in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and President Vladimir Putin. |
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India and China sign an MoU to combat terrorism and drug trafficking in Beijing. |
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Ukraine’s President, Viktor Yushchenko, dismisses the Cabinet of Prime Minister, Yulia Timoshenko and appoints Yuriy Yekhanurov acting premier. |
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Hurricane Katrina swallows the 40-mile long Chandeleur chain of barrier Islands off the Lousiana coast, besides causing serious oil slicks, say latest reports. |
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The Toronto International Film Festival opens with the world premiere of Deepa Mehta’s Water, the final part of the trilogy, Fire (1996) and Earth (1998). |
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Sep. 9
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The four-time Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, wins a landslide victory. |
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Hashim Abdul Halim, the West Bengal Assembly Speaker for 24 years is elected chairman of the Executive Committee of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s 51st conference in Nadi, Fiji, defeating Geoffrey Henry of Cook Islands. Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee was elected vice-president of the Association, and it was decided that India would host the 53rd CPA conference in 2007. |
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A team of scientists from the Newcastle University gets the British Government nod for dual-mother embryo. |
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Sep. 11
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The Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, wins a landslide mandate for his reform agenda in a snap general election held more than two years ahead of schedule. |
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The Israeli Cabinet votes to end military rule over the Gaza Strip after 38 years of occupation. |
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Sep. 12
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France pledges India cooperation in civilian nuclear energy after talks between Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and the President, Jacques Chirac, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Delhi decides to buy Scorpene submarines. |
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Israeli forces complete Gaza pullout and hand over charge to Palestinian Authority forces. |
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Sep. 13
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India-born British businessman Hemant Lakhani gets 47-year jail term in America for bid to sell missiles to undercover agents posing as terrorists. |
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Sep. 14
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The U.N. Security Council passes a resolution ordering a worldwide ban on incitement to terrorism. |
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Only democracy can ensure that the dispossessed and voiceless of the world become "stakeholders in a millennium of peace and prosperity," says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, at the launch of the United Nations Democracy Fund. |
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The death sentence awarded to Sarabjit Singh is "well-deserved" and there is no scope for any leniency, rules the Pakistan Supreme Court. |
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More than 150 persons are killed as suicide bombers strike in Iraq, the deadliest since the war began. |
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Newly adopted U.N. reforms to combat poverty, terrorism have fallen far short of hopes, says the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan at the inaugural of the U.N. Summit |
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Sep. 15
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The United Nations’ decision-making process reflects the world of 1945 and not the world of 2005, says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, at the 60th session of the General Assembly, in New York. |
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The Aceh peace process begins with activists surrendering arms under an accord with Jakarta. |
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Thirtyone persons die after suicide bombers strike in south Baghdad. |
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Sep. 17
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A car bomb kills 30 persons in a town east of Baghdad. |
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Iran will not relinquish its "right to pursue peaceful nuclear energy", says President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the U.N. General Assembly. |
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Seiji Maehara is elected president of the Opposition Democratic Party of Japan. |
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Sep. 18
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German general polls produce a fractured verdict. |
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Afghanistan electors cast votes in polls for national legislature and provincial assemblies. |
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Everybody Loves Raymond, a television comedy series bags the top prize at the 57th Annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. |
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Sep. 19
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North Korea pledges to give up its nuclear weapons after week-long talks in Beijing. |
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Sep. 20
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Pyongyang links joining Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to getting U.S. light-water reactors. |
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Hurricane Rita buffets Cuba prompting the evacuation of 150,000 persons. |
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Sep. 21
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Junichiro Koizumi is re-elected Japanese Premier by the new House of Representatives at a special session in Tokyo. |
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Hurricane Rita roars into the Gulf of Mexico. Southern Florida is gripped by a power outage. Over 3 million flee Texas and Louisiana. |
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Sri Lanka extends emergency clamped in the wake of Lakshman Kadirgamar’s killing. |
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Sep. 22
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Ukraine’s Parliament confirms Yury Yekhanurov as Premier. |
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Sep. 23
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Twentyfour elderly persons fleeing hurricane Rita are killed as their bus catches fire on a highway in Houston, Texas. Thousands are trapped in big traffic holdups. |
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Sep. 24
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The International Atomic Energy Agency votes to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for violating NPT obligations, in Vienna. |
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Hurricane Rita slams into Texas and Louisinia. |
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Israel launches missile strike following a major Hamas rocket barrage and seals the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. |
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Sep. 25
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An Israeli air strike kills Jihad’s top leader Mohammed Khalil in southern Gaza. |
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The Conservative Pis-Po coalition wins parliamentary majority in Poland. |
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Al-Qaeda leader, Abu Azzam, a top lientenant to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is killed by American and Iraqi forces in Baghdad. |
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Sep. 26
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The Irish Republican Army is decommissioned bringing to an end the 30-year-long armed struggle in Northern Ireland. |
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Typhoon Daimrey slams into southern China’s resort island of Hainan, the strongest since September 1973 to hit the region, leaving 16 dead. |
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Spain’s High Court hands down 27-year-jail term for Al-Qaeda leader, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, in Europe’s biggest trial of suspected Islamist militants. |
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Mohamed ElBaradei is re-elected to a third term as the IAEA Director-General. |
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Sep. 27
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Hosni Mubarak is sworn in Egyptian President for the fifth time. |
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U.S. Private Lynndie England is convicted and given a three-year jail term for her role in the Abu Ghraib prisoners’ abuse. |
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Canada agrees to resume supply of nuclear-related "dual-use items" to Indian civilian facilities more than three decades after halting them. |
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The Pakistan Supreme Court upholds the death sentence for Sarabjit Singh of Punjab in another case. |
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Sep. 28
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Tom DeLay, the U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader is indicted by a grand jury on a conspiracy charge related to a political fund raising. |
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Typhoon Daimrey leaves behind a trail of destruction in East Asia. |
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Sep. 29
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At least 99 persons are killed in car bomb attacks in the mainly Shia town of Balad in Iraq.Sep. 29; John Roberts takes oath as the 17th U.S. Chief Justice in Washington. |
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