What Happened In April 2005 In History

Historical Events for April, 2005

• 6th » Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
• 8th » Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
• 14th » The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County, Oregon or Multnomah County.
• 24th » Cardinal (Catholicism) known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is Papal Inauguration named inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
• 25th » The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
• 25th » Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
• 25th » One hundred seven people die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
• 26th » Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
• 27th » The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
• 29th » Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending Syrian occupation of Lebanon named 29 years of occupation.

Famous Birthdays on April in 2005

• 10th » Big Brown, American race horse
• 24th » Snuppy, South Korean dog

Famous Deaths for April 2005

• 1st » Paul Bomani, Tanzanian diplomat (b 1925)
• 1st » Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1915)
• 1st » Harald Juhnke, German actor (b. 1929)
• 1st » Jack Keller (songwriter) or Jack Keller, American songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1st » Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator (b. 1923)
• 2nd » Betty Bolton, English actress (b. 1906)
• 2nd » Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
• 3rd » Tony Croatto, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Los TNT and Haciendo Punto en Otro Son) (b. 1940)
• 3rd » Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (b. 1933)
• 3rd » François Gérin, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
• 4th » Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1924)
• 5th » Saul Bellow, Canadian-American author, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 5th » Dale Messick, American illustrator (b. 1906)
• 5th » Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953)
• 5th » John Sichel, French-English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 6th » Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
• 7th » Cliff Allison, English race car driver (b. 1932)
• 7th » Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 7th » Bob Kennedy, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1920)
• 8th » Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 8th » Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
• 9th » Andrea Dworkin, American activist and author (b. 1946)
• 10th » Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (Amadeus Quartet) (b. 1923)
• 10th » Scott Gottlieb, American drummer (Bleed the Dream) (b. 1970)
• 10th » Archbishop Iakovos of America (b. 1911)
• 10th » Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
• 11th » André François, Hungarian-French cartoonist (b. 1915)
• 11th » Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
• 12th » Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter (b. 1941)
• 13th » Don Blasingame, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1932)
• 13th » Johnnie Johnson (musician) known as Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
• 13th » Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 13th » Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
• 14th » John Fred, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 15th » Margaretta Scott, English actress (b. 1912)
• 16th » Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
• 16th » Marla Ruzicka, American activist, founded Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (b. 1976)
• 16th » Kay Walsh, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
• 18th » Sam Mills, American football player and coach (b. 1959)
• 19th » George P. Cosmatos, Italian-Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 19th » Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
• 19th » Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (b. 1929)
• 19th » Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (b. 1946)
• 20th » Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (b. 1943)
• 20th » Ea Jansen, Estonian historian (b. 1921)
• 20th » Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (b. 1904)
• 21st » Gerry Marshall, English race car driver (b. 1941)
• 22nd » Norman Bird, English actor (b. 1920)
• 22nd » Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
• 22nd » Philip Morrison, American physicist and academic (b. 1915)
• 23rd » Joh Bjelke-Petersen, New Zealand-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)
• 23rd » Robert Farnon, Canadian-English trumpet player, composer, and conductor (b. 1917)
• 23rd » Al Grassby, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1928)
• 23rd » John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
• 23rd » Romano Scarpa, Italian illustrator (b. 1927)
• 23rd » Earl Wilson (baseball) or Earl Wilson, American baseball player, coach, and educator (b. 1934)
• 24th » Ezer Weizman, Israeli politician, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)
• 24th » Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
• 25th » Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
• 26th » Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
• 26th » Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926)
• 26th » Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
• 27th » Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• 28th » Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)
• 28th » Percy Heath, American bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
• 28th » Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1959)
• 29th » William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
• 29th » Louis Leithold, American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)
• 29th » Sara Henderson, Australian farmer and author (b. 1936)
• 29th » Mariana Levy, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1966)
• 30th » Phil Rasmussen, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1918)
• 30th » Ron Todd, English union leader (b. 1927)

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