5th » Eris (dwarf planet) called Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
6th » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) known as American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 Mississippi civil rights workers murders called murders of three civil rights workers.
6th » A Graniteville train disaster known as train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
7th » The St Lawrence Lime is blown over in high winds.
8th » The nuclear sub USS San Francisco SSN-711 6 collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
9th » Mahmoud Abbas wins the Palestinian presidential election, 2005 e.g election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
10th » A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101 in California named U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
12th » Deep Impact (spacecraft) named Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
16th » Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
25th » A Mandher Devi temple stampede e.g stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
26th » Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
29th » The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.