2nd » An Sago Mine disaster or explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.
4th » Prime Minister of Israel named Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
12th » Incidents during the Hajj e.g A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
12th » The French warship French aircraft carrier Clemenceau (R98) e.g Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
19th » The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
20th » Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale River Thames whale named swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the River Thames or Thames since records began in 1913.
25th » Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
25th » Mexico Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killer serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
27th » Western Union discontinues its Telegraphy called Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
28th » The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse e.g collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.