2005 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 2005 in the United Kingdom.

2005 in the United Kingdom
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January

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February

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March

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April

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  • 3 May – The last MORI poll before the general election puts Labour five points ahead of the Conservatives on 38%, with most observers predicting a Labour victory with a significantly reduced majority.[16]
  • 4 May – Constantin Brâncuși's series of sculptures Bird in Space sold at Christie's auction house in London for the record amount of US$27,456,000.[4]
  • 5 May
  • 6 May – Conservative Party leader Michael Howard announces that he plans to resign "sooner rather than later" after being defeated in the general election.
  • 7 May – Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble resigns as UUP leader after losing his seat at the general election.
  • 9 May – The Sellafield nuclear plant's Thorp reprocessing facility in Cumbria is closed down due to the confirmation of a 20 tonne leak of highly radioactive uranium and plutonium fuel through a fractured pipe.
  • 12 May – Malcolm Glazer gains control of Manchester United F.C. after securing a 70% share, ending more than thirty years of ownership by the Edwards family.
  • 15 May – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 11th Earl of Shaftesbury dies suddenly of a heart attack in New York City aged 27, only six months after succeeding his father.
  • 17 May – George Galloway, newly elected Respect Party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, appears before the United States Senate to defend himself against charges that he profited from Saddam Hussein's regime, launching a tirade against the Senators who had accused him and attacking the war in Iraq.[3]
  • 21 May – Arsenal become the first team to win the FA Cup on penalties, after they defeat Manchester United in a shootout that follows a nil-nil draw.
  • 25 May – Liverpool F.C win their fifth European Cup, defeating A.C Milan on penalties following a 3–3 draw after extra time in Istanbul. Liverpool's victory is notable for a remarkable comeback from 0–3 down at half time to level the match.[18]
  • 27 May – Mark Hobson is sentenced to life imprisonment at Leeds Crown Court after admitting four charges of murder. On a killing spree in July last year, 35-year-old Hobson killed his girlfriend Claire Sanderson, her sister Diane Sanderson, as well as pensioners James and Joan Britton. The judge at the trial recommends that Hobson is never released from prison.
  • 31 May – Bob Geldof announces plans for a concert, Live 8, similar to Live Aid, which took place in 1985, to coincide with the G8 Summit in Edinburgh this July.

June

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July

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7/7: London emergency services at Russell Square

August

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September

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October

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November

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  • 1 November – Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall arrive in the United States for a state visit, their first overseas visit since their marriage.
  • 5 November – Britain's quadricentennial Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated, 400 years to the day of the Gunpowder Plot.[32]
  • 8 November – 2,000 people attend a memorial service for Edward Heath in Westminster Abbey.
  • 9 November – The Government loses a key House of Commons vote on detaining terrorism suspects for ninety days without charge, in the report stage of the Terrorism Bill.
  • 13 November – Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old man from Scotland, is reported as the first person proven to have been "cured" of HIV.[3]
  • 21 November – Alfred Anderson, one of the last surviving First World War veterans and the oldest man in Scotland, dies at the age of 109. He was also the last known survivor of the 1914 Christmas truce. There are now only approximately twenty surviving British veterans of the conflict, all over 100 years of age.[33]
  • 24 November
    • Pubs in England and Wales permitted to open for 24 hours for the first time.[34]
    • The Safeway name disappears from Britain after 43 years with the rebranding of the last remaining store by its owner Morrisons, which took over the supermarket chain in March 2004.
  • 25 November – The footballing world mourns George Best, the legendary former Manchester United and Northern Ireland player who dies from multiple organ failure in London following a seven-week illness at the age of 59. Best, an alcoholic for more than thirty years, had been admitted to hospital in early October suffering from an infection brought on by anti-rejection drugs that he had been taking since a liver transplant in 2002.
  • 30 November – Quadruple killer Mark Hobson loses a High Court appeal against his trial judge's recommendation that he should never be released from prison.

December

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Undated

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Publications

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Births

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Deaths

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January

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Malcolm Hardee

February

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Brian Cookman

March

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Audrey Callaghan
 
James Callaghan

April

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Margaretta Scott

June

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Allan Beckett

July

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Edward Heath
 
Richard Doll

August

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Robin Cook

September

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Alan Truscott with his wife Dorothy

October

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Ronnie Barker

November

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George Best

December

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Belita Jepson-Turner

See also

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References

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