SPOILER: Timeline Updates

Projected 2005

February

It is revealed that Joan Bennett Kennedy's children are granted legal guardianship over her due to her ongoing struggle with alcoholism.

• February 3 - Kam Air Flight 904 crashed in Afghanistan killing 104 people. The plane was on the peak of the Chaperi Mountain, at about 20 km (12.5 miles) east of the Afghan capital of Kabul, in remote mountainous terrain on the side of Chaperi Mountain at an altitude of 3,300 metres (11,000 feet). The incident took place shortly after 4:00 pm on February 3 (local time), when a private Kam Air Boeing 737-200 jet aircraft in Afghanistan went missing during a domestic flight from the western city of Herat to Kabul International Airport in the capital of Kabul to the east. The crash is the deadliest air disaster in Afghan history.
  The aircraft lost communication during a snowstorm. The cause of the loss of communication, and the subsequent crash, is presently unknown. Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah said his guerrilla fighters had not shot down the plane and expressed sadness at the crash. Air traffic control for Afghanistan is provided by the US occupation force operating out of the Bagram airport. Bagram has become a US airbase and is the closest airport to Kabul where 904 could divert to land safely.
  One theory is that the plane ran out of fuel after being turned away by US troops occupying the Bagram Airbase. Flight 904 could not land at Kabul due to bad weather and diverted to Bagram as a final choice. Bagram air traffic control refused permission to land even after being informed that Flight 904 had only 15 minutes of fuel remaining. This claim of landing clearance being denied by US air traffic control at Bagram was first published in the Pakistani print and Internet news and in an international shortwave broadcast interview on Radio Tehran.
  At Pol-e-Charkhi, where the ANA's Central Corps soldiers are based, Lt. Col. Kabuly Qadeer, commander of 2nd Kandak (Battalion), 3rd Brigade quickly gathered his soldiers, who mounted their vehicles and prepared to head to the Chenari Village at the base of the mountain.
  Alongside the ANA were their U.S. embedded tactical trainers. The team's commander, South Carolina Army National Guard Lt. Col. Gordon Johnson Jr., said their mission was to support the Afghan soldiers in any situation that developed.
  At the base of Chaperi Mountain, the 2nd Kandak and the U.S. advisers set up a command center to coordinate between ISAF and Central Corps headquarters.
  First, the ANA set up two checkpoints leading into the area to limit the number of people around the crash site.
  Next, Qadeer, a seasoned mountain fighter familiar with the terrain, accompanied 40 of his ANA soldiers aboard a BMP-1 armored personal carrier. Along with them was a local village elder to use as a guide in a rescue attempt.
  The Boeing 737-200, flown by Kam Air, Afghanistan's first post-Taliban private airline, vanished from radar screens Thursday afternoon as it approached Kabul airport in a snowstorm from the western city of Herat. There were 96 passengers and eight crew aboard.
  NATO helicopters spotted parts of the wreckage some 11,000 feet up Chaperi Mountain on Saturday, but freezing fog, low cloud and up to eight feet of snow had prevented alliance and Afghan forces from reaching the site.
  At the town of But Khak, German and French soldiers ran mine-detecting equipment over a makeshift landing pad that Afghan officials said would be used as a staging post, though the Afghan Defense Ministry said no bodies would be brought down before Tuesday.
  At least 24 were foreign nationals: nine Turks, six Americans, four Russians, three Italians and one Iranian, as well as the captain, who held dual citizenship in Canada and Russia. According to reports, the Russians were crew members, the Turks were civilians working for Turkey-based firms, and the Italians included an architect working for the United Nations, as well as another Italian civilian and a navy captain. Three of the six Americans on board were women working for the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Management Science for Health company Cristin (Cristi) Gadue, Amy Lynn Niebling, and Carmen Urdaneta were Working To Expand Health Care For Poor In Afghanistan.

March

• March 1 - The US Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes under age 18.
• March 19 - A suspected suicide bomber in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and injured about 12 other people. A time bomb explodes in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40. A mine blast occurrs at the Xishui coal mine in Shuozhou and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine. The death toll is up to 59.
• March 20 - At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
• March 21 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
• March 28 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake struck off Sumatra, 3 months after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965.
• March 30 - Joan Bennett Kennedy is hospitalized with a concussion and a broken shoulder after a passer-by found her lying in a street in Boston. Details of exactly what happened to Kennedy and how she ended up in the street are at present, unclear.
• March 30 - The persistent speculation ended March 30 with Patrick Kennedy's announcement that he would not run for the US Senate, but would seek reelection to the House.

April

• April 2: Pope John Paul II, dies.
• April 9: The marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place.
• April 15 - At least 21 people died and around 50 people were injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris.
• April 19 - Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
• April 20: At least 46 workers have been killed and several others injured in a blast at an explosives factory in Zambia. 56 hurt as earthquake hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale.
• April 25: A passenger train derails in Amagasaki Hyogo Prefecture Japan killing 107 people and injuring another 456. (see. Amagasaki rail crash)

May

• May 1 - A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, which leaves at least 25 people dead and injured more than 30 others. Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad.
• May 4 - In one of the largest insurgent attacks in Iraq to date, at least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.
• May 10 - A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
• The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).
• May 15 - A passenger ferry capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the Bura Gauranga River in Bangladesh, leaving over 100 people missing.
• May 17 - Kuwaiti women granted right to vote.
• May 19 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith released, effectively completing the Star Wars movie saga begun by George Lucas in 1977.
• May 31 - W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be Deep Throat.

June

• June 5 - Switzerland votes to join the Schengen area and to allow same-sex partnerships.
• June 13 - Singer Michael Jackson acquitted of all charges of harming children (see 2005 trial of Michael Jackson).
• June 17 - A 6.7 aftershock,which followed a 5.3 earthquake the previous day, hits California making it the fourth earthquake since June 12 in California. (California earthquakes of June 2005)
• June 21 - Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft (a joint Russian-United States project) failed 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.

July

• July 6 - The International Olympic Committee award the 2012 Olympic Games to London, defeating the favorite Paris in the final round.
• July 7 - Four explosions rock the transport network in London, with three explosions reported on the London Underground and one on a bus. Over 50 deaths were reported, and over 200 injured. Al-Qaeda admits to the killing of Egypt's Ambassador, Ihab al-Sherif.
• July 10 - Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm killing 10 people, after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean. Dennis caused 2-5 billion dollars damage in the United States.
• July 16 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince released.
• July 19 - President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
• July 21 - A terrorist attack on London, similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks on 3 Underground trains and a London bus. The bombs failed to explode properly, and only one injury was reported.
• July 24 - Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh straight Tour de France before his scheduled retirement.
• July 26 - Launch for Space Shuttle Discovery return to flight mission STS-114. This is the first Space Shuttle flight in nearly two and a half years since the breakup of Columbia on its return from mission STS-107.

August

• August 1: NASA's MESSENGER probe to Mercury makes an Earth flyby.
• 9 August Space Shuttle Discovery makes a picture-perfect landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 8:11 a.m. EDT.
• 7 August Space Shuttle Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center at 0546 EDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight."
• August 10: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches.

September

• September 11: Fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• September 23: President George W. Bush is expected to ratifiy the list of bases to be closed as part of BRAC 2005.

October

• October: The second Chinese manned space mission Shenzhou 6 is scheduled to carry two astronauts for five days in orbit.
• October 3: Annular solar eclipse (North Portugal, Spain, east Africa).

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