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unusual facts about August 2005


Capture/Release

Capture / Release is the debut album by The Rakes, released on August 15, 2005. The album peaked at #32 in the UK.



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2005 AFF U-20 Youth Championship

The 2005 AFF U-20 Youth Championship was held in Palembang, Indonesia in August 2005.

Air data inertial reference unit

On 1 August 2005 a serious incident involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 124, occurred when a Boeing 777-2H6ER (9M-MRG) flying from Perth to Kuala Lumpur also involved an ADIRU fault resulting in uncommanded manoeuvres by the aircraft acting on false indications.

Alex Corbisiero

He joined the London Irish Academy in August 2005, making his professional club debut against London Wasps in the 2008 London Double Header.

Basell Polyolefins

Leonard Blavatnik's Access Industries acquired it from the venturers for $5.7 billion in August 2005.

Camp Casey

Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas, an encampment outside the George W. Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas during his five-week vacation there in August 2005

Channel M

The channel was originally based at smaller studios in the Triangle shopping mall and the later at the Printworks entertainment complex in Manchester city centre, until Channel M moved to the former Urbis museum in August 2005.

Christopher Snowden

On 1 August 2005, Snowden was appointed president and vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey, succeeding Professor Patrick J Dowling.

Clive Hollick, Baron Hollick

He is also vice-chairman of the supervisory board of SBS Broadcasting Group, taken over by KKR and Permira in August 2005, into which in 2007 was merged the German satellite broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1

Color's Notes

In August 2005, the first videoclip of a Song were edited to the band ‘La Negra’.

DCC Alliance

The founding of the DCC Alliance was announced at LinuxWorld San Francisco on the 9 August 2005, following a number of pre-announcements.

Dennis Kamakahi

In 2003, both Kamakahi and David became involved with the Walt Disney Studios to provide vocal and instrumental the animated film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (released in August 2005) as well as the soundtrack, released on Island Favourites.

Deste Tous

Alpha Sat launched in Australia in August 2005 and in 2008 in New Zealand and is available via UBI World TV.

Firoz Kassam

In August 2005, he purchased Studley Castle in Warwickshire, a hotel and conference centre formerly owned by Phoenix Venture Holdings, the consortium who owned carmaker MG Rover from 2000 until 2005.

Freebie marketing

On the other hand, in August 2005, Lexmark won a case in the U.S. that allows them to sue certain large customers for violating their boxwrap license.

GameTrailers

GameTrailers' first version of its magazine style show was GT Weekly and premiered in August 2005, hosted by Amanda MacKay and Daniel Kayser.

Greg Siegele

Following its acquisition by Midway Games on 4 August 2005 the company was known as Midway Studios Australia.

Hoogeveen

The then recognized oldest person in the world, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, lived in Hoogeveen until her death in August 2005.

Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov

In August 2005, three months before his death, he tied for eighth place at the U.S. Open Chess Championship in Phoenix, Arizona against some of the best players in the country.

Jeff Mariotte

Banners of Gold (with Jeremy Haun, 5-issue mini-series, IDW Publishing, tpb, 120 pages, August 2005, hardcover ISBN 1-933239-58-1, softback ISBN 1-932382-96-8)

Jewish Council for Public Affairs

Rabbi Steve Gutow has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since August 2005.

Killer whale attacks on humans

In August 2005, while swimming in four feet of water in Helm Bay, near Ketchikan, Alaska, a 12-year-old boy named Ellis Miller was "bumped" in the shoulder by a 25-foot transient killer whale.

Kitty Poon

Poon joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in August 2005 and was promoted in 2006 to the post as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Social Sciences.

Liberhan Commission

Appointed by former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao two weeks after the demolition on 6 December 1992, to ward off criticism against his government for having failed to protect the mosque, the commission in August 2005 finished hearing its last witness Kalyan Singh – who was Uttar Pradesh chief minister at the time of the demolition and was dismissed soon after.

Linda Sánchez

Following Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005, President George W. Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon Act, a 1934 law that requires government contractors to pay prevailing wages.

Lorena Gale

Until August 2005, she starred as Priestess Elosha on the SciFi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 caused the LPO's musicians to evacuate.

Mannie Garcia

Garcia's photograph of President George W. Bush surveying the damage from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 from the high remove of Air Force One became a symbol of his administration's slow and detached reaction to the human suffering and wreckage below.

Miss America's Outstanding Teen

The first competition was held in August 2005 in the Linda Chapin Theater at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

Moiwana

In August 2005, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered Suriname to pay 3 million USD in compensation to 130 survivors of the massacre, and to establish a 1.2 million USD fund for the development of Moiwana.

My Republic

The compact disc version of the album includes enhanced CD content consisting of video footage of a three-song live performance in Santa Cruz, California from August 2005, and a PETA documentary entitled "Meet Your Meat".

New Zealand response to Hurricane Katrina

On 30 August 2005 NZST (29 August UTC-6/-5) Prime Minister Helen Clark sent condolences by phone and in a letter with an offer of help to United States President George W. Bush and Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff also sent a message of sympathy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Oleksandr Korchmid

His personal best jump is 5.81 metres, achieved in August 2005 in Rovereto.

Oru Kalluriyin Kathai

The soundtrack released on 4 August 2005 and features 8 tracks with lyrics penned by Na. Muthukumar.

Pittwater state by-election, 2005

In August 2005, it was reported that at an evening function on 29 July, a drunken Brogden had sexually harassed at least one female reporter and uttered a racist slur against Helena Carr, the Malaysian-born wife of outgoing Premier Bob Carr.

Prairie Wind

A premiere live performance of Prairie Wind was held in 18–19 August 2005 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

R v McManus and Harvey

A civil servant, Desmond Patrick Kelly, was subsequently charged with a breach of the Commonwealth Crimes Act, but at a pre-trial hearing in August 2005 McManus and Harvey refused to give evidence.

Raquel C. Bono

From August 2004 through August 2005 she served as the executive assistant to the 35th Navy Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

Robert Sayre

He wrote "Atom: The Standard in Syndication," an article published in the July/August 2005 issue of the journal IEEE Internet Computing, and is a former developer of a Mac client for the Soulseek file-sharing service.

Rúrik Gíslason

Rúrik signed for Charlton Athletic at the end of August 2005, but failed to make an appearance for Charlton's first team, having played for HK Kópavogur in his youth.

Sawtooth Botanical Garden

In August 2005 a notable new garden was constructed, the Garden of Infinite Compassion, designed by landscape designer Martin Mosko, Zen Buddhist monk and abbot of the Hakubai Temple in Boulder, Colorado.

Stryker

The 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team from Fairbanks, Alaska's Fort Wainwright began its initial deployment in August 2005 to Summer 2006.

Sudar Oli

Two grenades were thrown into the advertising office of the Sudar Oli and Uthayan in Wellawatte, Colombo on 20 August 2005, but failed to explode.

The Life and Times

Since August 2005, The Life and Times has played over 200 shows in support of their debut full-length release Suburban Hymns (DeSoto) on US tours with bands like the The Appleseed Cast, Murder By Death, Pelican, Mono, Sparta, Pinback, Engine Down, and William Elliott Whitmore.

The Million Dollar Homepage

Alex Tew, a student from Cricklade in Wiltshire, England, conceived The Million Dollar Homepage in August 2005 when he was 21 years old.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies

In August 2005, forty years later, when Hurricane Katrina passed to the east of New Orleans, the Corps's flood protection failed catastrophically with levee breaches in over 50 places.

Vincent Conçessao

When the National Integration Council was reconstituted and held an inaugural meeting in August 2005 the Christian minority rights leader John Dayal and the Reverend Valson Thampu presented a statement signed by Archbishop Vincent calling for equal rights for Christian Dalits and for an end to violence inspired by ethnic and religious divisions.

We Be Burnin'

"We Be Burnin'" was released as the first single from The Trinity in August 2005 in the US and in September 2005 in the UK.

Wolfson Centre for Magnetics

In August 2005 Professor David Jiles was appointed as the new Director and the name of the Centre was changed to its current form Wolfson Centre for Magnetics to better reflect the range of activities being undertaken within the Centre, which includes not only magnetics technology but also basic scientific aspects of magnetics.