December 2005
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Events
Ongoing
• Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal
• Al Jazeera bombing memo
• Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak
• Black sites scandal
• Iran’s nuclear program
• Malawi food crisis
• Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal
• NSA Spying Controversy
• North Indian cyclone season
• Pacific typhoon season
• Plame CIA leak investigation
• Southern Hemisphere cyclone season
• Stormontgate affair
• Tropical Storm Zeta
• World Pyro Olympics
Deaths
• 7: Devan Nair
• 7: Rigoberto Alpizar
• 9: Robert Sheckley
• 10: Eugene McCarthy
• 10: Richard Pryor
• 12: Ramanand Sagar
• 12: Gebran Tueni
• 13: Stanley Williams
• 15: James Freed
• 15: William Proxmire
• 16: John Spencer
• 17: Jack Anderson
• 19: Vincent Gigante
• 24: Michael Vale
• 24: Wang Daohan
• 25: Joseph Pararajasingham
• 25: Birgit Nilsson
• 26: John Diebold
• 26: Kerry Packer
• 26: Vincent Schiavelli
Ongoing armed conflicts
• Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
• Second Chechen War
• Second Congo War
• Conflict in Iraq
• Darfur conflict in Sudan
• Civil war in Côte d’Ivoire
• Conflict in northern Uganda
• South Thailand insurgency
• Chad-Sudan conflict
Elections
• 3: Taiwan, Local
• 3: Kazakhstan, President
• 4: Venezuela, Parliament
• 7: St. Vinc. & Grenadines, Parliament
• 11: Chile, Parliament
• 15: Iraq, Parliament
• 18: Bolivia, President
• 18: Tanzania, General
• 24: Pitcairn Is., Council
Trials
• Chile: Alberto Fujimori
• Chile: Augusto Pinochet
• Indonesia: Bali Nine
• Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
• — Saddam Hussein, among others
• Libya: Bulgarian nurses & Ashraf al-Hajuj
• Netherlands: ICTY
• — Slobodan Milošević, among others
• Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev
• UK: Leo O’Connor & David Keogh
• U.S.: Tom DeLay
• U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui
• U.S.: Brian Nichols
1 December 2005 (Thursday)
• South Africa’s Constitutional Court
declares that current marriage laws
restricting marriage to opposite-sex
couples are unconstitut