Aug 09 Space Shuttle Discovery returns to Edwards Air Force Base at 0814 EDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight."

Aug 12 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.

Aug 12 Death of Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister of Sri Lanka (assassinated) (b. 1932)

Aug 12 Death of Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé Community (b. 1915)

Aug 13 Death of David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)

Aug 14 Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes into a mountain in Greece, killing 121.

Aug 16 West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 152 passengers.

Aug 16 The XX World Youth Day begins in Cologne, Germany.

Aug 17 The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.

Aug 17 Sellapan Ramanathan gains victory in the Singapore Presidential elections, 205.

Aug 18 BTK killer Dennis Rader is sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences.

Aug 18 Peace Mission 205, the first joint China-Russia military exercise, begins its 8-day training on the Shandong peninsula.

Aug 21 British Rock Band The Rolling Stones kicks off their a Bigger Bang tour with a show in Fenway Park, Boston

Aug 22 A 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) crater.

Aug 23 Israel's unilateral disengagement from 25 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank ends.

Aug 24 Hong Kong High Court Judge Michael Hartmann rules that sodomy laws were unconstitutional.

Aug 26 Jean Michel Jarre's "Space of Freedom" concert in Gdansk, Poland commemorating the 25th anniversary of the creation of Solidarnosc ("Solidarity" trade union)

Aug 26 Death of Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927)

Aug 28 Terrorist wounds 52 at bus station in Beersheba, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.

Aug 29 At least 1,604 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas.

Aug 31 A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills several hundred civilians (see Baghdad bridge stampede).

Oct 01 26 people are killed and more than 10 are injured in the 205 Bali bombings.

Oct 01 The world's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is formed by the merger of two Japanese banking conglomerates.

Oct 01 An Australian photojournalist in Afghanistan, Stephen Dupont, films US soldiers burning two dead Taliban militias' bodies.

Oct 02 20 people are killed in a shipwreck in Lake George, NY.

Oct 03 St. Tammany Parish Schools reopen in Louisiana just over a month after Hurricane Katrina closed them.

Oct 03 Death of Ronnie Barker, British comic actor (b. 1929)

Oct 04 Hurricane Stan hits Mexico and Central America killing over 1,620 people.

Oct 04 Birth of Prince Emmanuel of Belgium, son of Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium

Oct 05 Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith charged with refusing to serve in the Iraq war.

Oct 07 UN nuclear agency director Mohamed ElBaradei is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Oct 08 An earthquake in Kashmir kills about 80,00 people.

Oct 09 Polish presidential election, 1st round.

Oct 09 Death of Louis Nye, American comedy-actor (b. 1913)

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