Quiz Diary - 2005-01

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• Justin Leonard wins Bob Hope Classic in California his 1st PGA Tour win for nearly 2 years
• Ryanair reports 26% drop in quarterly profits
• US phone company SBC Communications agrees to buy former parent AT&T for $16bn (£8.5bn)
• Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood says Chelsea may be guilty of illegal approach to Ashley Cole
• Nick Dougherty holds off Colin Montgomerie to win maiden European Tour title in Singapore
• Scotland's Andrew Coltart is recovering in Singapore hospital after having his appendix removed
• Anja Paerson wins women's skiing super-G gold at the World Championships in Italy
• England win 1st ODI match in the series against South Africa
• Premiere of Magic Roundabout.
  • Kylie Minogue - Florence
  • Robbie Williams - Dougal
  • Bill Nighy - Dylan
  • Joanna Lumley - Ermintrude the Cow
  • Sir Ian McKellen - Zebedee.
  • Ray Winstone - Soldier Sam.
• Gail Emms and Donna Kellogg forced to pull out of the Korean Open women's doubles final

30

• Chelsea's chief executive reveals the club lost £88m last year – the largest ever loss in British football.
• Occidental is the major winner of oil and gas licences in Libya, returning to the country after 20 years
• Spanish film star Javier Bardem being sued by model Jill Marshall who claims he broke her nose at the Gypsy Tea New York nightclub.
• Nigeria’s Flying Eagles beat Egypt 2-0 to win 2005 Africa Youth championship (goals Isaac Promise)
• Bode Miller wins men's super-G title on opening day of the world skiing championships
• Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba wins the women's 5,000m in a new world-record time at the Boston Indoor Games. 14 minutes 32.93 seconds to erase the previous world indoor mark of 14:39.29 set by another Ethiopian, Berhane Adera
• Gail Emms and Donna Kellogg reach Korean Open women's doubles final.
• Directors Guild of America (DGA) best director award - Clint Eastwood for “Million Dollar Baby”

29

• Judge in Michael Jackson's trial says Martin Bashir's controversial documentary can be shown
• 1st direct commercial Chinese flight to Taiwan in 55 years
• Serbian army general, Vladimir Lazarevic, surrenders and will go before UN war crimes tribunal
• Trans-Atlantic bid from US firm Lockheed Martin wins contract to supply US President’s helicopters
• New study suggest that 1 in 10 Europeans knows nothing about the new EU constitution
• Labour under fire over poster depicting Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin as flying pigs.
• Pro-hunt campaigners lose High Court challenge to ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales
• A total of 152 horses entered for April's Grand National at Aintree
• Report that EastEnders in danger of coming off air denied by the BBC
• European scientists confirm what is thought to be the 1st known case of "mad cow" disease in a goat
• Execution of serial killer Michael Ross in Connecticut halted at lawyer’s request. 1st for 45 years.
• Serena Williams overcomes injury to beat Lindsay Davenport and win Australian Open
• Alicia Molik and Svetlana Kuznetsova win women's doubles at Australian Open beating Lindsay Davenport and Corina Morariu 6-3 6-4 at the Rod Laver Arena
• Scott Harrison retains WBO featherweight title with a draw against Victor Polo.
• Sammy Sosa is traded from Chicago Cubs to Baltimore Orioles
• Scott Draper and Samantha Stosur beat Kevin Ullyett and Liezel Huber in Australian Open mixed doubles final.

28

• Procter & Gamble buy Gillette for $57bn (£30.2bn) to create world's largest set of consumer brands
• Staff at The Miss Jones in the Morning Show on Hot 97 WQHT-FM hip-hop station suspended for playing Tsunami Song (ridiculing Tsunami victims). Hosted by Tarsha Nicole Jones
• Jockey Robert Miles banned for 6 months after testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine
• UK firm BAE Systems plans to cut 1,396 jobs in the UK, citing a shortage of orders
• Ellen MacArthur sets new record crossing equator in 60 days, 13 hours and 35 minutes at sea
• Michael Howard says asylum system being "abused" by immigrants
• Nicolas Anelka completed £7m move from Man City to Fenerbahce
• Kevin Ullyett and Wayne Black win the men's doubles at the Australian Open

27

• 4 Britons released from Guantanamo Bay are freed by UK police without charge
• World leaders gather in Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz
• New report into Harold Shipman (UK's worst serial killer) to show if he killed patients in early career
• German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse makes 530p-a-share bid for London Stock Exchange
• Nationwide says - after 6 months of price stability housing market could soon turn positive
• Serena Williams saves 3 match points before beating Maria Sharapova to reach Australian Open final
• REM to headline annual Isle of Wight festival in June
• Shroud of Turin - much older than suggested by 1980s radiocarbon dating, a new chemical study suggests the shroud is between 1,300 and 3,000 years old.
• Damien Duff grabs winner as Chelsea beat Man Utd 2-1 in Carling Cup semi-final
• Liz Yelling wins the Wellington half marathon in New Zealand
• Ronnie O'Sullivan wins a final-frame shoot-out to beat Stephen Hendry 9-8 in the Welsh Open final
• Jockeys Neil Callan and Shane Kelly referred to Jockey Club after clash in Lingfield weighing-room
• Oscar nominations:
  • 11 - The Aviator
  • 7- Finding Neverland
  • 7 - Million Dollar Baby
  • 6 - Ray
  • 5 - Sideways
• World number 4 David Palmer banned by World Squash Federation (WSF) from all events 2006.
• South Bank Awards:
  • Best TV drama - Coronation Street
  • Best comedy - Little Britain
  • Best music award - Franz Ferdinand
  • Best film - Shane Meadows' “Dead Man's Shoes”
  • Theatre category - Alan Bennett's “The History Boys”.
  • Literary award - David Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas”
  • Breakthrough award - Amma Asante for “A Way Of Life”
  • Lifetime achievement - Paul Abbott

26

• MPs call for the Child Support Agency to improve or be scrapped in a report on its performance.
• World leaders arrive in Swiss resort of Davos for World Economic Forum, Iraq top of the agenda.
• German chancellor recalls Nazi horrors of Auschwitz and urges vigilance against anti-Semitism
• President Viktor Yushchenko tells officials in Strasbourg he will work to get Ukraine into the EU.
• The Aviator takes pole position in this year's Oscars race with 11 nominations
• Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy wins the main Whitbread Prize with her novel Small Island.
• Land crab re-invented key features of an insects nose - a striking example of convergent evolution
• Michael Vaughan praises England after they draw the fifth Test at Centurion Park in Pretoria against South Africa to take the series 2-1. England batsman Andrew Strauss was dismissed for a duck on the final day but won the man-of-the-series award for his tally of 656 runs at 72.88.
• Windies paceman Pedro Collins takes 5-43 but Australia post 269-8 in the VB Series.
• Chris Cairns' figures of 6-12 help New Zealand to 2-1 series win v World XI in tsunami fundraiser
• Lindsay Davenport overcomes Alicia Molik 9-7 in 3rd set of Australian Open quarter-final
• Andy Roddick through to semi-finals after Nicolay Davydenko retires at 4-1 down in the third set.

25

• US administration expected to request additional $80bn for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Play is suspended at the Australian Open as the temperature reaches 35C.
• The Jordan Formula One team is to be taken over by Russian-born businessman Alex Shnaider.
• RFU gives Northampton scrum-half Mark Robinson a 14-week ban for stamping.

24

• Ukraine's Viktor Yushchenko goes to Moscow on 1st foreign trip, a day after his inauguration.
• Shares in Chinese PC maker Lenovo rise as reports suggest regulatory and security worries could thwart its takeover of IBM's PC unit.
• A wall with the names of 76,000 Jews deported from France to Nazi death camps is unveiled in Paris
• Happy Mondays dancer Bez (Mark Berry) wins 3rd series of Celebrity Big Brother
• Legendary TV star Johnny Carson dies at the age of 79, after battling the respiratory disease emphysema. Retired May 1992, when an estimated 55 million viewers watched him hand over the Tonight Show host duties to comic Jay Leno.
• Turner Classic Movies Poll of Oscar Deservers
• Directors.
  • 1. Alfred Hitchcock (nominated 6x)
  • 2. Martin Scorsese
  • 3. Stanley Kubrick
  • 4. Ridley Scott
  • 5. Tim Burton
  • 6. Ingmar Bergman
  • 7. Spike Lee**
  • 8. Mike Leigh
  • 9. Howard Hawks
  • 10. Roberto Rossellini
• Actors
  • 1. Samuel L Jackson
  • 2. Steve McQueen
  • 3. Richard Burton
  • 4. Tom Cruise
  • 5. Brad Pitt
  • 6. Bruce Willis
  • 7. John Travolta
  • 8. Cary Grant
  • 9. Hugh Grant
  • 10. Kirk Douglas
• Actress
  • 1.Demi Moore
  • 2. Sharon Stone
  • 3. Meg Ryan
  • 4. Marilyn Monroe
  • 5. Michelle Pfeiffer
  • 6. Drew Barrymore
  • 7. Lauren Bacall
  • 8. Glenn Close
  • 9. Cate Blanchett
  • 10. Ava Gardner
• Tiger Woods fired final-round 68 at Buick Invitational to claim 1st strokeplay win since 2003.
  • -16 Tiger Woods
  • -13 Luke Donald (GB), Charles Howell III, Tom Lehman
  • -11 Bernhard Langer (Ger)
• Lennox Lewis releases a statement to deny that he is to come out of retirement.
• New England reach the Super Bowl with 41-27 win over Pittsburgh
• Nathan Astle scores 109 as New Zealand reach 256-9 in charity game against World XI in Wellington
• Finland's Tanja Poutiainen claims women's World Cup slalom title after finishing 3rd in Maribor
• The biggest first prize in the history of women's golf will be on offer in their version of the HSBC World Match Play Championship this summer. A cheque worth £268,000 will go to the winner
• Jermaine Pennant charged with drink driving after Mercedes Benz crashed into a lamppost

23

• Tour Down Under
  • 1 Luis Sanchez (Spa) 16 hours 45 minutes 44 seconds
  • 2 Allan Davis (Aus) at 33 secs
  • 3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) 47
  • 4 Johan van Summeren (Bel) 48
  • 5 Javier Ramirez (Spa) 50
  • Others:
  • 23 Bradley Wiggins 20 mins 23 secs
• Cardiff's star-studded charity concert for victims of the Asian tsunami is hailed a huge success.
• 1,000’s line Munich's streets for funeral of murdered fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer.
• Indian man rescued 25 days after being thrown by tsunami on to a remote island.
• Michael Howard announces plans for quotas on asylum seekers, in an advert in a Sunday newspaper. Mr Howard's own father fled from Romania to south Wales in 1939.
• More than 1,000 flights cancelled in US Midwest and North-east because of severe snowstorms
• A bookmaker stops taking bets on Celebrity Big Brother, claiming "sensitive information" has been leaked. William Hill made the move after 4 people tried to place bets on Friday's double eviction.
• Andre Agassi wins a thrilling match against Joachim Johansson 6-7 7-6 7-6 6-4 at the Australian *Open.
• Juan Ignacio Chela is fined US$2,000 for spitting at Lleyton Hewitt at the Australian Open.
• Floyd Mayweather stops Henry Bruseles in a light welterweight elimination bout.
• World champion Sebastien Loeb claims 3rd successive victory in Monte Carlo Rally

22

• Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says full security will be impossible for the upcoming elections
• Halifax survey says 1st-time buyers cannot afford to buy a home in 92% of UK towns
• Serial killer Rosemary West was moved temporarily to enable family members to visit.
• A quarter of Norway's population of wolves are to be shot to protect farm animals
• France allows the makers of a film adaptation of the hit novel The Da Vinci Code to shoot in the Louvre. Director – Ron Howerd, The movie version of Dan Brown's book will feature Tom Hanks in the lead role of Dr Robert Langdon.
• Organisers of the Brit Awards have to add extra songs to the best single category after a mistake.
• Caprice and Jeremy Edwards evicted from Celebrity Big Brother house
• China's 2nd manned space mission - Shenzhou VI – set for 2005.
• Tim Henman knocked out of Australian Open in straight sets by Nikolay Davydenko.
• Arsenal defenders Sol Campbell and Lauren sign new deals at Highbury.
• Former Chelsea supremo Ken Bates is the new chairman of Leeds United
• Wales' Enzo Maccarinelli stops Rich LaMontagne in 4th round to defend WBU cruiserweight title
• Conservationists warn that the world's rarest cat, the Amur leopard, is facing extinction in the wild
• BBC Top television moments of 2004
  • Overall prize - Kelly Holmes' Olympic victory in 800m
  • Top entertainment moment - Natasha Kaplinsky's Strictly Come Dancing win
  • Top comedy moment - Little Britain breast feeding sketch
  • Top sports moment – Kelly Holmes
  • Top factual entertainment moment - Jennie Bond covered with rats in ITV's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
  • Top factual moment - Michael Buerk's return to Ethiopia
  • Top popular drama moment - EastEnders for Dot confiding in Den Watts that she was ill

21

• Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visits Banda Aceh on the Muslim festival of Eid
• Bank of England governor Mervyn King rules out any knee-jerk reaction to poor Christmas retail sales, saying such behaviour would be "foolish".
• Spider-Man creator Stan Lee wins court battle with comic company Marvel for slice of movie profits
• Actor Stephen Fry set to play The Guide in film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
• Red Bull F1 owner Dietrich Mateschitz abandons plans to build a new circuit in Austria
• Wavell Hinds hits 107 as West Indies make 263-9 against Australia in Brisbane.
• A group of Russian deputies announces a hunger strike in protest against a new law on state benefits.
• Britain's Elena Baltacha is beaten 6-1 6-0 by Silvia Farina Elia at the Australian Open.
• Mark Williams says the tables on the World Tour are substandard after losing in Newport.

20

• George Bush sworn in for 4 more years. Vice-President Dick Cheney sworn in 1st
• Man Utd's Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney finally end brave Exeter's FA Cup run
• FBI says it wants to question 4 Chinese nationals about plot to explode a "dirty bomb" in Boston.
• The four Chinese were named as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin.
• Kilroy quits UKIP to launch Veritas
• Martin Pipe to face Jockey Club disciplinary panel over running of Celtic Son at Exeter.

19

• Germany launches World Year of Physics, a century after Einstein made his 1st great discovery
• Actors Hugh Jackman and Clive Owen emerge as front-runners to be next James Bond
• Cult British group Portishead prepare release of 3rd album, their first in 8 years.
• Work has begun to restore the Nimrod hut at Cape Royds used by the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton during his attempt to reach the South Pole nearly in 1907
• A freak own goal by Djimi Traore sees 10-man Liverpool beaten 1-0 in FA Cup by Burnley
• British qualifier Elena Baltacha reaches 3rd round of Australian Open beating Stephanie Cohen-Aloro.
• London's famous Savoy hotel has been sold to a group combining Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and a unit of HBOS bank.
• Australia's Robbie McEwen wins opening stage of the Tour Down Under.
• Ronnie O'Sullivan lives up to his eccentric reputation by draping a towel over his head during his 5-2 win over Ian McCulloch at the Welsh Open.
• The Vatican church denies that it supports the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS
• “A Fool Such As I” released – may make Elvis Presley’s 21st number one
• Condoleeza Rice calls North Korea an “outpost of tyranny”

18

• Conference football side Carlisle United find a goldfish 'Billy' alive in their flooded goalmouth
• British Horseracing Board (BHB) Awards
  • Two-year-old colt: Shamardal
  • Two-year-old filly: Damson, Playful Act, Soar, Titian Time
  • Three-year-old colt: Haafhd
  • Three-year-old filly: Ouija Board
  • Older male horse: Doyen
  • Older female horse: Soviet Song
  • Sprinter: Somnus, Var
  • Miler: Rakti
  • Middle-distance horse: Doyen
  • Stayer: Rule of Law
  • Apprentice: Tom Queally
  • Jockey: Kieren Fallon
  • Trainer: Saeed bin Suroor
  • Owner: Godolphin
  • Horse of the year: Ouija Board
• Vatican outraged at abduction of Georges Casmoussa one of Iraq's most senior Christian cleric
• Condoleezza Rice set to be confirmed as President Bush's next secretary of state.
• The number of defendants referred to the CPS for racially motivated crimes rose by 13% last year.
• European consortium Airbus prepares to unveil the world's largest plane, the 555-passenger A380
• Tesco sees sales, excluding petrol, rise by 7.6% over the Christmas holiday period
• BAFTA Award Nominations
  • Best Film – Aviator, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Vera Drake and The Motorcycle Diaries.
  • Best actress - Kate Winslet (Finding Neverland and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Charlize Theron (Monster), Ziyi Zhang (House of Flying Daggers)
  • Best Director - Martin Scorsese (Aviator), xxx
  • Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio (Aviator), Gael Garcia Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries), Jamie Foxx (Ray), Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland)
  • Best Supporting actor - Clive Owen (Closer), Jamie Foxx (Collateral),
  • Best supporting actress - Meryl Streep (Manchurian Candidate), Natalie Portman (Closer), Julie Christie (Finding Neverland), Cate Blanchett (The Aviator ) and Heather Craney (Vera Drake)
  • Best British picture of the year - Dead Man's Shoes, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, My Summer of Love, Shaun of the Dead and Vera Drake.
  • Most Nominations:
    • Aviator – 14
    • Vera Drake – 11
• Michael Eavis announces Glastonbury Festival will take a break in 2006.
• Racing pundit John McCririck is 2nd evictee from Celebrity Big Brother
• Germany calls for higher environmental standards on farms as free-range eggs found containing dioxin
• England go 2-1 up against South Africa as Matthew Hoggard inspires them to a 77-run win in Johannesburg. Best bowling figures in Jo’burg
  • 13-192 HJ Tayfield - SA v Eng 15/2/1957
  • 12-205 MJ Hoggard - Eng v SA 17/1/2005
  • 11-127 AA Donald - SA v ENG 25/11/1999
  • 10-108 PS de Villiers - SA v Pak 19/1/1995
  • 9-98 GB Lawrence - SA v NZ 26/12/1961
• Greg Rusedski beats Jonas Bjorkman in four sets at the Australian Open.
• Jimmy White's Welsh Open bid halted by young Australian Neil Robertson 5-4
• England captain David Beckham says he will return to Man Utd if he ever leaves Real Madrid.
• An invite to the LPGA Championship means Michelle Wie is likely to play in all four majors
• Italian Max Biaggi will ride for the official Honda team in the 2005 MotoGP championship.

17

• China's ex-Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang dies aged 85
• Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish leaders visit Thailand to see the aftermath of the tsunami.
• Labour announces break with 'seaside conference' tradition and opts for Manchester
• Gordon Brown says Nelson Mandela will personally press G8 to ease African debt.
  • Golden Globe Awards
  • Best film - Aviator
  • Best actor - Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Best director - Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
  • Best actress - Hilary Swank
  • Best screenplay – Sideways
  • Best comedy - Sideways
  • Best actor in a musical/comedy - Jamie Foxx (Ray)
  • Best supporting Actor - Clive Owen (Closer)
  • Best supporting Actress - Natalie Portman (Closer)
  • Best original score - Aviator
  • Best actress in a musical/comedy - Annette Bening (Being Julia)
  • Best actor in a TV movie prize - Geoffrey Rush (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers)
  • Best TV movie - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  • Best original song - Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart (Old Habits Die Hard from Alfie)
  • Best actor in a TV drama - Ian McShane (Deadwood)
  • Best TV comedy show - Desperate Housewives
  • Best comedy actress - Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives)
  • Best TV actor in a musical or comedy series - Jason Bateman (Arrested Development)
  • Best television drama title - Nip/Tuck
  • Cecil B DeMille award for career achievement - Robin Williams
• Britain's Elena Baltacha beats Katarina Srebotnik at Australian Open – to reach 2nd round
• Vijay Singh wins Sony Open
• Svetlana Kuznetsova, Elena Dementieva and Nathalie Déchy deny failing a drugs test.
• In AFC divisional play-off New England Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts 20-3

16

• Australia and New Zealand observe day of national mourning for victims of Asian tsunami
• Gordon Brown announces the cancellation of the £80m debt owed to Britain by Mozambique
• Croatia votes for new president in a 2nd and final round of voting
• US rapper Young Buck (David Darnell Brown) pleads not guilty to allegedly stabbing Jimmy James Johnson at US hip-hop awards.
• Legendary Spanish soprano Victoria de los Angeles dies in hospital in Barcelona aged 81
• Romanian, Adriana Iliescu gives birth aged 66 (surviving infant, named Eliza Maria)
• Jose Luis Cruz stops Vincent Thompson to win their super welterweight fight in California.
• UK Singles Charts:
  • 1. Elvis Presley - One Night (1,000th number one, his 20th)
  • 2. Manic Street Preachers - Empty Souls
  • 3. Killers - Somebody Told Me
  • 4. Steve Brookstein - Against All Odds
  • 5. Rooster - Staring at the Sun
• Number one album – “Hot Fuss” – Killers
• Dakar Rally
  • Car:
    • 1. Stephane Peterhansel (Fra) Mitsubishi 52 hours 31 minutes 39 seconds
    • 2. Luc Alphand (Fra) Mitsubishi 27 minutes 14 seconds behind
    • 3. Jutta Kleinschmidt (Ger) Volkswagen at 3:22.00
    • 4. Giniel de Villiers (SA) Nissan at 4:02.36
    • 5. Bruno Saby (Fra) Volkswagen at 8:44.14
  • Motorcycles:
    • 1. Cyril Despres (Fra) KTM 47 hours 27 minutes 31 seconds
    • 2. Marc Coma (Spa) KTM at 9 minutes 17 seconds behind
    • 3. Alfie Cox (SA) KTM at 11.29
    • 4. Isidre Esteve Pujol (Spa) KTM at 11.51
    • 5. David Fretigne (Fra) Yamaha at 13.30

15

• Charles Graner, soldier accused of being ringleader in Abu Ghraib jail abuse is convicted, Others Sentenced:
  • Pte Jeremy Sivits
  • Pte Lynndie England
  • Sgt Ivan Frederick
  • Sgt Javal Davies
  • Spc Megan Ambuhl
  • Spc Sabrina Harman
  • Spc Armin Cruz
• Huygens probe sends 1st pictures of Titan, showing what seems to be a shoreline of an oily ocean
• Oracle announces 5,000 job losses - 9% of workforce - following completion of takeover of Peoplesoft
• Parents in England and Wales who smack children so hard it leaves a mark face jail under new laws
• Ari Vatanen wins the 14th stage of the Dakar Rally, his 51st career stage win.
• Ukraine's Supreme Court agrees to hear final appeal by Viktor Yanukovych over re-run election
• Bangladesh spinner Enamul Haque takes 7-95 as Zimbabwe are all out for 298 in the 2nd Test
• Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick in straight sets in the Kooyong Classic final.

14

• £100,000 Gulbenkian prize - 10 shortlisted museums
  • Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon for Shapland & Petter of Barnstaple: 150 years
  • Big Pit, National Mining Museum of Wales, Blaenafon
  • National Trust West Midlands for Back to Backs, Birmingham
  • The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge for its Courtyard Development
  • Compton Verney, Warwickshire
  • Coventry Transport Museum
  • Time and Tide, Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
  • Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, Lochmaddy, North Uist for its Carn Chearsabhagh Project
  • The Foundling Museum, London
  • Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon, Co Durham
• Duchess of York says there is no need for Prince Harry to apologise again for wearing a swastika
• FA charge Jose Mourinho for his comments about Sir Alex Ferguson and referee Neale Barry
• Mark Thatcher returns to UK from South Africa over alleged Equatorial Guinea coup.
• Widow of reggae legend Bob Marley distances herself from reports his remains are to be exhumed
• Tim Henman will start against France's Cyril Saulnier in the Australian Open, 1st round.
• Striker Fernando Morientes completes transfer to Liverpool from Real Madrid
• Damien Martyn makes 95 off 93 balls as Australia make 301-4 against West Indies in Melbourne
• The Coolmore Stud gives £1.2m to tsunami victims after auctioning the services of 50 stallions
• Winger Jon Steel crosses codes to join Hull KR from the Borders.
• Ellen MacArthur faces a new set of problems after rounding Cape Horn.
• David Beckham wins applause from journalists as he makes attempt at speaking Spanish in public sayin "El partido con Atletico was mucho mejor para todos,"

13

• Clarence House apologises as Prince Harry is pictured with a swastika armband at a fancy dress party
• Sir Mark Thatcher is fined $500,000 after pleading guilty for his part in an alleged coup to overthrow President of Equatorial Guinea
• School Tables:
  • Best for adding value: Feversham College, Bradford
  • Best GCSE score: Thomas Telford CTC
  • Best A-level score: Colyton Grammar School
• Busted (Charlie Simpson, Matt Jay and James Bourne) confirm they plan to take a break.
  • Singles: What I Go To School For, Year 3000, Crashed The Wedding, You Said No, and Who's David?
  • Albums: Busted, A Present For Everyone. Chalrlie’s new group Fightstarter
• Apple reports record quarterly profits boosted by sales of iPod music player and notebook computers
• Talks between Spain's prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and the Basque president Juan Jose Ibarretxe on a plan to give the region more independence end without resolution.
• 50,000 tickets for 1st Cheltenham Gold Cup to be run on Friday sold out immediately
• Austrian skier Hans Knauss is suspended after testing positive for nandrolone.

12

• Germaine Greer criticises Celebrity Big Brother's bullying of housemates after walking out of show
• Georgia's breakaway province Abkhazia re-runs October's disputed presidential election.
• Cycling's Paris-Roubaix race will avoid cobbled Arenberg trench this year because of safety fears
• BBC's director of television denies that Jerry Springer - The Opera is blasphemous.
• Inmate of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail tells court that US soldier Charles Graner laughed during abuse
• Real Madrid striker Fernando Morientes set to complete a £6m transfer to Liverpool
• BBC Radio 3 producer Antony Pitts resigns in protest at the broadcast of Jerry Springer - The Opera, saying it offended his Christian beliefs.
• Jennifer Capriati withdraws from the Australian Open because of a shoulder injury.

11

• News Corp offers to buy out minority investors in Fox Entertainment Group, its TV and film subsidiary, for about $5.4bn.
• Delia Smith sells her publishing company New Crane Ltd to Seven Publishing, saying its "it's time for fresh legs" at the business. Husband = Michael Wynn Jones
• Sylvester Stallone's mother joins former daughter-in-law Brigitte Nielsen on Celebrity Big Brother
• 2005 Brit Awards Nominations:
  • 5 - Franz Ferdinand.
  • 4* - Muse
  • 3 - Natasha Bedingfield, Jamelia, The Streets, Keane, Kasabian, Snow Patrol
• 25th Show: Hosted by Chris Evans at Earl's Court on 9 February.
• 2004 - The Darkness biggest winners with three prizes.
• Special Prize – Best British song of the past quarter-century
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division,
  • Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush,
  • We Are The Champions by Queen.
  • Angels by Robbie Williams and
  • Leave Right Now by Will Young.
• Cassini spacecraft's flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus reveals a bulging ridge at equator.

10

• Mahmoud Abbas wins Palestinian presidential election as rival Mustafa Barghouti concedes defeat
• Atletico Madrid could be punished after racist chanting mars their defeat to city rivals Real.
• UK-based Standard Chartered says it is to spend $3.3bn to buy 1 of South Korea's main retail banks
• Gary Megson unveiled as new Nottingham Forest manager
• Newcastle boss Graeme Souness admits his side made hard work of beating Yeading.
• Ghana's Hearts beat Asante Kotoko 8-7 on penalties to become 1st winners of Confederation Cup
• US People's Choice Awards
  • Best film - Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
  • Best drama - Mel Gibson's “The Passion of the Christ”
  • Favourite female movie star - Julia Roberts
  • Favourite male movie star - Johnny Depp
  • Favourite leading lady - Renee Zellweger.
  • Top animated movie - Shrek 2
  • Top film comedy - Shrek 2
  • Top sequel - Shrek 2
  • Top new drama - Desperate Housewives
  • Best new comedy - Joey
  • Best TV comedy - Will and Grace
  • Best TV drama - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Toyota's Ralf Schumacher says he has better chance of being F1 champion than he did at Williams
• Official ban on smoking in all enclosed public places comes into force in Italy.
• Bangladesh end four-year wait with 226-run win over Zimbabwe in Chittagong
• Ukraine's electoral commission declares Viktor Yushchenko official winner of last month's re-run presidential election. Yushchenko - 51.99%, Viktor Yanukovych - 44.2%.
• Carlos Moya beats Paradorn Srichaphan to defend Chennai (Madras) Open title
• Honda completes deal with British American Tobacco to make it joint owner of BAR F1 team
• Stuart Appleby comes from 4 shots back to retain his Mercedes Championships title

09

• Tamil Tigers angry that UN chief is stopped from visiting tsunami-hit areas of Sri Lanka they control.
• A new book “Brown's Britain” claims Tony Blair promised him he would quit before the next election.
• Sir Alex Ferguson says sorry after Man Utd are held by Exeter City in FA Cup.
• Italian police investigate whether Paolo Di Canio gave fascist salute after Lazio beat rivals Roma 3-1
• Jonny Wilkinson suffers a knee strain in Newcastle's 33-12 Heineken Cup defeat at Perpignan.
• Raymond van Barneveld beats England's Martin Adams 6-2 to win 4th Lakeside World Championship
• Former ski champion Luc Alphand wins 9th stage of the Dakar Rally
• UK Singles Charts:
  • 1. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
  • 2. Steve Brookstein (the X-Factor winner) - Against All Odds
  • 3. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
  • 4. Erasure - Breathe
  • 5. Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous
  • In the album charts, the Scissor Sisters went to number one with their self-titled release

08

• Kofi Annan tours tsunami-hit areas of Sri Lanka
• Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston say they have separated after "much thoughtful consideration"
• G7 nations, led by UK, agree to freeze debt repayments from countries hit by Asian tsunami.
• BBC defends screening of hit musical Jerry Springer - The Opera as it receives 40,000 complaints
• Slovakia wins Hopman Cup for 2nd time beating Argentina 3-0 in final in Perth.
  • Daniela Hantuchova beat Gisela Dulko 1-6 6-4 6-4.
  • Dominik Hrbaty beat Guillermo Coria 6-4 6-1.
  • Hantuchova and Hrbaty won mixed doubles after Coria was forced to withdraw
  • Slovakia won previously on 1st appearance in 1998 - Karol Kucera and Karina Habsudova beat France
• Justine Henin-Hardenne pulls out of Australian Open after injuring her right knee
• Nigeria and Bolton's Jay-Jay Okocha named 2004 BBC African Player of the Year – also won 2003, 2nd - Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o Fils, 3rd - Nigerian Obafemi Martins
• Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon gets first win in America
• Hammer thrower Joanne Davison claims Britain's first Deaflympics 2005 gold in Melbourne
• Chris Hoy (World, Olympic and Commonwealth champion) wins kilometre time-trial gold at World Cup event in Manchester. 2nd - Ben Kersten
• Raymond van Barneveld beats Darryl Fitton 5-3 to set up a Lakeside final against Martin Adams.

07

• 49 Britons confirmed dead and 391 remained unaccounted for after Asia's tsunami
• 3 teenagers charged with the murder of 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor in November 2000, Hassan Jihad, 19, and two brothers, aged 16 and 17, all from Peckham in south-east London
• The League Against Cruel Sports says it will challenge attempts to delay a ban on hunting with dogs.
• Ukraine's Supreme Court rejects Viktor Yanukovych appeal against re-run presidential poll
• Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher donates £5.3m to victims of the Asian tsunami
• Barry McGuigan tops the list of 2005 inductees to boxing's Hall of Fame.
• Former WBU middleweight champion Anthony Farnell announces retirement due to ill health
• US agrochemical giant Monsanto agrees to pay a $1.5m (£799k) fine for bribing Indonesian official
• Claims that UK workers take too much time off work due to illness have been branded a "myth" by a *TUC report.
• Countries with the worst short term sickness rates are:
  • Portugal
  • Italy
  • Belgium
  • Germany
  • France
  • Netherlands

06

• Allan Wells tips Scottish youngster Nick Smith to break 10-second barrier for 100m
• About 32 million people in US read a blog in 2004 but fewer than half know what a blog is
• Celebrity Big Brother – Series 3
  • Bez 2-1
  • Jeremy Edwards 4-1
  • Kenzie 5-1
  • Caprice 7-1
  • Lisa I'Anson 7-1
  • John McCririck 8-1
  • Brigitte Nielsen 12-1
  • Germaine Greer 16-1
• Purse for Kentucky Derby is been doubled to $2m. Run at Churchill Downs, Louisville
• Bradford's Stuart Fielden among tourists who escaped tsunami disaster in Thailand

05

• Millions of people across UK and Europe observe three-minute silence for the Asian tsunami dead
• Bob Geldof would consider becoming a peer after topping BBC Radio 4 Today programme's poll for nominations to the House of Lords.
• German unemployment rises, taking average jobless total to its worst level since 1990 reunification
• Ticket sales at the US box office reached a record high in 2004, despite a fall in the number of moviegoers. Shrek 2 was 2004's highest grossing film in the US, taking $436m (£229m)
• Cassini spacecraft makes a close pass of Saturn's moon Iapetus
• Spurs boss Martin Jol leads calls for video technology in football after Pedro Mendes shot which crosses the line is not given at Old Trafford. Referee = Keith Hackett, Linesman = Rob Lewis
• South Africa close day three of 3rd Test at 184-3, 462 runs ahead of England.
• Alem Takale, fiancée of Olympic 10,000m champion Kenenisa Bekele dies during a training run
• At Lakeside World Championship Raymond van Barneveld (winner 1998, 1999 and 2003) beats compatriot Vincent van der Voort 5-0.
• Candy Hawkins elected to carry the flag for the British Deaflympic team in Melbourne.

04

• Jack Straw says 199 Britons "highly likely" to have been killed in Asian tsunami disaster.
• An helicopter dropping aid over remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands attacked by tribesmen
• The Tories will stand up for "forgotten majority", says Michael Howard as he unveils Tory manifesto.
• Phil Taylor beats Mark Dudbridge 7-4 to win Ladbrokes World Championship at Circus Tavern, Purfleet. 12th World title
• Chancellor presses G8 to freeze all debts owed by countries hit by Asian tsunami disaster
• Katsushige Kawashima beats Jose Navarro to retain his WBC super flyweight title.
• Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger say Jose Mourinho's Chelsea will let their Premiership lead slip
• WBA flyweight champion Lorenzo Parra beats Japan's Trash Nakanuma on points.
• Michael Schumacher approaches 2005 season as oldest man on the grid (born 3rd January 1969)
• Triple Gold Cup winner Best Mate said to be recovering well from a cough.

03

• US secretary of state warns of more violence in Iraq as elections approach
• Croatia's President Stipe Mesic fails to attract enough votes to avoid a run-off in his re-election bid
• European Commission drops plans to stop firms considering gender when setting car insurance rates
• Comedian Cyril Fletcher dies at 91.
• Britain's Colin McRae leads the car class of the Dakar Rally after winning third stage
• UK Charts:
  • Singles
    • 1. Steve Brookstein – Against All Odds
    • 2. Band Aid – Do they Know It’s Christmas
    • 3. Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You
  • Number 1 album - Green Day “American Idiot”

02

• Countries hit by the Asian tsunami disaster could take up to 10 years to recover, Kofi Annan warns
• Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), tipped to become the new Palestinian president, says he will not fight against militant groups.
• Series of special prayer services held across the UK for the Asia earthquake victims. Sweden, *Finland and Norway hold a day of mourning for their hundreds of victims of Asian tsunami. The Pope prays for victims of the Asian wave disaster at his annual New Year address in Rome.
• Singers including Sir Cliff Richard and Boy George are recording a charity single for tsunami victims - “Grief Never Grows Old” written by radio DJ Mike Read
• Rail passengers face average 4% hike in fares - which train firms say will improve services.
• USA defend pool's Mosconi Cup with a 12-9 victory over Europe.
• More people watched Christmas TV on non-terrestrial channels than BBC1 or ITV1 in 2004
• Dutch defeat Zimbabwe to qualify for Hopman Cup
• Lithuania starts shutting down a Chernobyl-style nuclear reactor, heeding EU safety concerns.
• Sheffield, Birmingham, Manchester, Preston, Newcastle and Liverpool vie to host the 2006 world snooker championship.
• US sprinter Mickey Grimes is banned for 2 years for a 2nd doping violation.
• Defending champion Andy Fordham loses to Vincent van der Voort at Lakeside World Championship on 1st day.
• Greek prosecutors to probe lab blunder in the case of Olympic champion Tyler Hamilton.

01

• New Years Honours
  • MBE – 4x100m Olympic squad (Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis), Morag Gray, Barry Davies, Leslie Law, Hugh Lloyd, Chris Hoy, Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb, Ed Coode and Stephen Williams
  • OBE –Tom Wilkinson, Geoffrey Palmer, Pete Waterman, John Sullivan, Leslie Thomas, Ray Cooney, Karl Jenkins, Hugh Lloyd, Mark Porter, Colin Montgomerie, Bradley Wiggins, Andy Farrell, Ray Cooney, Doug Ellis, Paul Lamplugh, Shirley Robertson, James Cracknell
  • CBE - Eric Sykes, Anna Massey, Roger Daltrey, Alan Whicker, Alan Plater, (Children's illustrator) Quentin Blake
  • Knighthood: CBI director-general Digby Jones, Matthew Pinsent, Met anti-terror chief David Veness, schools expert Mike Tomlinson
  • Dame: Kelly Holmes, Tanni Grey-Thompson
• Labour government rejected plans for ID cards, records released under 30-year rule reveal.
• FTSE 100 gains 7.5% in value over 2004
• Freedom of Information Act becomes law, giving the public access to information from public bodies.
• Changes to card payment system come into force, making retailers liable for non-chip and pin fraud

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