Timeline Thursday 10 February 2005

Events on Thursday 10 February 2005 2

• 1915 – 2005 Arthur Miller (1915-2005) Died 10 February 2005, aged 89 Arthur Miller, the American playwright behind "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible", died on 10 February 2005. His plays examined the pressures of American society and morality, and he remained a prominent public intellectual for decades. Miller was briefly married to Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s.
• 2005 North Korea declares nuclear weapons capability Pyongyang publicly claims to possess nuclear arms North Korea publicly declared on 10 February 2005 that it possessed nuclear weapons and was withdrawing indefinitely from six-party disarmament talks. The announcement heightened international concern over nuclear proliferation in East Asia. North Korea returned to talks later in the year, producing a joint statement of principles in September 2005.