Timeline January 2005

Events in January 2005 9

• 1920 – 2005 Virginia Mayo (1920-2005) American actress, Danny Kaye's leading lady and James Cagney's wife in White Heat.
• 1924 – 2005 Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) Died 1 January 2005, aged 80 Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the US Congress and the first to run for a major party's presidential nomination, died on 1 January 2005. She represented New York in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1983 and championed civil rights, education and anti-poverty legislation. Her 1972 presidential campaign broke barriers in American politics.
• 1925 – 2005 Johnny Carson (1925-2005) Died 23 January 2005, aged 79 Johnny Carson, the longtime host of "The Tonight Show" who defined American late-night television for three decades, died on 23 January 2005. He retired from the show in 1992 after transforming it into a cultural institution and launching countless comedy careers. Carson rarely appeared publicly after his retirement.
• 2005 Australian Open 2005 Men: Marat Safin · Women: Serena Williams Safin defeated Federer in a surprise semifinal.
• 2005 2005: Fernando Alonso Renault At 24, Spanish driver Alonso became the youngest World Champion in F1 history at that time, ending Schumacher's five-year reign with the French Renault team.
• 2005 YouTube launches Video sharing changes culture YouTube launched publicly in 2005 and was acquired by Google in October 2006 for $1.65 billion. It transformed how people watch, share and create video content globally.
• 2005 Huygens probe lands on Titan European spacecraft makes first landing on an outer moon The European Space Agency's Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan on 14 January 2005, the first spacecraft to land on a moon in the outer solar system. It transmitted images and data of Titan's surface before its batteries died. The probe had travelled to Saturn attached to NASA's Cassini orbiter.
• 2005 Virginia Mayo dies in Thousand Oaks Virginia Mayo dies aged 84.
• 2005 Little Women, the musical Broadway A Broadway musical opens with Sutton Foster as Jo and Maureen McGovern as Marmee.