Timeline October 2005

Events in October 2005 6

• 1913 – 2005 Rosa Parks Civil rights defiance Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and galvanising the civil rights movement.
• 1945 – 2005 August Wilson (1945-2005) Died 2 October 2005, aged 60 August Wilson, the American playwright behind the ten-play "Pittsburgh Cycle" chronicling Black life in the 20th century, died on 2 October 2005. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, for "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson". Wilson's plays are among the most performed works in American theatre.
• 2005 2005 Bali bombings Suicide bombers kill 20 in Indonesian resort attacks Suicide bombers attacked restaurants in Kuta and Jimbaran on the Indonesian island of Bali on 1 October 2005, killing 20 people including four bombers. The attacks, attributed to the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, came three years after a previous bombing on the island had killed over 200. They dealt a further blow to Bali's tourism industry.
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake Magnitude 7.6 quake devastates Pakistan-administered Kashmir A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Pakistan-administered Kashmir on 8 October 2005, killing an estimated 87,000 people and leaving millions homeless. It was one of the deadliest earthquakes in South Asian history, also affecting India and Afghanistan. International relief efforts followed amid difficult mountainous terrain and the onset of winter.
• 2005 Shenzhou 6 spaceflight China's second crewed space mission China launched Shenzhou 6 on 12 October 2005, carrying two astronauts on a five-day orbital mission, its second crewed spaceflight after Shenzhou 5 in 2003. The mission demonstrated multi-day life support and cabin operations for China's growing space program. It landed safely on 17 October 2005.
• 2005 Hurricane Wilma Most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time Hurricane Wilma reached the lowest pressure ever recorded in an Atlantic hurricane before striking the Yucatan Peninsula and South Florida in October 2005. It formed on 15 October and dissipated by 25 October, causing extensive damage and capping a record-breaking hurricane season. Wilma was the twenty-first named storm of the 2005 Atlantic season.