George Romero released his first Living Dead film in twenty years with Land of the Dead. Passing away in 2005 were Lamont Bentley, Shirley Chisholm, Arthur Miller, Sandra Dee, Eddie Albert, James Doohan, Rosa Parks, Pat Morita, George Best, Richard Pryor, Eugene McCarthy, Don Adams, Robert Wise, William Rehnquist, Brock Peters, Peter Jennings, Luther Vandross, Paul Winchell, Ruth Hussey, Mitch Hedberg, John DeLorean, Hunter S. Noah Jupe, Ella Anderson, Pierce Gagnon, Sunny Suljic, Issac Ryan Brown, and Honey Boo-Boo were born in 2005. Doctor Who came back to television and is anticipated to return for its 13th season.

YouTube was founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. Pope Benedict XVI took his place until retiring in 2013. Pope John Paul II died in April, likely due to complications from the flu, which he had in February. Residents were stuck there for a week until the National Guard evacuated everyone. Food spoiled and the humid air reached temperatures in the upper 80s. The stadium suffered enough damage from winds and flooding from surrounding broken levees that electrical systems failed and backup generators could only provide enough power for light. The Superdome was used as a shelter for thousands of residents but poor planning and a lack of supplies turned this into a tragic fiasco. Federal response to the tragedy was sloppy, criticism of which led to the resignation of FEMA director Michael Brown and the New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Eddie Compass. The city of New Orleans was hit the hardest as over 80% of it was flooded when numerous surrounding levees broke as a result of the category three storm. Hurricane Katrina hit the southeastern United States in late August of 2005. Hey, weвЂ™re already halfway through the first decade of the 21st century! LetвЂ™s see what kinds of horrible things were happening in the world.

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