What Happened in Oct 2005

New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-4

As the beautiful autumn afternoon lengthened and the outcome on the field became less in doubt, folks in the Fenway Park stands and those at home... Read more

Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 10-1

At 4:06 p.m., a magic number in franchise history, Red Sox owner John Henry stood up and started shaking hands with folks near his seat by the... Read more

San Diego Chargers defeat New England Patriots, 41-17

This is the 20th year Marty Schottenheimer has been a head coach in the National Football League, so he understands that, regardless of what other... Read more

Datia Rail Accident

The Datia train accident was a railroad accident that occurred on 3 October 2005 involving a passenger train near Datia in India's Madhya Pradesh... Read more

UFC Ultimate Fight Night 2

Ultimate Fight Night 2 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on October 3, 2005. The event took place at the... Read more

Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 14-2

CHICAGO -- The first bad thing to happen to the Red Sox yesterday was when Matt Clement hit White Sox leadoff hitter Scott Podsednik with a pitch.... Read more

Exodus release Shovel Headed Kill Machine

Shovel Headed Kill Machine is the seventh studio album by the American thrash metal band Exodus, released on October 4, 2005 through Nuclear Blast.... Read more

Stephen King publishes The Colorado Kid

The Colorado Kid is a mystery novel written by Stephen King for the Hard Case Crime imprint, published in 2005. The book was issued in one... Read more

Lauryn Hill Performs at Take Back TV Concert

On October 6, 2005, Hill emceed and performed two songs at the Take Back TV concert launching Al Gore's CurrentTV. Read more

UFC 55: Fury

UFC 55: Fury was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on October 7, 2005 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville,... Read more

Kashmir Earthquake

Most of the casualties resulting from the earthquake were in Pakistan where the official confirmed death toll is 74,698, putting it higher than the... Read more

New England Patriots defeat Atlanta Falcons, 31-28

Many pieces of what should make the Patriots one of the best teams in the NFL were invisible a week ago. In fact, throughout this season, the... Read more

Hurricane Wilma

Hurricane Wilma plowed into southwest Florida early yesterday with howling 125 mph winds and dashed across the state to the Miami-Fort Lauderdale... Read more

Denver Broncos defeat New England Patriots, 28-20

You can spin this any way you like. You can focus on the fact that the New England Patriots didn't fold and had enough gumption to wipe the... Read more

Stevie Wonder Releases A Time to Love

A Time to Love is a 2005 award-winning studio album by Stevie Wonder, his first since 1995's Conversation Peace. Originally to have been completed... Read more

South Park Episode 908 - "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow"

A GLOBAL WARMING STATE OF EMERGENCY is declared in South Park. The world's largest beaver dam breaks and floods the adjacent town of Beaverton. As... Read more

2005 World Series

2005 World Series 2005 will always be remembered as "The year of redemption in the Windy City." That was the season in which the Chicago White... Read more

2005 World Series - Game 2

Even though we are Cubs fans, my wife and I decided to go to the White Sox - Astros World Series, thinking "as Chicagoans, we may never get this... Read more

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat released

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat is a first-person shooter video game in the Battlefield series, developed by Digital Illusions CE. Modern Combat is... Read more

Rosa Parks dies

Rosa Parks resided in Detroit until she died at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005, about 7:00PM EDT, in her apartment on the east side of the city.... Read more

Call of Duty 2 released

Call of Duty 2 is a historic first-person shooter video game and the second instalment to the critically acclaimed game Call of Duty. It was... Read more

Soulcalibur III is Released

Soulcalibur III (ソウルキャリバーIII, SōruKyaribā Surī) is a fighting game produced by Namco and is the sequel to Soulcalibur II and is the fourth overall... Read more

Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and John Petrucci Release "G3: Live in Tokyo"

G3: Live in Tokyo is another G3 live performance which featured John Petrucci along with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai in the 2005 G3 tour. It was... Read more

The Octopus Project Release "One Ten Hundred Thousand Million"

One Ten Hundred Thousand Million is the second album by indietronica band The Octopus Project. It was released October 25, 2005 on Peek-A-Boo Records. Read more

South Park Episode 909 - "Marjorine"

The 4th grade girls are having a sleepover. It’s imperative that the boys find out what goes on behind those closed doors. Butters is picked to be... Read more