February 2005

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Deaths in February

• 26 – Jef Raskin
• 25 – Hugh Nibley
• 25 – Peter Benenson
• 21 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• 21 – Dr. Gene Scott
• 20 – Jimmy Young
• 20 – Hunter S. Thompson
• 20 – Sandra Dee
• 14 – Rafiq Hariri
• 13 – Sister Lúcia, Child of Fatima
• 10 – Arthur Miller
• 5 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma
• 4 – Ossie Davis
• 3 – Ernst Mayr
• 3 – Zurab Zhvania
• 2 – Max Schmeling

Ongoing events

• Iraqi legislative election
• Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage)
• Tsunami relief

Ongoing armed conflicts

• Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
• Conflict in Chechnya
• Second Congo War
• Conflict in Iraq(Occupation of Iraq)
• Darfur conflict in Sudan
• Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire

Election results in February

6: Thai national
8: Danish parliament
20: Portuguese parliamentary

Ongoing trials

Chile: Augusto Pinochet
ICTY: Slobodan Milošević
Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
— Saddam Hussein, among others
India: Best Bakery case
India: Jayendra Saraswathi
Netherlands: Volkert van der Graaf
Netherlands: Mohammed Bouyeri
United States: Robert Blake
United States: Zacarias Moussaoui
United States: Charles Graner
United States: Michael Jackson

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