April 2005 in the United States

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Deaths in April

• 16 – Marla Ruzicka
• 5 – Saul Bellow
• 1 – Robert Coldwell Wood

Ongoing events

  • Conflict in Iraq
  • Social Security reform
  • Accounting scandals
  • Nuclear option(Filibustering) debate in US Senate

Future events

– May 19, Star Wars III

Upcoming holidays

  • May 8 Mother's Day
  • May 21 Armed Forces Day
  • May 30 Memorial Day

Upcoming elections

none

Ongoing trials

  • Michael Jackson
  • Zacarias Moussaoui
  • Dennis Rader

About this page

United States News can be found here (Associated Press feed provided by newsday.com).

April 27, 2005

  • The U.S. House of Representatives rescinds controversial ethics rules in order to end a stalemate in the Ethics Committee. (Yahoo!)

April 18, 2005

April 9, 2005

  • A former chef at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch testifies that he saw the singer with his hand in the front of Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin's shorts. (Gulf Times, Qatar)

April 5, 2005

  • Longtime ABC News anchor Peter Jennings has been diagnosed with lung cancer. ABC News

April 4, 2005

April 2, 2005

  • President Bush and others pay tribute to Pope John Paul II, who died at 2:37 p.m. Eastern Time. (CNN)

News collections and sources

  • Wikipedia:News collections and sources.
  • Wikipedia:News sources - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage NPOV in our news reporting.