2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005). Events January January 1 – Jeanna Giese from Wisconsin, United States, comes home from hospital, and officially becomes the first person to ever survive rabies without a vaccination. January 5 – Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory. January 12 – Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral with the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1. January 14 – The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. January 20 George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. The most intense solar particle event in recorded history is observed. February February 10 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it says it perceives from the United States. February 14 Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated, along with 21 others, by a suicide bomber in Beirut. YouTube, an American online video sharing and social media platform was launched by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim headquartered in San Bruno, California. February 16 – The Kyoto Protocol officially goes into effect. February 21 – Avatar: The Last Airbender premiers on Nickelodeon. February 22 — blink-182 announces "indefinite hiatus" March March 14 – China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence. March 24 – The President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, is deposed following mass anti-government demonstrations and flees the country. March 28 – The 8.6 Nias–Simeulue earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured. April April 2 – Pope John Paul II dies; over four million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him. Pope Benedict XVI succeeds him on April 19, becoming the 265th pope. April 8 – The first solar eclipse of the year was a rare hybrid event, occurring at ascending node in Aries. This was 4.4 days after the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of -0.34733. A hybrid solar eclipse was visible from south Pacific, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela,