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15 April – 2005 Paris fires – 24 people are killed and around 50 are injured in a fire at a hotel in central Paris. 27 April – First flight of Airbus A380 in Toulouse. 28 April – Sales begin of the Peugeot 1007 mini MPV. 16 May – Pentecost Monday ceases to be a statutory holiday, leading to strong protests.
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, [note 1] YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
2005 French riots. A car in Strasbourg lit during the riots. A three-week period of riots took place in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities [4][5] in October and November 2005. These riots involved youth in violent attacks, and the burning of cars and public buildings. The unrest started on 27 October at Clichy-sous-Bois, where police ...
Air France Flight 2005 of 12 September 1961 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris-Orly Airport to Casablanca Airport with a stop at Rabat-Salé ...
France, [a] officially the French Republic, [b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe.Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
2005 French Open. The 2005 French Open was the 109th edition of the tournament. On the men's side, Rafael Nadal, seeded fourth at his first French Open, [1] was a strong favorite to win the singles title after winning the Monte Carlo and Rome Masters. Guillermo Coria, the defending finalist and 2005 runner-up to Nadal in both Monaco and Rome ...
The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 2–24 July, with 21 stages covering a distance 3,593 km (2,233 mi). It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced on 24 August ...