See also: April 17, 2005 - April 2005 - April 19, 2005 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in April • 26: Augusto Roa Bastos • 24: Ezer Weizman • 23: Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen • 23: John Mills • 16: Marla Ruzicka • 9: Andrea Dworkin • 6: Prince Rainier III • 5: Dale Messick • 5: Saul Bellow • 2: Pope John... See also: April 18, 2005 - April 2005 - April 20, 2005 George W. Bushs nomination of John R. Bolton for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations receives a serious setback when Ohio senator George Voinovich announces in committee that he cannot vote to endorse Bolton for this important diplomatic...
The largest moving object on Earth, the icebergB15A in Antarctica has collided with the Drygalski ice tongue, a feature large enough to be included in Antarctic maps. During the collision, a five-kilometre-long section of the ice tongue was broken off. (ESA) (AP)
Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory announce that they have created a newly discovered state of matter by smashing atoms in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. This new state of matter behaves like a hot and dense liquid made up of basic atomic particles such as quarks and gluons. Researchers claim that all matter in the universe for a fraction of a second after the Big Bang was in the form of this liquid. (MSNBC), (BNL News)
Catherine Ndereba of Kenya and Hailu Negussie of Ethiopia win in the 109th Boston Marathon. Negussie was successful in finally breaking the Kenyan-dominated men's race. Defending champion Ndereba became the first four-time woman's winner. (ABCnews) (CNN) (Boston.com)
Bosnian serb officer Vujadin Popović, accused of complicity in Srebrenica massacre in 1995, pleads not guilty in the Hague. He surrendered to the ICTY on April 14. (FENA) (Reuters) (BBC)
The governments of India and Pakistan declare that peace between them is "irreversible". United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan welcomes the move. (Hindu) (Deepika) (IHT) (Daily Times)
The Pakistani government releases 500 members of Pakistan People's Party it detained prior to return of opposition leader Asif Zardari. Zardari hopes to have dialogue with the government. (Pakistan Times) (Daily Times) (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)
Former Lebanese minister Bassel Fleihan dies of wounds he received in the bombing that killed Rafik Hariri. (Daily Star) (Reuters AlertNet) (CNN)
Spain returns Rabei Osman Ahmed, who had been extradited as a prime suspect in the Madrid bombings, to Italian custody. (Reuters Alertnet) (World Peace Herald) (BBC)
The Rwandan supreme court hears appeals for Pasteur Bizimungu, first president of Rwanda after the genocide, who was arrested last June. (Rwanda Information Exchange) (IOL) (BBC)
Four people are charged with the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi. Suspects have Mafia ties. (Financial Times) (Reuters) (BBC)
APRIL 14, 2005 — Budget writers negotiating the fiscal 2006 budget resolution are mulling a split-the-difference solution to the gulf between the House and Senate over the level of mandatory spending cuts to be included in an upcoming budget reconciliation bill.
APRIL 13, 2005 — Dramatic reductions in the number of bed sores suffered by nursing home patients and improved use by doctors' offices of computer technology to treat patients are two of the many goals outlined by Medicare in a new "scope of work" to improve the quality of care in the program.
APRIL 14, 2005 — Widows make up almost half of the 2.4 million Medicare beneficiaries whose income qualifies them for the program's comprehensive drug benefit for low-income Americans but who are ineligible because of other financial assets, says a study sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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