August 6, 2005 (Saturday)
- The British politician and former Cabinet Minister Robin Cook dies suddenly at the age of 59. (BBC)
- Jimmy Wales clarifies the recent media statements made about possible changes to Wikipedia editorial content. (Mailing list)
- India and Pakistan announce that they have agreed to give each other advance notice of future nuclear missile tests. (BBC)
- Fourteen people are killed when a Tunisian ATR 72 passenger plane carrying 39 passengers and crew ditches in the sea off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily. (CBS/AP), (Reuters)
- Cuban veteran singer Ibrahim Ferrer, vocalist and front man of the Buena Vista Social Club band, dies at the age of 78 (Prensa Latina singer ferrer dies (Contactmusic) (Reuters)
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“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)