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- Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union is elected Chancellor of Germany, becoming the first woman to hold the post.
- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel leaves the Likud Party to found the centrist National Responsibility Party and calls for an election in March 2006.
- Floods and mudslides due to Tropical Storm Gamma, the 24th named storm in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, kill at least 32 people in Honduras.
- DNA testing is performed on the bodies of several people who died in a raid in Mosul, Iraq to determine if Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed.
- Michael Scanlon, an aide to former United States House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, pleads guilty to a felony charge in the Abramoff-Reed Indian Gambling Scandal.