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- After the Kenyan constitutional referendum fails, President Mwai Kibaki dissolves his cabinet.
- Benzene from the Jilin chemical plant explosions in the Songhua River forces Harbin, China to suspend its water supply.
- 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 a March election.
- 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.