Portal:Current events/2005 December 31
December 31, 2005 (Saturday)
- 25-year-old Scottish human rights worker Kate Burton and her parents are freed unharmed in the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian gunmen who kidnapped them two days earlier. (ABC Australia)
- A bomb explodes in downtown Palu, Indonesia, killing at least eight people and wounding 45 people. (BBC)
- After heavy rains, Napa, California experienced its worst flooding in 20 years. (Napa Valley Register) Two days later, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Napa and 6 other California counties (Napa Valley Register), and one month later, U.S. President George W. Bush signed a declaration stating that a major disaster existed in Napa and 9 other California counties, allowing Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance for those areas affected by the flooding. (Napa Valley Register)