- May 7, 2005
May 7 2005 (Saturday)*
Northern Ireland 'sUlster Unionist Party leaderDavid Trimble , the 1998Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped reach the Good Friday Agreement, resigns from the leadership post he has held for ten years, after losing his seat in the British general election the previous day. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/northern_ireland/4525407.stm (BBC)]
*George Peter Nanos announces that he will step down as the director of theLos Alamos National Laboratory , making his term the shortest of any previous director. [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nanos7may07,1,5284673.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true (LA Times)]
* 15 people die in aplane crash near the Lockhart River in theAustralia n state ofQueensland , the worst civilian air disaster in Australia in 36 years. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1362554.htm (ABC Online)]
*Jennifer Garner Announces that she is 3 months pregnant withBen Affleck 's baby
*The Time Traveler Convention was held atMIT , in the hopes of making contact withtime travel ers from the future. Theconvention was organized byAmal Dorai with help from current and former residents of the MIT living groupPi Tau Zeta . The convention was held at 22:45 EDT at the East Campus Courtyard and in Walker Memorial at MIT. That location is 42.360007 degrees northlatitude , 71.087870 degrees westlongitude . The spacetime coordinates continue to be publicized prominently and indefinitely, so that future time travelers will be aware and have the opportunity to have attended. [http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler]
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