May 7, 2005

[edit] May 7 2005 (Saturday)

Northern Ireland's Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble, the 1998 Nobel 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. (BBC)
George Peter Nanos announces that he will step down as the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, making his term the shortest of any previous director. (LA Times)
15 people die in a plane crash near the Lockhart River in the Australian state of Queensland, the worst civilian air disaster in Australia in 36 years. (ABC Online)