Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle opens in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki's adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones's novel about a young hatmaker cursed into an old woman's body who takes refuge with a wizard in his walking castle.

The Nintendo DS launched in North America on November 21, 2004 at $149.99, ahead of Japan on December 2, 2004 at ¥15,000, the first Nintendo hardware to launch in North America before Japan.

Level-5 and Square Enix released Dragon Quest VIII on the PlayStation 2 in Japan on 27 November 2004. It sold 2,167,072 units in two days and was the first Dragon Quest to score 39/40 in Famitsu.

Norman Foster's Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, opened over southern France's Tarn valley, completing the A75 motorway route between Paris and the Mediterranean.

A former CargoLifter airship hangar in Brandenburg, big enough to enclose the Statue of Liberty, reopened as the Tropical Islands indoor resort on December 19, 2004. Its beaches, lagoons and rainforest now draw about a million visitors a year to the world's largest free-standing hall.

A magnitude 9.1 megathrust rupture off Aceh generated a tsunami that crossed the Indian Ocean and struck coastlines from Indonesia to East Africa. It is the third-largest earthquake ever instrumentally recorded.

Taipei 101, a 508-metre, 101-storey tower, opened on 31 December 2004 and was officially the world's tallest building until the Burj Khalifa surpassed it in 2009.

The Ontario agreement supports refurbishment and restart. Only 2005 is established in this history; January 1 is an estimated year anchor.

On 18 January 2005 Airbus revealed the first A380 to more than 4,500 guests in its Toulouse final assembly hall, with the leaders of France, the UK, Germany and Spain presiding. The prototype wore Airbus's new livery, three months before its first flight.

Ray Charles, who died in June 2004, was honored eight times at the 47th Grammys at Staples Center, including Album of the Year for Genius Loves Company and Record of the Year for "Here We Go Again" with Norah Jones; Maroon 5 won Best New Artist.

The world's largest pumping station begins lifting water from Lake Nasser into the Sheikh Zayed Canal, launching Egypt's attempt to grow a second Nile valley 310 km into the Sahara.

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Paul Schrader and written by William Wisher Jr. and Caleb Carr. The film serves as an alternative prequel to The Exorcist (1973) and is the fifth installment in The Exorcist series.

Charcoal-grilled eel and hitsumabushi in LACHIC’s seventh-floor dining room, with a fully transcribed branch-specific menu.

During an excavation at the mysterious ruins in Clow Country, Syaoran discovers his childhood friend Princess Sakura appear on the site with wings that disperse into many feathers.

Shin-Ei Animation and Studio Pierrot relaunch Doraemon as a new weekly TV series, replacing the original 1979 cast and staff for a modern retelling of Fujiko F. Fujio's manga about a robotic cat from the future helping the boy Nobita.

Shin-Ei Animation's hour-long Doraemon TV specials, broadcast alongside the 2005 series for holidays and milestones, began airing with the revival's debut.

Boeing delivered the 1,050th and last 757, a 757-200 for Shanghai Airlines, on 27 April 2005, ending a 23-year run. The jet, the first 757 delivered as a Chapter 4 low-noise airplane, had been celebrated at a Renton ceremony in October 2004.

F-WWOW, the first of the only full-length double-deck jet airliner ever built, flew from Toulouse–Blagnac with a crew of six under chief test pilot Jacques Rosay, who said handling it was "like handling a bicycle".

Income-restricted South Philadelphia apartments and townhomes with one- through four-bedroom layouts and income-based rents. Property information reviewed October 10, 2026.

Grant Achatz's "maximalist modernist" restaurant opened on a Lincoln Park side street and went on to hold three Michelin stars from 2011 to 2024. It is named after the alinea, the paragraph symbol that is also its logo.

The 40th Academy of Country Music Awards, on 17 May 2005 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, named Kenny Chesney Entertainer of the Year, gave Gretchen Wilson two firsts and Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" Single and Song of the Year.

Drag-On Dragoon 2 (Drakengard 2) released for PlayStation 2 in Japan on 16 June 2005, selling about 100,000 units in its first week.

Michael Cimarusti’s fine dining destination for seafood tasting menus.

Air Canada began flying the first Embraer E175, C-FEIQ, on 19 July 2005, according to Embraer, making the Canadian airline the launch operator of the stretched 76-to-78-seat E-Jet that became the dominant US regional jet.

Katrina came ashore near Buras-Triumph at 11:10 UTC as a high-end Category 3 hurricane with 125 mph winds. Flooding from failures in the federally built levee system put 80% of New Orleans under water.

Hurricane Katrina shut in about half of US domestic oil production and knocked out refineries and import terminals, so on 2 September 2005 President Bush found a severe energy supply interruption and ordered a sale. DOE offered 30 million barrels and sold 11 million; the first oil left Bryan Mound on 26 September.

Production I.G's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – The Laughing Man releases direct to video. The single-episode OVA recompiles and expands the "Laughing Man" arc from the first Stand Alone Complex season with new footage, as Public Security Section 9's Togusa revisits a six-year-old unsolved case tied to an elusive hacker.

Gintama: Jump Festa 2005 Special premieres, a Sunrise-animated comedy short pitting Gintoki's Yorozuya against the Shinsengumi in a brutal game of rock-paper-scissors over a prime cherry-blossom viewing spot.

Drift peacefully into Neo Venezia, a city on the planet Aqua (formerly known as Mars). By the 24th century, humans have found a way to colonize the previously uninhabitable planet.