Editing 2005 (section)

===February===
* [[February 10]] – [[North Korea]] announces that it possesses [[nuclear weapon]]s as a protection against the hostility it says it perceives from the United States.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12836-2005Feb10.html|title=N. Korea Declares Itself a Nuclear Power|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Anthony|last=Faiola|access-date=October 14, 2009|date=February 10, 2005|archive-date=July 26, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726174120/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12836-2005Feb10.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 14]]
** Former [[List of prime ministers of Lebanon|Lebanese Prime Minister]] [[Rafic Hariri]] is [[Assassination of Rafic Hariri|assassinated]], along with 21 others, by a suicide bomber in [[Beirut]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anniversary of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's Assassination |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/02/204582.htm |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=U.S. Department of State}}</ref>
** [[YouTube]], an American [[online video platform|online video sharing]] and [[social media|social media platform]] was founded by [[Steve Chen]], [[Chad Hurley]], and [[Jawed Karim]] headquartered in [[San Bruno, California]].
* [[February 16]] – The [[Kyoto Protocol]] officially goes into effect.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kyoto-protocol-comes-into-effect-1.536247|title=Kyoto Protocol comes into effect|work=[[CBC News]]|access-date=October 15, 2009|date=February 16, 2005|archive-date=July 18, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718055539/http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2005/02/16/kyoto050216.html|url-status=live}}</ref>