2005

2005 is a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). It has been designated:

• The World Year of Physics
• The International Year of Microcredit
• The International Year for Sport and Physical Education

Years: 2002 2003 2004 - 2005 - 2006 2007 2008

Decades: 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s

Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century 2005 in film 2005 in literature 2005 in music 2005 in sports 2005 in television

Scheduled and expected events

• January 2005 - the return of Doctor Who to BBC 1 (tentative).
• Thursday, January 20, 2005 - U.S. Presidential inauguration day (see U.S. presidential election, 2004).
• Thursday, January 20, 2005 - Speed limits in the Republic of Ireland will switch from mph to km/h. All speed limit signs will be replaced, as well as old road signs with non-metric distances (from before 1970s).
• Monday, January 31, 2005 - First parliamentary elections in Iraq since the toppling of Saddam Hussein
• Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - Mardi Gras
• Thursday, February 17, 2005 - MTV Networks scheduled to launch LGBT-themed LOGO channel in the United States.
• Saturday, February 26, 2005 through Saturday, March 5, 2005 - Special Olympics World Winter Games scheduled for Nagano, Japan.
• Friday, April 8, 2005 - Hybrid solar eclipse (south Pacific ocean)
• Friday, May 6, 2005 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie's theatrical release in UK.
• Saturday, May 14, 2005 - Start of the seventh annual Gumball 3000 rally
• Thursday, May 19, 2005 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith scheduled to be released
• Friday, June 3, 2005 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie's theatrical release in US.
• Tuesday, June 7, 2005 - Norway celebrates 100-year anniversary of independence
• Monday, June 13, 2005 - First Twenty20 international cricket match, to be between England and Australia.
• Thursday, June 30, 2005 - Rail service scheduled to begin on the MBTA Greenbush Line in Massachusetts.
• Friday, July 1, 2005 - Revaluation of the Romanian leu.
• Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - Host of the 2012 Summer Olympics to be announced by the IOC.
• Saturday, August 6, 2005 - 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing on the city of Hiroshima (Japan) by the American B-29 plane Enola Gay at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright (another 60,000 died by the end of the year due to fallout sickness). (World War II)
• August 2005 - Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Los Angeles scheduled to complete the Orange Line, a suburban Los Angeles light-rail line.
• August 2005 - NASA's MESSENGER probe to Mercury makes an Earth flyby.
• Sunday, September 25, 2005 - The new Suvarnabhumi Airport opens in Bangkok, Thailand
• Monday, October 3, 2005 - Annular solar eclipse (North Portugal, Spain, east Africa)
• Saturday, October 8, 2005 - The second DARPA Grand Challenge is scheduled to be held.
• Friday, October 21, 2005 - Two hundred years since the Battle of Trafalgar.
• [date to be announced] - Charlotte Bobcats scheduled to begin play in the Uptown Arena.
• [date to be announced] - Presidential elections in Afghanistan.