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