2005: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

2005 is a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar), and is also designated:

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

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).
• 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)
• Saturday, May 14, 2005 - Start of the seventh annual Gumball 3000 rally
• Thursday, May 19, 2005 - scheduled to be released
• 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.
• [date to be announced] - Charlotte Bobcats scheduled to begin play in the Uptown Arena.
• [date to be announced] - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie's theatrical release.
• [date to be announced] - Presidential elections in Afghanistan.
• [date to be announced] - Infopop releases next generation internet forum, replacing UBB.classic and UBB.threads