2005

2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2005th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 5th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2000s decade.

2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005).

Hurricane KatrinaFuneral of Pope John Paul IIMe at the zooLive 8Eris (dwarf planet)Mars Reconnaissance OrbiterRafic HaririSaddam Hussein
From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team; Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge at a courthouse in Baghdad and is executed the next year; the shrine and resting place for Rafic Hariri in September; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Kennedy Space Center, designed to explore Mars; The Live 8 concert in the Tiergarten, Berlin.
Shirley Chisholm
Johnny Carson
Max Schmeling
Arthur Miller
Sandra Dee
Hans Bethe
Pope John Paul II
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
Jaime Sin
Edward Heath
James Doohan
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
Simon Wiesenthal
Eugenia Charles
Rosa Parks
Pat Morita
George Best
Richard Pryor