From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina kills 1,836 people throughout the southern United States; the funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo" is the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris and its satellite Dysnomia are discovered by a Palomar Observatory-based team, becoming the tenth planet to be discovered and breaking ground for the discovery of new dwarf planets such as Haumea and Makemake; Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge at a courthouse in Baghdad; the shrine and resting place for Rafic Hariri; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (designed to explore Mars) is launched from Cape Canaveral; the Live 8 concert in the Tiergarten, Berlin.
Calendar year
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.
Calendar year
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).
