2005
From left to right, top to bottom:
- YouTube was launched with Me at the zoo as its first video;
- Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans, kills 1,392, becomes the costliest hurricane at the time, and displaces millions;
- Eris is discovered, the largest known dwarf planet at the time;
- Pope John Paul II dies;
- Earthquake in Kashmir kills between 75,000 and 90,000;
- Site where the assassination of Rafic Hariri took place.
- The Amagasaki derailment occurred when a seven-car commuter train came off the tracks on West Japan Railway Company's (JR West) Fukuchiyama Line just before Amagasaki. 107 people were killed in the derailment;
- Tickets to Live 8;
- The London Underground bombings kill 56 and become one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in London.
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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).