2005
From left to right, top to bottom:
- YouTube was launched, with "Me at the zoo" being the first video on the platform;
- Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, killed 1,392, and displaced millions; it is tied as the costliest hurricane of all time as of today;
- Eris, the largest known dwarf planet at the time, was discovered;
- Pope John Paul II dies;
- An earthquake in Kashmir kills between 75,000 and 90,000;
- A truck bombing assassinates Rafic Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon;
- 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 a Live 8 concert at Hyde Park in London;
- 4 Islamic suicide bombings on the London Underground 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).