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2005 is a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). It has been designated:
Scheduled and expected events
- January - the return of Doctor Who to BBC 1 (tentative).
- January 20 - U.S. Presidential inauguration day (see U.S. presidential election, 2004).
- January 20 - Speed limits in the Republic of Ireland will switch from mph to km/h. All speed limit signs will be replaced, as well as old road signs with non-metric distances (from before 1970s).
- January 31 - First parliamentary elections in Iraq since the toppling of Saddam Hussein
- 1 February Tadao Chino, the Japanese man who is president of the Asian Development Bank, will leave office.
- February 8 - Mardi Gras
- February 17 - MTV Networks scheduled to launch LGBT-themed LOGO channel in the United States.
- February 26 through Saturday, March 5, 2005 - Special Olympics World Winter Games scheduled for Nagano, Japan.
- April 8 - Hybrid solar eclipse (south Pacific ocean)
- May 6 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie's theatrical release in UK.
- May 14 - Start of the seventh annual Gumball 3000 rally
- May 19 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith scheduled to be released
- June 3 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie's theatrical release in US.
- June 7 - Norway celebrates 100-year anniversary of independence
- June 13 - First Twenty20 international cricket match, to be between England and Australia.
- June 30 - Rail service scheduled to begin on the MBTA Greenbush Line in Massachusetts.
- July 1 - Revaluation of the Romanian leu.
- July 6 - Host of the 2012 Summer Olympics to be announced by the IOC.
- August 6 - 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 - Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Los Angeles scheduled to complete the Orange Line, a suburban Los Angeles light-rail line.
- August - NASA's MESSENGER probe to Mercury makes an Earth flyby.
- September 25 - The new Suvarnabhumi Airport opens in Bangkok, Thailand
- October 3 - Annular solar eclipse (North Portugal, Spain, east Africa)
- October 8 - The second DARPA Grand Challenge is scheduled to be held.
- October 21 - Two hundred years since the Battle of Trafalgar.
- [date to be announced] - Charlotte Bobcats scheduled to begin play in the Uptown Arena.
- [date to be announced] - Presidential elections in Afghanistan.
- [date to be announced] - Montreal Expos are moved to Washington D.C. and play their first game in their new home city.
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