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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).

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World population

Main article: List of countries by population in 2005

Births

Main page: Category:2005 births

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2005

Nobel Prizes

New English words and terms

Sources

  • Corbett, Ronnie; Nobbs, David (2007) [2006]. And It's Goodnight From Him ...: The Autobiography of the Two Ronnies (Paperback ed.). Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-102804-0.
  • Modern history portal

Media related to 2005 at Wikimedia Commons

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