Events on June 16, 2005:

Bloomsday

On the fictional morning of  June 16th, `904 —Bloomsday, as it has come to be known—Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began is day's journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce's novel of the century, Ulysses. Around the world, people commemorate the day by reading (and enacting) the entire book in one reading.