2015
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2015 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events
March
- 20th - Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).
May
- 7th - election to Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly.
September
- 13th - Partial solar eclipse
December
- 31 - Copyright on Hitler's Mein Kampf terminates
- 31 - RadioShack's 2005 deal with Cingular Wireless terminates
Predicted Events, Unknown Dates
- By 2015, The UN's Millennium Development Goals that all 191 UN member states have agreed to try to achieve by this year.
- Assuming a successful launch in January 2006, NASA's New Horizons space probe is scheduled to perform a fly-by of the planet Pluto in July of this year. After its brief visit here the probe is expected to continue into the Kuiper Belt.
- The first plasma operation of the fusion power reactor ITER is expected.
- One of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers will enter service, possibly named HMS Prince of Wales
- The Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, in Downtown Los Angeles, California, will end, setting the local record for the longest planning project, lasting 62 years.
- The Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project should be complete, connecting Dulles Airport and the surrounding communities to Washington, DC.
- George Jung is scheduled to be released from prison. He will be 73 years old.
- The rolling stock of the Tyne and Wear Metro system will come to the end of its useful life, and will be replaced by a more modern system - possibly incorporating street-running trams.
- John Titor, a man who posted on a series of time travel forums in 2001, claiming to be from 2036, predicted that there would be a third world war leading to nuclear war in 2015, causing over three billion deaths worldwide. He also described a very different world following the event.
- The United States Congress has mandated the Department of Defense to have 1/3 of all military ground vehicles unmanned by 2015. source
Fictional References to the Year
- In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel 30 years into the future from 1985 to 2015. According to the movie, the Chicago Cubs win the World Series against the fictional Miami Gators. It also states on October 21, 2015 it will rain in Hill Valley, California.
- In the newspaper Marty reads, it states that Queen Diana will visit Washington, D.C. in 2015. Unfortunately, Princess Diana will have been dead for 18 years in our timeline.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion begins in this year.
- The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Past Tense" establishes that by 2015, London (UK) has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
