2011
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2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
Contents
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- 1 January - Poland hopes to introduce the euro.
- January 2 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter 34' south. Third conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Uranus.
- January 3 - The 112th session of the United States Congress will convene on or around this date.
- January 4 - Partial solar eclipse
February
- February - Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
- February 6 - Super Bowl XLV
March
- March 18 - NASA's Pluto probe New Horizons will cross the orbit of Uranus, after 5 years journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which spent 8 years.
- NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is scheduled to arrive in orbit around Mercury.
- The remaining sections of Kyushu Shinkansen and Tōhoku Shinkansen, both Japanese high speed rail lines are scheduled to start services. When these tracks are completed, Aomori, (the northernmost part of Honshu Island), and Kagoshima, (the southernmost part of Kyushu Island), will both be linked by Shinkansen service through Tokyo.
April
- April 2-4 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
- April 8-21 - Cricket World Cup to be held in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
- April 24 - Easter will not have fallen this late since 1943.
May
- May 5 - elections for the Scottish Parliament and for the Welsh Assembly.
- May 6 - Singapore holds 11th general election
June
- June 1 - Partial solar eclipse.
July
- July 1 - Partial solar eclipse.
- July 1 - Start of the Polish presidency of the European Union.
- July - The International Olympic Committee is set to meet and decide the location of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
- July - The 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championships will be held in a TBA location.
August
September
- September 11 - A decade since 9-11 attacks
October
November
- November 25 - Partial solar eclipse.
December
Unknown dates
- The Isle of Man shall host the IV Commonwealth Youth Games.
- The Asian Winter Games will be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- The Egyptian Presidential Elections of 2011
- The United Kingdom plans to continue 5-year process to cease analog television broadcasts region-by-region, with Meridian, ITV London, Tyne Tees and UTV.
- Dublin Institute of Technology will complete its move to Grangegorman
- The DSM-V is tentatively scheduled to be published
- Statistics Canada's decennial census
- Microsoft Windows "Vienna" is scheduled for release.
- Rugby Union World Cup is scheduled to be held in New Zealand
- The journal New Scientist reports in its January 5, 2006 issue that "in about five years" (sometime in 2011), Jochem Hauser, a German scientist, could be beginning the first tests of his warp engine, which theoretically would create a magnetic field to power a spacecraft into a different dimension in which warp speed is possible. A ship powered by such an engine could theoretically reach Mars in about three hours, and nearby stars, such as Tau Ceti, in a matter of weeks - if the theory proves correct.
- Scheduled completion of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, the largest infrastructure project in eastern Germany.
- Scheduled completion of the Freedom Tower in New York City.
- The End Of The World, As Predicted By Family Radio's Harold Camping
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