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2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
Contents
Predicted events
January
- January 1 - Copyright on Edvard Munch's complete works terminates.
March
- March 15 - 100th Anniversary of the formation of Universal Pictures.
- March 20 - Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).
- March 14 - At 54 seconds past 9:26 am; the date and time (3/14/15 9:26:54) will make the first 6 digits of pi rounded to the last digit, using American date formatting.
May
- May 7 - Election of Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly occurs.
July
- July 14 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by Pluto and Charon at 50,000 kilometers per hour and explore the area for five months until distance becomes too great. New Horizons will then enter the Kuiper Belt and eventually leave our Solar System.
- July 7 - The 10th anniversary of the July 7th bombings in London.
August
August 9 - 50th year of Singapore independence
September
- September 9 - On this date, if Queen Elizabeth II is still queen, she will become the longest-reigning monarch in British History, surpassing Queen Victoria's 63 years on the throne.
- September 13 - Partial solar eclipse.
December
- December 31 - Copyright on Hitler's Mein Kampf terminates.
- December 31 - RadioShack's 2005 deal with Cingular Wireless terminates.
Unknown dates
- All 191 United Nations member states have agreed to aim toward achieving the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals by this year.
- The first plasma operation of the fusion power reactor ITER is expected.
- One of the Royal Navy's 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.
- 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.
- Hydrogen vehicles are expected to become affordable and ready to find at car dealerships by this year. [[Citing sources citation needed]]
- Jane Goodall fears that by 2015, Bonobos, Chimpanzees and Gorillas will be all but gone from the wild, surviving only in zoos and in well-protected reserves.
- DARPA wishes to have one third of all military ground vehicles automated by 2015.
- The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.
Fictional events
- In the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel 30 years into the future from 1985 to October 21, 2015.
- *According to this film, in 2015 anti-gravity devices will be very common, being used even in family cars and skateboards, as well as windows that project a false landscape and shoes that tighten themselves.
- *In the film, Marty reads in a newspaper that Queen Diana is visiting Washington, D.C.. In reality, Princess Diana will have been dead for 18 years in 2015.
- *The film depicts the World Trade Center towers standing in 2015; a shot of them is seen on the Hill Valley cable TV station "The Scenery Channel". In reality, by 2015 the towers will have been destroyed for 14 years.
- *The film shows that the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series in this year against a currently-nonexistent Miami-based team, presumedly the "Gators" or "Alligators" based on the team's logo.
- *According to a future edition of USA Today seen in the film, the President of the United States will be a female.
- The events of the Anime TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion begin in this year.
- The events of the Anime TV series Future GPX Cyber Formula began in this year. Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
- 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.
- In the Doom universe, the Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.
- In the .hack universe, a fire occurred at the main CC Corp, the building resulted in the loss of a lot of data, and The World was forced to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp was able to rebuild the game system. Thus creating The World:R2.
- Aero-Tech, the aerospace and defense supplier of [[Space: Above and Beyond]] is founded.
- In the Star Control universe, the [Small War of 2015] takes place this year, however never seen in the game, only refereed to. A war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. Called the small war because it could have been much worse.
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