2013
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2013 (MMXIII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 1 – Marseille in France and Košice in Slovakia become European Capital of Culture.
- January 1 – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to establish and introduce monetary union.
- January 19 – The European Union will introduce a common EU-wide driving licence.
- January 20 – The President of the United States takes office at noon. The public swearing-in would be on January 21 (or after), as the 20th is a Sunday.
- May 10 – Annular solar eclipse in the South Pacific, visible in Australia. [1]
- June – The NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be launched.
- June – The 17th edition of the Mediterranean Games will begin in Volos and Larisa, Greece.
- August – The BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury.
- November 3 – Hybrid solar eclipse.[2]
Unknown dates
- NASA's Venus In-Situ Explorer mission to Venus (part of the New Frontiers program).
- Solar power will be cost-competitive with fossil fuels by 2013, according to notable futurist Ray Kurzweil.[3]
- The new fuel efficient, Airbus A350-900 is scheduled to enter airline service in the summer.[4]
- It has been suggested that the current East African Community may federalize into a single state by 2013.[5]
- I will got married.
Major religious holidays
- January 7 – Christmas – Eastern Orthodox Churches
- February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
- March 20 – Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara.
- March 31 – Easter (Western Christianity)
- May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.
- May 5 – Easter (Eastern Christianity)
- June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha.
- August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day.
- September 22 – Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon.
- November 1 – Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year.
- December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule.
- December 25 – Christmas
In fiction and popular culture
Comic books
- X-Men: The X-Men try to overthrow the dystopian rule of the robot Sentinels in the Days of Future Past storyline (1980).
- In the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes (Number 6, July 2005, DC Comics), Cosmic Boy avers that the Bar Code on the cover of comic books is "destined to become outlawed in the Design Aesthetic Wars of 2013."
Computer and video games
- Mega Man IV, Superadventure Rockman and Mega Man V[citation needed] are set in this year.
- Gyakuten Saiban 3 Flashbacks to this year occur.
- Shattered Union (2005): The District of Columbia is destroyed this year by a low-yield nuclear weapon.
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (2006)
Film
- Escape From LA (1996)
- The Postman (1997)
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Television
- In the BBC mockumentary Time Trumpet, British retail chain, Tesco launches an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year.
- The last few minutes of the Season 4 finale and Season 5 of Desperate Housewives is set in this year.
- BBC Drama Spooks: Code 9 is set in this year.
- The anime version of Death Note ends in this year, when the main character, Light Yagami, dies of a heart attack.
Mathematical interest
- The date will comprise four distinct digits, for the first time since 1987.
References
- ^ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2013May10A.GIF
- ^ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2013Nov03H.GIF
- ^ Tierney, John (June 3, 2008). "The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least". New York Times.
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- ^ http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=751
