2015
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2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5775/5776 in the Hebrew calendar.
Events
January
- 1th - Copyright on Edvard Munch's complete works terminates
March
- 20th - Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).
May
- 7th - election to Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly.
July
- 14th - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to reach Pluto.
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
- All 191 United Nations member states have agreed to aim toward acheiving 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.
- 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
- Hydrogen vehicles are expected to become affordable and ready to find at car dealerships by this year.
- On September 9, if she is still alive, Queen Elizabeth II's reign will surpass that of Queen Victoria and she will become the longest reigning monarch in British history.
2015 in fiction
- In the 1989 film 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 a team from Miami. It also states on October 21, 2015 it will rain in Hill Valley, California.
- According to this film, in 2015 anti-gravity devices will be very common, being used even in family cars and skateboards.
- The events of the Anime TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion begin in this year. It is also the year where the movies Death And Rebirth and End Of Evangelion are set.
- The third impact occurs 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.