2019
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2019 (MMXIX) will be a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. It is the 2019th year of Common Era (also called Anno Domini), the 19th of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century and the 10th of the 2010s. It will also be the last year of the 2010s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 1 – Assuming that the copyright laws are not changed further, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the U.S., the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
December
- December 26 – An annular solar eclipse will be visible from South Asia.[1]
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- ITER, an international scientific experiment (the 2nd largest in world history) in developing nuclear fusion as an energy source will begin its first plasma experiments.[2]
- Super computers are projected to reach 1 Exaflops.[3][4]
- Completion of the North-south line of the Hong Kong MTR.
- Planned launch of Euclid.[5]
- The Bangladesh Navy plans to commission its submarine force in 2019.[6]
In fiction
Computer and video games
- Out Run 2019 (1993)
- Blade Runner (1997)
- Martian Gothic: Unification (2000)
- The House of the Dead III (2002)
- TimeSplitters 2 (2002) (the "Neotokyo" level)
- Crysis (2007)
- Crysis Warhead (2008)
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (2009)
- Gyakuten Kenji 2 (2011)
Film
- Blade Runner (1982), in November
- The New Barbarians aka. Warriors of the Wasteland (1982)
- 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
- The Running Man (1987)
- Akira (1988)
- The Island (2005), on 19 July until 23 July
- Daybreakers (2010)
Music
- Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010): Danger Days is a concept album, taking place in post-apocalyptic California during the year 2019.
Book
- 2019 (2011) ISBN 978-0-615-56831-7
References
- ^ NASA: Annular Solar Eclipse of 2019 December 26, September 15, 2009, retrieved August 7, 2010
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10793883
- ^ Thibodeau, Patrick (June 10, 2008). "IBM breaks petaflop barrier". InfoWorld.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ David Meyer (2010-6-10). "Europe's Prace HPC grid aims for exaflop power by 2019". ZDNet.co.uk. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2012-3-13.
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