2015

2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

March

• March 20 — Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).

July

• July 1 — Earth, Venus and Jupiter will be ordered on a single line.
• 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.

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 — Millennium Development Goals are targeted for achievement
• December 31 — Microcredit Summit Campaign goals are targeted for achievement
• December 31 — Analogue television is expected to be swiched off in the Philippines

Unknown dates

• The first plasma operation of the fusion reactor ITER is expected.
• The United States Navy is scheduled to commission USS Gerald R. Ford, the first ship in a new class of supercarriers.
• The Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, in Downtown Los Angeles, California, will end, setting the local record for the longest planning project, lasting 62 years.
• Crossrail in London, United Kingdom's first stage will open. It travels under London to west (one link) and East (2 links).
• 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.
• The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.
• George Jung, one of the biggest drug smugglers of the world during the 1970's, who's life was portrayed by Johnny Depp in the movie 'Blow', is due to be released from prison at the age of 72.
• The Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be played (Both Scotland and Japan have applied to the IRB to host the event)
• Brood XXIII (Lower Mississippi Valley Brood) of the Magicicada will emerge after a 13 year hiatus.
• Cricket World Cup is scheduled to be played in Australia and New Zealand.
• The Voyager 1 space probe is expected to reach the heliopause.

2015 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Doom: The Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.
• Star Control: The Small War of 2015 takes place, a war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. It is called the "small war" because it could have been much worse.
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation: The first Ace Combat installment for the Xbox 360. The game takes place on the Anean continent in a war between Emmeria and Estovakia.
• Mega Man 8 and Mega Man & Bass are set in this year.

Film

• Dr. Emmett Brown, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker travel to October 21 of this year in the film Back to the Future Part II. According to a holographic newscast, the Chicago Cubs win the World Series against a team from Miami. Inventions also include flying cars, self-fitting clothes and shoes, as well as hover-boards.

Television

• Set in 2015:
  • Defenders of the Earth (1986):
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The mysterious entities known as Angels reappear on Earth after a 15-year absence, and begin attacking the city of Tokyo-3 in sequence. The military forces of the UN and the Japanese government prove insufficient to repel the creatures, and authority in the campaign against the Angels is delegated to NERV, an international special defense agency created specifically for this purpose. Gendo Ikari, president of the Tokyo-3 headquarters of NERV, helms the operation, under supervision from the UN's top-secret SEELE committee. Using giant biomechanical organisms known as the Evangelions, NERV closely manages to kill the incoming Angels, one after the other.
• Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991): Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
• Space: Above and Beyond (1995–1996): Aerospace and defense supplier Aero-Tech is founded.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Past Tense," 1995): By 2015, London has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
• 3rd Rock from the Sun: According to Dick Solomon in the episode "Angry Dick", a giant meteor is destined to collide with Earth. When he says this in his physics class and all of his students turn towards him in shock, he adds, "which obviously doesn't exist because I'm kidding!"

Media franchises

• .hack: A fire occurs at the main CC Corp building, resulting in a large loss of data forcing The World to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp is able to rebuild the game system, thus creating The World:R2.

Other fictions

• John Titor, a claimed time traveler from year 2036, said that World War III would begin during 2015 on his world line.

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