2014

2014 (MMXIV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

August 24 - NASA's Pluto probe New Horizons will cross the orbit of Neptune, after 8½ years journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which took 12 years.

November 4 - Elections for the United States Congress and several state governorships

NASA's Dawn space probe scheduled to arrive at Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt
ESAs Rosetta space probe scheduled to arrive at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
2014 Winter Olympics (host city scheduled to be chosen in 2007)
FIFA World Cup 2014 (host country scheduled to be chosen in 2008)
2014 Commonwealth Games will be held in either Abuja, Nigeria, Glasgow, Scotland or Halifax, Canada
Sometime this year, NASA is expected to launch the first of two Terrestrial Planet Finder space telescopes for the purposes of locating exoplanets.
First manned flight of Crew Exploration Vehicle in earth orbit.
New Caledonia will be allowed to hold a referendum on independence after this year.
The construction of New Songdo City (Incheon, South Korea) is slated to be complete.
Super Bowl XLVIII
The United States rock band Nirvana is eligible for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
WrestleMania XXX

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