2015

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

March 15 - 100th Anniversary of the formation of Universal Pictures.
March 20 - Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).
March 14 - At 54 seconds past 9:26 am; the date and time (3/14/15 9:26:54) will make the first 6 digits of pi rounded to the last digit, using American date formatting.

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.
July 7 - The 10th anniversary of the July 7th bombings in London.

August 9 - 50th year of Singapore independence

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.

All 191 United Nations member states have agreed to aim toward achieving 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.
Hydrogen vehicles are expected to become affordable and ready to find at car dealerships by this year.
Jane Goodall fears that by 2015, Bonobos, Chimpanzees and Gorillas will be all but gone from the wild, surviving only in zoos and in well-protected reserves.
DARPA wishes to have one third of all military ground vehicles automated by 2015.
The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.

The events of the Anime TV series Future GPX Cyber Formula began in this year. Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.

The Deep Space Nine episode "Past Tense" establishes that by 2015, London (UK) has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.

In the Doom universe, the Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.

In the .hack universe, a fire occurred at the main CC Corp, the building resulted in the loss of a lot of data, and The World was forced to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp was able to rebuild the game system. Thus creating The World:R2.

In the Star Control universe, the Small War of 2015 takes place this year, however never seen in the game, only refereed to. A war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. Called the small war because it could have been much worse.

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