Predicted and scheduled events

January

• January 20 - Inauguration of the President of the United States.

March

• March 31 - The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility is scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.

May

• May 09 - Elections will take place in British Columbia, Canada.

July

• July 1 - The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by Universal suffrage take office.

August

• August 21 - From 16:50 to 20:02 UTC, the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental U.S. since February 26, 1979, takes place. Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and will last at most 2 minutes 40.2 seconds. The location and time of "greatest eclipse" will be on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky at 36.9715 degrees North and 87.6559 degrees West occurring at 18:25.4716 UTC.

Unknown dates

• Sealed government documents surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination to be released.
• The government of China has announced it will start sending probes to the Moon in 2017, resulting in a manned Chinese landing on the moon in a few years.
• In Copenhagen (Denmark), the City Circle Line extension of the metro will open.
• South Korea states that it will attempt a space mission by this year.
• Construction of London's Crossrail project is expected to be completed, with the first passenger trains running this year.
• In France the case-documents regarding the execution of assumed World War I double spy Mata Hari will be revealed.
• In Lisbon, the new Alcochete Airport starts operations.
• Phase II of the USMC VXX Presidential helicopter program, the AgustaWestland/Bell Helicopter VH-71B Kestrel, is scheduled to enter Initial operating capability.
• Gazprom hopes that its market capitalization will reach one trillion dollars.
• The European Extremely Large Telescope is scheduled to be completed.

In fiction

• Epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter's second son and middle child, Albus Potter, attends his first year at Hogwarts. Harry's first born child, James attends Hogwarts for the second or third year. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger's daughter Rose also starts school, as well as Draco Malfoy's son Scorpius.
• In the film Click according to the news Britney Spears has her 23rd baby and Kevin Federline gets a job. Also Michael Jackson cloned himself and sued himself for molesting himself.
• The Billy Joel song, Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) is set in this year.

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