2018

2018 (MMXVIII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

• The month of February - will not experience a completely realized full moon this year

March

• March 14 — American quack and fraudster Gerald Barnbaum due to be released from prison

July

• July 1 — Presidential elections in Mexico.
• July 1 - Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Estonia.

August

• August 11 — The final Drum Corps International World Championship to be held in the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, after an 11-year run.

September

• September 16 — Swedish general election for the Riksdag.

November

• November 6 — United States mid-term elections

Unknown dates

• 2018 Winter Olympics — Host city will be chosen in 2011.
• 2018 Commonwealth Games — Host city will be chosen in 2011.
• The London Convention, which prevents sea dumping, expires.
• FIFA World Cup 2018 (host country scheduled to be chosen in 2011)
• Researchers and investors in space elevator technology hope to fund, construct, and launch the first elevator by 2018.
• NASA currently projects that its Vision for Space Exploration program will reach the Moon by 2018.
• USAF strategic bomber project to likely replace B-52 and even B-1 has been mandated to enter service sometime this year.
• Aurora Programme aerocapture and soft landing technology demonstrator for Mars.
• Super Bowl LII
• The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.

In Fiction

• In Futurama, this is the year that "Project Satan" would be completed.

References

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