2019

Predicted events

January

• January 1 - Assuming that the copyright laws are not changed further, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the U.S., the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

May

• May 2 - Election for Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly.
• May 11 - John Walker Lindh will be released from prison, assuming good behavior and survival.

December

• December 26 - A Solar Eclipse is expected to happen and be visible in South Asia.

Undated

• The papers providing reason or reasons for the deportation of Gerald Haxton from Britain as an undesirable alien will be open to public view.
• Orion 15 will be the first lunar manned mission since Apollo 17 landing in 1972.
• Super computers are projected to reach 1 Exaflop.
• Completion of the North-south line of the Hong KongMTR.

Sporting events

• The 2019 Rugby Union World Cup is set to take place; it will be the 9th tournament.
• The 2019 Cricket World Cup is set to be held in England, it will be the 12th tournament.

2019 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Blade Runner (1998)
• The House of the Dead III (2002)
• Out Run 2019 (1993)
• TimeSplitters 2 (2002) (the "Neotokyo" level)
• Metal Gear Acid 2 (2006)
• Crysis (2007)

Film

• The New Barbarians aka. Warriors of the Wasteland (1982)
• 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
• Akira (1988)
• Blade Runner (1982), in November
• The Island (2005), on 19 July until 23 July
• The Running Man is set in 2019

Television series

• Dark Angel (2000–2002): The main events of the series begin.
• Futurama ("The Honking," 2000): An automotive research lab creates Project Satan from the most evil parts of the most evil cars of all-time. Project Satan's first victim was the great robot actor Calculon (back when he was a robot arm), which got infected with a computer virus that turned him into a murderous automobile similar to a werewolf.

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