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2015 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

1 Events 1.1 March 1.2 September 1.3 Predicted Events, Unknown Dates

Events

March

• 20th - Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).

September

• 13th - Partial solar eclipse

Predicted Events, Unknown Dates

• Assuming a successful launch in January 2006, NASA's New Horizons space probe is scheduled to perform a fly-by of the planet Pluto in July of this year. After its brief visit here the probe is expected to continue into the Kuiper Belt.
• One of the Royal Navy's new 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.
• George Jung is scheduled to be released from prison. He will be 73 years old.
• 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.