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2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

[edit] Predicted and scheduled events

• January 20 - Inauguration of the President of the United States.
• March 31 - The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility is scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.^[1]
• May 9 - Elections will take place in British Columbia, Canada.^[2]
• July 1 - The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by Universal suffrage take office.
• 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.^[3]

[edit] Unknown dates

• Sealed government documents surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination to be released.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• In Copenhagen (Denmark), the City Circle Line extension of the metro will open.^[6]
• South Korea states that it will attempt a space mission by this year.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• Gazprom hopes that its market capitalization will reach one trillion dollars.^[9]
• The European Extremely Large Telescope is scheduled to be completed.
• O. J. Simpson may be eligible for parole from the Nevada correctional system.

[edit] 2017 in fiction

[edit] Computer and video games

• The 2005 Video game Neo Geo Battle Coliseum is set during this year.
• The Xbox 360 game Earth Defense Force 2017 is set during this year amid an alien invasion.

[edit] Film

• The 1987 Sci-fi film Cherry 2000 is set in 2017.
• The events beginning The Running Man occur in 2017.
• The 1996 Sci-fi film Barb Wire starring Pamela Anderson takes place in 2017.
• 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 upcoming vampire film Daybreakers takes place in 2017.

[edit] Music

• The Billy Joel song, Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) is set in this year.
• The Sheryl Crow song "Gasoline" from her album Detours tells of a gas shortage in the year 2017.

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