2017
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| Gregorian calendar | 2017 MMXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2770 |
| Armenian calendar | 1466 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 173 – 174 |
| Berber calendar | 2967 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2561 |
| Burmese calendar | 1379 |
| Chinese calendar | 4653/4713-12-4 (丙申年十二月初四日) — to — 4654/4714-11-14(丁酉年十一月十四日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1733 – 1734 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2009 – 2010 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5777 – 5778 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2072 – 2073 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1939 – 1940 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5118 – 5119 |
| Holocene calendar | 12017 |
| Iranian calendar | 1395 – 1396 |
| Islamic calendar | 1438 – 1439 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 29 (平成29年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2677 (皇紀2677年) |
| Julian calendar | 2062 |
| Korean calendar | 4350 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2560 |
2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Predicted and scheduled events
- January 20 — The individual elected in the 2016 US Presidential Election will be inaugurated as President of the United States
- March 31 — The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility is scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.[1]
- 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.[2][3]
- December 7 — Projected release of murderess Stella Nickell.[4]
- — Projected release of murderess Carolyn Warmus.[5]
[edit] Unknown dates
- Sealed government documents surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination to be released.[6]
- 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.[7]
- In Copenhagen (Denmark), the City Circle Line extension of the metro will open.[8]
- South Korea states that it will attempt a space mission by this year.[9]
- 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.
[edit] Notes and References
- ^ ReviewJournal.com Article on the Yucca Mountain Project
- ^ Hermit.org Solar Eclipse Information
- ^ Wikipedia Article on the Solar Eclipse of August 21 2017
- ^ BOP.gov: Stella Nickell
- ^ "The "Fatal Attraction" Murder Case, Chapter 16". The Crime Library
- ^ CommonDreams.Org Article Regarding the release of the JFK documents
- ^ FoxNews.com Article on China sending probes to the Moon
- ^ The City Ring Official Website
- ^ South Korea reaches for space in 2017
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