2007

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2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

January-June

• January 1 - Romania and Bulgaria will join, and Irish will become an official language of the European Union.
• January 1 - Change of ISBN numbering system to 13 digit code.
• February 4 - Super Bowl XLI to be held in Miami, Florida.
• March - Predicted Launch of the first commercially avaliable Flexible display screens, by electronics company Philips.
• March 1 - USS Baltimore to be deactivated.
• March 3 - Total lunar eclipse
• March 19 - Partial solar eclipse
• March 20 - The Elton John album Captain Fantastic and the Kid will be released. [1]
• March 31 to April 2 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.
• May 3 - Scottish parliamentary election, 2007 and the Welsh Assembly Election 2007
• May 4 - Spider-Man 3 will be released.
• Jacques Chirac's term as President of France will end.
• Unknown date - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Venus on the way to Mercury orbit.
• Expected release date of the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

July-December

• July 13 to July 29 - The XV Pan-American Games will be held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• July 27 to August 8 - The 21st World Scout Jamboree will take place at Chelmsford Hylands Park in Essex.
• July - the U.S. President's Trade Promotion Authority is set to expire.
• August 8 - August 18 - Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand
• September 11 - Partial solar eclipse
• October - the ten countries who joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 will join the Schengen treaty.
• October 21 - Parliamentary election in the Canadian province of Ontario

Unknown/undecided dates

• Release of the fourth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie
• The CERN Large Hadron Collider in Europe (LHC)[2] is scheduled to be switched on.
• Uranus' orbit positions it so that the Sun shines directly from above on a spot located at its equator
• The Mark III Ford Mondeo will be launched.
• Scheduled completion of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (UK).
• Pervez Musharraf's term as President of Pakistan legally ends.
• The 6th European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) will be held in Basel, Switzerland.
• Presidential Election in Argentina.
• Presidential Election in France.
• Winter Universiade will be in Turin, Italy
• The FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 will be held in China.
• Schönefeld International Airport in Berlin will be renamed Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, and Tegel International Airport will close.
• Scheduled completion of Union Square Phase 7 in Hong Kong and Shanghai World Financial Center in Shanghai.
• 400th anniversary of the landing at Jamestown, Virginia, US, will be celebrated, with an anticipated visit from the Queen of the United Kingdom.
• The First Freedom Center will open in Richmond, Virginia, US.
• US Interstate 99 will be extended from its current terminus in Bald Eagle, PA to Interstate 80 outside Bellefonte, PA.
• The Hubble Space Telescope's batteries are set to run out of power, if action is not taken by NASA.
• The deadline for bids to host the 2016 Summer Olympics will probably be this year.
• The 2014 Winter Olympics host city will be announced in Guatemala.
• A federal election in Australia will be held.
• First Type 45 Destroyer, "HMS Daring", enters service with the British Royal Navy.
• Jack Kevorkian is eligible for parole.
• Charles Manson is eligible for parole.
• Slovakia is expected to enter the phase three of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and introduce the Euro as de facto currency, substituting the Slovakian Koruny (SKK).
• The comic strip For Better or For Worse will end after a 28-year run.
• A Futurama movie is slated to be released to DVD sometime this year

Fictional Events

• The plot of Robert Heinlein's The Puppet Masters likely begins on July 12 of this year.
• The "Tanker Chapter" of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty takes place on or after August 8 of this year.