2007
Appearance
2007 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Predicted Events
- January 1 - Target date for the admission of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union.
- March 1 - USS Baltimore to be deactivated.
- March 19 - Partial solar eclipse
- June - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Venus on the way to Mercury orbit.
- July 4 - If still in use with the 50-star design, the current Flag of the United States will have been unchanged (i.e., same number of stars) for the longest time since its adoption in 1775.
- July 12 - Likely opening date of Robert Heinlein's The Puppet Masters
- September 11 - Partial solar eclipse
Unknown Dates
- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)[1] 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
- 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.
- Pan-American Games will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Presidential Election in Argentina.
- Winter Universiade will be in Turin, Italy
- Summer Universiade will be in Bangkok, Thailand
- 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.