2015 - Definition and Overview

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

Events

• March 20 - Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).
• September 13 - Partial solar eclipse
• July - assuming a successful launch in January 2006, NASA's New Horizons space probe is scheduled to perform a fly-by of the planet Pluto this month. After its brief visit here the probe is expected to continue into the Kuiper Belt.

Unknown Dates

• 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.

Fictional References to the Year

• In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel 30 years into the future from 1985 to 2015. According to the movie, the Chicago Cubs win the World Series against the fictional Miami Gators.

• In the year 2015 Lt. Newb, a member of the Starmen.Net Spy Corps, begins his first mission to rescue fellow members of the Spy Corps - From 2015: A Starmen.Net Story

• Neon Genesis Evangelion begins in this year.

• The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Past Tense" establishes that by 2015, London (UK) has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.