2019

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2019 (MMXIX) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

January

• January 1 - Assuming that the copyright laws are not changed further, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the US, the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

April

• April - Professional baseball celebrates its 150th anniversary.
• April 20 - Twentieth anniversary of the Columbine shootings.

May

• May 2 - Election for Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly.

November

• November 11 - Transit of Mercury

December

• Orion 13 - First NASA human landing on the Moon since Apollo 17
• December 26 - A Solar Eclipse is expected to happen and be visible in South Asia.

Unknown dates

• The earliest date John Walker Lindh will be released from prison, assuming good behavior.
• The following former Major League Baseball players will become eligible for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, having fallen off the ballot of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), twenty years having passed from their retirement dates, and based upon voting by the Veterans Committee: Joe Carter, Dennis Martínez, Dave Stieb, Jim Eisenreich, Jimmy Key, Doug Drabek, Kevin Mitchell, Juan Samuel, Cecil Fielder, Randy Myers, Terry Pendleton, Danny Darwin, Bob Tewksbury.
• Eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
  • Oasis, Weezer, blink-182
• After the 2018-19 NHL Stanley Cup Champion is decided, another band on the trophy will be retired because there will be no more room.

2019 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Games set in 2019:
  • Blade Runner (1998)
  • The House of the Dead III (2002)
  • Out Run 2019 (1993)
  • TimeSplitters 2 (2002) (the "Neotokyo" level)

Film

• Films set in 2019:
  • 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
  • Akira (1988)
  • Blade Runner (1982), in November
  • Soylent Green (1973)
  • The Island (2005), on 19 July until 23 July

Television series

• Television series set in 2019:
  • Dark Angel (2000-2002)
• Futurama ("The Honking," 2000): An automotive research lab creates Project Satan from the most evil parts of the most evil cars of all-time. Project Satan's first victim was the great robot actor Calculon (back when he was a robot arm), which got infected with a computer virus that turned him into a murderous automobile similar to a werewolf.

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