2010
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2010 (MMX) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 1 - Czech Republic and Hungary are set to adopt the Euro.
- January 10 - Deadline for the America's Space Prize for private manned orbital spaceflight.
- January 12 - The Canadian Navy celebrates 100 years of service.
- January 15 - Annular solar eclipse (The longest lasting annular eclipse of the 21st century.)
February
- February 12 to February 28 - 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to be in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
- February 7 - Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, Florida
March
- March 12 to March 21 - 2010 Winter Paralympics scheduled in Whistler, Canada.
April
- April - New Minnesota Twins Ballpark set to open.
- April 1 - U.S. Census
- April 3 to April 5 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- April 9 - It is projected that on this day the world population will reach 7 billion.
May
- Designated date of Philippine National Elections
- May 1 to October 30 - 2010 World's Fair in Shanghai.
- May 25 - 200th anniversary of Argentina's May Revolution/National Day
- May 30 - Important day in South African History, Birth date of W. Jonker
June
- June 3 - This is the latest date the next UK general election can be held.
- June 6 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter 28' south. First conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Uranus.
- June 23 - Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the 13-million member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, celebrates his 100th birthday.
- June 30 - Philippine President Gloria Arroyo will end her 6-year term and complete her 9-year term due to her installment on January 20, 2001
- Date Unknown - Start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
July
- July 11 - Total solar eclipse (visible only in the South Pacific (esp. Easter Island) and southern South America).
- Date Unknown - Final Match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup scheduled to play at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg.
August
September
- September 16 - 200th anniversary of Mexico's independence.
- September 18 - 200th anniversary of Chile's independence.
- September 19 - Sweden general election, 2010: Sweden holds elections for the Riksdag.
- September 22 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter 53' south. Second conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Uranus.
October
- October 3-14 - The 2010 Commonwealth Games will be held in Delhi, India.
- All-Russia population census is scheduled.
November
- November 2 - Elections for the United States Congress
- November 12 to November 27 - 16th Asian Games, Guangzhou, China
- November 20 - 100th aniversary of Mexican Revolution.
- The Canadian Football League's (CFL) Grey Cup Championship Trophy will have to add another layer on to its foundation as it will run out of space after this season.
December
- December 21- Total lunar eclipse
- December 28- New U.S. Army Assault Rifle is Introduced.
Unknown dates
- NASA's Dawn space probe scheduled to arrive at Vesta, the second largest asteroid in the asteroid belt
- Sometime in April (unknown) - The International Space Station construction is expected to be completed.
- Sometime during Philippine summer ( April-June ), National Elections.
- Summer July BSA National Jamboree, Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia - Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the BSA.
- The Space Shuttle will retire.
- The first phase of the extension to the East London Line of the London Underground is scheduled for completion.
- General Motors is confident that it can produce a commercially viable model of its concept car, the Hy-wire, by this year.
- FIFA World Cup 2010 scheduled to be held in South Africa.
- A new bridge of the Robert Moses Causeway is set to be constructed next to the decomposing Fire Island Inlet span in Long Island, NY.
- Some say that Peak Oil will occur.
- The Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District in Los Angeles, California is expected to be entirely completed.
- June is the latest possible month for the next United Kingdom general election
- The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is due to begin replacing the A-10 Warthog and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
- The Airbus A350 is planned to start service.
- Figman, a satiric documentary film about figs by Dream Works, will be released.
- A new casino/hotel called Echelon Place in Las Vegas, Nevada is scheduled to open.
- The Cityrail Rail Clearways project is expected to be completed.
- Israel by this year will have completed its Security Barrier and will use it as the basis for the definitive border between Israel and Palestine, according to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, as reported 03/10/2006 by the Wall Street Journal and many other newspapers and other news media. All Israeli settlements not protected by the barrier will have been evacuated.
The UK's analog TV Signal will be swithed off in this year in favour of digital TV
Pronunciation of 2010–onward
- —See also, Year pronunciation
A perhaps minute dilemma that will occur on 1 January 2010, will be the decision as to what method of pronunciation will be generally used across the English-speaking world to refer to the year "2010" and the remaining years of the 21st century. Some, feeling comfortable with the current methods of 21st century year pronunciation, will prefer to pronounce the term as "two thousand (and) ten". Others are likely to revert to the pre–2000 method of "two–part interval" pronunciation (i.e. "19–90, nineteen-ninety" for 1990), and will pronounce 2010 as "20–10, twenty–ten". Many broadcasting companies, such as the BBC, have already converted to the "two–part interval" method. In the UK, the future 2012 Olympics, to be held in London, are referred to as the "Twenty-Twelve Olympics". It is likely the "two– part interval" method will prevail by the early part of the next decade.
Those opposed to the "two–part interval" method of pronunciation for the 21st century argue that specific years such as 2022 (twenty twenty–two) would be difficult to utter in dialogue. However, 1922, as "nineteen twenty–two", for example, has the exact cadence as "twenty twenty–two'.
Fiction
- An episode of Stargate SG-1, entitled "2010", takes place in this year. Provided the later episode "2001" did not in-fact preclude its existence.
- The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Wedding" takes place in 2010.
- Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), like the film, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), is set in 2010. The Odyssey 2 film's depiction of a USSR and USA still fighting the Cold War is now considerably out of date. The novel version, unlike the movie, offers a view of USA-USSR harmony and co-operation. However, it also shows Andrei Sakharov as leader of the USSR, which now can never be a reality.
- The computer game Uplink takes place in this year.
- The events of Knight Rider 2010 take place.
- War breaks out between Yuktobania and Osea in September 2010 in the video game Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, ending on New Year's Eve.
- In the television show Macross, the Earth is decimated in 2010 by the Zentradi in a final attack that also ends in the defeat of the Zentradi fleet.
- The third season of Transformers G1 takes place in 2010.
- In the 1990s sit-com Roseanne, a future scene takes place in an episode in 2010 with Jackie reading a newspaper with the headline Chicago Cubs will win the World Series in this year and they say that DJ is promoted.