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2011

2011 (MMXI) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to 5771/5772 in the Hebrew Calendar.

2011 - Predicted events

• January 2 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter 34' south. Third conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Uranus.
• January 3 - The 112th session of the United States Congress will convene on or around this date.
• January 4 - Partial solar eclipse
• March - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is scheduled to arrive in orbit around Mercury.
• April 2 to April 4 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
• April 24 - Easter has not been as late as this since 1943.
• May 5 - election to Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly.
• June 1 - Partial solar eclipse
• July 1 - Partial solar eclipse
• July - the International Olympic Committee is set to meet and decide the location of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
• November 25 - Partial solar eclipse

• The Asian Winter Games will be held in Beirut, Lebanon.
• The Egyptian Presidential Elections of 2011
• The United Kingdom plans to continue 5-year process to cease analog television broadcasts region-by-region, with Meridian, ITV London, Tyne Tees and UTV.
• Dublin Institute of Technology will complete its move to Grangegorman
• The DSM-V is tentatively scheduled to be published
• Statistics Canada's decennial census
• Microsoft Windows Blackcomb is scheduled for release.
• Rugby world cup in New Zealand
• When George Lucas originally planned a third trilogy to his Star Wars saga, he told Mark Hamill that the third trilogy would be released in this year. Whether he still plans to release a third trilogy at all is the subject of many rumors and debates.

Categories: Future events | 2010s | Years in the future

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "2011", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011, used and available under the GNU Free Documentation License.