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2013

2013 (MMXIII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5773/5774 in the Hebrew Calendar.

2013 - Predicted Events

2013 - January

• January 20 - The President of the United States of America (elected November 6, 2012) will be inaugurated.

2013 - May

• 10th - Annular solar eclipse

2013 - June

• The Tour de France will be competed for the 100th time. Despite the first running being in 1903, a total of ten races were cancelled during World Wars I and II, so when the race celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2003, it was actually only the 90th time it had taken place.

2013 - November

• 3rd - Hybrid solar eclipse

2013 - As Of Yet Unknown

• The Kyushu Shinkansen high speed rail line in Japan is scheduled to be completed, linking Kagoshima, Nagasaki, and Fukuoka.
• The United States Navy is scheduled to commission CVN-78, the first ship in a new class of supercarriers.
• Identity cards are set to be compulsory in the United Kingdom if the government ambitions of 2005 are adopted.
• Al Michaels' contract with ESPN expires.
• The James Webb Space Telescope is due for launch June 2013 at the earliest.

2013 - 2013 in fiction

• The Simpsons episode "Future-Drama" takes place in 2013, in which the United States is in the midst of Gulf War V.
• In the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes ( Number 6, July 2005, DC Comics) Cosmic Boy says that the Bar Code on the cover of comic books is "destined to become outlawed in the Design Aesthetic Wars of 2013."
• The events of the 1996 John Carpenter film Escape From L.A. commence, with the stealing of the president's Doomsday Device by his daughter, Utopia, and her fleeing to the L.A. area.

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