Predicted and scheduled events

* January 1 – Books, films, and other works published in 1933 will enter the

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in the United States, one prominent example being the original '' King Kong''. * January 14 – A

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is predicted. * January 20 – The president-elect of the 2028

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will be inaugurated. * April 13 – The asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass from the surface of

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. * May – The 2029 Eurovision song contest is scheduled; the location is typically determined by the previous year's winner. * June 26 – Total lunar eclipse. With an umbral eclipse magnitude of 1.84362, it will be the largest total lunar eclipse of the

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. * December 20 – The December 2029 lunar eclipse, the second of two Metonic twin eclipses, will occur. The first of the twin eclipse pair happened from December 21 to 22 in 2010.

Date unknown

* The Giant Magellan Telescope, which is currently under construction, is scheduled for completion. * The digital time capsule " A Message from Earth" will reach its destination on the planet '' Gliese 581 c''. *

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's Huge Moon Rover from

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will launch astronauts to the Moon. *

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's ''

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'' spacecraft is expected to leave the

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. * The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) estimates to end the Rail-2-Sea project by this year. *

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expects to have entered the

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by this year.

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