2017
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{{Different calendars | gregorian=2017 | auc=2770 | chinese=4713–4714 | japanese=unknown | hebrew=5777–5778 | shaka=1939–1940 | vikram=2072–2073 | hindu=5118–5119 | iranian=1395–1396 | islamic=1438–1439 | runic=2267 }} 2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
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Predicted events
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February
- Early -February - 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl to be observed (Super Bowl LI)
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August
- August 21 - From 16:50 to 20:02 UTC, the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental US since February 26, 1979 takes place. Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and will last at most 2 minutes 40.2 seconds. The location and time of "greatest eclipse" will be on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky at 36.9715 degrees North and 87.6559 degrees West occurring at 18:25.4716 UTC.
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December
- December 6 - 100th anniversary of Finland's independence.
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Unknown dates
- Sealed government documents surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination to be released.
- The government of China has announced it will start sending probes to the Moon in 2017, resulting in a manned Chinese landing on the moon in a few years.
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Fictional events
- Billy Joel's "Miami 2017/Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway" song takes place in 2017.
- An ecological disaster will have driven mankind underground, per the "L.A. 2017" episode of the television series The Name of The Game, directed by Steven Spielberg.
- The present time of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode SB-129 is 2017; because of this, it sets the time-scale of the entire series