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2013 (MMXIII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2013th year of the Common Era, or of the Anno Domini designation; the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 4th of the 2010s decade. Predicted and scheduled events January 1 – Marseille in France and Košice in Slovakia become European Capitals of Culture. January 1 – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to establish and introduce monetary union. January 1 – Start of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. May 10 – Annular solar eclipse in the South Pacific, visible in Australia. August – The BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury. September 7 – Election of the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Buenos Aires November 3 – Hybrid (total/annular) solar eclipse. Unknown dates The space program of the People's Republic of China will attempt its first unmanned Moon landing.1 NASA's Venus In-Situ Explorer mission to Venus (part of the New Frontiers program). NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) is set to launch. The first products using memristor technology are expected to become available.2 The new fuel efficient, Airbus A350-900 is scheduled to enter airline service in the summer.3 Major religious holidays January 7 – Christmas – Eastern Orthodox Churches February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places). March 20 – Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara. March 31 – Easter (Western Christianity) May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day. May 5 – Easter (Eastern Christianity) June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha. August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day. September 22 – Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon. November 1 – Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year. November 3 – Diwali November 28 – Chanukah December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule. December 25 – Christmas In fiction and popular culture Comic books X-Men: The X-Men try to overthrow the dystopian rule of the robot Sentinels in the Days of Future Past storyline (1980). In the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes (Number 6, July 2005, DC Comics), Cosmic Boy avers that the Bar Code on the cover of comic books is "destined to become outlawed in the Design Aesthetic Wars of 2013." Computer and video games Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999), Game is possibly set in this year. Shattered Union (2005): The District of Columbia is destroyed this year by a low-yield nuclear weapon. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (2006) Gyakuten Saiban 3 (2007), Flashbacks to this year occur. Film Escape From LA (1996) The Postman (1997) A Scanner Darkly (2006) Television In the BBC mockumentary Time Trumpet, British retail chain, Tesco launches an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year. The last few minutes of the Season 4 finale and Season 5 of Desperate Housewives is set in this year. BBC Drama Spooks: Code 9 is set in this year. The Simpsons episode, Future-Drama, is set in this year since it aired in 2005 as the Simpsons siblings, Bart and Lisa, are shown where they will be 8 years into the future. Smallville's season 9 finale, Salvation depicted a vision of this year. Mathematical interest The date will comprise four distinct digits, for the first time since 1987. References ^ Xin Dingding. "China's moon goal right on schedule". China Daily Clips. http://www.cdeclips.com/en/nation/fullstory.html?id=52639.  ^ Katherine Bourzac. "Memristor Memory Readied for Production". Technology Review. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25018/?a=f.  ^ "Airbus: A350 will be on time". seattlepi. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/aerospace/archives/140543.asp.