Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

A greenfield, $940M airport built ahead of Russia's 2018 World Cup opens outside Rostov-on-Don, engineered to be able to double its capacity later.

Wit Studio releases the three-part Attack on Titan: Lost Girls OVA, adapting Hiroshi Seko's spin-off novel with two stories centering on Annie Leonhart's secret mission and Mikasa Ackerman's fractured memories.

Rheinmetall handed over the first of two Survivor R armoured special-operations vehicles to Saxony's police in Leipzig, part of a wider German anti-terror equipment package. The 340-horsepower armoured vehicle carries up to eleven people, reaching 100 km/h and climbing 60 percent grades.

Hamburg Port Authority put the new Rethebrücke rail bascule bridge into operation over the Rethe canal, replacing the original 1934 lift bridge and becoming Europe's largest rail bascule bridge.

On the earnings call, chief executive James Park said that Fitbit’s new smartwatch will have health and fitness tracking features, will have GPS, will be be water resistant up to 50 meters, and will offer cross-platform compatibility as well as “multi-day battery life.”

Tokyo's Shinjuku Station, used by roughly 3.6 million passengers a day, holds the Guinness World Record for the busiest railway station on Earth.

Science SARU's Masaaki Yuasa reworks Go Nagai's 1972 manga for its creator's 50th anniversary, following teenager Akira Fudou as he merges with a demon to fight back against an ancient race reclaiming the world from humanity, gaining monstrous power while trying to hold onto his own humanity. The ten-episode Netflix series became one of the most acclaimed original anime of 2018, praised for pairing Yuasa's fluid, unconventional animation with the story's escalating violence and tragedy.

Salesforce's first employees moved into San Francisco's new 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower, the anchor of the Transbay district and the city's tallest skyscraper.

Bandai Namco Pictures brings Gintama's TV anime to a close with the Silver Soul Arc, following Gintoki and old allies as they unite against Utsuro's plan to destroy the Amanto-occupied Earth.

Kyoto Animation's Violet Evergarden begins airing, following a former child soldier who becomes a letter-writing "Auto Memory Doll" to understand the meaning of the last words her commanding officer told her.

TRIGGER and CloverWorks' Darling in the FranXX begins broadcast, an original mecha series set in a walled city where teenage pilots pair up to fight giant creatures called klaxosaurs in mechs called FranXX.

German Dry Docks in Bremerhaven cut the 2001-built ro-pax ferry Peter Pan in two and inserted a prefabricated 30-meter midship section, stretching her from 190 to 220 meters for TT-Line.

The US opened its $1BN embassy in London's Nine Elms, a 12-storey glass-cube fortress replacing the historic Grosvenor Square site the US had occupied since 1785.

Sparkly Key Animation begins streaming Soul Land (Douluo Dalu), a Chinese donghua adapting Tang Jia San Shao's novel about a reincarnated hidden-weapons master who rises through the ranks of spirit masters in a new world.

René Redzepi shut the original Noma after 31 December 2016 to rebuild it as an urban farm near Copenhagen. It reopened on 15 February 2018 after a year off, still built on foraging and New Nordic cooking.

TROYCA streams IDOLiSH7 Vibrato, a YouTube-exclusive spin-off of the IDOLiSH7 idol-management TV series and video game.

All-new 4K graphics, Re-orchestrated soundtrack, New zoom levels, Attack Move, Unit queuing, 250-300 population cap, Rally Points Basic, Rally Points Contextual (Intelligent Villagers), Grid default key layout, Select Idle Military, Select Idle Villagers, Right-click mouse scroll

P.A. Works' Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms opens in Japanese theaters, an original fantasy and the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Mari Okada, following the immortal Iorph girl Maquia as she raises an orphaned human boy across the decades.

The Air Force announced a deal to purchase two new aircraft from Boeing in 2017 that will serve as the future Air Force One under the next several presidents. The planes, two 747-8 jets, will begin transitioning to the Air Force One configuration in 2019, with initial operational capacity slated for 2024.

Nur-E Gulshan Rahman and her daughter Nur-E Farhana Rahman open a small Bangladeshi restaurant in Jersey City, starting out as a daily home-cooking buffet.

The chain told its staff it would wind down or sell all 735 of its US stores, ending a company that had defined the category-killer format for forty years. A leveraged buyout in 2005 left it carrying about $5bn of debt it never worked off.

Alton Towers debuted Wicker Man on 20 March 2018, the UK's first new wooden roller coaster in 22 years, built from about 7,500 tonnes of sustainably sourced Pennsylvania timber.

TMS Entertainment releases ReLIFE: Final Arc, a four-episode OVA closing out the ReLIFE story as test subjects Arata Kaizaki and Chizuru Hishiro's memory-erasing experiments reach their conclusion.

Symphony of the Seas, then the world's largest cruise ship, was officially delivered to Royal Caribbean International at the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.