2061

2061
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Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades:	2030s 2040s 2050s - 2060s - 2070s 2080s 2090s
Years:	2060 2061 2062 2063 2064 2065 2066 2067 2068 2069

Notable predictions and known events

Expected expiration of the Singapore-Malaysia Water Agreement.
July 28 - Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun — the last return reached its perihelion on February 6, 1986.

November 11 - Transit of Mercury
November 22 - 12:45 UTC — Venus will occult Jupiter. This event will be the first occultation of a planet by another since January 3, 1818. It will be very difficult to observe from Earth, because the elongation of Venus and Jupiter from the Sun on November 22, 2065 will be only 7 degrees.

February 15 - Barring any further extensions to the term of copyright in the United States, sound recordings created prior to February 15, 1972 will enter the public domain in that country.
July 15 - 11:56 UTC — Mercury will occult Neptune. This rare event will be very difficult to observe from Earth.
October - A METI message Cosmic Call 1 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, HD 178428 star.

November - A METI message Cosmic Call 1 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, 16 Cyg A star.

Isaac Newton predicted that the world, according to his interpretation of the Bible, would end no sooner than 2060.¹²

In The Planet of Doubt, the Young expedition explores Uranus.
September 14 - The United Nations Starship Unity launches from the remnants of Earth to the Alpha Centauri System and the planet Chiron. (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)
BE, a concept album by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation, tells that in this year the human population will be reduced to only 1.2 million.

Fireball XL5 takes place in 2062.
The Red Star is banned together under the Solar Federation in Rush's song, "2112".

In Star Trek chronology, Zefram Cochrane makes Earth's first warp-speed flight on Thursday, April 5, 2063. That night, Vulcan scientists, having discovered the warp signature from Cochrane's ship, make first contact with Earth.
In Space: Above and Beyond chronology, interstellar Chig war begins following the destruction of the Earth Vesta and Tellus colonies in 2063.
In the Futurama episode Crimes of the Hot, scientists dropped a massive block of ice in the ocean to combat global warming every now and then until 3002 when Earth was moved away from the sun.
At the end of Jackass The Movie Rip Taylor suggests they make a sequel entitled "Son of Jackass". As a joke, the movie ends with a trailer for "Son of Jackass" to be released Summer, 2063.

In Nebulous, Professor Nebulous accidentally destroyed the Isle of Wight on Janril 57, 2069, when he tried to move 10 kilometers to the left in order to give it more sun.
Rap group the 69 Boyz named their third album, released in 2000, 2069.