2060s

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[edit] Notable predictions and known events

[edit] 2061

• 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.

[edit] 2065

• April 9 - 200th Anniversary of the ending of the American Civil War.
• 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.

[edit] 2067

• 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.

[edit] 2069

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

[edit] Metaphysical speculation

• Isaac Newton predicted that the world, according to his interpretation of the Bible, would end no sooner than 2060.^[1][2]
• The astrologer Dane Rudhyar, who was influential in the New Age movement, predicted in 1972 that the Age of Aquarius would begin in AD 2062. ^[3]

[edit] Fictional references

[edit] 2060

• 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.

[edit] 2061

• May 21 - The Last Question is asked for the first time.
• Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three takes place.
• The television show Real Drive takes place.
• Year of the first Mars revolution and Third World War on Earth, according to the plot of Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Red Mars.
• In "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" episode of "The Twilight Zone", three of the four gold burglars awake from a century of being in a state of suspended animation.

[edit] 2062

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

[edit] 2063

• 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.

[edit] 2064

• Stingray takes place in 2064.
• Fallout's nuclear war takes place

[edit] 2065

• Thunderbirds takes place in 2065.
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within takes place in 2065.

[edit] 2067

• Friendship One launches (Star Trek Voyager)

[edit] 2068

• Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons takes place in 2068.
• Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet takes place in 2068.
• Savage Planet takes place in the year 2068.
• The Titan War of the Cowboy Bebop series takes place in 2068.

[edit] 2069

• In Nebulous, Professor Nebulous accidentally destroyed the Isle of Wight on May 15, 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.
• The Half-life 2 mod Dystopia (video game) takes place in 2069^[4]

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