2044 Totally Explained

Everything about 2044 totally explained

2044 (MMXLIV) will be a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

May — A METI message Cosmic Call 2 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, 55 Cancri star.
May 18 — Near-Earth object 2002 QF15 will make a close approach to Earth.
May 19 — The Kennedy Library will release to the public a 500-page transcript of an oral history about John F. Kennedy given by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (if her last child has died).

August 23 — Total solar eclipse from Montana to North Dakota.

September — A METI message Cosmic Call 2 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, HD 10307 star.

October 1 — Occultation of Regulus by Venus. The last was on July 7, 1959. After 2044 the next occultation of Regulus by Venus will occur on October 21, 3187, although some sources claim it'll occur on October 6, 2271.

November 8 — United States: 65th presidential election and 129th congressional elections

Assuming no further changes to the United States copyright law, George Orwell's canonical novel 1984 enters the public domain.

Fictional events

A devastating nuclear war destroys most of the Northern Hemisphere in John Wyndham's The Outward Urge.

The Robotech Expeditionary Force will defeat the Invid at Reflex Point, marking the end of the Third Robotech War (Robotech animation series).

The events of "A.D. 2044," a 1998 point-and-click adventure game for Windows written by L.K. Avalon and published by Flair Software, take place.

The events of the Polish film Sexmission take place.

David Fisher, a character from HBO's Six Feet Under dies.Further Information

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