2044

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

Contents

Predicted events

Anniversaries

Fictional events

Predicted events

★ 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.

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

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

Anniversaries

★ May 19 - 50th anniversary of the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

★ June 6 — 100th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy

★ July 20 — 75th anniversary of the first moon landing

★ June - 200 years of the death of Joseph Smith, first prophet of God in this dispensation.

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.