2044

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Years: 2041 2042 2043 2044 (MMXLIV) 2045 2046 2047

Decades: 2010s 2020s 2030s - 2040s - 2050s 2060s 2070s

Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century

2044 (MMXLIV) is a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to 5804-5805 in the Hebrew calendar.

{{Different calendars | gregorian=2044 | auc=2797 | chinese=4740–4741 | japanese=unknown | hebrew=5804–5805 | shaka=1966–1967 | vikram=2099–2100 | hindu=5145–5146 | iranian=1422–1423 | islamic=1466–1467 | runic=2294 }}

Contents 1 Predicted events 1.1 May 1.2 June 1.3 October 2 Fictional events

Predicted events

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May

• 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).

June

6th June - 100th Aniversary of the D Day Landings in Normandy, France by the Allies {The United Nations}, 6th June 1944.

October

• 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.

Fictional events

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