2037

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2037 (MMXXXVII) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

• MySQL TIMESTAMP will overflow in 2037 according to MySQL documentation. However, some predict it will happen in 2038.
• Certain documents relating to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's wishes to preserve a monarchy if the Nazis occupied the UK are to be released from the Royal Archives.
• Casablanca will enter the public domain.
• Information regarding President John F. Kennedy's assassination is scheduled to be released.
• NASA plans a manned trip to Mars in 2037 (News reports, September 25, 2007).
• According to estimates released in October 2007, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) space telescope, decommissioned that month, is expected to continue orbiting the earth until it burns up in the atmosphere approximately 30 years after its decommissioning. [1]
• January 31 — Near-Earth object 2002 OD20 will make a close approach to Earth.
• March 1 — (or January 3 in North American date format) The date will be 1/3/37. This is likely to become an Internet phenomenon, as this date represents numerically the sociolect variety known as Leet.
• June 29 — Near-Earth object 2002 LT38 will make close approach to Earth.

Anniversaries

• 100th anniversary of the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit
• 100th anniversary of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, arguably the first digital computer
• 100th anniversary of Walt Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• 100th anniversary of the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. July 2
• 100th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge (May 27).
• January 26 — Michigan celebrates its bicentennial.
• 17 September — 250th anniversary of the completion of the U.S. Constitution
• 200th anniversary of the founding of Tiffany & Co.
• 50th official anniversary of The Simpsons

Fictional events

Computer video games

• X-Squad (2000): Set in 2037.
• The 1998 computer game SiN is set in 2037.

Film and Television

• The Dexter's Laboratory movie Ego Trip has some scenes that take place in 2037.
• In the 2002 movie The Time Machine, demolitions on the moon cause the moon to break up and the earths orbit is affected, causing mass extermination of the human race.
• The Disney Channel Original Movie and the book, takes place in the year 2037.
• The majority of the Disney animated film Meet the Robinsons (2007) takes place in the year 2037.
• In the film V for Vendetta, V destroys the Old Bailey with homemade explosives on November 5 of this year.
• In the Star Trek universe, the third manned space mission to travel outside of the confines of the Terran solar system, the Charybdis, takes place this year

Literature

• Science fiction novel Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter has some of its lead characters from the year 2037.bat-smg:2037

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