2050

2050 will be a common year starting on Saturday.

The year 2050 (MML) in the Gregorian calendar corresponds to 5810-5811 in the Hebrew calendar.

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Centennials

October 2, 2050, will mark 100 years since the first appearance of the classic comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz.

September 9, 2050 will mark the bicentennial of the State of California.

U.S. Air Force expects to retire the B-52 Stratofortress.
Projected population of the world: 9.084 billion (Source: US Census Bureau)
U.S. Census Bureau predicts population percentage in the U.S. to be 50.1% non-Hispanic whites, 24.4% Hispanic of various racial groups, 14.6% of black origin, 8.0% Asian origin. The figures ignore mixed racial and cultural origin. Currently those who list mixed origins are counted twice for the purposes of statistics.
Louisiana, which lost 1900 square miles of land between 1932 and 2000, is expected to lose an additional 700 square miles by 2050, unless effective measures are taken to prevent further erosion (see Chicago Tribune, December 15, 2005, front page).
The total lunar eclipse at 3:20 UTC on October 30 has the potential to be the first one to take place during a Major League Baseball postseason game since the Series of 2004. This is the first one which will occur on an October evening in the United States. Source: [NASA]
The Amazon Rainforest will have been completely gone by this time, if deforestation occurs at the same rate it does now.

The computer game Civilization ends at this year.
According to the novel 1984, the language "Newspeak" becomes the official language of Oceania.
According to the Fairly OddParents, Timmy's dad will "expire" in January of this year.
According to Norman Spinrad's short story The Weed of Time, the first manned mission to Tau Ceti returns to Earth on September 8, bearing with it the timesense-expanding plant tempis ceti.

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