2001: 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1966 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay, written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, was partially inspired by Clarke's short story The Sentinel. Clarke concurrently wrote the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, published soon after the film was released. (Strawberry)
2002: 2002 is a new age band from Texas. (Big Martin)
2003: The events of 28 Days Later commence in 2003, with the initial uprising of the Rage virus and decimation of Great Britain, and then the sequel 28 Weeks Later is set later on in 2003, with the resurgence of the virus. (Strawberry)
2004: An example of a spontaneously bursting whale carcass occurred in Taiwan in January 2004, when the buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale caused it to burst in a crowded urban area while it was being transported for a post-mortem examination. (bobwilson)
2005: On September 19th 2005, Hurricane Rita was forecast to become a major storm in the Gulf of Mexico. Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an evacuation of New Orleans. (bemahan)
2006: The 2006 Ignobel prize for Peace was awarded to Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers. (bobwilson)
2007: The year 2007 saw the centenary of the Scout Movement. (Big Martin)
2008: 2008 was the International Year of the Potato. (vanjeet)
2009: In 2009 Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th, and first African American, President of the United States. ('yorz)
2010: 2010 (also known as 2010: The Year We Make Contact) is a 1984 American science fiction film written and directed by Peter Hyams. It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two. (bemahan)
2011: 2011 is the 11th studio album by the Smithereens. (Big Martin)
2012: 2012 is an American science fiction disaster film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. (Strawberry)
2013: 2013 was the first year since 1987 that had four different digits. (GuyBarry)
2014: On the 20th of May, 2014, an original Humpty toy used in the BBC children's series Play School sold at auction for £6, 250. (Strawberry)
2015: The 60th Eurovision Song Contest took place in Vienna in May 2015. (Ed.)
2016: Bronx Park Medical Pavilion is located at 2016, Bronxdale Avenue, New York. (Strawberry)
2017: In 2017 London hosted the IAAF and the IPC World Championships. (bemahan)
2018: Studio 2018 is a beauty salon in Atlanta, Georgia. (Strawberry)
2019: The lead bullet ban in California comes from legislation signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, in 2013 that required lead bullets to be phased out of the state by no later than 2019. The bill was signed after environmentalists and animal rights activists convinced state politicians that lead bullets poisoned animals that condors and eagles fed on — causing them to be harmed in turn. (bemahan)
2020: Teenage 20/20 is a song by Manic Street Preachers. It is one of the B-sides to an EP called New Art Riot, which was released on the 22nd of June, 1990. (Strawberry)
2021: The 20-21 Visual Arts Centre is in Scunthorpe. (Big Martin)
2022: The 1973 film Soylent Green was set in 2022. (Strawberry)
2023: Steamboat Willie (the cartoon that marks the debut of Mickey Mouse) will fall out of copyright after the end of 2023, unless there is another extension (see Mickey Mouse Protection Act). (vanjeet)
2024: There are two songs called 2024, one by Arthur Brown and the other by Cage The Elephant. (Strawberry)
2025: The square root of 2025 is 45. (bemahan)
2026: SOS phone 2026A at Junction 9 of the M3 near Winchester on the Southbound side. 2026B is opposite on the Northbound side. (tetsabb)
2027: 2027, Madison Avenue is a 5-storey low-rise building in New York City. (Strawberry)
2028: 2028 is an exclusive jewelry (sic) line created for Macy's. (Big Martin)
2029: The ending of the 1992 film Death Becomes Her was set in 2029. (Strawberry)
2030: In the Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future", first aired in March 2000, a fortune teller gave Bart a glimpse of 2030 - just weeks after Trump vacated the White House. [This post was written in 2015, when Donald Trump had not yet become president in reality! - Ed.] (bemahan)
2031: You can buy Kinco Pro 2031 Fingerless Gloves at a British site called Snowshepherd. (Strawberry)
2032: In the Star Trek universe, the USS Challenger (NCC-2032) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. This starship may have been named after the British corvette HMS Challenger, which became the first ship in 1872 to chart the depths of the Earth's oceans. (bemahan)
2033: 2033 is a Mexican film that premiered on the 24th of September, 2009 at the Fantastik Film Festival Lund, Sweden. It was the directorial debut for Francisco Laresgoiti. (Strawberry)
2034: Metro 2034 is a novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky, a follow up to his novel Metro 2033. (Big Martin)
2035: In Back to the Future Part II, the original timeline of the future said that Marlene McFly would be released from prison in 2035. (Strawberry)
2036,: A 300m-wide asteroid will not hit the Earth in 2036, US astronomers say. It was thought there was a one-in-200,000 chance that it could strike on 13 April 2036, but revised calculations have now ruled this out. ('yorz)
2037: The 2037 Bomber is the unofficial name given to a heavy strategic bomber planned by the United States Air Force, as a replacement for the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit. It has been projected to enter service in 2037 as a stealth supersonic, long-range aircraft with possible capability for unmanned operation. (Strawberry)
2038: The Year 2038 Problem is a potential threat to computing and data storage. (Big Martin)
2039: Batman Beyond (known as Batman of the Future in Europe, Latin America, Australia and India) is an American animated television series. It began airing on the 10th of January, 1999, and ended its run on the 18th of December, 2001. It initially began in 2019 and fast-forwarded to 2039. (Strawberry)
2040: Phantom 2040 is an action adventure video game. (Big Martin)
2041: A 2011 episode of The Simpsons, Holidays of Future Passed, was set in December, 2041. (Strawberry)
2042: The 2042 cafe and deli is in Newtown, Sydney. (Big Martin)
2043: The 1997 film The Postman concluded in 2043. (Strawberry)
2044: The 2044 skid steer loader is available from Mustang. (Big Martin)
2045: The 2045 Initiative is a non-profit organisation that develops a network and community of researchers in the field of life extension. It was founded by Russian entrepreneur Dmitri Itskov in February 2011 with the participation of Russian specialists in the field of neural interfaces, robotics, artificial organs and systems. In the novel 2045: A Story of Our Future, Peter Seidel portrayed what the world could be like in 2045, if current trends in environmental destruction, population growth, and economic equality continue. (Strawberry)
2046: LOCTITE® 2046™ Threadlocker is a room temperature-curing anaerobic adhesive designed to lock and seal threaded fasteners on food and beverage processing equipment, ensuring properly secured hardware and improved equipment reliability. (bemahan)
2047: There are 3 companies that have an address matching P.O. Box 2047, Washington, NC 27889-2047. The companies are Newsouth Bancorp Inc, First South Bank, and First South Investments Inc. (Strawberry)
2048: 2048 is a fascinating and addictive tile-moving game. (GuyBarry)
2049: There won't be a full moon on a Friday the 13th until August 2049. (bemahan)
2050: The Dreadnought 2050 could be the battleship of the future. Locally 3-D printed drones, a 3-D holographic command table, "supercavitating" torpedoes evaporating the water around them, laser weapons and an electro-magnetic railgun are just a few of the features of the battleship of the future, according to a team of young British engineers. ('yorz)
2051: The Martin Yale 2051 Smartfold is a paper folding machine. (Big Martin)
2052: A site called shipofffools.com, includes reviews of church services. The review numbered 2052, is of a service held at Southover Church. Link (Strawberry)
2053: In the Star Trek universe, World War III will end in the year 2053. (AlmondFacialBar)
2054: In the study "Reducing spread in climate model projections of a September ice-free Arctic", dated August 8, 2013, a University at Albany scientist, Professor Jiping Liu, predicts that ccelerated climate warming propelled by greenhouse gas emissions could bring an ice-free September to the Arctic by 2054. (bemahan)
2055: The PLU code for whole nutmeg seeds is 2055. (AlmondFacialBar)
2056: Canadia: 2056 is a Canadian radio comedy series which premiered on CBC Radio One in April 2007. A science fiction comedy written by Matt Watts, the series centres on Max Anderson, the American liaison on board the only Canadian spaceship in an otherwise American space fleet headed towards a galactic war with the planet Ipampilash. (Strawberry)
2057: World of Warcraft contains many achievements – 2,057 to be exact – and one player from Russia has unlocked all of them. Хируко has also earned 205 of the 300 Feats of Strength, he has also leveled up every single class to max level first on his server. (bemahan)
2058: The code number for a Cambridge Islamiyat O Level is 2058. (Strawberry)
2059: The Talen Van Gogh 2.059 is a student grade oil pastel in a light shade of lemon yellow. (AlmondFacialBar)
2060: Isaac Newton predicted that the world, according to his interpretation of the Bible, would end no sooner than 2060. (Strawberry)
2061: 2061: Odyssey Three, is the third book in Arthur C. Clark's Space Odyssey series. (vanjeet)
2062: According to a site that sells UK log cabins, the 2062 is an alpine Style Log Cabin that measures 4m wide x 3m deep. (Strawberry)
2063: The Unicode character U+2063 is an invisible separator. (AlmondFacialBar)
2064: Pill imprint 2064 V3 has been identified as acetaminophen/codeine 300mg/30mg. (Big Martin)
2065: Dublin Bus stop 2065 caters to Ireland's poshest psychiatric hospital. (AlmondFacialBar)
2066: A Milenco Security Hand Rail 2066 is for sale on ebay. (Strawberry)
2067: Planet HD 114613 b is a Jupiter analogue 20.67 ± 0.13 parsecs away from here. (AlmondFacialBar)
2068: 2068M is another SOS phone, this one on the westbound on slip at Junction 27 of the M62 in West Yorkshire, near the village of Gildersome. (tetsabb)
2069: 2069:A Sex Odyssey is a "special interest" film of 1974. (Big Martin)
2070: Wal-Mart Store #2070 is at 3101, A Street, Anchorage, AK 99503. (Strawberry)
2071: 2071 is a piece of theatre about climate change. (Big Martin)
2072: Warriors of the Year 2072 is a 1984 Italian science fiction film directed by Lucio Fulci. (Ed.)
2073: A total solar eclipse will occur on Thursday August 3 2073. (Ed.)
2074: U-2074 is a short 3 min thriller directed and written by Aya Tanimura. (Posital)
2075: Studio 2075 is a beauty salon in Montreal. (Strawberry)
2076: Much of the action in Robert A Heinlein's book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is set in 2076. (Big Martin)
2077: B-2077 is a Boeing 777-F6N owned by China Cargo Airlines (Posital)
2078: SOS phone 2078L is on the M26 in Kent, on the carriageway heading towards London, while 2078K is on the Kent bound side. A bridge crosses the motorway at that point called 'Noah's Ark' footbridge. (tetsabb)
2079: City and Guilds course 2079 deals with the safe handling of refrigerant gases. (Big Martin)
2080: 2080 Toothpaste is a brand of Korean toothpaste. (Strawberry)
2081: CC-Records 2081 is Häns'che Weiss's 1981 album Couleurs. (AlmondFacialBar)
2082: 2082 is the name of a song by They Might Be Giants from the 2011 album Join Us. The song is about someone who travels in time to visit his future self. 2082 will be the 100th anniversary of the formation of They Might Be Giants. (Strawberry)
2083: The maximum URL length in Internet Explorer is 2083 characters. (AlmondFacialBar)
2084: 2084 is a show by Steve Roberts and Matt Hill. (Strawberry)
2085: 2085 ist a valid postcode in Australia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldavia, the Netherlands and Tunesia. Up to 1993 it was also the postcode of Quickborn in Germany. (AlmondFacialBar)
2086: From the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, The Great Patty Caper that was made in 2011 showed that the ending took place 75 years later on the time of date. The date of course being 2086. (Strawberry)
2087: Cyborg 2087 is a low budget science fiction film of 1966. (Big Martin)
2088: A total solar eclipse will occur on April 21, 2088. (bemahan)
2089: Depend Chameleon Nail Polish is numbered 2089. (Strawberry)
2090: Lecht 2090 is a ski resort in Aberdeenshire. (Big Martin)
2091: The Panha 2091 "Toufan" is an Iranian overhaul and upgrade of the Bell AH-1J International (export version of the SeaCobra) light-attack helicopters purchased before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The overhaul and upgrade programme is known as project number 2091 of the Iranian Helicopter Support and Renewal Company (also known as Panha). (Strawberry)
2092: Parliamentary written question 2092, asked by Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth) on 11 June 2015, was "to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure the human rights of the Rohingya people in Burma are protected". (bemahan)
2093: An Age (published in the U.S. as Cryptozoic!) is a 1967 science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss. The book, set principally in 2093, combines the popular science fiction themes of time travel, totalitarian dystopia, and the untapped potential of the human mind. It was nominated for a Ditmar Award in 1969 in the "Best International Science Fiction of any length, or collection" category. (Strawberry)
2094: 2094 is the postcode for Fairlight in New South Wales. (Big Martin)
2095: The main belt asteroid 2095 Parsifal was discovered by a Dutch team at Mount Palomar observatory on 24th September, 1960. (AlmondFacialBar)
2096: "Kerrisdale Landing" at 2096, W 46th Ave, is located in Kerrisdale, Vancouver & was built in 2004 with 27 suites over 4 levels. (Strawberry)
2097: ATCC® CRL-2097™ is a Homo sapiens male fibroblast culture for life science research. (AlmondFacialBar)
2098: In United Nations Resolution 2098, dated 28 March 2013, the Security Council approved the creation of its first-ever “offensive” combat force, intended to carry out targeted operations to “neutralize and disarm” the notorious 23 March Movement (M23), as well as other Congolese rebels and foreign armed groups in strife-riven eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (bemahan)
2099: Marvel 2099 is a Marvel Comics imprint. (Strawberry)
2100: The Total Knee 2100 is a highly refined polycentric knee with 3-phase hydraulic swing control designed to withstand the rigours of more active amputees. (bemahan)
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