2036
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2036 (MMXXXVI) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Centennials
- The 100th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War.
- The 100th anniversary of the Berlin Olympic Games.
- The 100th anniversary of the BBC television service.
- The 100th anniversary of Colombia's UPB (One of the most important Universities in Colombia)
- The 400th anniversary of the founding of Rhode Island.
- The 400th anniversary of the founding of Harvard University.
Events
March
- March 6 - bicentennial of the fall of the Alamo.
April
- The Asteroid 2004 MN4 might hit the earth.
June
- June 15 - Arkansas celebrates its bicentennial.
November
- November 2 - The CBC celebrates 100 years of broadcasting by radio
Predicted events
- January 28 - 50th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
- India projected to overtake China as world's most populous country.
- Assuming there are no further changes to the United States copyright law, Citizen Kane will fall into the public domain.
- April 13 - close approach to Earth by asteroid 99942 Apophis. The 20-million-tonne object has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Pacific Ocean or Denver, Colorado on Easter Sunday.
United Nations urged to take action (Reuters, Feb 18, 2007) - The US military's contract with the United Kingdom to use Diego Garcia as a military base would officially end, if the contract were extended in 2016.
Fictional Events
- The 1936 film Things to Come depicts 2036 as a time when humans live in underground cities and fire the first spacecraft to the Moon from a giant space gun.
- Zenon Kar, of the Zenon books and films, is born this year.
- In the game Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for Nintendo DS, Dracula is set to be revived this year.
- The events of the film Android take place
- The date described by self-proclaimed time traveller John Titor as his origin. According to him, history in 2036 judges the current time harshly: "No one likes you in the future (the time of Titor's origin: 2036)," Titor says. "This time period (likely referring to the late 20th and early 21st century, 2000's) is looked at as being full of lazy, self-centered, civically ignorant sheep."