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2060s

Notable predictions and known events

Isaac Newton predicted that the world, according to his interpretation of The Bible, would end no sooner than this year.

Halley's Comet makes a return to the inner solar system — the last return was in 1986.
Expected expiration of the Singapore-Malaysia Water Agreement.

November 11 — Transit of Mercury
November 22 — 12:45 UTC — Venus will occult Jupiter. This event will be the first occultation of a planet by another since January 3, 1818. It will be very difficult to observe from Earth, because the elongation of Venus and Jupiter from the Sun on November 22, 2065 will be only 7 degrees.

July 15 11:56 UTC — Mercury will occult Neptune. This rare event will be very difficult to observe from Earth.
October — A METI message Cosmic Call 1 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, HD 178428 star.

November — A METI message Cosmic Call 1 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, 16 Cyg A star.

According to Dane Rudhyar, a leading astrologer of the 1970s, the Age of Aquarius will begin in 2062.

September 14, 2060. The United Nations Starship Unity launches from the remnants of Earth to the Alpha Centauri System and the planet Chiron. (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)

The Red Star is banned together under the Solar Federation in Rush's song, "2112".

In Star Trek chronology, Zefram Cochrane makes Earth's first warp-speed flight on Thursday, April 5, 2063. That night, Vulcan scientists, having discovered the warp signature from Cochrane's ship, make first contact with Earth.
In Space: Above and Beyond chronology, interstellar Chig war begins following the destruction of the Earth Vesta and Tellus colonies in 2063.
In the Futurama episode Crimes of the Hot, scientists dropped a massive block of ice in the ocean to combat global warming every now and then until 3002 when Earth was moved away from the sun.