2015

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January 3 to 7 - Boko Haram commits a series of mass killings in the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga and its environs, in the state of Borno. Between 150 and 2,000 people are killed in total.
January 23 - Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud ascends to the throne of Saudi Arabia.
February 6 - The Houthis take control of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen.
February 10 - 2015 Chapel Hill shooting
February 11 - Former Captain Francesco Schettino is sentenced to 16 years in prison for manslaughter for his role in the sinking of the Costa Concordia.
March 6 - Cheng Chieh is sentenced to death for 4 charges of murder.
March 24 - Germanwings Flight 9525 crash
April 2 - Gunmen from Al-Shabaab storm the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, killing 148 people and injuring 79 or more.
April 15 - Aaron Hernandez is found guilty of the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd and is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
May 28 - Dennis Hastert is indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals to evade bank reporting requirements and making false statements to federal investigators.
May 29 - Muhammad Buhari is elected President of Nigeria for the second time.
June 14 - Dee Dee Blanchard is killed at her home in Greene County, Missouri by her daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Nicholas Godejohn.
June 15 - The Palestinian Unity Government collapses.
June 15 to July 11 - Boko Haram commits a series of suicide bombings in N'Djamena, Chad, killing 59 people total.
June 16 - Donald Trump announces that he is running for President of the United States in the 2016 Presidential Election.
June 17 - White supremacist Dylann Roof kills nine people in a racially-motivated mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
July 23 - Grand 16 movie theater shooting
July 24 - Peace negotiations between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party break down. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launches Operation Martyr Yalçın against both the PKK as well as against the Islamic State.
August 26 - News reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward are fatally shot by former reporter Vester Lee Flanagan while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia.
October - American rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine pleads guilty to three counts of use of a child in a sexual performance and is sentenced to four years probation and 1000 hours of community service.
October 1 - Umpqua Community College shooting
October 12 - Atomwaffen Division is founded.
October 22 - Trollhättan school attack
October 25 - The Law and Justice party wins the majority in the Polish parliament.
October 31 - Metrojet Flight 9268 is destroyed by a bomb over the northern Sinai en route to St. Petersburg, Russia. All 224 passengers and crew who were on board were killed. The Islamic State's Sinai Branch, previously known as Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, claim responsibility for the incident.
November 5 - John Magufuli is sworn in as President of Tanzania.
November 13 - November 2015 Paris attacks
November 27 - Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting
December 2 - 2015 San Bernardino attack
December 31, 2015 - January 1, 2016 - 2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany

Births edit

Victim births edit

April 30 - Cannon Hinnant
July 17 - Celeste Cathryn Watts
Unknown - Olivia Gimeno Zimmerman
Unknown - Davi Carolina

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

January 23 - Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud
March 4 - Gordon Baum
March 12 - JCX Simon
March 23 - Lee Kuan Yew
March 24 - Andreas Lubitz
April 19 - Aliaskhab Kebekov
April 29 - Dan Walker
May 9 - Kenan Evren
May 24 - Michael W. Ryan
June 5 - Tarek Aziz
June 14 - Dee Dee Blanchard
July 23 - John Russell Houser
August 7 - Manuel Contreras
August 18 - Abu Muslim al-Turkmani
August 26 - Vester Lee Flanagan
October 1 - Christopher Harper-Mercer
October 22 - Anton Lundin Pettersson
October 28 - Pazuzu Algarad
October 31 - Gus Savage
November 5 - Czesław Kiszczak
November 12 - Jihadi John
December 2 - Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik

Victim deaths edit

February 6 - Kayla Mueller
February 10 - Victims of the 2015 Chapel Hill Shooting:
- Deah Shaddy Barakat
- Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha
- Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha
June - Bella Bond
June 17 - Victims of the Charleston church Shooting:
- Clementa C. Pinckney
- Cynthia Graham Hurd
- Susie Jackson
- Ethel Lee Lance
- DePayne Middleton-Doctor
- Tywanza Sanders
- Daniel L. Simmons
- Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
- Myra Thompson
July 13 - Sandra Bland
July 23 - Victims of the Grand 16 Movie Theater Shooting:
- Mayci Breaux
- Jillian Johnson
August 26 - Alison Parker and Adam Ward
August 30 - Jolee Callan
October 1 - Victims of the Umpqua Community College Shooting:
- Lucero Alcaraz
- Treven Taylor Anspach
- Rebecka Anne Carnes
- Quinn Glen Cooper
- Kim Saltmarsh Dietz
- Lucas Eibel
- Jason Dale Johnson
- Lawrence Levine
- Sarena Dawn Moore
November 3 - Jeremy Mardis and Christopher Few
November 27 - Victims of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Shooting:
- Garrett Swasey
- Ke'Arre M. Stewart
- Jennifer Markovsky
December 2 - Victims of the 2015 San Bernardino attack:
- Robert Adams
- Isaac Amanios
- Bennetta Betbadal
- Harry Bowman
- Sierra Clayborn
- Juan Espinoza
- Aurora Godoy
- Shannon Johnson
- Larry Kaufman
- Damian Meins
- Tin Nguyen
- Nicholas Thalasinos
- Yvette Velasco
- Michael Wetzel