48 events found for 2015
Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 ot
A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting
Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape.
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
Four U.S. Marines and a United States Navy Sailor are killed in the a shooting spree targeting military installations…
At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations…
The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.
Seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.
The first piece of suspected debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is discovered on Réunion Island.
The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal…
A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.
At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.
The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken…
North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.
More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on…