January 1, 2015,
January 1, 2015,
January 1, 2015, Mario Cuomo, former governor of the U.S. state of New York, dies at the age of 82. (Reuters)
January 2, 2015, Release of The Women in Black 2: Angel of Death
January 2, 2015, Release of The Women in Black 2: Angel of Death
January 2, 2015, North Korea–United States relations: The United States enacts more sanctions on North Korea in response to their alleged involvement in the hacking attack on Sony. The sanctions target the North Korean Special Operation Force and 10 government officials. (Reuters)
January 3, 2015, Turkey permits the building of a Syriac church in Istanbul, the first construction of a Christian house of worship allowed since the founding of the modern republic in 1923. (DAWN)
January 3, 2015, MS Bulk Jupiter, a Norwegian-owned cargo ship, sinks off the coast of Vietnam, with eighteen dead and one survivor. (KRON)
January 4, 2015, Mini-Series Premiere of Galavant
January 4, 2015,
January 4, 2015,
January 4, 2015, Pope Francis announces the appointment of 20 new Cardinals, many of them coming from outside of Europe. (Reuters)
January 5, 2015, A Czech archaelogical team discovers the tomb of formerly unknown Ancient Egyptian queen Khentakawess III who lived during the Fifth Dynasty. (CNN)
January 5, 2015, Kishle, the site where Jesus may have been tried, prior to his crucifixion, is open to the public for the very first time. It's under an abandoned prison building that is part of the Tower of David Museum ground in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. (Huffpost)
January 5, 2015, Ireland becomes the first European nation to be allowed to export beef to the United States since the mad cow disease scare 15 years ago. (AP via Star Tribune)
January 6, 2015, Series Premiere of Agent Carter
January 6, 2015,
January 6, 2015, The 114th United States Congress begins. (ABC News)
-The US Congress re-elects John Boehner to his third term as Speaker. (USA Today)
January 6, 2015, An improvised device explodes outside of the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP with no injuries. (ABC News)
January 6, 2015, United States embargo against Cuba: Cuba starts releasing political prisoners as part of an historic agreement with the United States announced last month. (The Guardian)
January 6, 2015, Scientists at Oxford University begin a new Ebola vaccine trial on 72 healthy volunteers. (BBC)
January 6, 2015, Officials in the American state of Massachusetts open a time capsule left behind by founding fathers Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
January 6, 2015, American luxury fashion company Coach, Inc. agrees to purchase shoe brand Stuart Weitzman for $574 million. (Wall Street Journal)
January 6, 2015, The price of crude oil drops to $48 per barrel, the lowest since April of 2009. (KGO)
January 6, 2015, A U.S. District Judge sentences former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell to two years in prison for corruption. (AP via FOX News)
January 6, 2015, The Baseball Hall of Fame announces the results of balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) for the Hall's induction class of 2015. The BBWAA elects Randy Johnson, Pedro Martínez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio; this marks the first time since 1955 that the group has elected four players. (Boston Herald)
January 7, 2015, Series Premiere of Empire
January 7, 2015, Charlie Hebdo shooting: Gunmen attack the Paris office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing twelve people and injuring ten. Some witnesses report that the gunmen identified themselves as belonging to al-Qaeda in Yemen. A 2011 issue had depicted a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammed. (BBC)
-French police identify three suspects in the killings with Agence-France Presse reporting that raids are being conducted in the city of Reims. (Bloomberg via Washington Post)
January 7, 2015,
January 8, 2015,
January 9, 2015, Release of Taken 3
January 9, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of Banshee
January 8, 2015, Charlie Hebdo shooting: One of the suspects in the killings, Hamyd Mourad, voluntarily surrenders to police in Charleville-Mézières while the other two suspects are still at large. (The New York Times)
-On the night of January 7 and morning of January 8, assailants throw grenades and fire guns at three mosques throughout France. (FB)
-On the night of January 7 and morning of January 8, assailants throw grenades and fire guns at three mosques throughout France. (FB)
January 8, 2015, Dunkin' Donuts signs a franchise agreement for 1,400 new cafes in China by the year 2035. (Reuters)
January 8, 2015, Schools in the Midwestern and Northeast United States close for a second successive day due to bitterly cold temperatures. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
January 8, 2015, A Princess Tours catamaran, Pura Vida Princess, catches fire and capsizes off the coast of Punta Leona, Costa Rica, while carrying 98 passengers and ten crew; the Costa Rican Red Cross confirms that three are dead. (AP via The Costa Rican Times)
January 8, 2015, The Obama administration fines Honda $70 million for failing to report deaths and injury complaints from 2003 to 2014. (KNTV)
January 8, 2015, The US Olympic Committee chooses the city of Boston as the American bid city to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. (The New York Times)
January 9, 2015, Release of Taken 3
January 9, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of Banshee
January 9, 2015, Season 6 Premiere of Glee
January 9, 2015, Charlie Hebdo shooting: The two suspect brothers take a hostage at a sign printing company, Création Tendance Découverte, in the French town of Dammartin-en-Goële. (AAP via SBS)
-The standoff ends with the two brothers dead and the hostage released. (CNBC)
-A second hostage situation of unclear connection occurs at a Jewish market, Hypercacher, in the eastern Paris suburb of Vincennes. There are two suspected hostage takers, Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, and Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who were previously suspected of shooting a policewoman dead earlier in the week. There are at least sixteen hostages. (Herald-Sun)
-The concurrent standoff ends with Coulibaly dead as well as four hostages. Four additional hostages and two police officers require hospitalization. Boumeddiene remains at large. (MSNBC)
January 9, 2015, Barack Obama proposes a new program to waive tuition at community colleges in the United States for the first two years. (The New York Times)
January 9, 2015, The Lovejoy Comet enters its brightest phase to roughly magnitude 4 or 5. (Sydney Morning Herald)
January 9, 2015, A 193-vehicle pileup along a snowy Michigan Interstate 94 highway in Kalamazoo County,
leaves one motorist dead and 20 injured. A fire among the vehicles
which includes a chemical tanker and a truck loaded with fireworks
further compounds the disaster. The debris and fire closes the
expressway for over 14 hours. Exploding fireworks hit rescue workers
injuring an additional three. (ABC News)
January 10, 2015, SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as part of boosting its Dragon spacecraft into space for a Monday arrival at the ISS in the SpaceX CRS-5 resupply mission. However, an experimental recovery attempt of the first stage fails when it crash-lands on a floating platform due to insufficient hydraulic fluid, resulting in damage to the platform. The state of the destruction of the launch vehicle is publically unknown. (Space.com)
January 10, 2015,
January 11, 2015, Series Premiere of Togetherness
January 11, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Looking
January 11, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Episodes
January 11, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Girls
January 11, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of House of Lies
January 11, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Shameless
January 11, 2015, Charlie Hebdo shooting: Thousands of police and military personnel prepare to secure a Paris unity rally with up to a million people expected to attend. (Daily Mail)
-An arson attack on the German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published cartoons from Charlie Hebdo, causes no injuries but leads to two arrests. (Reuters via DNA)
January 11, 2015, Public photographs become available of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after the experimental recovery attempt of the first stage fails and crash-lands on a floating platform in the SpaceX CRS-5 resupply mission. (Space Flight Now)
January 11, 2015, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501: Divers retrieve the flight data recorder from the crashed jet. (AP)
January 11, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Girls
January 11, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of House of Lies
January 11, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Shameless
January 11, 2015, Charlie Hebdo shooting: Thousands of police and military personnel prepare to secure a Paris unity rally with up to a million people expected to attend. (Daily Mail)
-An arson attack on the German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published cartoons from Charlie Hebdo, causes no injuries but leads to two arrests. (Reuters via DNA)
January 11, 2015, Public photographs become available of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after the experimental recovery attempt of the first stage fails and crash-lands on a floating platform in the SpaceX CRS-5 resupply mission. (Space Flight Now)
January 11, 2015, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501: Divers retrieve the flight data recorder from the crashed jet. (AP)
January 12, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: Apparent ISIL computer hackers attack the feeds for the United States Central Command for Twitter and Youtube. (Reuters)
January 12, 2015, In American football, the Ohio State Buckeyes defeat the Oregon Ducks to win the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas by a score of 42–20. (AP)
January 12, 2015, The SpaceX CRS-5 supply ship arrives at the ISS with groceries and Christmas gifts. (AP)
January 12, 2015, An electrical malfunction causes a fire in the Washington, D. C.'s Metro subway system near L'Enfant Plaza Station resulting in one death with 84 people taken to hospitals, mostly from smoke inhalation. (AP)
January 12, 2015, District Attorney Kari Brandenburg of New Mexico's Second Judicial Circuit federally charges two Albuquerque Police Department officers with murder in the March 16, 2014 shooting death of James Boyd in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. (CNN)
January 12, 2015, The death toll from poisoned beer in the Mozambique rises to at least 69 with 169 in hospital. Further, medical experts begin to question if the source of the contamination was the deliberate addition of crocodile bile or instead the often used foxglove flowers (which contain digitalis) for homebrewing locally-derived Pombe beer. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
January 12, 2015, In association football, Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid C.F. wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the best player of the year for his second successive year. (BBC)
January 12, 2015, In American football, the Ohio State Buckeyes defeat the Oregon Ducks to win the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas by a score of 42–20. (AP)
January 12, 2015, The SpaceX CRS-5 supply ship arrives at the ISS with groceries and Christmas gifts. (AP)
January 12, 2015, An electrical malfunction causes a fire in the Washington, D. C.'s Metro subway system near L'Enfant Plaza Station resulting in one death with 84 people taken to hospitals, mostly from smoke inhalation. (AP)
January 12, 2015, District Attorney Kari Brandenburg of New Mexico's Second Judicial Circuit federally charges two Albuquerque Police Department officers with murder in the March 16, 2014 shooting death of James Boyd in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. (CNN)
January 12, 2015, The death toll from poisoned beer in the Mozambique rises to at least 69 with 169 in hospital. Further, medical experts begin to question if the source of the contamination was the deliberate addition of crocodile bile or instead the often used foxglove flowers (which contain digitalis) for homebrewing locally-derived Pombe beer. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
January 12, 2015, In association football, Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid C.F. wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the best player of the year for his second successive year. (BBC)
January 13, 2015, Charlie Hebdo shooting: France announces plans to deploy 10,000 troops to protect sensitive sites across the country beginning tonight. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
January 13, 2015, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501: Divers recover the cockpit voice recorder from the crashed jet. The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee states that by using the now collected recorders a preliminary report on the accident will be produced within a month and a final report after a year. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
January 13, 2015, The death toll from contaminated beer in the Mozambique rises to at least 72. (AP via Business Week)
January 13, 2015, Pope Francis arrives in Sri Lanka to begin a six day Asian tour. (BBC)
January 13, 2015, Egypt's highest court overturns and initiates a retrial on the only remaining conviction against former President Hosni Mubarak (a May 2014 sentencing of three years in prison for embezzlement). (Reuters)
January 13, 2015, The U.S. Supreme Court rules 9–0 in favor of homeowners that the Truth in Lending Act clearly states that a simple notice by the homeowner to the bank within three years seeking to rescind their mortgage suffices over an actual court-filed lawsuit. (Reuters)
January 14, 2015, Series Premiere of Men Seeking Women
January 14, 2015, Season 10 Premiere of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
January 14, 2015,
January 14, 2015, Charlie Hebdo publishes an edition as a counterpoint to the Charlie Hebdo shootings. (BBC)
January 14, 2015, On the second day of his papal visit to Sri Lanka, Pope Francis canonizes Saint Joseph Vaz at a beachfront park at the Indian Ocean, and later visits the northern portion of the island for a prayer service at the Sri Lankan Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu, which was a prominent area landmark damaged in the Sri Lankan Civil War. (Catholic News Service)
January 14, 2015, The U.S. state of Georgia executes Vietnam War veteran Andrew Brannan for the 1998 murder of Laurens County sheriff's deputy Kyle Dinkheller. (Huffington Post)
January 14, 2015, Police charge Indianapolis Colts linebacker Josh McNary with a December 1, 2014 rape. (AP)
January 14, 2015, President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano will announce his resignation today. (Bloomberg via Business Week)
January 14, 2015, The U.S. Secret Service removes four of its highest-ranking leaders while a fifth one retires. The continuing restructuring and fallout stem from a string of public security lapses beginning with the misconduct at the 6th Summit of the Americas. The most recent stage of the restructuring began in October 2014 with the resignation of then-Director Julia Pierson. (The Washington Post via MSN)
January 14, 2015, In rock climbing, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson become the first climbers to free climb the Dawn Wall face of the El Capitan cliff in Yosemite National Park in the United States, the world's largest granite monolith. (Wall Street Journal)
January 15, 2015, Series Premiere of The Man in the High Castle
January 13, 2015, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501: Divers recover the cockpit voice recorder from the crashed jet. The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee states that by using the now collected recorders a preliminary report on the accident will be produced within a month and a final report after a year. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
January 13, 2015, The death toll from contaminated beer in the Mozambique rises to at least 72. (AP via Business Week)
January 13, 2015, Pope Francis arrives in Sri Lanka to begin a six day Asian tour. (BBC)
January 13, 2015, Egypt's highest court overturns and initiates a retrial on the only remaining conviction against former President Hosni Mubarak (a May 2014 sentencing of three years in prison for embezzlement). (Reuters)
January 13, 2015, The U.S. Supreme Court rules 9–0 in favor of homeowners that the Truth in Lending Act clearly states that a simple notice by the homeowner to the bank within three years seeking to rescind their mortgage suffices over an actual court-filed lawsuit. (Reuters)
January 14, 2015, Series Premiere of Men Seeking Women
January 14, 2015, Season 10 Premiere of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
January 14, 2015,
January 14, 2015, Charlie Hebdo publishes an edition as a counterpoint to the Charlie Hebdo shootings. (BBC)
January 14, 2015, On the second day of his papal visit to Sri Lanka, Pope Francis canonizes Saint Joseph Vaz at a beachfront park at the Indian Ocean, and later visits the northern portion of the island for a prayer service at the Sri Lankan Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu, which was a prominent area landmark damaged in the Sri Lankan Civil War. (Catholic News Service)
January 14, 2015, The U.S. state of Georgia executes Vietnam War veteran Andrew Brannan for the 1998 murder of Laurens County sheriff's deputy Kyle Dinkheller. (Huffington Post)
January 14, 2015, Police charge Indianapolis Colts linebacker Josh McNary with a December 1, 2014 rape. (AP)
January 14, 2015, President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano will announce his resignation today. (Bloomberg via Business Week)
January 14, 2015, The U.S. Secret Service removes four of its highest-ranking leaders while a fifth one retires. The continuing restructuring and fallout stem from a string of public security lapses beginning with the misconduct at the 6th Summit of the Americas. The most recent stage of the restructuring began in October 2014 with the resignation of then-Director Julia Pierson. (The Washington Post via MSN)
January 14, 2015, In rock climbing, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson become the first climbers to free climb the Dawn Wall face of the El Capitan cliff in Yosemite National Park in the United States, the world's largest granite monolith. (Wall Street Journal)
January 15, 2015, Series Premiere of The Man in the High Castle
January 15, 2015,
January 15, 2015, 2014 Peshawar school massacre: Afghan security officials arrest five men in Kabul in relation to their suspected involvement in the Pakistan school massacre. (ABC News Australia)
January 15, 2015, Pope Francis' visit to the Philippines: Pope Francis arrives in Manila and meets Philippines President Benigno Aquino III. (The New York Times)
January 16, 2015, Release of Blackhat
January 16, 2015, Release of Spare Parts
January 16, 2015, Series Premiere of 12 Monkeys
January 16, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Helix
January 16, 2015, NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers state that 2014 is the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880. (Xinhua)
January 16, 2015, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finds the Beagle 2 spacecraft that disappeared in 2003 intact on the surface of Mars. An error had stopped the spacecraft's solar panels from working and communicating back to Earth. (TNN via Times of India)
January 16, 2015,
January 16, 2015, U.S. federal magistrate Carl Barbier's ruling caps BP's fine under the Clean Water Act for its 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at $13.7billion. (Reuters)
January 16, 2015, The Obama Administration eases trade restrictions with Cuba, now permitting the sale of tools and equipment for private-sector use in Cuba. (USA Today)
January 16, 2015, The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to consolidate and hear four appellate rulings whether there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. It is currently allowed in Washington, D.C. and 36 states. Oral arguments will take place in April and a ruling may occur by June. (CNN)
January 16, 2015, The Obama Administration imposes drastic restrictions on state and local police's ability to seize personal property under the guidelines of the Equitable sharing federal program. (Washington Post)
January 17, 2015, Release of Whitney
January 17, 2015, Greek anti-terror police arrest four people in Athens, Greece in alleged relation to the January 15 failed terrorist plot to kill police officers in Belgium. (Sky News Australia)
January 17, 2015, Pemberton Township, New Jersey police arrest a woman and charge her with the murder of her newborn baby girl which she set on fire. Officers extinguish the fire, but the child later dies. (AP via MSN)
January 17, 2015, The Bridger Pipeline Company spills up to 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River, near Glendive, Montana. (CBS)
January 17, 2015, 2015 Papal visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines: Pope Francis celebrates mass at Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)-hit city of Tacloban with an audience of half-a-million people. (BBC)
-The Pope cuts his Tacloban trip short as an approaching typhoon threatened the city in the Philippines. This cyclone may also affect Francis's scheduled closing Mass on Sunday in the capital, Manila.(CNN)
-An entourage plane accompanying the Pope and carrying government officials exeriences high winds and blows off the runway minutes after the pontiff's aircraft takes off safely in Philippines. (The Independent)
January 18, 2015, 2015 Papal visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines: Pope Francis celebrates Holy Mass in Manila to a crowd of 6 to 7 million, the largest papal gathering since 1995 World Youth Day mass celebrated by late Pope John Paul II in the same place, despite pouring rain. (CNN)
-In his homily, Pope Francis speaks out against poverty and corruption but he sends a message about the importance of family, particularly children. (Reuters)
January 18, 2015, Lennar Urban cancels their demolition plans to implode Candlestick Park due to concerns over public health issues from the concrete dust and pollution. (KTVU)
January 18, 2015, The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots win their respective conference championships to advance to the February 1 Super Bowl XLIX. (NFL.com)
January 19, 2015,
January 19, 2015,
January 19, 2015,
January 19, 2015, NASA releases new pictures from the Dawn spacecraft as it approaches from a distance of 238,000 miles of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will go into orbit around the dwarf planet on March 6. (BBC)
January 19, 2015, The Anne Arundel County, Maryland Fire Department states that six people remain unaccounted for after a fire destroys a mansion in Annapolis, Maryland. The home is the residence of Don Pyle, the CEO of Reston, Virginia-based ScienceLogic. (AP via MSN)
January 20, 2015, 2015 State of the Union Address The President of the United States Barack Obama delivers a State of the Union address to the United States Congress. (AP)
January 20, 2015,
January 20, 2015, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant threatens to kill two Japanese citizens unless it receives a ransom of $200 million. (Reuters)
January 20, 2015, Oil services company Baker Hughes will lay off 7,000 people due to falling crude oil prices. (AP via ABC News America)
January 20, 2015, An overpass of I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio collapses while undergoing demolition, killing one worker and injuring a trucker whose vehicle was struck by debris. (Cincinnati.com)
January 20, 2015, According to preliminary tests at the Glendive, Montana city water treatment plant, the January 17 oil spill in the Yellowstone River contains benzene, a chemical that causes cancer. (National Geographic)
January 20, 2015, A gunman shoots a cardiovascular surgeon to death at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and then commits suicide. (USA Today)
January 21, 2015, Microsoft announces Windows Holographic as part of the Windows 10 operating system which is expected to be released in late 2015. (Forbes)
January 21, 2015, eBay announces plans to spin off its PayPal business and fire 2,400 employees during 2015. (CNBC)
January 21, 2015, American Express plans to cut more than 4,000 jobs. (Reuters)
January 21, 2015, Mexico's Volcán de Colima erupts. (ABC News Australia)
January 21, 2015, The government-installed pollution gauges that were set up along roadside stations to monitor Hong Kong reach the maximum level of their ranges. (Bloomberg)
January 21, 2015, The New England Journal of Medicine publishes research from Portland State University that implies the presence of formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical, may occur in limited situations of e-cigarette vapor. (AP)
January 21, 2015, Italian police seize 5,361 ancient artifacts worth $64 million from a Swiss-Italian trafficking ring. The discoveries come after various raids on warehouses against Italian art dealer Gianfranco Becchina, who owns an art gallery in Switzerland. (AFP via ABC.Net.AU)
January 22, 2015, Series Premiere of Backstrom
January 22, 2015, The European Central Bank announces an aggressive money-creation program, printing more than one trillion new euros. (Reuters)
January 22, 2015, Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon announces that the upcoming 2015 season will be his last as a full-time driver. (ESPN)
January 23, 2015, Release of Mortdecai
January 23, 2015, Release of Strange Magic
January 23, 2015, Release of Ex_Machina
January 23, 2015, Release of The Boy Next Door
January 23, 2015,
January 23, 2015,
January 23, 2015,
January 23, 2015, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dies at the age of 90. His half brother Salman of Saudi Arabia succeeds him. His half brother Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud becomes the Crown Prince. (CNN)
January 23, 2015,
January 23, 2015, The Doomsday Clock moves two minutes forward, leaving only three minutes from midnight due to the threat of global nuclear war and climate change. It is the closest it has been to midnight since 1984. (The Guardian)
January 23, 2015, The U.S. Southern District of Alabama strikes down the state ban on same-sex marriage in Alabama, saying it has violated equal protection and due process rights. Alabama becomes the thirty-seventh state where such marriage is legalized. (USA Today)
January 23, 2015, Sumo wrestler Hakuhō Shō wins a record-breaking 33rd makuuchi championship. (Japan Times)
January 24, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Black Sail
January 24, 2015,
January 24, 2015,
January 24, 2015,
January 24, 2015, Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson sets a National Basketball Association record for most points in a single quarter with 37. (Sports Illustrated)
January 24, 2015, The measles outbreak at Disneyland (Anaheim), which originated on December 28, 2014 but was unreported until January 7, spreads from California to six other states, including Nebraska, and Mexico. It now involves at least eighty-five cases. (AJC
January 24, 2015, Subsequent to the January 15 announcement that Target Canada would close all 133 stores, today they announce the layoff of 17,000 employees. (CBC)
January 24, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: The Islamic State kills eight Lebanese soldiers in the northeastern Lebanese village of Ras Baalbek. (AP)
-Japan states that it is seeking to verify a video that claims the killing of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa by Islamic State militants. (BBC)
January 25, 2015, Mini Series Premiere of Sons of Liberty
January 25, 2015, In college basketball, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski becomes the first NCAA Division I men's coach with 1,000 career wins, following the Blue Devils' 77–68 win over St. John's at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (ESPN)
January 25, 2015,
January 25, 2015, The Miss Universe pageant crowns Miss Colombia Paulina Vega in Miami, Florida. (AP)
January 25, 2015, US President Barack Obama meets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a three-day visit in India. (USA Today)
January 25, 2015, A massive blackout strikes Pakistan, leaving as much as 80 percent of the country without electricity at its height as officials rush to restore power. (AP)
January 26, 2015, Northeastern US blizzard: The January 2015 nor'easter, commonly referred to as the Blizzard of 2015, begins as an ongoing winter storm across the Central and Eastern United States. Blizzard warnings are in place from New Jersey through New York and New England.(The Telegraph)
-The blizzard causes the cancellation of over 6,000 flights, the cancellation of public transport services in New York City and Boston and the Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo ordering cars off the road in 13 counties. (NBC News)
January 26, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: Kurdish fighters recapture at least 90% of Kobanî, Syria. (CNN)
January 26, 2015, 2014–15 Russian financial crisis: Standard & Poor's ratings agency cuts Russia's credit rating to junk status due to the impact of falling oil prices and sanctions. (Wall Street Journal via The Australian)
January 26, 2015, The U.S. Secret Service recovers a flying drone from the southeast lawn at the White House. (AP)
January 26, 2015, The Church of England ordains Libby Lane as their first female bishop, at York Minster, United Kingdom. (AP)
January 27, 2015, January 2015 nor'easter: New England sees the worst of the blizzard with Boston, Massachusetts covered in two feet of snow. (AP)
January 27, 2015,
January 28, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of The Americans
January 28, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal publishes research from the University of Rochester and the University of Leiden announcing the discovery of either a brown dwarf substellar object or a gas giant exoplanet titled J1407b. The object is the first known nonstar to have a super ring system. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
January 29, 2015, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Without recovering any physical evidence, including the data recorders, Malaysia officially declares the loss of Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean an accident meaning that victims families can seek compensation. (USA Today)
January 29, 2015, A Nieto Express propane gas tanker truck explodes near the loading dock of a maternity and children's hospital (Hospital Materno Infantil Cuajimalpa) in Mexico City, collapsing much of the hospital with at least three deaths and 70 people injured, 22 of whom are children. (AP)
January 29, 2015, Heavy snowfall in northern England leads to the closures of hundreds of schools, roads and Manchester Airport. (BBC)
January 29, 2015, American hip hop music mogul Suge Knight drives a vehicle into a crowd in Compton, California near Los Angeles resulting in the death of a pedestrian in what authorities are calling a hit and run. Currently there is confusion as to identifying if that victim is 86-year-old actor Terry Carter ("Colonel Tigh" on the original Battlestar Galactica), but the actor himself declares it false. (NBC News)
January 30, 2015, Release of Wildcard
January 30, 2015, Release of Spongbob Square Pants: Sponge out of Water
January 30, 2015,
January 30, 2015,
January 30, 2015,
January 30, 2015,
January 30, 2015,
January 30, 2015, Greek government-debt crisis: The new Greek government, represented by finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, meets with Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the Eurogroup, and declares that Greece now rejects any further cooperation with its main international lenders known as the troika (the Eurogroup, the IMF, and the ECB); instead, it wants to negotiate directly with other European countries. (Deutsche Welle)
January 30, 2015, Israel announces plans to build 430 new settler homes in the West Bank. (AFP via al-Arabiyah)
January 30, 2015, Los Angeles police arrest American hip hop mogul Suge Knight on suspicion for murder in relation to the January 29 hit-and-run incident in Compton, California. (CNN)
January 30, 2015, Two balloonists, Troy Bradley of the United States and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia, become the first people to cross the Pacific Ocean in a gas balloon and break the distance record. They are set to land in Mexico on Saturday. (BBC)
January 30, 2015, The German Chemical Society's Angewandte Chemie International Edition publishes research from chemist Donald Fleming of the University of British Columbia announcing the confirmational discovery of a new form of chemical bond, the vibrational bond. (Scientific American)
January 31, 2015,
January 31, 2015, File sharing site Pirate Bay returns online after having been shut down by Swedish authorities in December 2014. (Sydney Morning Herald)
January 31, 2015,
January 31, 2015,
January 31, 2015, In American football, Junior Seau, Jerome Bettis, Charles Haley, Will Shields and Tim Brown are admitted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. (NBC Sports)
January 15, 2015, The nominees for the 87th Academy Awards best picture are announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel lead the way with nine nominations each. Washington Post)
January 16, 2015, Release of The Wedding Ringer
January 16, 2015, Release of The Wedding Ringer
January 16, 2015, Release of Blackhat
January 16, 2015, Release of Spare Parts
January 16, 2015, Series Premiere of 12 Monkeys
January 16, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Helix
January 16, 2015, NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers state that 2014 is the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880. (Xinhua)
January 16, 2015, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finds the Beagle 2 spacecraft that disappeared in 2003 intact on the surface of Mars. An error had stopped the spacecraft's solar panels from working and communicating back to Earth. (TNN via Times of India)
January 16, 2015,
January 16, 2015, U.S. federal magistrate Carl Barbier's ruling caps BP's fine under the Clean Water Act for its 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at $13.7billion. (Reuters)
January 16, 2015, The Obama Administration eases trade restrictions with Cuba, now permitting the sale of tools and equipment for private-sector use in Cuba. (USA Today)
January 16, 2015, The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to consolidate and hear four appellate rulings whether there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. It is currently allowed in Washington, D.C. and 36 states. Oral arguments will take place in April and a ruling may occur by June. (CNN)
January 16, 2015, The Obama Administration imposes drastic restrictions on state and local police's ability to seize personal property under the guidelines of the Equitable sharing federal program. (Washington Post)
January 17, 2015, Release of Whitney
January 17, 2015, Greek anti-terror police arrest four people in Athens, Greece in alleged relation to the January 15 failed terrorist plot to kill police officers in Belgium. (Sky News Australia)
January 17, 2015, Pemberton Township, New Jersey police arrest a woman and charge her with the murder of her newborn baby girl which she set on fire. Officers extinguish the fire, but the child later dies. (AP via MSN)
January 17, 2015, The Bridger Pipeline Company spills up to 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River, near Glendive, Montana. (CBS)
January 17, 2015, 2015 Papal visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines: Pope Francis celebrates mass at Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)-hit city of Tacloban with an audience of half-a-million people. (BBC)
-The Pope cuts his Tacloban trip short as an approaching typhoon threatened the city in the Philippines. This cyclone may also affect Francis's scheduled closing Mass on Sunday in the capital, Manila.(CNN)
-An entourage plane accompanying the Pope and carrying government officials exeriences high winds and blows off the runway minutes after the pontiff's aircraft takes off safely in Philippines. (The Independent)
January 18, 2015, 2015 Papal visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines: Pope Francis celebrates Holy Mass in Manila to a crowd of 6 to 7 million, the largest papal gathering since 1995 World Youth Day mass celebrated by late Pope John Paul II in the same place, despite pouring rain. (CNN)
-In his homily, Pope Francis speaks out against poverty and corruption but he sends a message about the importance of family, particularly children. (Reuters)
January 18, 2015, Lennar Urban cancels their demolition plans to implode Candlestick Park due to concerns over public health issues from the concrete dust and pollution. (KTVU)
January 18, 2015, The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots win their respective conference championships to advance to the February 1 Super Bowl XLIX. (NFL.com)
January 19, 2015,
January 19, 2015,
January 19, 2015,
January 19, 2015, NASA releases new pictures from the Dawn spacecraft as it approaches from a distance of 238,000 miles of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will go into orbit around the dwarf planet on March 6. (BBC)
January 19, 2015, The Anne Arundel County, Maryland Fire Department states that six people remain unaccounted for after a fire destroys a mansion in Annapolis, Maryland. The home is the residence of Don Pyle, the CEO of Reston, Virginia-based ScienceLogic. (AP via MSN)
January 20, 2015, 2015 State of the Union Address The President of the United States Barack Obama delivers a State of the Union address to the United States Congress. (AP)
January 20, 2015,
January 20, 2015, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant threatens to kill two Japanese citizens unless it receives a ransom of $200 million. (Reuters)
January 20, 2015, Oil services company Baker Hughes will lay off 7,000 people due to falling crude oil prices. (AP via ABC News America)
January 20, 2015, An overpass of I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio collapses while undergoing demolition, killing one worker and injuring a trucker whose vehicle was struck by debris. (Cincinnati.com)
January 20, 2015, According to preliminary tests at the Glendive, Montana city water treatment plant, the January 17 oil spill in the Yellowstone River contains benzene, a chemical that causes cancer. (National Geographic)
January 20, 2015, A gunman shoots a cardiovascular surgeon to death at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and then commits suicide. (USA Today)
January 21, 2015, Microsoft announces Windows Holographic as part of the Windows 10 operating system which is expected to be released in late 2015. (Forbes)
January 21, 2015, eBay announces plans to spin off its PayPal business and fire 2,400 employees during 2015. (CNBC)
January 21, 2015, American Express plans to cut more than 4,000 jobs. (Reuters)
January 21, 2015, Mexico's Volcán de Colima erupts. (ABC News Australia)
January 21, 2015, The government-installed pollution gauges that were set up along roadside stations to monitor Hong Kong reach the maximum level of their ranges. (Bloomberg)
January 21, 2015, The New England Journal of Medicine publishes research from Portland State University that implies the presence of formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical, may occur in limited situations of e-cigarette vapor. (AP)
January 21, 2015, Italian police seize 5,361 ancient artifacts worth $64 million from a Swiss-Italian trafficking ring. The discoveries come after various raids on warehouses against Italian art dealer Gianfranco Becchina, who owns an art gallery in Switzerland. (AFP via ABC.Net.AU)
January 22, 2015, Series Premiere of Backstrom
January 22, 2015, The European Central Bank announces an aggressive money-creation program, printing more than one trillion new euros. (Reuters)
January 22, 2015, Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon announces that the upcoming 2015 season will be his last as a full-time driver. (ESPN)
January 23, 2015, Release of Mortdecai
January 23, 2015, Release of Strange Magic
January 23, 2015, Release of Ex_Machina
January 23, 2015, Release of The Boy Next Door
January 23, 2015,
January 23, 2015,
January 23, 2015,
January 23, 2015, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dies at the age of 90. His half brother Salman of Saudi Arabia succeeds him. His half brother Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud becomes the Crown Prince. (CNN)
January 23, 2015,
January 23, 2015, The Doomsday Clock moves two minutes forward, leaving only three minutes from midnight due to the threat of global nuclear war and climate change. It is the closest it has been to midnight since 1984. (The Guardian)
January 23, 2015, The U.S. Southern District of Alabama strikes down the state ban on same-sex marriage in Alabama, saying it has violated equal protection and due process rights. Alabama becomes the thirty-seventh state where such marriage is legalized. (USA Today)
January 23, 2015, Sumo wrestler Hakuhō Shō wins a record-breaking 33rd makuuchi championship. (Japan Times)
January 24, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Black Sail
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January 24, 2015,
January 24, 2015,
January 24, 2015, Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson sets a National Basketball Association record for most points in a single quarter with 37. (Sports Illustrated)
January 24, 2015, The measles outbreak at Disneyland (Anaheim), which originated on December 28, 2014 but was unreported until January 7, spreads from California to six other states, including Nebraska, and Mexico. It now involves at least eighty-five cases. (AJC
January 24, 2015, Subsequent to the January 15 announcement that Target Canada would close all 133 stores, today they announce the layoff of 17,000 employees. (CBC)
January 24, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: The Islamic State kills eight Lebanese soldiers in the northeastern Lebanese village of Ras Baalbek. (AP)
-Japan states that it is seeking to verify a video that claims the killing of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa by Islamic State militants. (BBC)
January 25, 2015, Mini Series Premiere of Sons of Liberty
January 25, 2015, In college basketball, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski becomes the first NCAA Division I men's coach with 1,000 career wins, following the Blue Devils' 77–68 win over St. John's at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (ESPN)
January 25, 2015,
January 25, 2015, The Miss Universe pageant crowns Miss Colombia Paulina Vega in Miami, Florida. (AP)
January 25, 2015, US President Barack Obama meets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a three-day visit in India. (USA Today)
January 25, 2015, A massive blackout strikes Pakistan, leaving as much as 80 percent of the country without electricity at its height as officials rush to restore power. (AP)
January 26, 2015, Northeastern US blizzard: The January 2015 nor'easter, commonly referred to as the Blizzard of 2015, begins as an ongoing winter storm across the Central and Eastern United States. Blizzard warnings are in place from New Jersey through New York and New England.(The Telegraph)
-The blizzard causes the cancellation of over 6,000 flights, the cancellation of public transport services in New York City and Boston and the Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo ordering cars off the road in 13 counties. (NBC News)
January 26, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: Kurdish fighters recapture at least 90% of Kobanî, Syria. (CNN)
January 26, 2015, 2014–15 Russian financial crisis: Standard & Poor's ratings agency cuts Russia's credit rating to junk status due to the impact of falling oil prices and sanctions. (Wall Street Journal via The Australian)
January 26, 2015, The U.S. Secret Service recovers a flying drone from the southeast lawn at the White House. (AP)
January 26, 2015, The Church of England ordains Libby Lane as their first female bishop, at York Minster, United Kingdom. (AP)
January 27, 2015, January 2015 nor'easter: New England sees the worst of the blizzard with Boston, Massachusetts covered in two feet of snow. (AP)
January 27, 2015,
January 28, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of The Americans
January 28, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal publishes research from the University of Rochester and the University of Leiden announcing the discovery of either a brown dwarf substellar object or a gas giant exoplanet titled J1407b. The object is the first known nonstar to have a super ring system. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
January 29, 2015, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Without recovering any physical evidence, including the data recorders, Malaysia officially declares the loss of Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean an accident meaning that victims families can seek compensation. (USA Today)
January 29, 2015, A Nieto Express propane gas tanker truck explodes near the loading dock of a maternity and children's hospital (Hospital Materno Infantil Cuajimalpa) in Mexico City, collapsing much of the hospital with at least three deaths and 70 people injured, 22 of whom are children. (AP)
January 29, 2015, Heavy snowfall in northern England leads to the closures of hundreds of schools, roads and Manchester Airport. (BBC)
January 29, 2015, American hip hop music mogul Suge Knight drives a vehicle into a crowd in Compton, California near Los Angeles resulting in the death of a pedestrian in what authorities are calling a hit and run. Currently there is confusion as to identifying if that victim is 86-year-old actor Terry Carter ("Colonel Tigh" on the original Battlestar Galactica), but the actor himself declares it false. (NBC News)
January 30, 2015, Release of Wildcard
January 30, 2015, Release of Spongbob Square Pants: Sponge out of Water
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January 30, 2015,
January 30, 2015,
January 30, 2015,
January 30, 2015,
January 30, 2015, Greek government-debt crisis: The new Greek government, represented by finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, meets with Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the Eurogroup, and declares that Greece now rejects any further cooperation with its main international lenders known as the troika (the Eurogroup, the IMF, and the ECB); instead, it wants to negotiate directly with other European countries. (Deutsche Welle)
January 30, 2015, Israel announces plans to build 430 new settler homes in the West Bank. (AFP via al-Arabiyah)
January 30, 2015, Los Angeles police arrest American hip hop mogul Suge Knight on suspicion for murder in relation to the January 29 hit-and-run incident in Compton, California. (CNN)
January 30, 2015, Two balloonists, Troy Bradley of the United States and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia, become the first people to cross the Pacific Ocean in a gas balloon and break the distance record. They are set to land in Mexico on Saturday. (BBC)
January 30, 2015, The German Chemical Society's Angewandte Chemie International Edition publishes research from chemist Donald Fleming of the University of British Columbia announcing the confirmational discovery of a new form of chemical bond, the vibrational bond. (Scientific American)
January 31, 2015,
January 31, 2015, File sharing site Pirate Bay returns online after having been shut down by Swedish authorities in December 2014. (Sydney Morning Herald)
January 31, 2015,
January 31, 2015,
January 31, 2015, In American football, Junior Seau, Jerome Bettis, Charles Haley, Will Shields and Tim Brown are admitted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. (NBC Sports)
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