April 1, 2015, California governor Jerry Brown announces mandatory water restrictions in response to worst drought in history in California. (New York Times)
April 1, 2015,
April 1, 2015,
April 1, 2015,
April 1, 2015,
April 1, 2015, A federal grand jury indicts New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez on corruption charges. (AP)
April 1, 2015, A court convicts eleven Atlanta, Georgia teachers as part of a mass cheating scandal. (BBC)
April 2, 2015, Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 70 people and wounding 65 others. (BBC)
April 2, 2015, Iran, the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, People's Republic of China, Germany, and the European Union (the P5+1) reach a breakthrough agreement on the general framework for an agreement on Iran's nuclear program. A full deal is to be reached by June 30, 2015. (NY Times)
April 2, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525: The flight data recorder is recovered from the crash site. (CNN)
-Co-pilot had used computer to research suicide methods and the security of cockpit doors according to German prosecutors (BBC)
April 2, 2015, An American sailor who was lost for 66 days in the Atlantic Ocean is found by the US Coast Guard. He survived on a diet of solely raw fish and rainwater. (BBC)
April 2, 2015,
April 2, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525: The flight data recorder is recovered from the crash site. (CNN)
-Co-pilot had used computer to research suicide methods and the security of cockpit doors according to German prosecutors (BBC)
April 2, 2015, An American sailor who was lost for 66 days in the Atlantic Ocean is found by the US Coast Guard. He survived on a diet of solely raw fish and rainwater. (BBC)
April 2, 2015,
April 2, 2015,
April 2, 2015,
April 2, 2015,
April 2, 2015,
April 2, 2015,
April 2, 2015, A Christian-themed Indiana pizza shop closes its doors after
receiving death and arson threats after being interviewed by a local TV
station they would not cater a same sex wedding. A GoFundMe page gets
over $50K from supporters (Washington Post)
-The owners are afraid they may close permanently or leave town. (Washington Times)
April 3, 2015, Release of Furious 7
April 3, 2015, Release of Woman in Gold
April 3, 2015,
-The owners are afraid they may close permanently or leave town. (Washington Times)
April 3, 2015, Release of Furious 7
April 3, 2015, Release of Woman in Gold
April 3, 2015,
April 3, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525: Data from the flight data recorder reveals that the plane was deliberately accelerated before its Alps crash.(reuters)
April 3, 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disagrees with the Iranian nuclear program agreement that the P5+1 Nations offered to Iran, saying it threatens Israel. (Reuters)
April 4, 2015,
April 5, 2015, Series Premiere of A.D.: The Bible Continues
April 5, 2015, Series Premiere of American Odyssey
April 5, 2015, Series Premiere of The Lizzie Borden Chronicles
April 5, 2015, Series Premiere of The Lizzie Borden Chronicles
April 5, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Salem
April 5, 2015,
April 5, 2015, Rolling Stone magazine retracts "A Rape on Campus", a discredited story claiming an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. (The Independent)
April 5, 2015, The Large Hadron Collider at CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland has been restarted after a two-year conversion. (The Guardian)
April 6, 2015, In basketball, Duke defeats Wisconsin 68–63 to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.(USA Today)
April 6, 2015,
April 6, 2015, Twitter and YouTube are both inaccessible for hours in Turkey; part of a crack-down on social media by the government there. (Reuters)
April 6, 2015, University of Virginia fraternity Phi Kappa Psi announces that it will "pursue all available options" against Rolling Stone magazine a day after the magazine withdraws "A Rape on Campus", a story alleging a student was gang-raped at a party in 2012. (CNN Money)
April 7, 2015, Series Premiere of Your Family or Mine
April 6, 2015,
April 6, 2015, Twitter and YouTube are both inaccessible for hours in Turkey; part of a crack-down on social media by the government there. (Reuters)
April 6, 2015, University of Virginia fraternity Phi Kappa Psi announces that it will "pursue all available options" against Rolling Stone magazine a day after the magazine withdraws "A Rape on Campus", a story alleging a student was gang-raped at a party in 2012. (CNN Money)
April 7, 2015, Series Premiere of Your Family or Mine
April 7, 2015, A South Carolinian policeman is charged with murder after video footage emerges of him shooting 8
times an unarmed man in the back who was attempting to flee on foot
following a traffic stop. (Post and Courier)
April 7, 2015, U.S. Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. presidency in 2016. (USA Today)
April 7, 2015, Widespread power outages are reported in Washington D.C. after an explosion at a Maryland power substation. (CNN),
April 7, 2015, 2015 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament: The Connecticut Huskies defeat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 63-53 to win their third successive NCAA Division I women's basketball championship. (New York Times)
April 7, 2015,
April 7, 2015, Raiders using specialist cutting equipment break into an underground vault in the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company in the London diamond district and empty 300 safety deposit boxes. (Daily Mail)
April 7, 2015, Chicagoan mayoral election: Rahm Emanuel is re-elected to a second term as Mayor of Chicago, defeating opponent Jesús "Chuy" García in the city's first mayoral runoff election since switching to non-partisan elections 20 years ago. (Chicago Tribune)
April 8, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of Nurse Jackie
April 7, 2015, U.S. Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. presidency in 2016. (USA Today)
April 7, 2015, Widespread power outages are reported in Washington D.C. after an explosion at a Maryland power substation. (CNN),
April 7, 2015, 2015 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament: The Connecticut Huskies defeat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 63-53 to win their third successive NCAA Division I women's basketball championship. (New York Times)
April 7, 2015,
April 7, 2015, Raiders using specialist cutting equipment break into an underground vault in the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company in the London diamond district and empty 300 safety deposit boxes. (Daily Mail)
April 7, 2015, Chicagoan mayoral election: Rahm Emanuel is re-elected to a second term as Mayor of Chicago, defeating opponent Jesús "Chuy" García in the city's first mayoral runoff election since switching to non-partisan elections 20 years ago. (Chicago Tribune)
April 8, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of Nurse Jackie
April 8, 2015, Boston Marathon bombings: Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev receives a guilty verdict on all legal charges against him. (CNN)
April 8, 2015,
April 8, 2015,
April 8, 2015,
April 8, 2015, Royal Dutch Shell purchases rival BG Group for around $70 billion. (Wall Street Journal)
April 9, 2015, Series Premiere of The Comedians
April 9, 2015, A fire on April 1 that disrupted power and internet access throughout London is now suspected to have been part of a robbery at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company. (The Register)
April 10, 2015, Release of Broken Horse
April 10, 2015, Release of The Longest Ride
April 10, 2015, Series Premiere of Daredevil
April 9, 2015, Series Premiere of The Comedians
April 9, 2015, A fire on April 1 that disrupted power and internet access throughout London is now suspected to have been part of a robbery at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company. (The Register)
April 10, 2015, Release of Broken Horse
April 10, 2015, Release of The Longest Ride
April 10, 2015, Series Premiere of Daredevil
April 10, 2015,
April 10, 2015,
April 10, 2015, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reaches an agreement with two petroleum industry groups about biofuel blending targets. (Reuters)
April 10, 2015, Ronald Anderson is arrested in connection with a kidnapping his girlfriend, the fatal shooting of a guard at US Census Bureau headquarters and police chase into H Street night life district on April 9. (abcnews)
April 10, 2015, "Serial bride" pled not guilty to felony fraud for marrying 10 husbands, up to 8 at once in New York City. She married men from "red flagged" nations such as Egypt, Turkey, Georgia, Pakistan, Mali, and Bangladesh who sought resident status. (WTKR)
April 10, 2015,
April 10, 2015, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reaches an agreement with two petroleum industry groups about biofuel blending targets. (Reuters)
April 10, 2015, Ronald Anderson is arrested in connection with a kidnapping his girlfriend, the fatal shooting of a guard at US Census Bureau headquarters and police chase into H Street night life district on April 9. (abcnews)
April 10, 2015, "Serial bride" pled not guilty to felony fraud for marrying 10 husbands, up to 8 at once in New York City. She married men from "red flagged" nations such as Egypt, Turkey, Georgia, Pakistan, Mali, and Bangladesh who sought resident status. (WTKR)
April 11, 2015,
April 11, 2015,
April 11, 2015,
April 11, 2015, The President of the United States Barack Obama and the President of Cuba Raul Castro meet at the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Panama. This marks the first meeting of the leaders of the two countries since the Cuban Revolution. (ABC News America)
April 11, 2015, A man carrying a protest sign, backpack and rolling luggage fatally shot himself in the head in front of the US Capitol building. Capitol Police announced there was no apparent connection to terrorism. It follows unconnected shootings at the US Census HQ and the NSA. (CNN)
April 11, 2015, An Egyptian court sentences the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie and fourteen other people to death for inciting violence. (CNN)
April 11, 2015,
April 11, 2015,
April 11, 2015, The President of the United States Barack Obama and the President of Cuba Raul Castro meet at the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Panama. This marks the first meeting of the leaders of the two countries since the Cuban Revolution. (ABC News America)
April 11, 2015, A man carrying a protest sign, backpack and rolling luggage fatally shot himself in the head in front of the US Capitol building. Capitol Police announced there was no apparent connection to terrorism. It follows unconnected shootings at the US Census HQ and the NSA. (CNN)
April 11, 2015, An Egyptian court sentences the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie and fourteen other people to death for inciting violence. (CNN)
April 12, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Silicon Valley
April 12, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Veep
April 12, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Game of Thrones
April 12, 2015, United States presidential election, 2016: Hillary Rodham Clinton, former United States Secretary of State, announces that she is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for President in the 2016 election. (The Guardian)
April 12, 2015,
April 12, 2015, 2015 Masters Tournament: In golf, the final round of the Masters Tournament is held at the Augusta National Golf Club with American Jordan Spieth winning his first championship at the age of 21. Spieth is the second youngest player to win the Masters after Tiger Woods, he ties Woods's record for the lowest winning total, and becomes the fifth man to lead from start to finish. (Sydney Morning Herald)
April 12, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Veep
April 12, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Game of Thrones
April 12, 2015, United States presidential election, 2016: Hillary Rodham Clinton, former United States Secretary of State, announces that she is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for President in the 2016 election. (The Guardian)
April 12, 2015,
April 12, 2015, 2015 Masters Tournament: In golf, the final round of the Masters Tournament is held at the Augusta National Golf Club with American Jordan Spieth winning his first championship at the age of 21. Spieth is the second youngest player to win the Masters after Tiger Woods, he ties Woods's record for the lowest winning total, and becomes the fifth man to lead from start to finish. (Sydney Morning Herald)
April 13, 2015, United States presidential election, 2016: Florida Senator Marco Rubio announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. (CNN)
April 13, 2015,
April 13, 2015, Murder of Travis Alexander: An Arizona judge sentences convicted murderer Jodi Arias to life without parole for the 2008 murder of her ex-boyfriend. (Reuters)
April 13, 2015,
April 13, 2015,
April 13, 2015, Russian president Vladimir Putin lifts the ban on delivery of S-300 missile air defense systems to Iran in connection to the nuclear dialogue. Israel and the United States oppose the deal on the grounds that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. (RT)
April 13, 2015, Blackwater Baghdad shootings: The first of four Blackwater security guards to be sentenced is given a life sentence in the United States for his role in killing 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. (Washington Post)
April 13, 2015, A volunteer police officer is charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Eric Harris, an unarmed man who was shot while lying on his back in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (CNN)
April 14, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Turn
April 14, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Turn
April 14, 2015, SpaceX's latest attempt at recycling its Falcon 9 rocket by landing it on an ocean platform fails again. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
April 14, 2015,
April 14, 2015,
April 14, 2015,
April 14, 2015,
April 14, 2015, The Wall Street Journal reports that European Union regulators have announced plans to file charges against American Internet giant Google following a European Union investigation. (CNBC)
April 14, 2015, An Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 en route from South Korea to Japan skids off the runway at Hiroshima Airport injuring 20 of the 74 passengers. (AP via News24)
April 14, 2015, More than 100 passengers out of 1,100 on the cruise ship Crown Princess may be suffering from symptoms of Norovirus. (Reuters)
April 14, 2015, President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. (New York Times)
April 14, 2015, A court in Japan's Fukui Prefecture issues a landmark injunction against restarting reactors 3 and 4 of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant. (AFP via Yahoo! News Australia)
April 14, 2015, Stone tools found at Lomekwi 3 are dated to 3.3 million years ago, which, if confirmed, would represented the oldest known stone tools.(Science)
April 14, 2015,
April 14, 2015,
April 14, 2015,
April 14, 2015,
April 14, 2015, The Wall Street Journal reports that European Union regulators have announced plans to file charges against American Internet giant Google following a European Union investigation. (CNBC)
April 14, 2015, An Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 en route from South Korea to Japan skids off the runway at Hiroshima Airport injuring 20 of the 74 passengers. (AP via News24)
April 14, 2015, More than 100 passengers out of 1,100 on the cruise ship Crown Princess may be suffering from symptoms of Norovirus. (Reuters)
April 14, 2015, President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. (New York Times)
April 14, 2015, A court in Japan's Fukui Prefecture issues a landmark injunction against restarting reactors 3 and 4 of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant. (AFP via Yahoo! News Australia)
April 14, 2015, Stone tools found at Lomekwi 3 are dated to 3.3 million years ago, which, if confirmed, would represented the oldest known stone tools.(Science)
April 15, 2015, Former American football player Aaron Hernandez is convicted of murder in the first degree in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts. Hernandez shot a former friend Odin Lloyd in 2013. He was automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole. (CNN)
April 15, 2015, A mailman from Florida was arrested after he made an unauthorized landing of a small gyrocopter with postal service markings on the Capitol West Front Lawn. He had told a newspaper that a terrorist would not have informed the public that he planned a non-violent protest flight for campaign finance reform. (Washington Post)
April 15, 2015, Nokia announces plans to buy telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent for €15.6 billion (US$16.6 billion). (The Verge)
April 15, 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu demands that any final agreement on the Iranian nuclear program include a "clear and unambiguous Iranian recognition of Israel's right to exist." (CNN)
April 15, 2015, The European Parliament approves a resolution to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. (AP via Boston Herald)
April 15, 2015, In Arizona, dashcam video showed a police officer intentionally running over an armed suspect. The suspect had stolen a rifle from a nearby Walmart, and had discharged the weapon in a neighborhood. (CNN)
April 15, 2015, A mailman from Florida was arrested after he made an unauthorized landing of a small gyrocopter with postal service markings on the Capitol West Front Lawn. He had told a newspaper that a terrorist would not have informed the public that he planned a non-violent protest flight for campaign finance reform. (Washington Post)
April 15, 2015, Nokia announces plans to buy telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent for €15.6 billion (US$16.6 billion). (The Verge)
April 15, 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu demands that any final agreement on the Iranian nuclear program include a "clear and unambiguous Iranian recognition of Israel's right to exist." (CNN)
April 15, 2015, The European Parliament approves a resolution to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. (AP via Boston Herald)
April 15, 2015, In Arizona, dashcam video showed a police officer intentionally running over an armed suspect. The suspect had stolen a rifle from a nearby Walmart, and had discharged the weapon in a neighborhood. (CNN)
April 16, 2015,
April 16, 2015,
April 16, 2015,
April 16, 2015, WikiLeaks publishes 30,287 documents and 173,132 emails resulting from the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack believed to be undertaken by North Korea. (Variety)
April 16, 2015, More than 40 people have drowned as a migrant boat sinks travelling between Libya and Italy. In a separate incident, 15 Muslim migrants from another Italy-bound boat have been arrested, after allegedly throwing 12 Christian migrants overboard. (BBC)
April 16, 2015, The United States Congress negotiates a deal to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. (Al-Jazeera)
April 16, 2015, The National Football League reinstates Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings after a lengthy suspension. (Fox News)
April 17, 2015, Release of Child 44
April 17, 2015, Release of Monkey Kingdom
April 17, 2015, Release of Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
April 17, 2015, Release of True Story
April 17, 2015, Release of Unfriended
April 17, 2015, Series Premiere of The Messengers
April 17, 2015, Series Premiere of Olympus
April 16, 2015,
April 16, 2015,
April 16, 2015, WikiLeaks publishes 30,287 documents and 173,132 emails resulting from the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack believed to be undertaken by North Korea. (Variety)
April 16, 2015, More than 40 people have drowned as a migrant boat sinks travelling between Libya and Italy. In a separate incident, 15 Muslim migrants from another Italy-bound boat have been arrested, after allegedly throwing 12 Christian migrants overboard. (BBC)
April 16, 2015, The United States Congress negotiates a deal to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. (Al-Jazeera)
April 16, 2015, The National Football League reinstates Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings after a lengthy suspension. (Fox News)
April 17, 2015, Release of Child 44
April 17, 2015, Release of Monkey Kingdom
April 17, 2015, Release of Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
April 17, 2015, Release of True Story
April 17, 2015, Release of Unfriended
April 17, 2015, Series Premiere of The Messengers
April 17, 2015, Series Premiere of Olympus
April 17, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad says that the "most dangerous" leaders of ISIS are Scandinavians. (The Local)
-Up to 150,000 civilians flee the Iraqi city of Ramadi which is under siege from Islamic State. (BBC/AFP via ABC News Australia)
-Iraqi officials claim that militia leader Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri has been killed in fighting in Salahuddin province. Al-Douri was the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's government not to be captured.(BBC)
April 17, 2015, Univisión announce that Sábado Gigante, the longest-running television variety series in history, will end after 53 years on September 19, 2015. (THR)
April 17, 2015, Satellite images show that the China is rapidly building a runway on the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea. (BBC)
-Up to 150,000 civilians flee the Iraqi city of Ramadi which is under siege from Islamic State. (BBC/AFP via ABC News Australia)
-Iraqi officials claim that militia leader Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri has been killed in fighting in Salahuddin province. Al-Douri was the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's government not to be captured.(BBC)
April 17, 2015, Univisión announce that Sábado Gigante, the longest-running television variety series in history, will end after 53 years on September 19, 2015. (THR)
April 17, 2015, Satellite images show that the China is rapidly building a runway on the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea. (BBC)
April 18, 2015, List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: New inductees are welcomed to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame including Lou Reed, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Green Day, Bill Withers, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the 5 Royales. (Los Angeles Times)
April 19, 2015, Series Premiere of High Profits
April 19, 2015,
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April 20, 2015, The United States sends aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and cruiser USS Normandy to block an Iranian convoy heading towards Yemen. (Fox News)
April 20, 2015, 2015 Pulitzer Prize: Anthony Doerr's World War II novel All the Light We Cannot See wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. (CNN)
-Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
April 20, 2015, A strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake occurs off the east coast of Taiwan. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
April 20, 2015, Police officers in the city of Baltimore, Maryland are placed on leave while an investigation is held into the death of Freddie Gray. (Baltimore Sun)
April 20, 2015, 2015 Boston Marathon Runners in the American city of Boston take part in the annual Boston Marathon for the 119th time. Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia wins the men's race while Caroline Rotich of Kenya wins the women's race (CBS)
April 21, 2015,
April 21, 2015,
April 21, 2015, Two terrorist groups, ISIS and Taliban, announce Jihad against each other. (MintPress News)
April 21, 2015, Pope Francis accepts the resignation of Robert Finn as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph for failing to report a suspected child abuser. (AP via Yahoo! News)
April 21, 2015, Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pleads guilty to threatening to kill and drug possession charges in Tauranga, New Zealand. (AP via USA Today)
April 21, 2015, An Egyptian court sentences former President Mohammed Morsi to twenty years imprisonment for involvement in the killing of protesters when he was in power. (BBC)
April 21, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: The United States Department of Justice announces a federal investigation into the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. (AP via The Republic)
April 21, 2015, Michele Leonhart announces her retirement as the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration with concerns raised about her leadership following a prostitution scandal involving Agency officers having sex with prostitutes provided by drug cartels. (CNN)
April 22, 2015, Release of The Avengers: Age of Ultron
April 22, 2015,
April 22, 2015,
April 22, 2015, Google announces a new wireless network in the United States called Project Fi with a pay as you go data rate. (Venture Beat)
April 22, 2015, The Calbuco volcano erupts in southern Chile forcing the evacuation of 4000 residents. (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada)
April 22, 2015, The United States Senate unanimously passes a bill to combat human trafficking after a long delay caused by a dispute over abortion funding. (New York Times)
April 22, 2015, An 11-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the 2011 conviction of all-time Major League Baseball home run leader Barry Bonds on obstruction of justice charges stemming from the BALCO doping scandal. (AP via ESPN)
April 23, 2015,
April 23, 2015,
April 23, 2015, Bloomberg News reports that Comcast will walk away from its $45 billion takeover for Time Warner Cable. (Bloomberg)
April 23, 2015, The NASDAQ Stock Market sets a new record high for the first time since the dot com bubble collapsed in 2000. (Wall Street Journal)
April 23, 2015, Libor scandal: Deutsche Bank pays $2.5 billion to settle an investigation by the United States and the United Kingdom related to manipulation of the Libor or London Interbank Offered Rate. It will also plead guilty in a US court case. (Wall Street Journal)
April 23, 2015, Petraeus scandal: Former United States Army general and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency David Petraeus pleads guilty of sharing classified information with his biographer and lover. He is given two years probation and a $100,000 fine. (The Guardian)
April 23, 2015, The United States Senate confirms Loretta Lynch as the Attorney General of the United States. Lynch will be the first African-American woman to hold the position. (New York Times)
April 24, 2015, Release of Little Boy
April 24, 2015, Release of The Age of Adaline
April 24, 2015, Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire. (BBC)
April 24, 2015, Former American Olympic Games champion Bruce Jenner comes out as a transgender person. (CNN)
April 24, 2015, In the United States, the NASDAQ and S&P 500 end at record highs spurred by strong results by tech giants Google, Amazon and Microsoft. (Reuters)
April 24, 2015, A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs near the town of Kaikoura on the South Island of New Zealand. (New Zealand Herald)
April 24, 2015, The Statue of Liberty in New York is evacuated after a bomb threat. (AP via News24)
April 24, 2015, A study by the University of Utah show that the magma reserves of the Yellowstone supervolcano are much greater than previously thought. (CNN)
April 25, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: A strong 7.9 earthquake strikes between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the regional headquarter city of Pokhara. The Government of Nepal declares a state of emergency with 1500 dead. A number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites are destroyed, including the historic Dharahara tower. Deaths are also recorded in India, Bangladesh and the Chinese province of Tibet. (CNN)
April 25, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: Twelve people are arrested in the American city of Baltimore as protests against the death of Freddie Gray in police custody turn violent. (Baltimore Sun)
April 25, 2015,
April 25, 2015, Ferdinand Piëch, grandson of the inventor of the Volkswagen Beetle and chairman of Volkswagen for more than 20 years, steps down from that post under trade union pressure. (Reuters)
April 25, 2015, The New York Times reports that Russian hackers read President of the United States unclassified emails indicating that the breach of the White House's computer system was more extensive than previously revealed. (New York Times)
April 26, 2015, Series Premiere of Happyish
April 26, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: Rescue and recovery attempts continue in Nepal after Saturday's earthquake with the death toll more than 2200 and expected to rise further.(New York Times)
-A strong earthquake aftershock measured at 6.7 hits Nepal and northern India and causes further avalanches in the Himalayas. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
-Rescue helicopters airlift badly injured climbers off Mount Everest a day after avalanches triggered by the earthquake kill seventeen people. (NBC News)
April 26, 2015, American for profit education company Corinthian Colleges announces that it will close its remaining more than two dozen colleges in the western United States due to state and federal investigations into its job-placement practices. (Los Angeles Times)
April 27, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray, 2015 Baltimore riots: Violent rioting and protests including looting occur near the Mondawmin Mall in Baltimore after the funeral of Freddie Gray with fifteen Baltimorean police officers being injured. (USA Today)
April 27, 2015, Larry Hogan, the Governor of Maryland, puts the National Guard on alert in response to the riots. The Mayor of Baltimore Stephanie Rawlings-Blake declares a daily curfew beginning at 10 p.m. Tuesday. (ABC News Baltimore)
April 27, 2015,
April 27, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: The death toll from the earthquakes in Nepal rises to more than 3,700 with reports that tens of thousands of people are homeless. There are fears that the death toll could rise to over 5,000. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
April 27, 2015, Fitch Ratings downgrades Japan's credit rating to A over mounting debts. (Reuters via CNBC)
April 28, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: The official death toll exceeds 5,000 with the United Nations estimating that 1.4 million people in the region need emergency food assistance. (CNN)
-At least 250 people are missing after a mudslide and avalanche in Ghodatabela, a remote village near the epicenter of the earthquake. (AP via News24)
April 28, 2015, Sinking of the MV Sewol: Lee Jun-seok, the Captain of the MV Sewol, is given a life sentence for murder for his role in the incident. (Yonhap)
April 28, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray, 2015 Baltimore riots: About 200 people have been arrested in the American city of Baltimore for rioting; 20 Baltimore Police Department officers are injured and 144 cars set on fire. Schools in the city have been closed. (Los Angeles Times)
April 28, 2015, In mixed martial arts, the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones, widely regarded as the best active mixed martial arts fighter in the world, is stripped of his title after his alleged involvement in a hit-and-run incident. (Fox News)
April 28, 2015, In Major League Baseball, the Baltimore Orioles announce several changes to their upcoming schedule due to the riots in the city: (ESPN)
-After having two home games at Camden Yards with the Chicago White Sox postponed, the Orioles announce that the teams will play their April 29 game there with no fans allowed to attend. This is the first time in MLB history that a game has been held behind closed doors.
April 29, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: The death toll for the earthquake reaches 6,100 as the first food aid reaches Nepal. This includes 6000+ people in Nepal, 19 people on Mount Everest, 76 in India, 25 in China, and 4 in Bangladesh. (AP via Daily Mail)
-Thousands of people are fleeing Kathmandu due to uncertainty over food supply. (Xinhua)
April 29, 2015, The Americas becomes the first World Health Organization region to be officially declared free of rubella. (NY Times)
April 29, 2015, 2016 United States Presidential election: Nominally independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont announces that he will be seeking the Democratic Party nomination in the US Presidential election. (AP via Yahoo! News)
April 29, 2015, Scientists discover the first known dinosaur with membranous wings.(NY Times)
April 30, 2015, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft crashes into Mercury after surpassing its one year primary mission by three years. (NBC News)
April 30, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: A teenager is pulled alive out of the wreckage of a guesthouse on the outskirts of Kathmandu after five days. (Times of India)
April 30, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: The Baltimore Police Department completes its investigation into the death of Freddie Gray and hands it over to prosecutors. (New York Times)
April 30, 2015, A woman, identified Friday morning as Alexia Christian, 25, who had earlier stolen a car, fires a handgun at two Atlanta Police Department officers, barely missing them. She is subsequently shot and killed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
April 19, 2015, Series Premiere of High Profits
April 19, 2015,
April 19, 2015,
April 19, 2015,
April 19, 2015,
April 19, 2015,
April 19, 2015,
April 19, 2015,
April 20, 2015, The United States sends aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and cruiser USS Normandy to block an Iranian convoy heading towards Yemen. (Fox News)
April 20, 2015, 2015 Pulitzer Prize: Anthony Doerr's World War II novel All the Light We Cannot See wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. (CNN)
-Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
April 20, 2015, A strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake occurs off the east coast of Taiwan. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
April 20, 2015, Police officers in the city of Baltimore, Maryland are placed on leave while an investigation is held into the death of Freddie Gray. (Baltimore Sun)
April 20, 2015, 2015 Boston Marathon Runners in the American city of Boston take part in the annual Boston Marathon for the 119th time. Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia wins the men's race while Caroline Rotich of Kenya wins the women's race (CBS)
April 21, 2015,
April 21, 2015, Two terrorist groups, ISIS and Taliban, announce Jihad against each other. (MintPress News)
April 21, 2015, Pope Francis accepts the resignation of Robert Finn as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph for failing to report a suspected child abuser. (AP via Yahoo! News)
April 21, 2015, Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pleads guilty to threatening to kill and drug possession charges in Tauranga, New Zealand. (AP via USA Today)
April 21, 2015, An Egyptian court sentences former President Mohammed Morsi to twenty years imprisonment for involvement in the killing of protesters when he was in power. (BBC)
April 21, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: The United States Department of Justice announces a federal investigation into the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. (AP via The Republic)
April 21, 2015, Michele Leonhart announces her retirement as the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration with concerns raised about her leadership following a prostitution scandal involving Agency officers having sex with prostitutes provided by drug cartels. (CNN)
April 22, 2015, Release of The Avengers: Age of Ultron
April 22, 2015,
April 22, 2015,
April 22, 2015, Google announces a new wireless network in the United States called Project Fi with a pay as you go data rate. (Venture Beat)
April 22, 2015, The Calbuco volcano erupts in southern Chile forcing the evacuation of 4000 residents. (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada)
April 22, 2015, The United States Senate unanimously passes a bill to combat human trafficking after a long delay caused by a dispute over abortion funding. (New York Times)
April 22, 2015, An 11-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the 2011 conviction of all-time Major League Baseball home run leader Barry Bonds on obstruction of justice charges stemming from the BALCO doping scandal. (AP via ESPN)
April 23, 2015,
April 23, 2015,
April 23, 2015, Bloomberg News reports that Comcast will walk away from its $45 billion takeover for Time Warner Cable. (Bloomberg)
April 23, 2015, The NASDAQ Stock Market sets a new record high for the first time since the dot com bubble collapsed in 2000. (Wall Street Journal)
April 23, 2015, Libor scandal: Deutsche Bank pays $2.5 billion to settle an investigation by the United States and the United Kingdom related to manipulation of the Libor or London Interbank Offered Rate. It will also plead guilty in a US court case. (Wall Street Journal)
April 23, 2015, Petraeus scandal: Former United States Army general and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency David Petraeus pleads guilty of sharing classified information with his biographer and lover. He is given two years probation and a $100,000 fine. (The Guardian)
April 23, 2015, The United States Senate confirms Loretta Lynch as the Attorney General of the United States. Lynch will be the first African-American woman to hold the position. (New York Times)
April 24, 2015, Release of Little Boy
April 24, 2015, Release of The Age of Adaline
April 24, 2015, Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire. (BBC)
April 24, 2015, Former American Olympic Games champion Bruce Jenner comes out as a transgender person. (CNN)
April 24, 2015, In the United States, the NASDAQ and S&P 500 end at record highs spurred by strong results by tech giants Google, Amazon and Microsoft. (Reuters)
April 24, 2015, A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs near the town of Kaikoura on the South Island of New Zealand. (New Zealand Herald)
April 24, 2015, The Statue of Liberty in New York is evacuated after a bomb threat. (AP via News24)
April 24, 2015, A study by the University of Utah show that the magma reserves of the Yellowstone supervolcano are much greater than previously thought. (CNN)
April 25, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: A strong 7.9 earthquake strikes between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the regional headquarter city of Pokhara. The Government of Nepal declares a state of emergency with 1500 dead. A number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites are destroyed, including the historic Dharahara tower. Deaths are also recorded in India, Bangladesh and the Chinese province of Tibet. (CNN)
April 25, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: Twelve people are arrested in the American city of Baltimore as protests against the death of Freddie Gray in police custody turn violent. (Baltimore Sun)
April 25, 2015,
April 25, 2015, Ferdinand Piëch, grandson of the inventor of the Volkswagen Beetle and chairman of Volkswagen for more than 20 years, steps down from that post under trade union pressure. (Reuters)
April 25, 2015, The New York Times reports that Russian hackers read President of the United States unclassified emails indicating that the breach of the White House's computer system was more extensive than previously revealed. (New York Times)
April 26, 2015, Series Premiere of Happyish
April 26, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: Rescue and recovery attempts continue in Nepal after Saturday's earthquake with the death toll more than 2200 and expected to rise further.(New York Times)
-A strong earthquake aftershock measured at 6.7 hits Nepal and northern India and causes further avalanches in the Himalayas. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
-Rescue helicopters airlift badly injured climbers off Mount Everest a day after avalanches triggered by the earthquake kill seventeen people. (NBC News)
April 26, 2015, American for profit education company Corinthian Colleges announces that it will close its remaining more than two dozen colleges in the western United States due to state and federal investigations into its job-placement practices. (Los Angeles Times)
April 27, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray, 2015 Baltimore riots: Violent rioting and protests including looting occur near the Mondawmin Mall in Baltimore after the funeral of Freddie Gray with fifteen Baltimorean police officers being injured. (USA Today)
April 27, 2015, Larry Hogan, the Governor of Maryland, puts the National Guard on alert in response to the riots. The Mayor of Baltimore Stephanie Rawlings-Blake declares a daily curfew beginning at 10 p.m. Tuesday. (ABC News Baltimore)
April 27, 2015,
April 27, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: The death toll from the earthquakes in Nepal rises to more than 3,700 with reports that tens of thousands of people are homeless. There are fears that the death toll could rise to over 5,000. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
April 27, 2015, Fitch Ratings downgrades Japan's credit rating to A over mounting debts. (Reuters via CNBC)
April 28, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: The official death toll exceeds 5,000 with the United Nations estimating that 1.4 million people in the region need emergency food assistance. (CNN)
-At least 250 people are missing after a mudslide and avalanche in Ghodatabela, a remote village near the epicenter of the earthquake. (AP via News24)
April 28, 2015, Sinking of the MV Sewol: Lee Jun-seok, the Captain of the MV Sewol, is given a life sentence for murder for his role in the incident. (Yonhap)
April 28, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray, 2015 Baltimore riots: About 200 people have been arrested in the American city of Baltimore for rioting; 20 Baltimore Police Department officers are injured and 144 cars set on fire. Schools in the city have been closed. (Los Angeles Times)
April 28, 2015, In mixed martial arts, the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones, widely regarded as the best active mixed martial arts fighter in the world, is stripped of his title after his alleged involvement in a hit-and-run incident. (Fox News)
April 28, 2015, In Major League Baseball, the Baltimore Orioles announce several changes to their upcoming schedule due to the riots in the city: (ESPN)
-After having two home games at Camden Yards with the Chicago White Sox postponed, the Orioles announce that the teams will play their April 29 game there with no fans allowed to attend. This is the first time in MLB history that a game has been held behind closed doors.
April 29, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: The death toll for the earthquake reaches 6,100 as the first food aid reaches Nepal. This includes 6000+ people in Nepal, 19 people on Mount Everest, 76 in India, 25 in China, and 4 in Bangladesh. (AP via Daily Mail)
-Thousands of people are fleeing Kathmandu due to uncertainty over food supply. (Xinhua)
April 29, 2015, The Americas becomes the first World Health Organization region to be officially declared free of rubella. (NY Times)
April 29, 2015, 2016 United States Presidential election: Nominally independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont announces that he will be seeking the Democratic Party nomination in the US Presidential election. (AP via Yahoo! News)
April 29, 2015, Scientists discover the first known dinosaur with membranous wings.(NY Times)
April 30, 2015, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft crashes into Mercury after surpassing its one year primary mission by three years. (NBC News)
April 30, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: A teenager is pulled alive out of the wreckage of a guesthouse on the outskirts of Kathmandu after five days. (Times of India)
April 30, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: The Baltimore Police Department completes its investigation into the death of Freddie Gray and hands it over to prosecutors. (New York Times)
April 30, 2015, A woman, identified Friday morning as Alexia Christian, 25, who had earlier stolen a car, fires a handgun at two Atlanta Police Department officers, barely missing them. She is subsequently shot and killed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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