August 1, 2015, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Debris suspected to be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared last year arrives in France for investigation in Toulouse. (Reuters)
August 2, 2015,
August 3, 2015, Series Premiere of Significant Mother
August 3, 2015,
August 3, 2015, 2012
Aurora shooting: In an unanimous decision, the jury ruled that James
Eagan Holmes, convicted for the shooting, is still eligible for the
death penalty. (CNN International)
August 4, 2015,
August 4, 2015, A street-corner sized sinkhole forms at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 64th Street in Sunset Park in Brooklyn,
New York City, ruining the street corner, around 7:30 AM. The
northbound N Broadway Local train is delayed; there is at least one
disconnected pipe and gas lines are being repaired by National Grid
workers; and the police have cordoned off the area. No fatalities or
injuries have been reported. (Business Insider, via MSN)
August 4, 2015, Researchers from the University of California, Riverside discover that soybean oil and corn oil increased diabetes rates in mice more than coconut oil and fructose. (UCR Today)
August 4, 2015, The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, according to its Archbishop, Jerome Listecki, has reached a collective settlement agreement of $USD 21 million for its sex abuse claims, meaning it could come out of a January 4, 2011 Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Archdiocese of Milwaukee)
August 5, 2015, Series Premiere of Mr. Robinson
August 5, 2015, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirms that the plane debris recovered from Reunion Island on July 29 is from Flight 370. This is the first direct evidence that the missing March 2014 flight crashed. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the search for MH370 will continue. (BBC)
August 5, 2015,
August 5, 2015,
August 5, 2015,
August 5, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Soudelor (Hanna) strengthens to the strongest storm of 2015; it is expected to be equivalent to a Category 3 or Category 4 hurricane when it hits Taiwan. (The Independent)
August 5, 2015, Police claim a triple murder in Pensacola, Florida is linked to witchcraft and the blue moon. (The Washington Post)
August 5, 2015, A U.S. court of appeals strikes down a state law in Texas that requires that voters show identification before casting ballots. (Reuters)
August 6, 2015, American news satire program The Daily Show airs its last broadcast with comedian Jon Stewart as host. (The New Yorker)
August 6, 2015,
August 6, 2015, Many people throughout the world commemorate the 70th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. (Reuters via Melbourne Age)
August 6, 2015, Many people throughout the world commemorate the 70th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. (Reuters via Melbourne Age)
August 6, 2015, The Republican Party candidates for President of the United States
debate, in two events (top tier candidates and lower-tier candidates
separated) in an informal kick-off event for the 2016 campaign. (LA Times)
August 7, 2015, Release of Fantastic Four
August 7, 2015, Release of Fantastic Four
August 7, 2015, Release of Dark Places
August 7, 2015, Release of The Gift
August 7, 2015, Release of Ricki and The Flash
August 7, 2015, Release of Dr. Dre album Compton
August 7, 2015,
August 7, 2015,
August 7, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Taiwan evacuates hundreds of people ahead of Typhoon Soudelor (2015). (Reuters via WA Today)
August 8, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Soudelor makes landfall in Taiwan killing at least four people with four people missing and 64 injured. (CNA via Focus Taiwan)
August 9, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: At least 22 people are dead or missing in China and millions are without power after Typhoon Soudelor hit the nation yesterday. (USA Today)
August 9, 2015, NFL player and sportscaster Frank Gifford dies at the age of 84. (NBC)
August 10, 2015, Ferguson unrest: Tyrone Harris, Jr is shot in Ferguson, Missouri one year after the death of Michael Brown after allegedly firing shots at police. He is in a critical condition.(St Louis Post-Dispatch)
August 10, 2015,
August 10, 2015,
August 10, 2015,
August 10, 2015,
August 11, 2015, Google creates a new holding company called Alphabet Inc. containing Google Inc. and Calico containing Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X and other subsidiaries. (Bloomberg)
August 11, 2015, A night parrot has been captured for the first time in over a hundred years in Australia's outback. (The Guardian)
August 11, 2015, A scientific study, part of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, examined huge blocks of space as distant as several billion light years away and concluded that the universe is "slowly dying" as more stars gradually go out faster than they are being replaced by light-emitting active ones. In cosmological terms, the demise of the universe -age calculated at approximately 13.8 billion years- is billions, perhaps trillions of years away. (The Guardian, via MSN)
August 12, 2015, The People's Bank of China devalues the Chinese yuan by two percent in an attempt to boost its economy, a move which could spark a currency war. (The Guardian)
August 12, 2015, Debris from a Buk surface-to-air missile is found at an unspecified location in eastern Ukraine. According to the Dutch Safety Board and the Dutch prosecutor overseeing the criminal investigation, it may have come from a Buk (possibly of Russian origin) fired by rebel fighters, accidentally or purposefully, in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The investigation remains classified. (AFP, via MSN)
August 12, 2015, Japan's Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu restarts reactor no. 1. This is the first of 50-plus shut-down nuclear reactors to go back online since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The problems discovered in the reactor model after the disaster have not been fixed. (UPI)
August 12, 2015, 2015 Chinese stock market crash: The People's Republic of China devalues the yuan (Renminbi) by 1.62 per cent after devaluing by 1.92 per cent yesterday. This comes in the wake of a 30% drop of Chinese stocks last month. (BBC)
August 12, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosion: A massive explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin results in at least 17 deaths, 11 people seriously injured and hundreds of people being hospitalised. (BBC)
August 12, 2015, Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, aged 90, announces that recent liver surgery revealed that he is suffering from an as-yet unspecified form of cancer, of unspecified type and origin and degree of malignancy, which has spread (metastasis) to other unspecified parts of his body. (Reuters, via MSN)
August 13, 2015,
August 13, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosion: The death toll from the 2015 Tianjin explosion rises to 44. (AP via Star Tribune)
August 13, 2015,
August 13, 2015, Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority: Swedish prosecutors drop some charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange but will continue to investigate rape claims. (Sky News)
August 14, 2015, Release of Straight Outta Compton
August 14, 2015, Release of The Man From U.N.C.L.E
August 14, 2015,
August 14, 2015,
August 14, 2015,
August 15, 2015, Victory over Japan Day: Countries around the world commemorate the end of World War II. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
-North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time 8.5 hours ahead of UTC in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Korean peninsula. (South China Morning Post)
August 15, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosions: The death toll from the explosions rises to 112 with 95 people missing including 85 fire fighters. (Reuters)
August 16, 2015, Series Premiere of Show Me A Hero
August 16, 2015, An Indonesian plane (Trigana Air Service Flight 257) with 54 people on board goes missing in Papua. There are later reports that the remains of the aircraft have been found in the Oksibil district. (BBC)
August 16, 2015,
August 16, 2015,
August 16, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosions: The death toll from the explosions rises to 112 with 95 people missing including 85 fire fighters. (Reuters)
August 16, 2015, 2015 PGA Championship: In golf, Jason Day of Australia wins the PGA Championship on the Straits Course of the Whistling Straits complex in the American village of Kohler, Wisconsin. (ABC News Australia)
-Day's 20-under-par is the lowest score in relation to par at a major championship, beating Tiger Woods' previous record of 19-under at the 2000 Open Championship. (ABC News Australia)
-Jordan Spieth of the United States finishes second and by doing so becomes the number one ranked golfer in the world ahead of Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland. (ABC News Australia)
August 17, 2015, 2015 Ratchaprasong bombing: A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others. No one has claimed responsibility. Thai Society president Songvut Manoonpong said parties opposing the Thai military government were likely responsible. (Sky News)
August 17, 2015,
August 17, 2015,
August 17, 2015, Trigana Air Service Flight 257: Indonesian authorities reveal that the crashed plane was transporting $US470,000 in cash for the poor. (The Telegraph)
August 17, 2015, The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which announced an extensive computer data breach in May 2015, has revealed that the breach is much deeper and more serious than previously thought, exposing an additional 220,000 individuals. The thieves had infiltrated a now-deactivated online system called "Get Transcript." (AP, via MSN)
August 17, 2015, A former police officer is charged with second degree murder, in connection with the on-duty shooting death of John Geer in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., in August 2013. (NBC Washington)
August 17, 2015, Experiments at the the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made major progress in mapping brain signalling processes at an atomic level, in this case, the SNARE complex (neuronal SNAREs and synaptotagmin-1), which influences the control and release of neurotransmitters.(Science Daily)
August 18, 2015,
August 18, 2015,
August 18, 2015,
August 18, 2015,
August 18, 2015, Two women pass the United States Army's Ranger School becoming the first to do so, and earning Ranger tabs on their uniforms. (AP, via MSN)
August 18, 2015, Trigana Air Service Flight 257: Indonesian crews locate bodies of all 54 people aboard the wreckage of Trigana Air Service Flight 257 in a remote area of Papua. (New York Times),
August 19, 2015, Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle reaches a plea deal with U.S. federal prosecutors in Indianapolis. Fogle will plead guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with at least two teenage girls. Under the deal, he will serve from 5 to 12½ years in prison, and will also pay US$1.4 million in restitution to 14 victims. (CNN)
August 19, 2015,
August 19, 2015, Following a July 15 hacking, user data of the infidelity-promoting dating website Ashley Madison is leaked with over 30 million users having their information compromised. (BBC)
August 19, 2015, 3 people are killed, 4 injured in a drive by shooting outside of a Boys & Girls Club in Rochester, New York. (WGRZ)
August 19, 2015, The United States Navy SEALs announce a plan to allow women to register, the first time in history. (Navy Times)
August 20, 2015,
August 20, 2015,
August 20, 2015,
August 20, 2015,
August 20, 2015, Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle reaches a plea deal with U.S. federal prosecutors in Indianapolis. Fogle will plead guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with at least two teenage girls. Under the deal, he will serve from 5 to 12½ years in prison, and will also pay US$1.4 million in restitution to 14 victims. (CNN)
August 20, 2015, Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that his liver cancer (melanoma) had spread to his brain. In addition to radiation, Carter will be treated with a new drug, Keytruda (pembrolizumab), that boosts the immune system without the debilitating side effects of older treatments. (Washington Post)
August 20, 2015, The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that July was the hottest month globally since record keeping began in 1880. Global temperatures were 1.46°F (0.81°C) warmer than the 20th century average. NOAA scientists expect 2015 will go down as the warmest year on record. (CBS News)
August 21, 2015, The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops and closes down more than 500 points with the NASDAQ and S&P 500 also down more than 3%. (Reuters)
August 21, 2015,
August 21, 2015, A bottle with a letter inside by British marine biologist George Parker Bidder III is discovered by a woman vacationing in Germany. The bottle dating from 1906, if confirmed, would be the world's oldest message in a bottle found to date. (MSN)
August 21, 2015, Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ordered Google, Inc. to remove, from its search engines, links to news stories about Google's implementation of a "right to be forgotten" request, that include identifying information about a decade-old shoplifting conviction, and thus are no longer relevant. The order applies only in the United Kingdom. (Wall Street Journal)
August 21, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season: The season's first hurricane, Hurricane Danny, is upgraded to Category 3, as its winds strengthened to 115 mph. On its current track, the hurricane will move across the Leeward Islands by Monday but may weaken when it reaches Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. (USA Today)
August 21, 2015, 2015 Washington state wildfires: President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency across northeastern and central Washington as the amount of burned land in the state reaches nearly a half-million acres. (FEMA)2015 Washington state wildfires President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency across northeastern and central Washington as the amount of burned land in the state reaches nearly a half-million acres. (FEMA)
August 21, 2015, The United States halts, then resumes its annual military exercise with South Korea, Foal Eagle, amid rising tensions. (CNN)
August 22, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Survivor's Remorse
August 22, 2015, Shoreham Airport disaster: A Hawker Hunter aircraft crashes during an airshow after failing to pull out of dive at Shoreham Airport, West Sussex, United Kingdom. Seven people are killed with 15 injured. (BBC News Online)
August 22, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosions: The State Council of the People's Republic of China orders a thorough investigation of the explosions as the death toll rises to 121. (Xinhua via icrossChina)
August 22, 2015, Mei Xiang, a female giant panda at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., delivers two cubs. The identity of the father is not known. (Washington Post)
August 23, 2015, Series Premiere of Fear The Walking Dead
August 23, 2015,
August 23, 2015, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is reported to have blown up the ancient Baalshamin temple in Palmyra, Syria. (BBC)
August 23, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Goni leaves the Phillipines with 15 dead and 12 people missing. (AP)
August 23, 2015, The number of fatalities in the 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash is "highly likely" to have risen to 11. (BBC)
August 23, 2015, Britain and Iran reopen embassies in each others' capitals that had been closed after Iranian protesters stormed the British embassy on November 29, 2011. (Reuters)
August 23, 2015, Two men from Iowa are arrested in Saugus, Massachusetts after heavy firearms are discovered in their hotel room. The two had made threats on social media targeting the 2015 Pokemon Video Game World Championships that are being held in Boston. (CNN)
August 24, 2015, 2015 Chinese stock market crash: Stock markets around the world fall as a result of fears about China's economy with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by 1000 points at the opening of trading on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Index closes down 588 points. (The New York Times)
August 24, 2015, American utility Southern Company buys natural gas company AGL Resources for $12 billion. (New York Times)
August 24, 2015, 2015 Washington state wildfires: The Okanogan Complex fire grows to 256,500 acres (103,800 ha), surpassing the previous year's Carlton Complex fire as the largest in Washington state history. (KOMO-TV)
August 24, 2015, In motorsport, IndyCar driver Justin Wilson dies the day after being struck in the head by debris from another vehicle's crash during Sunday's race at Pocono Raceway. (ESPN)
August 25, 2015, Series Premiere of Public Moral
August 25, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of From Dusk Till Dawn
August 7, 2015,
August 7, 2015,
August 7, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Taiwan evacuates hundreds of people ahead of Typhoon Soudelor (2015). (Reuters via WA Today)
August 8, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Soudelor makes landfall in Taiwan killing at least four people with four people missing and 64 injured. (CNA via Focus Taiwan)
August 9, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: At least 22 people are dead or missing in China and millions are without power after Typhoon Soudelor hit the nation yesterday. (USA Today)
August 9, 2015, NFL player and sportscaster Frank Gifford dies at the age of 84. (NBC)
August 10, 2015, Ferguson unrest: Tyrone Harris, Jr is shot in Ferguson, Missouri one year after the death of Michael Brown after allegedly firing shots at police. He is in a critical condition.(St Louis Post-Dispatch)
August 10, 2015,
August 10, 2015,
August 10, 2015,
August 11, 2015, Google creates a new holding company called Alphabet Inc. containing Google Inc. and Calico containing Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X and other subsidiaries. (Bloomberg)
August 11, 2015, A night parrot has been captured for the first time in over a hundred years in Australia's outback. (The Guardian)
August 11, 2015, A scientific study, part of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, examined huge blocks of space as distant as several billion light years away and concluded that the universe is "slowly dying" as more stars gradually go out faster than they are being replaced by light-emitting active ones. In cosmological terms, the demise of the universe -age calculated at approximately 13.8 billion years- is billions, perhaps trillions of years away. (The Guardian, via MSN)
August 12, 2015, The People's Bank of China devalues the Chinese yuan by two percent in an attempt to boost its economy, a move which could spark a currency war. (The Guardian)
August 12, 2015, Debris from a Buk surface-to-air missile is found at an unspecified location in eastern Ukraine. According to the Dutch Safety Board and the Dutch prosecutor overseeing the criminal investigation, it may have come from a Buk (possibly of Russian origin) fired by rebel fighters, accidentally or purposefully, in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The investigation remains classified. (AFP, via MSN)
August 12, 2015, Japan's Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu restarts reactor no. 1. This is the first of 50-plus shut-down nuclear reactors to go back online since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The problems discovered in the reactor model after the disaster have not been fixed. (UPI)
August 12, 2015, 2015 Chinese stock market crash: The People's Republic of China devalues the yuan (Renminbi) by 1.62 per cent after devaluing by 1.92 per cent yesterday. This comes in the wake of a 30% drop of Chinese stocks last month. (BBC)
August 12, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosion: A massive explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin results in at least 17 deaths, 11 people seriously injured and hundreds of people being hospitalised. (BBC)
August 12, 2015, Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, aged 90, announces that recent liver surgery revealed that he is suffering from an as-yet unspecified form of cancer, of unspecified type and origin and degree of malignancy, which has spread (metastasis) to other unspecified parts of his body. (Reuters, via MSN)
August 13, 2015,
August 13, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosion: The death toll from the 2015 Tianjin explosion rises to 44. (AP via Star Tribune)
August 13, 2015,
August 13, 2015, Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority: Swedish prosecutors drop some charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange but will continue to investigate rape claims. (Sky News)
August 14, 2015, Release of Straight Outta Compton
August 14, 2015, Release of The Man From U.N.C.L.E
August 14, 2015,
August 14, 2015,
August 14, 2015,
August 15, 2015, Victory over Japan Day: Countries around the world commemorate the end of World War II. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
-North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time 8.5 hours ahead of UTC in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Korean peninsula. (South China Morning Post)
August 15, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosions: The death toll from the explosions rises to 112 with 95 people missing including 85 fire fighters. (Reuters)
August 16, 2015, Series Premiere of Show Me A Hero
August 16, 2015, An Indonesian plane (Trigana Air Service Flight 257) with 54 people on board goes missing in Papua. There are later reports that the remains of the aircraft have been found in the Oksibil district. (BBC)
August 16, 2015,
August 16, 2015,
August 16, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosions: The death toll from the explosions rises to 112 with 95 people missing including 85 fire fighters. (Reuters)
August 16, 2015, 2015 PGA Championship: In golf, Jason Day of Australia wins the PGA Championship on the Straits Course of the Whistling Straits complex in the American village of Kohler, Wisconsin. (ABC News Australia)
-Day's 20-under-par is the lowest score in relation to par at a major championship, beating Tiger Woods' previous record of 19-under at the 2000 Open Championship. (ABC News Australia)
-Jordan Spieth of the United States finishes second and by doing so becomes the number one ranked golfer in the world ahead of Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland. (ABC News Australia)
August 17, 2015, 2015 Ratchaprasong bombing: A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others. No one has claimed responsibility. Thai Society president Songvut Manoonpong said parties opposing the Thai military government were likely responsible. (Sky News)
August 17, 2015,
August 17, 2015,
August 17, 2015, Trigana Air Service Flight 257: Indonesian authorities reveal that the crashed plane was transporting $US470,000 in cash for the poor. (The Telegraph)
August 17, 2015, The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which announced an extensive computer data breach in May 2015, has revealed that the breach is much deeper and more serious than previously thought, exposing an additional 220,000 individuals. The thieves had infiltrated a now-deactivated online system called "Get Transcript." (AP, via MSN)
August 17, 2015, A former police officer is charged with second degree murder, in connection with the on-duty shooting death of John Geer in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., in August 2013. (NBC Washington)
August 17, 2015, Experiments at the the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made major progress in mapping brain signalling processes at an atomic level, in this case, the SNARE complex (neuronal SNAREs and synaptotagmin-1), which influences the control and release of neurotransmitters.(Science Daily)
August 18, 2015,
August 18, 2015,
August 18, 2015,
August 18, 2015,
August 18, 2015, Two women pass the United States Army's Ranger School becoming the first to do so, and earning Ranger tabs on their uniforms. (AP, via MSN)
August 18, 2015, Trigana Air Service Flight 257: Indonesian crews locate bodies of all 54 people aboard the wreckage of Trigana Air Service Flight 257 in a remote area of Papua. (New York Times),
August 19, 2015, Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle reaches a plea deal with U.S. federal prosecutors in Indianapolis. Fogle will plead guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with at least two teenage girls. Under the deal, he will serve from 5 to 12½ years in prison, and will also pay US$1.4 million in restitution to 14 victims. (CNN)
August 19, 2015,
August 19, 2015, Following a July 15 hacking, user data of the infidelity-promoting dating website Ashley Madison is leaked with over 30 million users having their information compromised. (BBC)
August 19, 2015, 3 people are killed, 4 injured in a drive by shooting outside of a Boys & Girls Club in Rochester, New York. (WGRZ)
August 19, 2015, The United States Navy SEALs announce a plan to allow women to register, the first time in history. (Navy Times)
August 20, 2015,
August 20, 2015,
August 20, 2015,
August 20, 2015,
August 20, 2015, Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle reaches a plea deal with U.S. federal prosecutors in Indianapolis. Fogle will plead guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with at least two teenage girls. Under the deal, he will serve from 5 to 12½ years in prison, and will also pay US$1.4 million in restitution to 14 victims. (CNN)
August 20, 2015, Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that his liver cancer (melanoma) had spread to his brain. In addition to radiation, Carter will be treated with a new drug, Keytruda (pembrolizumab), that boosts the immune system without the debilitating side effects of older treatments. (Washington Post)
August 20, 2015, The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that July was the hottest month globally since record keeping began in 1880. Global temperatures were 1.46°F (0.81°C) warmer than the 20th century average. NOAA scientists expect 2015 will go down as the warmest year on record. (CBS News)
August 21, 2015, The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops and closes down more than 500 points with the NASDAQ and S&P 500 also down more than 3%. (Reuters)
August 21, 2015,
August 21, 2015, A bottle with a letter inside by British marine biologist George Parker Bidder III is discovered by a woman vacationing in Germany. The bottle dating from 1906, if confirmed, would be the world's oldest message in a bottle found to date. (MSN)
August 21, 2015, Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ordered Google, Inc. to remove, from its search engines, links to news stories about Google's implementation of a "right to be forgotten" request, that include identifying information about a decade-old shoplifting conviction, and thus are no longer relevant. The order applies only in the United Kingdom. (Wall Street Journal)
August 21, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season: The season's first hurricane, Hurricane Danny, is upgraded to Category 3, as its winds strengthened to 115 mph. On its current track, the hurricane will move across the Leeward Islands by Monday but may weaken when it reaches Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. (USA Today)
August 21, 2015, 2015 Washington state wildfires: President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency across northeastern and central Washington as the amount of burned land in the state reaches nearly a half-million acres. (FEMA)2015 Washington state wildfires President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency across northeastern and central Washington as the amount of burned land in the state reaches nearly a half-million acres. (FEMA)
August 21, 2015, The United States halts, then resumes its annual military exercise with South Korea, Foal Eagle, amid rising tensions. (CNN)
August 22, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Survivor's Remorse
August 22, 2015, Shoreham Airport disaster: A Hawker Hunter aircraft crashes during an airshow after failing to pull out of dive at Shoreham Airport, West Sussex, United Kingdom. Seven people are killed with 15 injured. (BBC News Online)
August 22, 2015, 2015 Tianjin explosions: The State Council of the People's Republic of China orders a thorough investigation of the explosions as the death toll rises to 121. (Xinhua via icrossChina)
August 22, 2015, Mei Xiang, a female giant panda at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., delivers two cubs. The identity of the father is not known. (Washington Post)
August 23, 2015, Series Premiere of Fear The Walking Dead
August 23, 2015,
August 23, 2015, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is reported to have blown up the ancient Baalshamin temple in Palmyra, Syria. (BBC)
August 23, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Goni leaves the Phillipines with 15 dead and 12 people missing. (AP)
August 23, 2015, The number of fatalities in the 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash is "highly likely" to have risen to 11. (BBC)
August 23, 2015, Britain and Iran reopen embassies in each others' capitals that had been closed after Iranian protesters stormed the British embassy on November 29, 2011. (Reuters)
August 23, 2015, Two men from Iowa are arrested in Saugus, Massachusetts after heavy firearms are discovered in their hotel room. The two had made threats on social media targeting the 2015 Pokemon Video Game World Championships that are being held in Boston. (CNN)
August 24, 2015, 2015 Chinese stock market crash: Stock markets around the world fall as a result of fears about China's economy with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by 1000 points at the opening of trading on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Index closes down 588 points. (The New York Times)
August 24, 2015, American utility Southern Company buys natural gas company AGL Resources for $12 billion. (New York Times)
August 24, 2015, 2015 Washington state wildfires: The Okanogan Complex fire grows to 256,500 acres (103,800 ha), surpassing the previous year's Carlton Complex fire as the largest in Washington state history. (KOMO-TV)
August 24, 2015, In motorsport, IndyCar driver Justin Wilson dies the day after being struck in the head by debris from another vehicle's crash during Sunday's race at Pocono Raceway. (ESPN)
August 25, 2015, Series Premiere of Public Moral
August 25, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of From Dusk Till Dawn
August 25, 2015,
August 25, 2015,
August 25, 2015, The People's Bank of China cuts interest rates and lowers minimum requirements for bank reserves for the second time in two months. (Reuters)
August 25, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Goni makes landfall in southwestern Japan with at least 26 people injured but no people killed. The death toll in the Philippines rises to 21 while South Korea is on alert. (AP)
August 26, 2015, Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward: A U.S. television reporter and her cameraman, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, are shot dead during a live broadcast in Moneta, Virginia; the woman they were interviewing, Vicki Gardner, is wounded. The alleged shooter, Vester Lee Flanagan II, later uploads a video of the murder and commits suicide. (WTKR)
August 26, 2015,
August 26, 2015,
August 26, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: ISIL has destroyed two historic Muslim shrines in Palmyra. (CNN)
August 26, 2015, The smallest of mother Mei Xiang's two giant panda cubs born on Saturday at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. dies. (Smithsonian)
August 26, 2015, Oshkosh L-ATV: The U.S. Army awards the $6.7 billion contract for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the replacement for the Humvee, to the Wisconsin-based company Oshkosh Corporation. (AP via FOX News)
August 27, 2015, 2012 Aurora shooting: James Eagan Holmes is formally sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years for the murder of 12 people and injury of 70 others at a Century movie theatre in the U.S. city of Aurora, Colorado. (AP via U.S. News)
August 27, 2015,
August 27, 2015,
August 27, 2015,
August 27, 2015, Walmart will stop selling the AR-15 and other semi-automatic rifles allegedly because of sluggish customer demand. (Reuters)
August 27, 2015, Oilfield services provider Schlumberger agrees to acquire construction company Cameron International in a $12.71 billion deal. (AP via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
August 27, 2015, David H. Murdock, the CEO and chairman of Dole Food Company, along with a fellow confidant, are ordered to pay $148 million for misleading directors and shareholders. (AP via Washington Post)
August 28, 2015, Series Premiere of Narcos
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015, Greek government-debt crisis: Interim Prime Minister of Greece Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, the country's first female prime minister, was sworn in Thursday. The PM named her caretaker government cabinet that will oversee implementation of austerity measures required by the latest debt bailout with Eurogroup. Elections, required after Alexis Tsipras resigned last week, are scheduled for 20 September 2015, the third time Greeks will be going to the polls this year. (AP via New York Times)
August 28, 2015, New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran is charged with 64 counts including fraud, embezzlement and money laundering. (Albuquerque Journal)
August 28, 2015, The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommends that Costa Rica remove Cocorà from schools because of its perceived racial connotation. (Tico Times)
August 29, 2015, Release of Miley Cyrus album Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz
August 29, 2015, U.S. police in Harris County, Texas, arrest Shannon Miles for the alleged murder of Sheriff Deputy Darren Goforth on Friday. (ABC)
August 29, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season Five deaths occurred in Haiti as Tropical Storm Erika dumped heavy rains there, on the Dominican Republic, and on Puerto Rico. The storm weakened to a Tropical Depression before it hit Cuba (max winds 56 kph (35 mph), heading to the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. (WTSP)
August 29, 2015, A man, who fell from the upper deck of Atlanta's Turner Field during Saturday night's Braves-New York Yankees baseball game, has died. (CNN)
August 30, 2015, Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America, officially regains its original Alaska Native name through an executive order issued by American President Barack Obama. Previously, since 1917, it had been known as Mount McKinley. (The New York Times)
August 30, 2015,
August 30, 2015,
August 30, 2015, 2015 Pacific hurricane season: Hurricane Ignacio, which has weakened to a Category 3 (115 mph) storm, is expected to side-step Hawaii this week though will still generate high surf, rain and powerful winds. The Big Island and Maui remain on a tropical storm watch. Ignacio may re-strengthen to a hurricane when he clears Oahu on Wednesday. (Inquisitr)
August 31, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season: Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde causing flooding and the closure of airports. (AP via New York Times)
August 31, 2015, White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (also known as Frazier Glenn Cross) is convicted of three counts of murder outside two Jewish centres in the American state of Kansas. (AP via Yahoo! News)
August 25, 2015,
August 25, 2015, The People's Bank of China cuts interest rates and lowers minimum requirements for bank reserves for the second time in two months. (Reuters)
August 25, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Goni makes landfall in southwestern Japan with at least 26 people injured but no people killed. The death toll in the Philippines rises to 21 while South Korea is on alert. (AP)
August 26, 2015, Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward: A U.S. television reporter and her cameraman, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, are shot dead during a live broadcast in Moneta, Virginia; the woman they were interviewing, Vicki Gardner, is wounded. The alleged shooter, Vester Lee Flanagan II, later uploads a video of the murder and commits suicide. (WTKR)
August 26, 2015,
August 26, 2015,
August 26, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: ISIL has destroyed two historic Muslim shrines in Palmyra. (CNN)
August 26, 2015, The smallest of mother Mei Xiang's two giant panda cubs born on Saturday at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. dies. (Smithsonian)
August 26, 2015, Oshkosh L-ATV: The U.S. Army awards the $6.7 billion contract for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the replacement for the Humvee, to the Wisconsin-based company Oshkosh Corporation. (AP via FOX News)
August 27, 2015, 2012 Aurora shooting: James Eagan Holmes is formally sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years for the murder of 12 people and injury of 70 others at a Century movie theatre in the U.S. city of Aurora, Colorado. (AP via U.S. News)
August 27, 2015,
August 27, 2015,
August 27, 2015,
August 27, 2015, Walmart will stop selling the AR-15 and other semi-automatic rifles allegedly because of sluggish customer demand. (Reuters)
August 27, 2015, Oilfield services provider Schlumberger agrees to acquire construction company Cameron International in a $12.71 billion deal. (AP via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
August 27, 2015, David H. Murdock, the CEO and chairman of Dole Food Company, along with a fellow confidant, are ordered to pay $148 million for misleading directors and shareholders. (AP via Washington Post)
August 28, 2015, Series Premiere of Narcos
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015,
August 28, 2015, Greek government-debt crisis: Interim Prime Minister of Greece Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, the country's first female prime minister, was sworn in Thursday. The PM named her caretaker government cabinet that will oversee implementation of austerity measures required by the latest debt bailout with Eurogroup. Elections, required after Alexis Tsipras resigned last week, are scheduled for 20 September 2015, the third time Greeks will be going to the polls this year. (AP via New York Times)
August 28, 2015, New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran is charged with 64 counts including fraud, embezzlement and money laundering. (Albuquerque Journal)
August 28, 2015, The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommends that Costa Rica remove Cocorà from schools because of its perceived racial connotation. (Tico Times)
August 29, 2015, Release of Miley Cyrus album Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz
August 29, 2015, U.S. police in Harris County, Texas, arrest Shannon Miles for the alleged murder of Sheriff Deputy Darren Goforth on Friday. (ABC)
August 29, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season Five deaths occurred in Haiti as Tropical Storm Erika dumped heavy rains there, on the Dominican Republic, and on Puerto Rico. The storm weakened to a Tropical Depression before it hit Cuba (max winds 56 kph (35 mph), heading to the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. (WTSP)
August 29, 2015, A man, who fell from the upper deck of Atlanta's Turner Field during Saturday night's Braves-New York Yankees baseball game, has died. (CNN)
August 30, 2015, Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America, officially regains its original Alaska Native name through an executive order issued by American President Barack Obama. Previously, since 1917, it had been known as Mount McKinley. (The New York Times)
August 30, 2015,
August 30, 2015,
August 30, 2015, 2015 Pacific hurricane season: Hurricane Ignacio, which has weakened to a Category 3 (115 mph) storm, is expected to side-step Hawaii this week though will still generate high surf, rain and powerful winds. The Big Island and Maui remain on a tropical storm watch. Ignacio may re-strengthen to a hurricane when he clears Oahu on Wednesday. (Inquisitr)
August 31, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season: Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde causing flooding and the closure of airports. (AP via New York Times)
August 31, 2015, White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (also known as Frazier Glenn Cross) is convicted of three counts of murder outside two Jewish centres in the American state of Kansas. (AP via Yahoo! News)
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