September 1, 2015, Release of Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain
September 1, 2015, Lake County, Illinois authorities seek three suspects, believed to be two white men and a black man, who killed a police officer from the Fox Lake, Illinois Police Department, Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a 30-year veteran of the force who had been a mentor to many youths in the area and one of the most decorated officers in his department. (Chicago Tribune)
September 1, 2015, Lake County, Illinois authorities seek three suspects, believed to be two white men and a black man, who killed a police officer from the Fox Lake, Illinois Police Department, Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a 30-year veteran of the force who had been a mentor to many youths in the area and one of the most decorated officers in his department. (Chicago Tribune)
September 1, 2015,
September 1, 2015, European migrant crisis: Authorities in Hungary close the Budapest Keleti railway station to prevent hundreds of migrants from boarding trains to other European capitals. (ITV)
-Thousands of refugees arrive in Germany's München Hauptbahnhof from Budapest. Police and firefighters on the scene provide them with food, water and medical aid even as more continue to arrive. (thelocal)
-More than 11,000 Icelanders offer to open their homes to Syrian refugees to help with the European crisis.(The Independent)
September 1, 2015, Pope Francis releases a letter granting priests the ability to grant absolution to women who have received an abortion. (Washington Post)
September 2, 2015,
September 2, 2015, 2015 China's V-Day Parade: A military parade is held in Beijing featuring 12,000 members of the People's Liberation Army, 500 vehicles and 200 People's Liberation Army Air Force air craft. Women of the Chinese military are allowed to participate in the parade for the first time. (RT)
September 2, 2015,
September 2, 2015, A new study estimates that there are three trillion trees on Earth, with 15 billion lost each year to mainly human causes. (Sydney Morning Herald)
September 2, 2015, Russian rocket Soyuz TMA-18M launches a crew of three to the ISS. (Space.com)
September 2, 2015, 2022 Commonwealth Games: South Africa will become the first African nation to host the Commonwealth Games as Durban is granted the rights to host the games in 2022. (AP via Yahoo! News)
September 3, 2015, Miller v. Davis: Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk, is jailed for contempt of court for continuing to refuse, on grounds of religious freedom, to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples per U.S. District Judge David Bunning's August 12, 2015, order. The deputy clerks are ordered to issue these licenses. (Reuters)
September 3, 2015, National Football League In arbitration, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman overturns the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The judge rules that Brady had been given no notice that ball deflation
would result in a suspension. The NFL announces that they will appeal
the ruling. (AP)
September 3, 2015, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: French prosecutors state that they believe "with certainty" that a piece of debris that had washed ashore on Reunion Island came from the missing plane. (BBC)
September 4, 2015, Release of Transporter Refueled
September 4, 2015,
September 4, 2015, Syrian Civil War, Cold War II: Russian President Vladimir Putin confirms the Russian military has intervened in Syria's civil war in support of the Assad regime and is providing “serious” training and logistical support to the Syrian army. (Telegraph)
September 4, 2015, General Mills sells subsidiary Green Giant to B&G Foods Inc. for $765 million. (Star Tribune via The Ledger)
September 4, 2015, The world's shortest man ever recorded, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, dies from pneumonia in an American Samoan hospital at age 75. Dangi lived with his family in Dang District, Nepal. His height, listed in the Guinness World Records, is 54.6 centimeters / 21.5 inches. (Kathmandu Post)
September 5, 2015,
September 5, 2015, European migrant crisis Following Austria's and Germany's decision to waive their asylum system rules, approximately 6,500 migrants – mostly from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan – arrive in Vienna. They traveled from Hungary by bus, train or on foot. The migrants were given the opportunity to register in Austria or move on to Germany. (The Star - Malaysia)
September 5, 2015,
September 5, 2015, European migrant crisis Following Austria's and Germany's decision to waive their asylum system rules, approximately 6,500 migrants – mostly from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan – arrive in Vienna. They traveled from Hungary by bus, train or on foot. The migrants were given the opportunity to register in Austria or move on to Germany. (The Star - Malaysia)
September 6, 2015, European migrant crisis: Pope Francis asks Catholic faithful in Europe to host refugee families fleeing death from war and hunger, and announces the Vatican's two churches will welcome two families of refugees. (CNN)
September 6, 2015,
September 6, 2015, In the second police officer shooting in the city in three days, a
man ambushed a marked police SUV stopped at a traffic light in Las Vegas by walking up and firing multiple rounds, striking one officer in the hand. The shooter was arrested. (Fox News)
September 7, 2015,
September 7, 2015, European refugee crisis: The President of France François Hollande agrees to take 24,000 refugees out of the estimated 100,000 per month expected to arrive. (AP via ABC News)
-Hundreds of people, tired of waiting for promised transportation, broke out from Hungary's first migrant holding center near the Serbian border, past police overwhelmed by their numbers, to start the march north toward Budapest. The asylum seekers / migrants, now accompanied by groups of police, advanced along the edge of the main highway to the capital. (AP via Global News)
-Hundreds of people, tired of waiting for promised transportation, broke out from Hungary's first migrant holding center near the Serbian border, past police overwhelmed by their numbers, to start the march north toward Budapest. The asylum seekers / migrants, now accompanied by groups of police, advanced along the edge of the main highway to the capital. (AP via Global News)
September 7, 2015, A bolide or meteor fireball explodes over the Thai city of Bangkok. (The Telegraph)
September 8, 2015, Miller v. Davis: Kim Davis, the county clerk of Rowan County in the U.S. state of Kentucky, is released from jail on contempt of court charges but she may not interfere with her deputy clerks issuing marriage certificates to same sex couples. (Yahoo! politics)
September 8, 2015,
September 8, 2015,
September 8, 2015, Annulment (Catholic Church): Pope Francis announces reforms making it easier for people to annul their marriages. (BBC)
September 8, 2015, German airline Lufthansa cancels 84 long-haul flights as pilots go on strike over a proposed restructure plan. (Bloomberg)
September 8, 2015, Jeff Smisek resigns as CEO of United Airlines due to allegations that he tried to improperly influence officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. (Wall Street Journal)
September 8, 2015, A massive sandstorm hits Lebanon and Syria as well as Jordan, Israel and Egypt. The Lebanese Health Ministry said the storm caused the deaths of two women, and sent hundreds to hospitals with breathing difficulties. Particularly hard hit were the 1.1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, many in flimsy tents in informal campsites. (Middle East Eye)
September 8, 2015, British Airways Flight 2276, a Boeing 777 aircraft, suffers an uncontained engine failure and fire on take-off from McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Fourteen of the 172 on board are injured and taken to a nearby hospital. (BBC)
September 8, 2015, British Airways Flight 2276, a Boeing 777 aircraft, suffers an uncontained engine failure and fire on take-off from McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Fourteen of the 172 on board are injured and taken to a nearby hospital. (BBC)
September 8, 2015, European migrant crisis: Sigmar Gabriel, the Vice Chancellor of Germany, says that Germany "can take 500,000 asylum seekers a year" while calling on other nations to take their fair share. " (BBC)
September 8, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: The U.S. city of Baltimore, Maryland, agrees to a $6.4 million settlement with relatives over the death of Freddie Gray. (AP via Yahoo! News)
September 9, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of The League
September 9, 2015, Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch (63 years and seven months), surpassing the record set by Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother. (BBC)
September 9, 2015,
September 9, 2015,
September 9, 2015,
September 9, 2015,
September 9, 2015, Egypt–Israel relations Israel reopens its embassy in Cairo, Egypt, after closing it in 2011 after violent protests. (AP via ABC News)
September 10, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Longmire
September 10, 2015, Homo naledi Elife publishes a discovery by scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand announcing a new species of hominid (Homo naledi) in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa. Although the remains have yet to be properly dated, they could be three million years old. (BBC)
September 10, 2015,
September 10, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season In Japan, tens of thousands are forced to evacuate due to flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Etau. So far, one person is reported as missing. (Radio NZ Online)
September 11, 2015, Release of The Visit
September 11, 2015, Release of The Perfect Guy
September 11, 2015, Release of Sleeping with Other People
September 11, 2015,
September 9, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of The League
September 9, 2015, Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch (63 years and seven months), surpassing the record set by Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother. (BBC)
September 9, 2015,
September 9, 2015,
September 9, 2015,
September 9, 2015,
September 9, 2015, Egypt–Israel relations Israel reopens its embassy in Cairo, Egypt, after closing it in 2011 after violent protests. (AP via ABC News)
September 10, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Longmire
September 10, 2015, Homo naledi Elife publishes a discovery by scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand announcing a new species of hominid (Homo naledi) in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa. Although the remains have yet to be properly dated, they could be three million years old. (BBC)
September 10, 2015,
September 10, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season In Japan, tens of thousands are forced to evacuate due to flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Etau. So far, one person is reported as missing. (Radio NZ Online)
September 11, 2015, Release of The Visit
September 11, 2015, Release of The Perfect Guy
September 11, 2015, Release of Sleeping with Other People
September 11, 2015,
September 11, 2015,
September 11, 2015,
September 11, 2015,
September 11, 2015,
September 11, 2015,
September 11, 2015,
September 11, 2015,
September 11, 2015, Britney Spears announces a two-year extension in performing Britney: Piece of Me at Las Vegas. (USA Today)
September 11, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: At least one person dies, 25 are missing and 27 injured as a result of floods and landslides in Japan after heavy rainfall caused by Severe Tropical Storm Etau. (Reuters)
September 25, 2015, John Boehner schedules his resignation from the position of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and from Congress for the end of October. (The New York Times)
September 26, 2015,
September 26, 2015,
September 26, 2015,
September 26, 2015, 2015 Pacific hurricane season: Tropical Storm Niala forms off the coast of the Hawaiian islands with the likelihood of heavy rain on the island of Hawaii (Big Island) over the weekend. (Accuweather)
September 26, 2015, A fire severely damages the Baitul Futuh Mosque, London, United Kingdom. (BBC News Online)
September 26, 2015, 2015 Hajj stampede: The death toll from the stampede near Mecca rises to 769, with 934 injuries. (ITV)
September 27, 2015, Series Premiere of Quantico
September 27, 2015, Series Premiere of Blood and Oil
September 27, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Last Man on Earth
September 27, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
September 27, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Once Upon a Time
September 27, 2015, Season 6 Premiere of Bob's Burgers
September 27, 2015, Season 14 Premiere of Family Guy
September 27, 2015, Season 27 Premiere of The Simpsons
September 11, 2015, Mark Karpelès, the CEO of defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, is charged with embezzlement in Japan. (AFP via France 24)
September 12, 2015,
September 12, 2015, Major League Baseball: David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox hits two home runs in the Sox' 10–4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, making him the 27th player in MLB history with 500 career homers. (ESPN)
September 12, 2015, In boxing, Floyd Mayweather, in what is expected to be the final fight of his career, defeats Andre Berto by unanimous decision to extend his record to 49–0. (ESPN)
September 13, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: The death toll from flooding in Japan caused by Tropical Storm Etau rises to seven. (Straits Times)
September 13, 2015, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka's return from the ISS on Saturday sets a new record for time in space, breaking the one fellow countryman Sergei Krikalev set in 2005. Padalka totaled 879 days in space (2.41 years) over five flights. (NPR)
September 13, 2015, Doctors at Salamanca University Hospital in Salamanca, Spain implant a 3-D printing-produced artificial titanium sternum (breastbone), and a portion of the ribs (as opposed to the current standard, a non-customized, flat piece of titanium, which can loosen over time) in a patient who had numerous cancerous tumors in that area, the first use of 3D printing technology to take the place of these specific body parts. (Quartz, via MSN)
September 13, 2015, In golf, Lydia Ko wins the final LPGA major of the year, The Evian Championship, by six shots after a final-round 63. The New Zealander becomes the youngest person of either sex to win a professional major championship, at age 18 years, 142 days. (BBC Sport)
September 14, 2015,
September 14, 2015,
September 14, 2015, Miller v. Davis: In the U.S., Rowan County, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, involved in the litigation over same-sex marriage, states she will not block her deputies from issuing marriage licenses, but will not authorize them personally (her name will not appear on them, and they will state that they were given under a federal judicial order). (Reuters)
September 14, 2015, Shannon Lamb, a professor at Delta State University who was suspected of two murders in the U.S. state of Mississippi—the woman he was living with in Gautier and a fellow professor at the Delta State campus in Cleveland—dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while being pursued by police. (Fox News)
September 14, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Tropical Storm Vamco makes landfall south of Da Nang, Viet Nam, causing flooding in the region. (Accu Weather)
September 14, 2015, Brazil announces a $17 billion austerity package after Standard and Poors further downgrades its credit rating. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 14, 2015, Syrian Civil War, Russia's role in the Syrian Civil War: United States Department of Defense says that Russia has deployed armoured vehicles and troops to Syria in what has been described as the "first clear sign of offensive weapons arriving in Syria" and "the largest deployment of Russian forces outside the former Soviet Union since the collapse of the USSR". (Fox News)
September 15, 2015, Series Premiere of The Bastard Executioner
September 15, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of The Mindy Project
September 15, 2015, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration orders R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to stop further U.S. sale and distribution of four cigarette products because they may be more dangerous than similar older cigarettes. (Reuters)
September 16, 2015, Release of Pawn Sacrifice
September 16, 2015, Season 19 Premiere of Southpark
September 16, 2015, An earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale occurs in the Pacific Ocean near Chile sparking a tsunami warning. At least five people die. (AP via ABC News America)
September 16, 2015,
September 16, 2015,
September 16, 2015, The International Olympic Committee announces the bidding cities for the 2024 Summer Olympics: Budapest, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris, and Rome. (CNN)
September 16, 2015, New York City Police and US federal agents arrest members of an international crime syndicate that have been selling cheap, but toxic, synthetic marijuana. In New York alone, 2,300 people have ended up in emergency rooms in the last two months. The seizure includes two warehouses full of synthetic drugs in the Bronx, one of the largest raids ever. (CBS News)
September 16, 2015, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denies Kim Davis' request to have same-sex marriage licenses delayed, but does not toss out her appeal entirely. (AP via MSN)
September 16, 2015, The death toll rises to 16 from this week's flash flood along the Utah – Arizona border in the United States. (Christian Science Monitor)
September 16, 2015, Hewlett-Packard, which has struggled for years in a declining PC market, will cut up to 33,300 jobs over the next three years, mostly in its enterprise business. (Reuters)
September 17, 2015,
September 17, 2015,
September 17, 2015, 2015 Illapel earthquake: Thousands of people in the Chilean town of Illapel sleep outside following yesterday's 8.3 magnitude earthquake as the death toll rises to 11. (CBS News)
September 17, 2015, US car maker General Motors pays $900 million fine to settle a criminal lawsuit over problems with the ignition system in its small cars. (AP via Yahoo! Autos)
September 17, 2015, The United States Federal Reserve decides to leave interest rates at a record low. (Reuters)
September 18, 2015, Release of Black Mass
September 18, 2015, Release Everest
September 18, 2015, Release Maze Runner: Scorch Trials
September 18, 2015, Release Captive
September 18, 2015, Release Sicario
September 18, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Black Jesus
September 18, 2015, Release of Lana Del Rey album Honeymoon
September 18, 2015, Release of Mac Miller album Good AM
September 18, 2015, Release of Chris Cornell album Higher Truth
September 18, 2015, The President of the United States appoints Eric Fanning as the first openly LGBT Secretary of the Army. (Washington Post)
September 18, 2015, European communications company Altice announces plans to buy US cable television company Cablevision for $17.7 billion. (NPR via KVCR)
September 18, 2015, 2015 Illapel earthquake: Small tsunami waves reach the Japanese coast. The Japan Meteorological Agency says a wave of 80 centimeters (31 inches) was recorded in the port of Kuji and later surges could be as high as 1 meter (40 inches). (AP)
September 18, 2015, Phoenix freeway shootings Governor of Arizona Doug Ducey states that 21-year-old Leslie Allen Merritt Jr. is ballistically linked to four incidents and arrested in Glendale, Arizona after a SWAT raid. Merritt was previously charged twice in 2013, the first for failing to stop at the scene of a damaged vehicle, and the second for assault and criminal damage. Police state that he is known to hold anti-government and anti-police views. He is charged with four counts each of aggravated assault, criminal damage, disorderly conduct, discharging a firearm within city limits, carrying out a drive-by shooting, and intentional acts of terrorism; and his bail is set at $1 million. (ABC15)
September 19, 2015, Pope Francis departs from Rome to begin his Apostolic Visit to Cuba. Francis will then visit the US. In the US, he will address a joint session of Congress (the first by an incumbent Pope), meet with President Obama, canonize Junipero Serra, tour a prison and the World Trade Center site, hold Masses in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia, and preside over the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. (Vatican)
September 19, 2015, Egypt’s new Cabinet is sworn in before President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a week after the previous administration resigned following a corruption scandal, and a month before parliamentary elections. The 33-member body has 16 new ministers, including two women. Sherif Ismail, petroleum minister in the last cabinet, is the new prime minister. (Egyptian Streets)
September 19, 2015, Univision's Sábado Gigante, the world's longest running variety show in television history, ends after 53 years on air. (USA Today)
September 19, 2015, 2015 Rugby World Cup: In what media called "the greatest shock in rugby history", Japan defeat two-time World Cup champion South Africa 34–32 in Brighton. (ESPN (UK))
September 20, 2015, 67th Primetime Emmy Awards: The Emmy Awards are held in Los Angeles, California with Game of Thrones winning the Emmy for best drama series. (ABC News Australia)
September 20, 2015, After having arrived in Havana, Cuba the day before, Pope Francis, in the third trip by an incumbent Pope to Cuba, presides over a Papal Mass in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, and pleads for Colombia and the FARC rebels to make a final peace, also noting the better relations between the U.S., which he will visit next, and Cuba. He holds a meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro, and meets for a talk and exchange of gifts with former Cuban President Fidel Castro. (ABC)
September 20, 2015, Constitution of Nepal: A new constitution comes into effect in Nepal establishing it as a modern secular state. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
September 20, 2015, Apple's iOS App Store suffers its first major cyber attack. (Reuters)
September 21, 2015, Season Series Premiere of Blindspot
September 21, 2015, Series Premiere of Minority Report
September 21, 2015, Series Premiere of The Muppets
September 21, 2015, Series Premiere of Life in Pieces
September 21, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Gotham
September 21, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles
September 21, 2015, Season 8 Premiere of Castle
September 21, 2015, Season 9 Premiere of The Big Bang Theory
September 21, 2015,
September 21, 2015, Apple Inc announces that it will speed up work on an electric car to be ready by 2019. (Wall Street Journal)
September 21, 2015,
September 21, 2015, United States presidential election, 2016: Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker quits his campaign for the Republican Party nomination. (The New York Times)
September 21, 2015, Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart Parnell is sentenced to 28 years for Salmonella typhimurium-tainted peanut butter, the most severe punishment ever handed out to a producer in a foodborne illness case. In late 2008 and early 2009, nine people died and at least 714 people in 46 states, half of them children, fell ill. Parnell and his brother were convicted in September 2014 of 71 criminal counts. His brother Michael Parnell is sentenced to 20 years, and the plant's former quality control manager Mary Wilkerson is sentenced to five years. (LA Times),
September 22, 2015, Series Premiere of Limitless
September 22, 2015, Series Premiere of Scream Queens
September 22, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Fresh off The Boat
September 22, 2015, Pope Francis' visit to the United States: Pope Francis arrives in the U.S. from his last stop in Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, at Joint Base Andrews (formerly, Andrews Air Force Base), near Washington D.C., to start his first tour of the United States. He is received by U.S. President Barack Obama, his wife, U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, Malia and Sasha Obama, Marian Lois Robinson, U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden, his wife, U.S. Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden, two Biden granddaughters, the Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, military and base leaders, and Washington's Cardinal Donald Wuerl. He will be received tomorrow morning in a second arrival ceremony, at the White House, and will meet with the President there. (The Guardian)
September 22, 2015,
September 22, 2015,
September 22, 2015,
September 22, 2015,
September 22, 2015, U.S. District Judge of California George H. King rules that Warner/Chappell Music does not hold the copyright to the song Happy Birthday to You. (Hollywood Reporter)
September 22, 2015, Volkswagen emissions violations: Volkswagen says that 11 million vehicles could have suspect emission control software and it has set aside 6.5 billion euros ($7.2 billion US dollars) for possible fines, repairs, and litigation. (NBC News)
September 22, 2015, Xi Jinping begins his first visit to the United States as President of the People's Republic of China, meeting with technology company leaders and representatives in Seattle, Washington. (USA Today)
September 22, 2015, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announces a new anti-drug plan involving the substitution of legal crops for coca plantations. In July, the National Narcotics Council suspended the United States-backed aerial spraying of the crop after the World Health Organization reclassified glyphosate, the herbicide used, as a probable carcinogen. (AP via ABC News)
September 22, 2015, American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, manager, and coach Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra, who played almost his entire 19-year baseball career (1946–65) for the New York Yankees, dies at the age of 90. (NBC News)
September 23, 2015, Series Premiere of Mysteries of Laura
September 23, 2015, Series Premiere of Rosewood
September 23, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Empire
September 23, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Blackish
September 23, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Nashville
September 23, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of Modern Family
September 23, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of The Middle
September 23, 2015, Pope Francis' visit to the United States Pope Francis makes his first ever visit to the U.S. and becomes the third Pope to visit the White House. He was received in an official welcome ceremony by President and Mrs. Obama and is scheduled to meet with a bishops' conference of the United States and hold mass and canonize Junípero Serra at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, near the Catholic University of America. (AP via MSN),
September 23, 2015, Volkswagen emissions violations: Martin Winterkorn resigns as the CEO of Volkswagen as a result of an emissions cheating scandal. (BBC)
September 24, 2015, Series Premiere of The Player
September 24, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of How to get away with Murder
September 24, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Scandal
September 24, 2015, Season 12 Premiere of Grey's Anatomy
September 24, 2015, Pope Francis' visit to the United States Pope Francis becomes the first Pope ever to address a Joint Session of the United States Congress. Afterwards, he greets onlookers at the National Mall. He addresses many issues: abortion and the sanctity of life, the importance of the family and of marriage, climate change, immigration and the refugee crises caused by global unrest, proper business conduct, and worldwide abolition of capital punishment. (AP via MSN)
September 24, 2015, 2015 Hajj stampede At least 719 people are dead and 863 people injured in a stampede near Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. (BBC)
September 25, 2015, Release of Hotel Transylvania 2
September 25, 2015, Release of The Intern
September 25, 2015, Release of Life
September 25, 2015, Release of Stonewall
September 25, 2015, Series Premiere of Heroes Reborn
September 25, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Last Man Standing
September 25, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Saving Hope
September 25, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Scandal
September 25, 2015, Season 6 Premiere of Hawaii 5-0
September 25, 2015, Season 12 Premiere of Greys Anatomy
September 12, 2015,
September 12, 2015, Major League Baseball: David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox hits two home runs in the Sox' 10–4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, making him the 27th player in MLB history with 500 career homers. (ESPN)
September 12, 2015, In boxing, Floyd Mayweather, in what is expected to be the final fight of his career, defeats Andre Berto by unanimous decision to extend his record to 49–0. (ESPN)
September 13, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: The death toll from flooding in Japan caused by Tropical Storm Etau rises to seven. (Straits Times)
September 13, 2015, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka's return from the ISS on Saturday sets a new record for time in space, breaking the one fellow countryman Sergei Krikalev set in 2005. Padalka totaled 879 days in space (2.41 years) over five flights. (NPR)
September 13, 2015, Doctors at Salamanca University Hospital in Salamanca, Spain implant a 3-D printing-produced artificial titanium sternum (breastbone), and a portion of the ribs (as opposed to the current standard, a non-customized, flat piece of titanium, which can loosen over time) in a patient who had numerous cancerous tumors in that area, the first use of 3D printing technology to take the place of these specific body parts. (Quartz, via MSN)
September 13, 2015, In golf, Lydia Ko wins the final LPGA major of the year, The Evian Championship, by six shots after a final-round 63. The New Zealander becomes the youngest person of either sex to win a professional major championship, at age 18 years, 142 days. (BBC Sport)
September 14, 2015,
September 14, 2015,
September 14, 2015, Miller v. Davis: In the U.S., Rowan County, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, involved in the litigation over same-sex marriage, states she will not block her deputies from issuing marriage licenses, but will not authorize them personally (her name will not appear on them, and they will state that they were given under a federal judicial order). (Reuters)
September 14, 2015, Shannon Lamb, a professor at Delta State University who was suspected of two murders in the U.S. state of Mississippi—the woman he was living with in Gautier and a fellow professor at the Delta State campus in Cleveland—dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while being pursued by police. (Fox News)
September 14, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Tropical Storm Vamco makes landfall south of Da Nang, Viet Nam, causing flooding in the region. (Accu Weather)
September 14, 2015, Brazil announces a $17 billion austerity package after Standard and Poors further downgrades its credit rating. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 14, 2015, Syrian Civil War, Russia's role in the Syrian Civil War: United States Department of Defense says that Russia has deployed armoured vehicles and troops to Syria in what has been described as the "first clear sign of offensive weapons arriving in Syria" and "the largest deployment of Russian forces outside the former Soviet Union since the collapse of the USSR". (Fox News)
September 15, 2015, Series Premiere of The Bastard Executioner
September 15, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of The Mindy Project
September 15, 2015, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration orders R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to stop further U.S. sale and distribution of four cigarette products because they may be more dangerous than similar older cigarettes. (Reuters)
September 16, 2015, Release of Pawn Sacrifice
September 16, 2015, Season 19 Premiere of Southpark
September 16, 2015, An earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale occurs in the Pacific Ocean near Chile sparking a tsunami warning. At least five people die. (AP via ABC News America)
September 16, 2015,
September 16, 2015,
September 16, 2015, The International Olympic Committee announces the bidding cities for the 2024 Summer Olympics: Budapest, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris, and Rome. (CNN)
September 16, 2015, New York City Police and US federal agents arrest members of an international crime syndicate that have been selling cheap, but toxic, synthetic marijuana. In New York alone, 2,300 people have ended up in emergency rooms in the last two months. The seizure includes two warehouses full of synthetic drugs in the Bronx, one of the largest raids ever. (CBS News)
September 16, 2015, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denies Kim Davis' request to have same-sex marriage licenses delayed, but does not toss out her appeal entirely. (AP via MSN)
September 16, 2015, The death toll rises to 16 from this week's flash flood along the Utah – Arizona border in the United States. (Christian Science Monitor)
September 16, 2015, Hewlett-Packard, which has struggled for years in a declining PC market, will cut up to 33,300 jobs over the next three years, mostly in its enterprise business. (Reuters)
September 17, 2015,
September 17, 2015,
September 17, 2015, 2015 Illapel earthquake: Thousands of people in the Chilean town of Illapel sleep outside following yesterday's 8.3 magnitude earthquake as the death toll rises to 11. (CBS News)
September 17, 2015, US car maker General Motors pays $900 million fine to settle a criminal lawsuit over problems with the ignition system in its small cars. (AP via Yahoo! Autos)
September 17, 2015, The United States Federal Reserve decides to leave interest rates at a record low. (Reuters)
September 18, 2015, Release of Black Mass
September 18, 2015, Release Everest
September 18, 2015, Release Maze Runner: Scorch Trials
September 18, 2015, Release Captive
September 18, 2015, Release Sicario
September 18, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Black Jesus
September 18, 2015, Release of Lana Del Rey album Honeymoon
September 18, 2015, Release of Mac Miller album Good AM
September 18, 2015, Release of Chris Cornell album Higher Truth
September 18, 2015, The President of the United States appoints Eric Fanning as the first openly LGBT Secretary of the Army. (Washington Post)
September 18, 2015, European communications company Altice announces plans to buy US cable television company Cablevision for $17.7 billion. (NPR via KVCR)
September 18, 2015, 2015 Illapel earthquake: Small tsunami waves reach the Japanese coast. The Japan Meteorological Agency says a wave of 80 centimeters (31 inches) was recorded in the port of Kuji and later surges could be as high as 1 meter (40 inches). (AP)
September 18, 2015, Phoenix freeway shootings Governor of Arizona Doug Ducey states that 21-year-old Leslie Allen Merritt Jr. is ballistically linked to four incidents and arrested in Glendale, Arizona after a SWAT raid. Merritt was previously charged twice in 2013, the first for failing to stop at the scene of a damaged vehicle, and the second for assault and criminal damage. Police state that he is known to hold anti-government and anti-police views. He is charged with four counts each of aggravated assault, criminal damage, disorderly conduct, discharging a firearm within city limits, carrying out a drive-by shooting, and intentional acts of terrorism; and his bail is set at $1 million. (ABC15)
September 19, 2015, Pope Francis departs from Rome to begin his Apostolic Visit to Cuba. Francis will then visit the US. In the US, he will address a joint session of Congress (the first by an incumbent Pope), meet with President Obama, canonize Junipero Serra, tour a prison and the World Trade Center site, hold Masses in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia, and preside over the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. (Vatican)
September 19, 2015, Egypt’s new Cabinet is sworn in before President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a week after the previous administration resigned following a corruption scandal, and a month before parliamentary elections. The 33-member body has 16 new ministers, including two women. Sherif Ismail, petroleum minister in the last cabinet, is the new prime minister. (Egyptian Streets)
September 19, 2015, Univision's Sábado Gigante, the world's longest running variety show in television history, ends after 53 years on air. (USA Today)
September 19, 2015, 2015 Rugby World Cup: In what media called "the greatest shock in rugby history", Japan defeat two-time World Cup champion South Africa 34–32 in Brighton. (ESPN (UK))
September 20, 2015, 67th Primetime Emmy Awards: The Emmy Awards are held in Los Angeles, California with Game of Thrones winning the Emmy for best drama series. (ABC News Australia)
September 20, 2015, After having arrived in Havana, Cuba the day before, Pope Francis, in the third trip by an incumbent Pope to Cuba, presides over a Papal Mass in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, and pleads for Colombia and the FARC rebels to make a final peace, also noting the better relations between the U.S., which he will visit next, and Cuba. He holds a meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro, and meets for a talk and exchange of gifts with former Cuban President Fidel Castro. (ABC)
September 20, 2015, Constitution of Nepal: A new constitution comes into effect in Nepal establishing it as a modern secular state. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
September 20, 2015, Apple's iOS App Store suffers its first major cyber attack. (Reuters)
September 21, 2015, Season Series Premiere of Blindspot
September 21, 2015, Series Premiere of Minority Report
September 21, 2015, Series Premiere of The Muppets
September 21, 2015, Series Premiere of Life in Pieces
September 21, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Gotham
September 21, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles
September 21, 2015, Season 8 Premiere of Castle
September 21, 2015, Season 9 Premiere of The Big Bang Theory
September 21, 2015,
September 21, 2015, Apple Inc announces that it will speed up work on an electric car to be ready by 2019. (Wall Street Journal)
September 21, 2015, United States presidential election, 2016: Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker quits his campaign for the Republican Party nomination. (The New York Times)
September 21, 2015, Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart Parnell is sentenced to 28 years for Salmonella typhimurium-tainted peanut butter, the most severe punishment ever handed out to a producer in a foodborne illness case. In late 2008 and early 2009, nine people died and at least 714 people in 46 states, half of them children, fell ill. Parnell and his brother were convicted in September 2014 of 71 criminal counts. His brother Michael Parnell is sentenced to 20 years, and the plant's former quality control manager Mary Wilkerson is sentenced to five years. (LA Times),
September 22, 2015, Series Premiere of Limitless
September 22, 2015, Series Premiere of Scream Queens
September 22, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Fresh off The Boat
September 22, 2015, Pope Francis' visit to the United States: Pope Francis arrives in the U.S. from his last stop in Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, at Joint Base Andrews (formerly, Andrews Air Force Base), near Washington D.C., to start his first tour of the United States. He is received by U.S. President Barack Obama, his wife, U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, Malia and Sasha Obama, Marian Lois Robinson, U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden, his wife, U.S. Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden, two Biden granddaughters, the Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, military and base leaders, and Washington's Cardinal Donald Wuerl. He will be received tomorrow morning in a second arrival ceremony, at the White House, and will meet with the President there. (The Guardian)
September 22, 2015,
September 22, 2015,
September 22, 2015,
September 22, 2015,
September 22, 2015, U.S. District Judge of California George H. King rules that Warner/Chappell Music does not hold the copyright to the song Happy Birthday to You. (Hollywood Reporter)
September 22, 2015, Volkswagen emissions violations: Volkswagen says that 11 million vehicles could have suspect emission control software and it has set aside 6.5 billion euros ($7.2 billion US dollars) for possible fines, repairs, and litigation. (NBC News)
September 22, 2015, Xi Jinping begins his first visit to the United States as President of the People's Republic of China, meeting with technology company leaders and representatives in Seattle, Washington. (USA Today)
September 22, 2015, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announces a new anti-drug plan involving the substitution of legal crops for coca plantations. In July, the National Narcotics Council suspended the United States-backed aerial spraying of the crop after the World Health Organization reclassified glyphosate, the herbicide used, as a probable carcinogen. (AP via ABC News)
September 22, 2015, American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, manager, and coach Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra, who played almost his entire 19-year baseball career (1946–65) for the New York Yankees, dies at the age of 90. (NBC News)
September 23, 2015, Series Premiere of Mysteries of Laura
September 23, 2015, Series Premiere of Rosewood
September 23, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Empire
September 23, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Blackish
September 23, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Nashville
September 23, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of Modern Family
September 23, 2015, Season 7 Premiere of The Middle
September 23, 2015, Pope Francis' visit to the United States Pope Francis makes his first ever visit to the U.S. and becomes the third Pope to visit the White House. He was received in an official welcome ceremony by President and Mrs. Obama and is scheduled to meet with a bishops' conference of the United States and hold mass and canonize Junípero Serra at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, near the Catholic University of America. (AP via MSN),
September 23, 2015, Volkswagen emissions violations: Martin Winterkorn resigns as the CEO of Volkswagen as a result of an emissions cheating scandal. (BBC)
September 24, 2015, Series Premiere of The Player
September 24, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of How to get away with Murder
September 24, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Scandal
September 24, 2015, Season 12 Premiere of Grey's Anatomy
September 24, 2015, Pope Francis' visit to the United States Pope Francis becomes the first Pope ever to address a Joint Session of the United States Congress. Afterwards, he greets onlookers at the National Mall. He addresses many issues: abortion and the sanctity of life, the importance of the family and of marriage, climate change, immigration and the refugee crises caused by global unrest, proper business conduct, and worldwide abolition of capital punishment. (AP via MSN)
September 24, 2015, 2015 Hajj stampede At least 719 people are dead and 863 people injured in a stampede near Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. (BBC)
September 25, 2015, Release of Hotel Transylvania 2
September 25, 2015, Release of The Intern
September 25, 2015, Release of Life
September 25, 2015, Release of Stonewall
September 25, 2015, Series Premiere of Heroes Reborn
September 25, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Last Man Standing
September 25, 2015, Season 4 Premiere of Saving Hope
September 25, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Scandal
September 25, 2015, Season 6 Premiere of Hawaii 5-0
September 25, 2015, Season 12 Premiere of Greys Anatomy
September 25, 2015, John Boehner schedules his resignation from the position of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and from Congress for the end of October. (The New York Times)
September 26, 2015,
September 26, 2015,
September 26, 2015,
September 26, 2015, 2015 Pacific hurricane season: Tropical Storm Niala forms off the coast of the Hawaiian islands with the likelihood of heavy rain on the island of Hawaii (Big Island) over the weekend. (Accuweather)
September 26, 2015, A fire severely damages the Baitul Futuh Mosque, London, United Kingdom. (BBC News Online)
September 26, 2015, 2015 Hajj stampede: The death toll from the stampede near Mecca rises to 769, with 934 injuries. (ITV)
September 27, 2015, Series Premiere of Quantico
September 27, 2015, Series Premiere of Blood and Oil
September 27, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Last Man on Earth
September 27, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
September 27, 2015, Season 5 Premiere of Once Upon a Time
September 27, 2015, Season 6 Premiere of Bob's Burgers
September 27, 2015, Season 14 Premiere of Family Guy
September 27, 2015, Season 27 Premiere of The Simpsons
September 27, 2015, September 2015 lunar eclipse: The night of September 27–28 will see a supermoon combined with a lunar eclipse described by some as a "blood moon". (CNN)
September 27, 2015, Catalonian parliamentary election, 2015: Voters in the Spanish province of Catalonia go to the polls for regional elections with nationalist parties hoping to gain a majority which they claim will allow them to declare independence. (BBC)
September 27, 2015,
September 28, 2015, NASA states that it has found the best evidence yet of the existence of liquid water on Mars. The water is not pure but highly poisonous, containing various dissolved salts that on Earth only an extremophile microbe might survive within. (News Limited via Daily Telegraph)
September 28, 2015, Pope Francis' visit to the United States: Pope Francis returns to Rome after finishing his trip to Cuba and the United States. (CNN)
September 28, 2015, Royal Dutch Shell halts its drilling program for oil and gas off the coast of Alaska citing high costs and a challenging regulatory environment. (Bloomberg)
September 28, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Taiwan prepares for the impact of Typhoon Dujuan tonight, with thousands of people evacuated from outlying islands ahead of this. (AFP via France 24)
September 28, 2015, Catalonian parliamentary election, 2015 Separatists won a clear majority of seats in Catalonia's parliament (72 out of 135) in this weekend's election that saw a record turnout of 78 percent. The winners will seek to unilaterally declare independence within 18 months. Spain's constitution does not allow any region to break away. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy vows to fight the separatist plan. (BBC)
September 28, 2015, The Indian Space Research Organization successfully launches its first dedicated-astronomical research satellite, Astrosat. (Times of India)
September 28, 2015, The Government of Nepal bans inexperienced mountaineers, as well as people with disabilities, from attempting to climb Mount Everest. (The Guardian)
September 29, 2015, Series Premiere of Grinder
September 29, 2015, Series Premiere of Grandfathered
September 29, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of Agents of Shield
September 29, 2015,
September 29, 2015, Amnesty International designates Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado as a prisoner of conscience. (Reuters)
September 29, 2015, Researchers discover a biofluorescent hawksbill sea turtle, glowing bright red and green, near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. This is the first time scientists have found biofluorescence in a reptile in the wild. The hawksbill sea turtle is an endangered species. (Live Science)
September 30, 2015, Series Premiere of Code Black
September 30, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Joaquin: Hurricane Joaquin passes over ocean with temperatures near 86°F (30°C) - the warmest since record keeping began in 1880. (National Hurricane Center)
-Hurricane Joaquin] reaches maximum sustained winds of 115 mph and becomes a Category 3 hurricane. The storm, with additional strengthening expected, should linger over the The Bahamas through October 2 before heading toward the U.S. (ABC News)
September 30, 2015,
September 30, 2015,
September 30, 2015, Syrian Civil War, Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War: The upper chamber of the Russian parliament approves a law allowing the use of the Russian Armed Forces outside its borders, following a request by Russian President Vladimir Putin. (The News Hub)
-Russia begins airstrikes against anti-governmnet targets in Syria following a request from President Bashar al-Assad. A U.S. official said the air attack struck near the Syrian city of Homs, where the official said ISIS currently does not have a major presence. (NPR)
September 30, 2015, Volkswagen emissions violations: Oliver Blume is appointed the new CEO of Volkswagen. (Bloomberg)
September 30, 2015, The flag of the State of Palestine is raised above the grounds of the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the first time. (Newsweek)
September 27, 2015, Catalonian parliamentary election, 2015: Voters in the Spanish province of Catalonia go to the polls for regional elections with nationalist parties hoping to gain a majority which they claim will allow them to declare independence. (BBC)
September 27, 2015,
September 28, 2015, NASA states that it has found the best evidence yet of the existence of liquid water on Mars. The water is not pure but highly poisonous, containing various dissolved salts that on Earth only an extremophile microbe might survive within. (News Limited via Daily Telegraph)
September 28, 2015, Pope Francis' visit to the United States: Pope Francis returns to Rome after finishing his trip to Cuba and the United States. (CNN)
September 28, 2015, Royal Dutch Shell halts its drilling program for oil and gas off the coast of Alaska citing high costs and a challenging regulatory environment. (Bloomberg)
September 28, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Taiwan prepares for the impact of Typhoon Dujuan tonight, with thousands of people evacuated from outlying islands ahead of this. (AFP via France 24)
September 28, 2015, Catalonian parliamentary election, 2015 Separatists won a clear majority of seats in Catalonia's parliament (72 out of 135) in this weekend's election that saw a record turnout of 78 percent. The winners will seek to unilaterally declare independence within 18 months. Spain's constitution does not allow any region to break away. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy vows to fight the separatist plan. (BBC)
September 28, 2015, The Indian Space Research Organization successfully launches its first dedicated-astronomical research satellite, Astrosat. (Times of India)
September 28, 2015, The Government of Nepal bans inexperienced mountaineers, as well as people with disabilities, from attempting to climb Mount Everest. (The Guardian)
September 29, 2015, Series Premiere of Grinder
September 29, 2015, Series Premiere of Grandfathered
September 29, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of Agents of Shield
September 29, 2015,
September 29, 2015, Amnesty International designates Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado as a prisoner of conscience. (Reuters)
September 29, 2015, Researchers discover a biofluorescent hawksbill sea turtle, glowing bright red and green, near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. This is the first time scientists have found biofluorescence in a reptile in the wild. The hawksbill sea turtle is an endangered species. (Live Science)
September 30, 2015, Series Premiere of Code Black
September 30, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Joaquin: Hurricane Joaquin passes over ocean with temperatures near 86°F (30°C) - the warmest since record keeping began in 1880. (National Hurricane Center)
-Hurricane Joaquin] reaches maximum sustained winds of 115 mph and becomes a Category 3 hurricane. The storm, with additional strengthening expected, should linger over the The Bahamas through October 2 before heading toward the U.S. (ABC News)
September 30, 2015,
September 30, 2015,
September 30, 2015, Syrian Civil War, Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War: The upper chamber of the Russian parliament approves a law allowing the use of the Russian Armed Forces outside its borders, following a request by Russian President Vladimir Putin. (The News Hub)
-Russia begins airstrikes against anti-governmnet targets in Syria following a request from President Bashar al-Assad. A U.S. official said the air attack struck near the Syrian city of Homs, where the official said ISIS currently does not have a major presence. (NPR)
September 30, 2015, Volkswagen emissions violations: Oliver Blume is appointed the new CEO of Volkswagen. (Bloomberg)
September 30, 2015, The flag of the State of Palestine is raised above the grounds of the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the first time. (Newsweek)
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