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On the night of January 7 and morning of January 8, assailants throw grenades and fire guns at three mosques throughout France. (ForeignPolicy.com) 2015 Baga massacre. Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria. Bodies lay strewn on Baga's streets with as many as 2,000 people having been killed.
January 22 – Wendell H. Ford, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (b. 1924) January 23 Ernie Banks, baseball player (b. 1931) Nick Koback, baseball player and golfer (b. 1935) January 24 – Joe Franklin, radio and television host (b. 1926) January 27 – Charles Hard Townes, Nobel physicist (b. 1915) January 29 – Rod McKeun, poet, singer-songwriter ...
Charlie Hebdo (French for Charlie Weekly) is a French satirical weekly newspaper that features cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes.The publication, irreverent and stridently non-conformist in tone, is strongly secularist, antireligious, [6] and left-wing, publishing articles that mock Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, and various other groups as local and world news unfolds.
The 2015 incidents included 21 reports of shootings and blank grenade throwing at Islamic buildings including mosques; and 33 cases of personal threats and insults. [39] [a] After news of the January 8 attack was publicized, three blank grenades were thrown at a mosque in Le Mans, west of Paris. A new bullet hole was found in its windows.
January 6 - A military truck collides with a bus carrying members of the National Guard of Ukraine killing 12 soldiers and injuring 20 others. [2] January 13 - A passenger bus is fired upon by rebels at a check point in eastern Ukraine. At least ten civilians were killed and many others injured. [3]
26 January – Libby Lane becomes the first woman ordained as a bishop in the Church of England (suffragan Bishop of Stockport), at York Minster. [31] 27 January – Helen Macdonald wins the 2014 Costa Book Awards with her autobiographical H is for Hawk. [32] 28 January – An earthquake of magnitude 3.8 is felt across the East Midlands. [33]
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2015 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.