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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 ...
The January 2015 North American blizzard was a powerful and severe blizzard that dumped up to 3 feet (910 mm) of snowfall in parts of New England.Originating from a disturbance just off the coast of the Northwestern United States on January 23, it initially produced a light swath of snow as it traveled southeastwards into the Midwest as an Alberta clipper on January 24–25.
International relations The Palestine Authority signs a treaty to join and participate in the International Criminal Court. (Wall Street Journal) The Eurasian Economic Union between Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia comes into effect (Novinite) Law and crime Vietnam ’s new marriage law goes into effect, abolishing regulations that “prohibit marriage between people of the ...
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.
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.
Business and economy The World Bank states that the Philippines can end poverty in a single generation. (AP via The Philippine Star) The Swiss franc to euro exchange rate jumps by 30% immediately following a Swiss National Bank announcement. The bank will abandon its three-year-old cap on the swiss franc's value against the euro as well as lower the interest rate on sight deposits (instant ...
Disaster and accidents A fire in a bowling alley causes a roof collapse in Taoyuan City, Taiwan killing six firefighters. (AP) An overpass of I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio collapses while undergoing demolition, killing one worker and injuring a trucker whose vehicle was struck by debris. (Cincinnati.com) According to preliminary tests at the Glendive, Montana city water treatment plant, the January ...