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Disasters and accidents 2015 Hajj stampede King Salman of Saudi Arabia orders an investigation into the stampede near Mecca which has claimed over 700 lives and caused 800 injuries. (AFP/BBC via ABC News Australia) 2015 Southeast Asian haze Singapore closes its primary and secondary schools as smoke from the Indonesian fires raises air pollution to hazardous levels. (CNN) Thirty-nine people ...
The 2015 state visit of Xi Jinping to the United States, which was from September 22 to 28, 2015, was the state visit of China's paramount leader Xi Jinping to the United States. It was his seventh visit to the United States and his first visit after succeeding the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012.
September 25 is the 268th day of the year ... 2015 – John Galvin, American general (b. 1929) 2015 – Tom Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1944)
On September 25, 2015, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring an upper-level low, accompanied by a surface trough, several hundred miles south-southwest of Bermuda for possible tropical cyclogenesis. [7] The system gradually consolidated as it drifted north-northwest, acquiring a closed surface low late on September 26. [8]
Disaster and accidents A chemical plant owned by the Shandong Binyuan Chemical Company explodes in the Chinese city of Dongying in the coastal Shandong province, killing at least one person with the extent of other injuries unknown. (AP via Asian Correspondent) (Voice of America) (Shanghaiist) The death toll from a Legionnaires' disease outbreak at a Quincy, Illinois veterans home rises to at ...
January 25, 2015 $64,628,304 In addition to breaking The Hangover Part II ' s record (3,675 theaters) for the widest release for an R-rated film (3,705); American Sniper ' s second weekend also broke The Passion of the Christ ' s record ($53.2 million) for the biggest second weekend gross for an R-rated film.
The third edition of TomorrowWorld was held on the weekend of September 25, 2015. The event was marred by inclement weather; rain showers resulted in muddy terrain at the festival grounds, and entrance roadways to the grounds becoming unusable.
275 – After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus was chosen by the Senate to succeed him as Roman emperor.; 1790 – Peking opera (performer pictured) was born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduced Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.