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The company posted a statement in its Twitter feed that asked the governor of Arkansas, its home state, to reject legislation that critics say could allow discrimination against lesbians and gay men.
State laws seen as discriminatory against gay couples have laid bare and intensified fissures between social conservatives and the pro-business wing of the party.
Shabab militants claimed responsibility for an attack in which gunmen forced their way into dormitories, leaving 147 people dead.
King Salman of Saudi Arabia bet his prestige as a new leader on rallying his Arab allies for a campaign to save Yemen from an Iranian takeover. The results showed just how large a risk they took.
Zhang Lei got his break as an intern for Yale’s endowment, which he impressed so much with his detailed reports that it gave him $20 million to invest.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 1, 2015, covering April 2, 2015.
Kendrick Lamar
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Modest Mouse
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Taylor Swift
2015Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1908)[†]
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I. In 1931, he completed his first film Douro, Faina Fluvial, a documentary about his home city Porto made in the city-symphony genre. He made his feature film debut in 1942 with Aniki-Bóbó and continued to make shorts and documentaries for the next 30 years, gaining a minimal amount of recognition without being considered a major world film director.
2015Robert H. Schuller, American pastor and author (born 1926)[†]
Robert Harold Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author. Over five decades, Schuller pastored his church in Garden Grove, California starting in 1955. The weekly broadcast of Hour of Power television program followed, which he hosted as a taped version of his weekly Sunday service, began in 1970, and he led until his retirement in 2006. His grandson, Bobby Schuller, carries on the Hour of Power, which has aired for over fifty years. During his time as a minister, Schuller oversaw the construction of two churches in Garden Grove, California. The first church built under his tenure was the Garden Grove Community Church chapel which seated 500, and the second was the much larger Crystal Cathedral, which has a capacity of 2,200.
2015Steve Stevaert, Belgian businessman and politician, Governor of Limburg (born 1954)[†]
Steve Stevaert was a Belgian politician of the Flemish Socialist Party: the SP.A.
2015Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.[†]
On 2 April 2015, gunmen stormed the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, killing 148 people, and injuring at least 79. The militant groups Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab, which the gunmen claimed to belong to, took responsibility for the attack. The gunmen took over 700 students hostage, freeing Muslims and killing those who identified as Christians. The siege ended the same day, when all four of the attackers were killed. Five men were later arrested in connection with the attack, and a bounty was placed for the arrest of a suspected organizer.
2015Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in what has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history."[†]
In April 2015, an underground safe deposit facility in Hatton Garden, London, owned by Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd., was burgled.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]