On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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In its conquest of Ramadi and new control of Palmyra, the Islamic State has shown how dedication to its core principles helped it regain traction.
The narrative of Dr. Nash’s brilliant rise, the lost years of severe mental illness, and the eventual awarding of a Nobel captured the public mind.
Defense lawyers are embracing video as a way to help them tell what they hope will be a more favorable story about their clients.
The big-budget Disney original had the prime Memorial Day period almost entirely to itself but will take in only about $40.7 million between Friday and Monday, analysts said.
Protein-packed drinkable meals come in powder form, are inexpensive, and are quick and easy to make so tech workers don’t actually have to eat.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 20, 2015, covering May 24, 2015.
Mumford & Sons
Josh Groban
Various Artists
Tech N9ne
Zac Brown Band
2015Dean Carroll, English rugby player (born 1962)[†]
Dean Carroll was an English professional rugby league footballer and cricketer who played in the 1980s and 1990s.
2015Kenneth Jacobs, Australian lawyer and judge (born 1917)[†]
Sir Kenneth Sydney Jacobs KBE QC was an Australian judge who served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia.
2015Tanith Lee, English author (born 1947)[†]
Tanith Lee was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Society Derleth Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. She also wrote a children's picture book, and many poems. She wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7 .
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]