On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 23, 2015, covering September 28, 2015.
The Weeknd
Five Finger Death Punch
Travis Scott
Iron Maiden
Troye Sivan
Luke Bryan
Taylor Swift
Halsey
Ed Sheeran
Future
2015Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor (born 1921)[†]
Samuel Alexander "Sandy" Faris was a Northern Irish composer, conductor and writer, known for his television theme tunes, including the theme music for the 1970s TV series Upstairs, Downstairs. He composed and recorded many operas and musicals, and also composed film scores and orchestral works. As a conductor, he was especially known for his revivals of Jacques Offenbach and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
2015Walter Dale Miller, American rancher and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (born 1925)[†]
Walter Dale "Walt" Miller was an American politician and member of the Republican Party. He served as the 29th governor of South Dakota from 1993 to 1995, having assumed the office upon the death of George S. Mickelson. He was, at age 67 upon taking office, the oldest person to serve as the governor of South Dakota.
2015Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (born 1939)[†]
Ignacio Zoco Esparza was a Spanish footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
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Gary Reback, who persuaded the federal government to bring a case against Microsoft in the 1990s, is now pursuing a case against Google.
The disgraced German automaker’s commercials, long known for their humor, promised diesel cars that were fun, quiet, efficient and, critically, clean.
Marketers are resorting to emojis, outrageous stunts and elaborate events to reach a demographic that has little tolerance for traditional advertising.
For Wright, who missed most of the season rehabilitating his back and now spends hours stretching and exercising before games, a return to the postseason is worth all the work.
Francis demonstrated a nuanced political dexterity, effectively sidestepping the familiar framework of American debate while charting his own broader path.
Any qualms anyone might have about this being a premature revival will vanish when the cast of both hearing and deaf actors floods the stage.
The streaming service plans to announce licensing deals for the CW telenovela “Jane the Virgin,” the CBS thriller “Zoo” and the USA drama “Colony.”
The pledges to battle climate change would still allow the world to heat up to a level that is likely to produce catastrophes, scientists say.
In one sign of the industrywide trend, Royal Dutch Shell has ended its expensive nine-year effort to explore for oil in the Alaskan Arctic.
Berlin has put in place a system for sending home people who have come from poor but safe countries to seek jobs.
Insurgents conquered a major city in Afghanistan for the first time since 2001. Afghan officials vowed that there would be a counterattack.
In these impassioned essays, Birkerts warns that the power of language and literature to sustain the self is under threat from “the tidal inrush of digitized living.”