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For the first time, the founder of Elliott Management will run the $27 billion investment firm with a partner.
The Paris attacks have brought a sudden intensity, attention and focus to the once-moribund candidacy of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
The blockbuster pharmaceutical merger has put new pressure on Congress and the White House to overhaul the corporate tax code.
Neil Jones’s play at City Center focuses on warring fashion designers, including one who travels to the future for inspiration.
Art, architecture and music were altered by the idea that space is not just a void, but an aesthetic force of its own.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 18, 2015, covering November 24, 2015.
Chris Stapleton
Carrie Underwood
Eric Church
Various Artists
The Weeknd
2015Robert Ford, English general (born 1923)[†]
General Sir Robert Cyril Ford was a British Army general who was Adjutant-General to the Forces. The Bloody Sunday shootings occurred during his tenure as Commander Land Forces, Northern Ireland.
2015John Forrester, English historian and philosopher (born 1949)[†]
John P. Forrester was a British historian and philosopher of science and medicine. His main interests were in the history of the human sciences, in particular psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
2015Quincy Monk, American football player (born 1979)[†]
Quincy Omar Monk was an American professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and Houston Texans. He was selected by the Giants in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL draft. He played college football at North Carolina.
2015Heinz Oberhummer, Austrian physicist, astronomer, and academic (born 1941)[†]
Heinz Oberhummer was an Austrian physicist and skeptic.
2015Douglas W. Shorenstein, American businessman (born 1955)[†]
Douglas W. Shorenstein was a San Francisco-based real estate developer and former chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
2015A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.[†]
The Russian Air Force is a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the latter being formed on 1 August 2015 with the merging of the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the reborn Russian armed forces began to be created on 7 May 1992 following Boris Yeltsin's creation of the Ministry of Defence. However, the Russian Federation's air force can trace its lineage and traditions back to the Imperial Russian Air Service (1912–1917) and the Soviet Air Forces (1918–1991).
2015A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.[†]
The Arish hotel bombing was a terrorist attack on a hotel in the coastal city of Al-Arish, Egypt, on 24 November 2015. A group of militants approached the heavily guarded hotel with a car bomb, but Egyptian security forces opened fire at the vehicle, blowing it up before it could reach the building. One of the two attackers managed to get inside the hotel, where a number of people were injured and killed as a result of gunfire and a subsequent suicide bombing. Authorities reported at least seven dead, including two judges who had been in Al-Arish to supervise the country's second round of parliamentary elections, held the day before. The Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai offshoot claimed responsibility in a statement released later the same day.
2015An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.[†]
On 24 November 2015, a bus carrying Tunisian presidential guards exploded, killing 12, on a principal road in Tunis, Tunisia. IS claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomber, who also died in the attack, was identified as Houssem Abdelli.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]