2015
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Scores a spectacular long-range goal as Arsenal defeat Aston Villa 4-0 in the FA Cup final.
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Scores a spectacular long-range goal as Arsenal defeat Aston Villa 4-0 in the FA Cup final.
Announces he will not run for president in 2016.
Alric Taylor serves briefly as acting Governor
Gheorghe Brega becomes acting Prime Minister after Strelet's dismissal
Natalia Gherman becomes acting Prime Minister after Gaburici resigns
Akatsuki successfully enters Venus orbit five years after its first failed insertion attempt.
Receives a Best Picture nomination as producer of American Sniper.
AstroSat launches during A. S. Kiran Kumar's chairmanship as India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory.
The government holds a referendum on creditors' proposed financial terms.
Completes the Spanish league, cup and European treble.
An armed attack at the Bardo National Museum prompted a major government security response.
Scores twice in three minutes as Barcelona take control of their semi-final against Bayern.
Wins a Conservative majority on a manifesto promising an EU membership referendum.
The European Union Referendum Bill is introduced in Parliament.
The European Union Referendum Act receives royal assent.
Vote Leave is launched to campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
Addresses disruption and migration pressures around Calais during the summer of 2015.
Military operations continue alongside stated political and humanitarian goals.
Denis Zvizdic becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Guides Barcelona to Champions League victory over Juventus.
New Horizons images show Charon as a geologically varied world with enormous canyons and contrasting terrains.
Sets out four objectives for renegotiating Britain's relationship with the European Union.
Signs a new four-year Chelsea contract after winning the Premier League title.
Sohail Aman becomes Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force.
Promulgates legislation establishing civil unions for same-sex and opposite-sex couples.
Scores twice as Barcelona defeat River Plate 3-0 to win the FIFA Club World Cup.
Serves as spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition.
Faces mass protests after the Colectiv nightclub fire.
Represents the United Kingdom at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta.
The Coordination of Azawad Movements adds its signature to the peace agreement.
Sets out proposals to challenge violent and non-violent extremism and promote shared British values.
Wins a Conservative majority in the general election.
Starmer is elected Labour Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras.
Replaces the binomial congressional electoral system with a proportional representation system.
Leaves house arrest in Sanaa and reaches Aden.
The European Union Referendum Act receives royal assent.
Sends the European Council president Britain's formal objectives for European Union reform.
Delph captains Villa in the FA Cup final against Arsenal.
Villa defeats Liverpool 2-1 to reach its first FA Cup final since 2000.
Launches to the International Space Station as Denmarks first astronaut.
Begins his international career as a creative midfielder.
New Horizons obtains its first distant spacecraft observations of Kuiper Belt object 1994 JR1.
Tsipras becomes Prime Minister after SYRIZA wins the January election.
Thanou becomes Greece's first female Prime Minister and leads a caretaker government.
Scores his four-hundredth competitive Barcelona goal during a league victory over Valencia.
Publishes the IAEA's comprehensive report and technical volumes on the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
Meets G7 leaders to discuss security, the global economy, Ukraine and international cooperation.
Headline Glastonbury Festival.
al-Fayez participates in government appointment connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.
His government ends in Helsinki, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Finland.
Elizabeth Carriere becomes Governor of Montserrat
The rebuilt New Street station and Grand Central shopping centre open to the public.
Thornes black hole and gravitational wave theory helps interpret the first LIGO detection
Weiss sees the interferometer concept vindicated when LIGO detects gravitational waves from merging black holes
As LIGO Scientific Collaboration spokesperson, helps lead the collaboration when LIGO records GW150914, the first direct gravitational-wave detection and first observed binary black hole merger.
During her term as LIGO Scientific Collaboration spokesperson, LIGO records GW151226, its second confirmed gravitational-wave signal from merging stellar-mass black holes.
Habib Essid became head of government after the 2014 elections.
Starmer joins the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee.
The IAEA issues its final assessment of past and present outstanding issues concerning Iran's nuclear programme.
The IAEA and Iran agree a road-map to clarify past and present outstanding nuclear issues.
Conducts Danish and European experiments during the short Iriss mission.
The Board authorizes the IAEA to undertake verification and monitoring of Iran's nuclear-related commitments under the JCPOA.
Iran accepts limits on uranium enrichment under the nuclear agreement.
Iran and six major powers conclude the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action placing limits and verification measures on Iran's nuclear programme.
Elected Leader of the Labour Party.
Burnham finishes second in the Labour leadership election won by Jeremy Corbyn.
Helps organise Labour Leave during the referendum campaign.
Supports Leave campaigning before the referendum organisations are designated.
The agreement establishes a Presidency Council and framework for a Government of National Accord.
Is appointed Liverpool manager, replacing Brendan Rodgers.
Welcomes the referendum vote approving constitutional recognition of marriage without distinction as to sex.
Detailed MESSENGER imagery of Zeami basin shows extensive fields of Mercury's distinctive bright hollows.
MESSENGER ends its mission by impacting Mercury after completing 4,105 orbits and transforming knowledge of the planet.
Mission controllers receive MESSENGER's final telemetry before the spacecraft impacts Mercury after more than four years in orbit.
The United Nations approves Muhammad Tayyab Azam of Pakistan as Force Commander of MINURSO in Western Sahara.
Takes office as minister of defence after King Salman's accession.
Appoints Mohammed bin Salman as minister of defence.
Joins Ajax and develops into a central figure in the club's midfield.
Backs the introduction of a National Living Wage as part of the government's economic programme.
New Horizons begins its formal approach phase toward Pluto after nearly nine years of interplanetary flight.
A 93-second thruster burn adjusts New Horizons' trajectory for the forthcoming Pluto encounter.
New Horizons becomes closer to Pluto than Earth is to the Sun, marking a major approach milestone.
A final 23-second engine burn fine-tunes New Horizons' trajectory toward its Pluto flyby.
After a detailed hazard search, the mission team keeps New Horizons on its planned Pluto flyby trajectory.
New Horizons enters safe mode because of a spacecraft command-sequence timing problem days before the Pluto encounter.
New Horizons returns to normal science operations after recovery from the July 4 safe-mode event.
New Horizons completes humanity's first close flyby of Pluto and its system of moons.
Inaugurates a new parallel channel and expanded sections of the Suez Canal.
Scores in stoppage time to complete Barcelona's 3-1 victory over Juventus.
The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet received the Nobel Peace Prize for supporting a peaceful democratic transition.
Sets out a One Nation approach after the Conservatives secure a parliamentary majority.
Authorizes the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen.
Briefs media on air operations and campaign objectives.
Announces transition from Decisive Storm to Restoring Hope.
Updates Parliament on the Paris attacks and discussions at the G20 summit in Turkey.
Supports international efforts that culminate in the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Expresses solidarity with France and reviews UK security after the Paris terrorist attacks.
The government and Platform coalition sign the Algiers peace and reconciliation agreement.
Scowen helps lead new Hubble visible and infrared imaging of the Pillars of Creation, revealing finer structure and embedded stars.
New Horizons' Ralph spectrometer detects frozen methane on Pluto during approach, confirming the molecule from spacecraft observations.
A New Horizons methane map shows that methane ice is distributed unevenly across Pluto's surface.
New Horizons compositional mapping identifies numerous exposed regions of water ice on Pluto's surface.
Mission scientists conclude that nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane ices can flow across Pluto at its extremely low temperatures.
Close-up images reveal youthful water-ice mountains rising about 3.5 kilometres above Pluto's surface.
High-resolution New Horizons images reveal rugged mountains, faulted blocks and detailed textures along the edge of Sputnik Planitia.
Enhanced-color imagery reveals the unusual ridged and scaly terrain of Tartarus Dorsa, nicknamed Pluto's snakeskin terrain.
Topographic analysis identifies Wright Mons and Piccard Mons as possible large cryovolcanoes formed by icy volcanic activity.
Highest-resolution images show erosion and faulting sculpting rugged badlands and a major canyon system in Pluto's northern terrain.
Close-up imagery reveals aligned pits in Pluto's nitrogen-rich ice, probably formed through fracturing and volatile-ice loss.
New Horizons images show nitrogen-rich ices flowing across Pluto in glacier-like patterns, evidence of recent geologic activity.
Approach images begin showing distinct surface features on Pluto with steadily improving detail.
New Horizons measurements determine Pluto is about 2,370 kilometres in diameter, larger than many pre-encounter estimates.
New Horizons returns its last and most detailed full-disk image of Pluto before closest approach.
The New Horizons team reports more than fifty Pluto-system discoveries four months after the flyby as stored data continue reaching Earth.
Color observations show that Pluto's high-altitude atmospheric haze appears blue when viewed in scattered sunlight.
New Horizons results prompt investigation of how Pluto replenishes atmospheric nitrogen while gas escapes to space.
During a solar occultation, New Horizons probes Pluto's atmosphere far above levels previously measured from Earth.
New Horizons data show Pluto's nitrogen-rich atmosphere extending to roughly 1,600 kilometres above the surface.
Backlit New Horizons images reveal multiple atmospheric haze layers extending far above Pluto.
New Horizons detects ethylene and acetylene in Pluto's atmosphere, compounds involved in forming its complex haze particles.
A radio occultation experiment obtains the first direct measurement of atmospheric pressure at Pluto's surface.
New Horizons finds Pluto's atmospheric surface pressure lower than estimates derived from earlier Earth-based observations.
Analysis of the small moons shows rapid, non-synchronous rotation rather than the simple tidal locking seen in Pluto and Charon.
New Horizons photographs Kerberos and Styx for the first time, bringing all five known Pluto moons into spacecraft view.
New Horizons observations reveal that Pluto's small moons are irregular bodies with unexpectedly complex rotational behaviour.
Makes his senior Portugal debut against Cape Verde.
Kelly helps predict and then identify the reappearance of gravitationally lensed Supernova Refsdal in Hubble images.
Appointed President of Argentina
Appointed President of Brazil, 2nd term
Appointed President of Nigeria after the 2015 presidential election
Withdraws his resignation and reasserts presidential authority.
Takes office as Prime Minister of Finland and forms a government in Helsinki.
Chiril Gaburici becomes Prime Minister after Leanca's government ends
Valeriu Strelet becomes Prime Minister during the Alliance for European Integration period
Finishes an early Barcelona passing move to score against Juventus.
Nazarbayev wins another early presidential election
Burnham wins another term as Labour Member of Parliament for Leigh.
The European Union Referendum Bill is introduced in Parliament.
Wins a Conservative majority on a manifesto promising an EU membership referendum.
Requests regional military assistance against Houthi forces.
Brown's thirty-two-year service in the House of Commons comes to an end.
Saudi-led intervention begins shortly afterward.
Becomes a central Saudi decision-maker in the campaign.
Coalition air operations begin against Houthi-controlled targets.
Oversees Saudi defense policy as coalition operations begin.
Authorizes Saudi participation in the coalition intervention in Yemen.
Forms a Conservative majority government after the election.
Leaves Chelsea by mutual consent during his second spell at Stamford Bridge.
Leads Sevilla to victory over Dnipro in Warsaw.
Tsipras returns as Prime Minister after winning the September election.
Begins the legislative programme of his majority government with a new Queen's Speech agenda.
Sets out plans intended to expand access to NHS services across seven days.
Becomes a consecutive Europa League winner with the Spanish club.
Burnham becomes Shadow Home Secretary after the leadership election.
Starmer joins Labour's front bench as Shadow Minister for Immigration.
An armed attack at a Sousse resort led the government to strengthen emergency and counterterrorism measures.
Images reveal a vast craterless plain in Pluto's heart-shaped region, indicating surprisingly young terrain.
The newly revealed icy plain in Pluto's heart is informally named Sputnik Planum, later standardized as Sputnik Planitia.
Presents a new Strategic Defence and Security Review focused on terrorism, cyber threats and state-based risks.
Scores from a rebound to restore Barcelona's lead in the second half.
Becomes crown prince following King Salman's accession.
Succeeds King Abdullah as the seventh king of Saudi Arabia.
Wins Commons backing for UK airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.
Announces an expansion of UK resettlement for vulnerable Syrian refugees.
Chelsea defeat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 at Wembley to win the League Cup.
Chelsea defeat Crystal Palace to secure Mourinho's third Premier League championship.
Joins Manchester United from PSV after winning the Eredivisie.
Joins Southampton from Celtic and establishes himself in the Premier League.
Coordinates the British government response after the terrorist attack at Sousse kills British holidaymakers.
Scores two direct free kicks as Barcelona defeat Sevilla 5-4 after extra time.
Directs Victoria, noted for its single-take structure.
Supports Vote Leave during the referendum campaign.
Makes his senior professional debut for Willem II in the Eredivisie.
Oversees Saudi defence policy as the Yemen intervention begins.
Denis Healey dies.
Death of Helmut Schmidt
Death of Lee Kuan Yew
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