2015


2015 (MMXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.

In the time travel film Back to the Future, Part II, Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and Marty's girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, travel to October 21, 2015, to prevent some problems with Marty and Jennifer's future children. Jennifer is knocked out with a sleep-inducing alpha-rhythm generator, and remains asleep for the rest of the movie, until Back to the Future, Part III.


November 2015 Paris attacksGermanwings Flight 9525April 2015 Nepal earthquakeNew HorizonsParis Agreement2015 FIFA corruption caseRefugees of the Syrian civil warSaudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen
From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April 2015 Nepal earthquake; World Leaders pose for a picture during the 2015 Paris Agreement; an airstrike in Sana'a during the Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen; Refugees of the Syrian civil war come ashore in Greece; FIFA president Sepp Blatter is forced to resign in disgrace in the wake of the 2015 FIFA corruption case; New Horizons makes a flyby and takes the first images of Pluto.
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