2015
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- New Horizons reaches the distant Plutonian system in 2015, encountering the once-ninth planet in the Solar System;
- bombings in a railway station in Ankara kill 109;
- Several avenues and venues, especially the Bataclan theatre and Stade de France, are the sites of terror attacks in Paris; 137 are killed, including 90 at the Bataclan; images of a candlelight vigil that was held for the victims;
- explosions in Tianjin that occurred at the Port of Tianjin in Tianjin, Northern China, killed 173 people;
- the Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016;
- an earthquake in Nepal killed almost 9,000 and triggered avalanches on Mount Everest;
- a stampede on the way to the Hajj pilgrimage kills at least 2,400;
- Metrojet Flight 9268 blew up from terrorists, killing 224;
- destruction during Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war.
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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.
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2015 was designated by the United Nations as: