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watch. Armed conflicts and attacks. Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Islamic State captures the Syrian city of Tadmur from the Syrian Army with grave concerns held about the Palmyra site. ( The Hindu) (BBC) The Chinese navy issues warnings eight times as a United States Navy surveillance plane flies over manmade islands in the South China Sea.
2015 in various calendars. 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.
1908 – Ján Jamnický, slovenský herec, režisér a pedagóg († 1972) 1908 – James Stewart, americký herec († 1997) 1916 – Alexej Petrovič Maresiev, sovietsky letec, letecké eso z čias Veľkej vlasteneckej vojny († 2001) 1924 – Dušan Bilandžić, chorvátsky právnik, politik a historik († 2015) 1927 – Franciszek ...
Máj (Czech for the month May; pronounced; usually květen) is a romantic poem by Karel Hynek Mácha in four cantos.It was fiercely criticized when first published, but since then has gained the status of one of the most prominent works of Czech literature; in the Czech Republic, the poem is usually on must-read list for students and is said to be one of the most often published original Czech ...
2002 – Istočni Timor proglašen nezavisnom državom. 2014 – Najmanje 5 osoba poginulo, a 45 povrijeđeno u sudaru putničkog i teretnog voza jugozapadno od Moskve. 2015 – Američka vojska počela test letjelice "X-37B", koja ima ugrađeni ionski pogon.
May 20 is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of the year. Events. Up to 1900. 325 - First Council of Nicea: The First Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held. 526 – An earthquake in Syria and Antiochia kills 300,000 people.
Disasters and accidents. Severe Tropical Cyclone Nathan makes landfall on Cape York Peninsula in far North Queensland as a category 4 (Australian system). (ABC Australia) The Dehradun-Varanasi Janta Express derails near Bachhrawan Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh northern India resulting in at least 30 deaths and 150 people being injured.
