Paul Kibblewhite

August 20 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

1. 2002Saddam Hussein
2. 2006Sri Lankan civil war
3. 2007China Airlines Flight 120
4. 2008Spanair Flight 5022
5. 2011First Air Flight 6560
6. 20122012 Yare prison riot
7. 2014Hiroshima Prefecture
8. 2015Paul Kibblewhite
9. 2016August 2016 Gaziantep bombing
10. 2018Silent Sam
11. 2020Joe Biden

Also in 2015

• September 9Elizabeth IIElizabeth II (pictured) became the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.
• September 11Mecca crane collapseA crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
• September 12Petlawad explosionAn explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others.
• September 14LIGOPhysicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1…
• September 14First observation of gravitational wavesThe first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
• September 162015 Illapel earthquakeA 8.3 Mw earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causi…
• September 182015 Camp Badaber attackTwo security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan A…
• October 222015 Trollhättan school attackA sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school at…

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