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You never really know what the New Year will bring until it’s December 31st and you’re trying to piece 12 months worth of memory. 2015, undoubtedly, was a year that flew right by. But that’s not without a laundry list of events we’d like to forget about or remember for the rest of our lives. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane:
January:
• Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack
• Measles outbreak in the U.S.
• Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein ads
• Pope Francis visits the Philippines
• Facebook announces users in the U.S. will soon receive Amber Alerts
• New England Patriots accused of using used under-inflated footballs during their championship game win against the Indianapolis Colts
February:
• New England Patriots defeat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl 49
• “The Dress” goes viral
• Plane hits elevated highway before crashing into a river in Taipei, Taiwan
• Brian Williams suspended from NBC’s nightly broadcasts following the discovery of making false statements about his experience reporting in Iraq
• Saturday Night Live celebrates 40 years
• ISIS militants execute more captives
• Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy passes away
March:
• Zayn Malik announces he will be leaving One Direction
• Co-pilot of Germanwings flight 9525 from Barcelona, Spain to Desseldorf, Germany deliberately crashes plane into the French Alps
• Apple Watch makes a debut
• Boko Haram pledges allegiance to ISIS
• New Religious Freedom Restoration Act controversy in the U.S.
April:
• Iran agrees to nuclear deal
• Hillary Clinton announces second bid for President
• Jury finds Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty in the first phase of the Boston Marathon Bombing Trial
• An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 kills thousands in Nepal
• Furious 7 finishes its opening weekend with $143 million at the domestic box office
• California drought
May:
• Miley Cyrus officially launches The Happy Hippie Foundation
• Ireland legalizes same-sex marriage
• David Letterman says goodbye to his late-night show
• Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, gives birth to second child, Charlotte
• Amtrak train going double the limit derails in Philadelphia
• Mayweather defeats Pacquiao in “Fight of the Century”
June:
• Caitlyn Jenner debuts on the cover of Vanity Fair
• Jurassic World opens with $204 million at the domestic box office
• Nine dead in church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina
• Same-sex marriage legalized in the U.S.
• Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup
• Greece misses debt payment to International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• NBA Champs, Golden State Warriors, defeat Cleveland Cavaliers
July:
• The spacecraft, New Horizons, reaches Pluto
• Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj Twitter drama
• Mexico’s most notorious drug dealer, “El Chapo”, escapes from a maximum-security prison
• United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations since 1961
• President Obama begins historic trip to Kenya
• Debris found on a remote island in the Indian Ocean is said to be from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
• Zimbabwe’s well-loved Cecil the Lion is killed by dentist, Walter Palmer
• Dating website, Ashley Madison, is hacked
• Team U.S.A. wins the FIFA Women’s World Cup against Team Japan
August:
• Disney announces its building of Star Wars attractions in California and Florida
• Donald Trump leads in his campaign’s first televised Republican presidential debate
• Bomb explosion at Thailand shrine kills 22
• The first two women graduate from grueling Army Ranger School
• Francois Hollande presents three young Americans and British man with France’s Légion d’honneur (Legion of Honour) medal after tackling gunman on a train
• Stock market crash due to uncertainty in China
• Two television journalists are killed during live morning broadcast
September:
• Scientists announce the discovery of the pre-human species, Homo naledi
• Stephen Colbert makes his debut on “The Late Show”
• Lady Gaga releases music video/PSA about sexual harassment and assault
• 769 killed during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia
• President Obama welcomes Pope Francis and Chinese President, Xi Jinping
• Russian warplanes begin airstrikes in Syria
• Google refines its logo as it becomes a part of a new holding company called “Alphabet”
• Apple introduces the iPad Pro and iPhone 6S
• High school freshman, Ahmed Mohamed, is taken into police custody when his homemade digital clock is mistaken for a bomb
October:
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer releases
• Adele releases her newest single, “Hello”
• Shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, killing 9 people
• Liberal Party leader, Justin Trudeau, becomes Canada’s new Prime Minister
• Hurricane Patricia in southwestern Mexico
• Chinese government shifts from one-child to two-child policy
November:
• Coordinated attacks in Paris by ISIS, killing hundreds
• Facebook activates Safety Check after Paris attacks
• Justin Bieber and One Direction respectively release “Purpose” and “Made in the A.M.” on the same day
• Kobe Bryant announces retirement
• New polls show Donald Trump leading Republican presidential pack
• Planned Parenthood clinic shooting
December:
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens domestically grosses $238 million
• Miss Philippines is crowned Miss Universe after host, Steve Harvey, wrongly announces Miss Colombia
• Guns ‘N Roses to reunite in 2016
• ISIS supporters held responsible for San Bernardino shooting at developmental disability center
• Donald Trump calls for ban on Muslims
• Canadians welcome Syrian refugees
• NFL backs out of study of the relationship between football and brain diseases
• Dubai hotel New Year’s Eve fire
The chaos of controversies and achievements are a reflection of my 2015, I must admit. I had plenty of goals I set for myself, but most fell short. Don’t get me wrong; I took advantage of many opportunities, met wonderful people, and explored beautiful places, but it felt like something was always missing. Time management? Patience?? Self-assurance??? I could go on, but like the events that made 2015 unpredictable, there will always be something to anticipate.
I just hope, above all else, to turn everything around in 2016.
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Happy New Year,
Kandace 🙂