Yearly Archives: 2025

Born: April 3, 1934, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom Died: October 1, 2025 (age 91 years), Los Angeles, CA Children: Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick Spouse: Derek Bryceson (m. 1975–1980), Hugo van Lawick (m. 1964–1974) Parents: Vanne Morris Goodall, Mortimer Morris-Goodall Jane Morris Goodall is a British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist who’s known for her 60 years of studying chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National […]
Jane Goodall 4/3/1934 – 10/1/2025

Iryna Zarutska was a young Ukrainian refugee tragically stabbed and killed on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 22, 2025, by DeCarlos Brown Jr., a man with a prior criminal record and mental health issues, sparking national outrage, debate on criminal justice, and leading to North […]
8/22/2025 – Killing of Iryna Zarutska

“Nothing is so very bad that something good shouldn’t come out of it. No matter what it is.” – Rose Girone
1/13/1912 – 2/24/2025 Rose Girone, oldest living Holocaust survivor, ...

(the name) Gulf of Mexico has been changed to Gulf of America BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Today, I am very honored to recognize February 9, 2025, as the first ever Gulf of America Day. On January 20, 2025, I signed […]
Gulf of America – 2/9/2025

From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some […]
1/7/2025 – 1/31/2025 Southern California wildfires

On 7 January 2025 at 09:05 CST (UTC+8), an earthquake measuring Mw 7.1 struck Tingri County, located in the Shigatse prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of Southwestern China. Between 126 and 400 people were killed and 338 were injured in the region. The earthquake also injured 13 people in […]
1/7/2025 – 2025 Tibet earthquake

On January 1, 2025, at around 3:15 a.m. CST , Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, then exited the truck and engaged in a shootout with police before being fatally shot. Fifteen people were killed, including the perpetrator, and […]

