Yearly Archives: 2025
Hurricane Melissa was an extremely powerful, erratic, and devastating tropical cyclone that became the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, as well as the most intense at landfall in the Atlantic basin. The thirteenth and final named storm, fifth hurricane, fourth major hurricane, and third Category 5 hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, Melissa was […]
Hurricane Melissa – October 21, 2025
Diane Keaton Hall was an American actress. Her career spanned more than five decades, during which she rose to prominence in the New Hollywood movement. She collaborated frequently with Woody Allen, appearing in eight of his films. Keaton’s accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, along with nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. […]
Diane Keaton (January 5, 1946 – October 11, 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
The actor died at the age of 89 on Sept. 16 at his mountain home in Sundance, Utah. The Oscar winner was known for his roles in films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, All the President’s Men, and The Natural. He is survived by his wife, Sibylle Szaggars, and two of his […]
Robert Redford (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 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
Blue Ghost Mission 1 was a robotic Moon landing mission by Firefly Aerospace (Firefly) that launched on January 15, 2025, and soft-landed on the lunar surface on March 2, 2025, at 08:34 UTC. Firefly thus became the first commercial company to complete a fully successful soft landing on the Moon. As part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, the mission […]
Firefly Aerospace becomes the first commercial company to successfully land on the Moon ...
“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, ...
On February 28, 2025, U.S. president Donald Trump and U.S. vice president JD Vance held a highly contentious bilateral meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. Televised live and arranged with the intention to discuss continued U.S. support for Ukraine in repelling the ongoing Russian invasion of the country, it was expected to conclude with the […]
2025 Trump–Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting (2/28/2025)
(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
On 4 February 2025, a school shooting occurred at Campus Risbergska, an adult education center in Örebro, Sweden. The shooter was identified as 35-year-old Rickard Andersson, who killed ten people and wounded six others before committing suicide. As of May 2025, the Swedish Police Authority appeared to close their investigation, stating the perpetrator likely targeted Campus Risbergska because he […]
Örebro school shooting (February 4, 2025)
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States took place on Monday, January 20, 2025. Due to freezing temperatures and high winds, it was held inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. It was the 60th U.S. presidential inauguration and the second inauguration of Trump as U.S. president, marking the commencement of […]
Second inauguration of Donald Trump (Monday, January 20, 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 […]