2025 Events, Highlights and Headlines

Highs, Lows and What the…? of 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





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 ...



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)




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)