Timeline April 2015

Events in April 2015 8

• 1927 – 2015 Günter Grass Writer, sculptor, Nobel laureate, 1927-2015 Günter Grass (1927-2015) — novelist, poet, playwright, sculptor and printmaker. Author of The Tin Drum (1959), the defining work of post-war German literature; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1999); political activist and speechwriter for Willy Brandt; and, in his final decades, the man who shattered his own image as Germany's moral conscience by revealing his Waffen-SS service sixty years after the fact.
• 2015 European Migrant Crisis Peaks Over a million refugees and migrants reach Europe More than a million people, many fleeing the Syrian civil war, crossed into Europe in 2015, overwhelming reception systems in Greece, Italy and the Balkans. Germany's decision to admit large numbers of asylum seekers became a defining and divisive policy of the year. The crisis reshaped European politics and border policy for years afterward.
• 2015 Game of Thrones peak audience Most watched HBO episode ever Game of Thrones reached its peak cultural impact in 2015, with the season 5 premiere watched by 8 million people live — then the most watched HBO episode ever. The show had 32 million viewers per episode.
• 2015 Günter Grass dies in Lübeck aged 87 Günter Grass dies on 13 April 2015 in a clinic in Lübeck, after a brief illness, at the age of 87. He is survived by his wife Ute and six children. His death prompts an outpouring of tributes from world leaders and writers, and a renewed debate about whether his moral authority — undermined by his late confession — can be separated from his literary achievement.
• 2015 2015 World Snooker Championship Stuart Bingham Win Winner: Stuart Bingham; Runner-up: Shaun Murphy. Score: 18–15.
• 2015 Stevie Ray Vaughan inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame With Double Trouble Inducted with his band.
• 2015 Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck released Documentary An authorised documentary by Brett Morgen.
• 2015 Nepal earthquake 9,000 killed, Everest avalanche triggered A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, killing nearly 9,000 people and injuring 22,000. The quake also triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest.