Timeline December 2015

Events in December 2015 13

• 1945 – 2015 Lemmy Kilmister (1945-2015) Died 28 December 2015, aged 70 Lemmy Kilmister was an English musician who founded and fronted the heavy metal band Motorhead for over four decades. His gravelly voice and relentless touring made him one of the most recognizable figures in rock music. Motorhead's song 'Ace of Spades' became a genre-defining anthem.
• 1950 – 2015 Natalie Cole (1950-2015) Died 31 December 2015, aged 65 Natalie Cole was an American singer who won multiple Grammy Awards, including for her 1991 album Unforgettable... with Love, which digitally paired her voice with recordings of her late father, Nat King Cole. She had earlier hits in the 1970s including 'This Will Be' and 'Our Love'. Her career survived a well-publicized battle with drug addiction in the 1980s.
• 1967 – 2015 Scott Weiland (1967-2015) Died 3 December 2015, aged 48 Scott Weiland was an American musician best known as the lead singer of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots, and later fronted Velvet Revolver. Stone Temple Pilots became one of the best-selling rock bands of the 1990s. Weiland's career was repeatedly disrupted by publicized struggles with drug addiction.
• 2015 2015: Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Hamilton won his third title, joining an elite group alongside Senna, Piquet, Brabham, Lauda, Stewart and Prost.
• 2015 Othmer Gold Medal Received the Othmer Gold Medal from the Chemical Heritage Foundation for outstanding contributions to progress in science and chemistry.
• 2015 Retirement Due to Vision Loss Forced to retire from professional cartooning after losing his eyesight to glaucoma and macular degeneration. In 2017, briefly came out of retirement to draw two cartoons of Donald Trump for The Nib.
• 2015 Nike lifetime endorsement deal Nike confirms a lifetime endorsement deal with LeBron James, the first such agreement the company has ever offered to an active player, worth an estimated one billion dollars.
• 2015 San Bernardino Terrorist Attack Married couple kills 14 at holiday party A married couple inspired by Islamic State opened fire at a holiday gathering for county health department employees in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people. Both attackers, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, died in a shootout with police hours later. The attack intensified US debate over gun control and domestic terrorism, and led to a high-profile legal dispute between Apple and the FBI over unlocking the shooters' phone.
• 2015 Aretha Franklin sings for Carole King at the Kennedy Center Honors A Natural Woman A performance that moves Carole King and President Obama to tears.
• 2015 Bicentennial Celebration Google Doodle marks 200 years since Ada's birth On 10 December 2015, Google marked the 200th anniversary of Ada Lovelace's birth with a global Doodle on its homepage, introducing her story to millions of people worldwide. The bicentennial was accompanied by museum exhibitions, academic symposia, and renewed media coverage of her contributions to computing. The observance reflected how thoroughly her reputation had been restored since Bowden's republication of her Notes decades earlier.
• 2015 Paris Climate Agreement 195 nations agree to limit warming The Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21 on December 12, 2015. Nearly 200 nations agreed to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
• 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens #1 film of 2015 — $2.07bn worldwide Directed by J.J. Abrams. Set 30 years after Return of the Jedi, a new threat rises as the Resistance battles the First Order.
• 2015 The Hateful Eight Ultra Panavision 70 A chamber western in which eight people are snowed into a stagecoach stop and almost none of them survive. Tarantino shoots it in 70mm Ultra Panavision, a format unused since 1966, and mounts a roadshow release with an overture and an intermission. Ennio Morricone writes the score and finally wins a competitive Oscar for it at eighty-seven.