Timeline June 2015

Events in June 2015 9

• 1917 – 2015 Kirk Kerkorian (1917-2015) Died 15 June 2015, aged 98 Kirk Kerkorian was an American businessman and investor who built much of the Las Vegas Strip, developing several of the city's largest hotel-casinos including the MGM Grand. He also acquired and later sold Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios multiple times over his career. Kerkorian was one of the most influential figures in the history of Las Vegas.
• 1922 – 2015 Christopher Lee (1922-2015) Died 7 June 2015, aged 93 Christopher Lee was an English actor known for playing Count Dracula in a series of Hammer horror films and later Saruman in The Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in Star Wars. He appeared in over 280 films across a career spanning seven decades. Lee was knighted in 2009 for services to drama and charity.
• 2015 French Open 2015 Men: Stan Wawrinka · Women: Serena Williams Nadal lost to Djokovic in QF. Wawrinka won his second Grand Slam.
• 2015 Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl breaks his leg on stage Gothenburg He finishes the show, then tours on a throne.
• 2015 Jurassic World #2 film of 2015 — $1.67bn worldwide Directed by Colin Trevorrow. Twenty-two years after the original Jurassic Park, a new dinosaur theme park is open — until a genetically modified dinosaur escapes.
• 2015 Van Morrison knighted Birthday Honours Knighted for services to music and to tourism in Northern Ireland.
• 2015 James Taylor releases Before This World First number one album His first number one album, at 67.
• 2015 Charleston Church Shooting Racially motivated massacre at Emanuel AME Church A white supremacist gunman killed nine Black worshippers during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The attack prompted a national reckoning over Confederate symbols and racial violence. Shooter Dylann Roof was later convicted and sentenced to death.
• 2015 Same-sex marriage legalised in USA Supreme Court rules in Obergefell v. Hodges The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015 that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, legalising same-sex marriage across all 50 states.