22 May 2015

The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.

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9 January 2015

The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.

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