2015 (MMXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.

Clockwise from top-left: civil service in remembrance of the November Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps by suicidal co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, killing all 150 people on board; The Gorkha earthquake in Nepal kills 8,964 people; world leaders pose for a picture during the Paris Agreement, an international agreement on climate change; an airstrike in Sana'a during the Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen; refugees of the Syrian civil war come ashore in Greece amidst a migrant crisis in Europe; FIFA president Sepp Blatter is forced to resign in disgrace in the wake of the FIFA corruption case; New Horizons makes a flyby and takes the first images of Pluto.

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In the time travel film Back to the Future Part II, Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and Marty's girlfriend Jennifer Parker travel to October 21, 2015 to prevent Marty's son from being arrested.

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