Timeline September 2015

Events in September 2015 6

• 1925 – 2015 Yogi Berra (1925-2015) Died 22 September 2015, aged 90 Yogi Berra was an American baseball catcher who won ten World Series championships with the New York Yankees, more than any other player in history. He later managed both the Yankees and the New York Mets to league pennants. Berra was equally famous for his contradictory, widely quoted turns of phrase known as 'Yogi-isms'.
• 1937 – 2015 Jackie Collins (1937-2015) Died 19 September 2015, aged 77 Jackie Collins was an English novelist whose glamorous, bestselling novels about Hollywood sold more than 500 million copies worldwide. She published 32 books over her career, many becoming international bestsellers. Collins was the younger sister of actress Joan Collins.
• 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 Dieselgate The engine caught lying The EPA issues a notice of violation to Volkswagen: eleven million diesel cars carry software that detects an emissions test and runs clean only while being watched. On the road they emit up to forty times the legal limit of nitrogen oxides. The scandal costs VW over thirty billion euros, sends executives to prison, and destroys the political case for diesel in Europe within about three years.
• 2015 Volkswagen Emissions Scandal Revealed 'Dieselgate' exposes rigged pollution tests US regulators revealed that Volkswagen had installed software in diesel vehicles to cheat emissions tests, understating real-world pollution levels. The scandal, dubbed 'Dieselgate', eventually implicated 11 million vehicles worldwide and cost the company tens of billions of dollars in fines and settlements. Chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigned days later.
• 2015 Russia Begins Military Intervention in Syria Airstrikes launched in support of Assad government Russia began an air campaign in Syria on 30 September 2015, officially targeting Islamic State but striking a broad range of anti-Assad rebel groups. It marked Russia's first major military intervention outside the former Soviet Union since the Cold War. The intervention shifted the balance of the civil war decisively in favor of President Bashar al-Assad.