Timeline May 2015

Events in May 2015 7

• 1925 – 2015 B.B. King American blues guitarist & singer B.B. King (1925-2015) — born Riley B. King in the Mississippi Delta — became "the King of the Blues", famous for his guitar Lucille, his hit "The Thrill Is Gone", and a touring and recording career spanning more than sixty years and fifteen Grammy Awards.
• 1930 – 2015 Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) Died 2 May 2015, aged 85 Ruth Rendell was an English crime writer best known for her Chief Inspector Wexford detective novels and for darker psychological thrillers written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. She published more than sixty novels and sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Rendell sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer from 1997.
• 2015 2015 World Snooker Championship Stuart Bingham Win Winner: Stuart Bingham; Runner-up: Shaun Murphy. Score: 18–15.
• 2015 70th birthday concert Madison Square Garden Celebrated his 70th birthday with a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York in May 2015, featuring guest appearances from many musicians he had worked with throughout his career.
• 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron #3 film of 2015 — $1.40bn worldwide Directed by Joss Whedon. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping programme, a sentient AI named Ultron threatens humanity.
• 2015 B.B. King dies in Las Vegas Aged 89 B.B. King died in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 14 May 2015, at age 89, from complications related to diabetes — having performed well into his eighties and left behind over fifty albums and fifteen Grammy Awards.
• 2015 FIFA Corruption Scandal Arrests US indictment exposes decades of bribery in world football Swiss police arrested several senior FIFA officials at a Zurich hotel at the request of US authorities investigating decades of bribery and kickbacks in international football. The scandal led to the resignation of long-serving FIFA president Sepp Blatter days later. It triggered sweeping reforms of the sport's global governing body.