2015 World Championships in Athletics. The fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships was held 22â30 August 2015 in Beijing, China. 43 nations won medals, 144 of which were awarded. Kenya topped the medal table for the first time, with 7 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals.
Published: June 2, 1991. PHILADELPHIA, June 1â David Ruffin, an original member of the Temptations whose Gospel-charged baritone was featured on hits like My Girl and Ain't Too Proud to Beg, died today of what appeared to be a drug overdose, the police said. He was 50.
Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790, at the age of 84. He was killed by pleurisy â a lung inflammation. His wife, Deborah, had died sixteen years earlier. Franklin was survived by his daughter, Sarah, who looked after him in his later years and his son, William. William left America to live in Britain in 1782.