Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 2014. This year saw 214 significant events. 2 notable figures were born. 1 notable figure passed away.
Dutchman Michael van Gerwen wins his first PDC World Darts Championship, defeating Peter Wright of Scotland 7-4; it is the first time no Englishman has been in the final
English "Roxy Music" singer-songwriter Bryan Ferry [68] divorces second wife English public relations specialist Amanda Sheppard [32] after a year and a half of marriage
Ukrainian Revolution of 2014 begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people on board loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, occupied it, and then annexed it after an illegitimate referendum.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (often abridged as Last Week Tonight) is an American news satire late-night talk show hosted by John Oliver.
General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all 543 members of the Lok Sabha.
Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, stage a coup in Thailand, suspend the kingdom's constitution, and take control of the government, the 12th since the country's first coup in 1932
"Gangnam Style" is a K-pop song by South Korean singer Psy, released on July 15, 2012, by YG Entertainment as the lead single of his sixth studio album, Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1.
Actress Melanie Griffith (45) and actor Antonio Banderas (53) file for divorce citing irreconcilable differences after 18 years of marriage
Islamic State of Iraq forces seize control of government offices and other important buildings in the northern city of Mosul
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
"How Stella Got Her Groove Back" actor Taye Diggs (44) and Broadway actress Idina Menzel (43) file for divorce after 11 years of marriage
American comedian ans TV host Nick Cannon (37) files for divorce from American pop singer Mariah Carey (48) after 6 years of marriage
30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India
Cambodian garment workers go on strike demanding a wage increase
14 people are killed after a three-story building construction site collapses in Goa, India
First known interstellar meteor to hit Earth, CNEOS 2014-01-08, crash lands in Papua New Guinea [1]
Five people are killed at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan
14 people are killed and 7 are injured from an explosion in an illegal gambling hall in Kaili City, China
David A. Satter is an American journalist and historian who writes about Russia and the Soviet Union.
LA Dodgers sign pitcher Clayton Kershaw to the biggest deal in baseball history, a 7-year, $215 million package averaging $30.7 million per season
21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan
The 86th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2013 and took place on March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre in...
Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked
Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
21 people are killed after a tourist boat capsizes off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
DNA analysis confirms that the 6th century Plague of Justinian was caused by a variant of Yersinia pestis (the same bacteria for the Black Death)
Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
24 hostages are killed after 6 suicide bombers temporarily take over the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation in Baghdad
Gerald Eugene Sloan (March 28, 1942 – May 22, 2020) was an American professional basketball player and coach.
Decommunization in Ukraine started during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and expanded afterwards.
10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Scotland since 16 December 2014. As family law is not reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament has legislative competence to make...
Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code
German treasurer Helmut Linssen resigns amid a scandal involving offshore banking accounts in the Bahamas and Panama
The 2014 Medina hotel fire was a hotel fire that occurred in a hotel in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The fire killed at least 15 people and another 130 were injured.
17 people are killed after a truck & bus collide in Mendoza, Argentina
The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by its combined nations' history, its interaction with the cultures of Europe, the individual diverse cultures of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern...
After winning Vancouver (2010) Olympic moguls title, Canadian freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau wins 2nd consecutive Olympic gold medal in Sochi; beats teammate Mikaël Kingsbury
11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan
French biathlete Martin Fourcade wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the individual competition; also claims the pursuit title
Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the men's large hill event; also wins normal hill gold
American Bode Miller (36) becomes the oldest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing history when he ties for bronze in the super-G in Sochi
American snowboarder David Wise wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic halfpipe gold medals in Sochi; wins again in Pyeongchang (2018)
After winning the combined gold in Turin (2006), American alpine skier Ted Ligety has to wait 8 years for his next Olympic success, gold in the giant slalom in Sochi
The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese.
After winning the men's parallel giant slalom at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian snowboarder Vic Wild wins his 2nd gold in the parallel slalom
56th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt Jr. breaks a 55-race winless streak to win his 2nd Great American Race
7 people are killed & 37 are injured after a bridge collapses in Vietnam
50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria
The prime minister of Ukraine is the head of government of Ukraine. The prime minister presides over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the...
29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China
A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, occupied it, and then annexed it after an illegitimate referendum.
Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
On March 12, 2014, an explosion occurred at 9:31 a.m. in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States.
Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design
Israel sends airforce against Syrian military units involved in an attack yesterday on an Israeli patrol in the Golan Heights
On March 22, 2014, a boat traveling on Africa's Lake Albert capsized. According to local police, 45 survivors were rescued. Officially, 251 people died in the accident.
The Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine are areas of southern and eastern Ukraine that are controlled by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the ongoing invasion.
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, occupied it, and then annexed it after an illegitimate referendum.
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
Andrej Kiska is a Slovak politician, entrepreneur, writer and philanthropist who served as the fourth president of Slovakia from 2014 to 2019.
NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, is a Maltese politician who was president of Malta from 2014 to 2019.
President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to battles over water and food within the next five to ten years
Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire picks up the 1,000th win of his MLB career as the Twins score a 7 - 3 victory over the Cleveland Indians
ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Dhaka: captain Meg Lanning's 44 from 30 balls leads Australia to 106/4; beat England 105/8 to win by 6 wickets (with 29 balls remaining); 3rd consecutive T20 WC
The new drug, ABT-450, with a 90-95% success rate for treating Hepatitis C, is announced
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes primarily in the marathon.
The 2014 Copa del Rey final was the 112th final of Spain's premier football cup since its establishment (including two seasons where two rival editions were played).
On 18 April 2014, seracs on the western spur of Mount Everest failed, resulting in an ice avalanche that killed sixteen climbing Sherpas in the Khumbu Icefall.
David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United
60 people are killed & 80 are injured after a train crashes in The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Oratorio for chorus evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life "Anthracite Fields" by composer Julia Wolfe premieres in Philadelphia (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2015) [1]
The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety comedy show that originally aired from January 9, 1995, to April 27, 2023, on CBS.
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations...
Hundreds march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose Western education
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations...
Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank and international financial institution that aims to collectively improve economic and social outcomes in Asia.
Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, releases a 57 minute video boasting about abducting schoolgirls in Nigeria
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations...
The 2014 NFL draft was the 79th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible football players to the league.
Kara Walker's artwork "The Subtlety" opens - an installation of a sphinx made of sugar at the Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn, NY [1]
Thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China
Eastern Ukraine or East Ukraine is primarily the territory of Ukraine east of the Dnipro (or Dnieper) river, particularly Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts (provinces).
On 13 May 2014, blasting at Eynez coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May.
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. & Manchester City F.C. are each fined €60 million for breaching Fair Play Regulations
The 2013–14 La Liga season (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) was the 83rd since its establishment. Matchdays were drawn on 9 July 2013.
St Johnstone FC win the Scottish Cup for 1st time in 130 years, defeating Dundee United 2-0
Swiss voters reject a $25 per hour minimum wage
Decorated Dutch coach Louis van Gaal confirmed as manager of Manchester United; Ryan Giggs named assistant, confirms retirement as a player at age 40 after 963 games and English record 22 major trophies
José Mário Vaz is a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as president of Guinea-Bissau from 23 June 2014 to 27 February 2020.
Jason Koumas is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Tranmere Rovers, Cardiff City, West Bromwich Albion and Wigan Athletic, as well as the Wales national team. He...
On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état, the twelfth since the country's first coup in...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish director, screenwriter, photographer and actor. His film Winter Sleep (2014) won the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, while six of his films have been...
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the 6th president of Egypt since 2014. After the 2011 Egyptian revolution and...
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula.
Former Liberation Front guerilla fighter Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, is sworn in as president in El Salvador
10 Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers are court-martialed for providing arms and information to jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram
MLB Draft: Cathedral Catholic HS (CA) pitcher Brady Aiken first pick by Houston Astros
The 68th Annual Tony Awards were held June 8, 2014, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2013–14 season.
The 2014 Gush Etzion kidnapping and murder refers to the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank during June 2014.
Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: LA Kings edge New York Rangers, 3-2 in double OT for a 4-1 series win; second Championship in LA franchise history
The Ilyushin Il-76 is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the...
British actor Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters
Qhapaq Ñan, the Andean Road System of the Inca Empire, 30,000km long (18,600 miles) through six countries, granted World Heritage status by UNESCO [1]
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations...
Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
Joel Hans Embiid ( joh-EL em-BEED; born 16 March 1994) is a Cameroonian and American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The Arizona Coyotes are an inactive professional ice hockey team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor.
Israeli Air Force strike kills 7 Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip
Israel launches a "counter-terrorist operation" dubbed Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza
Yair Lapid warns of Israeli Defense Force ground operation if Gazan rocket fire do not stop
The UN Security Council calls for a special meeting to discuss the current Israel–Palestinian conflict; Israel continue attacks on Gaza
World premiere of Richard Blackford and Bernie Krause's "The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony," combining natural recordings of animals, including gibbons, whales, birds, and frogs, with a traditional classical orchestra, by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales led by Martyn Brabbins at the Cheltenham
After 7 days, Israel has struck Gaza 1320 times, while Gaza has fired 940 rockets at Israel
20 people are killed and 100 are injured after a train derails in Moscow
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist...
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) call 18,000 additional reserves soldiers in campaign against Gaza
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
Many states began to intervene against the Islamic State, in both the Syrian civil war and the War in Iraq (2013–2017), in response to its rapid territorial gains from its 2014 invasion of Iraq,...
The 2014 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014 were an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth...
Air Algérie SpA is the flag carrier of Algeria, with its head office in the El-Djazair office block in Algiers.
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
Death toll in Gaza reaches 1,346, while 56 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians are killed
"Between Riverside and Crazy," a play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, premieres Off-Broadway at the Linda Gross Theater in New York and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015 [1]
Indiana Pacers NBA superstar Paul George suffers a gruesome compound fracture of his lower right leg during a Team USA scrimmage
Super Rugby Final, ANZ Stadium, Sydney: NSW Waratahs win their first SR title in a nail-biting 33-32 home effort against New Zealand's Canterbury Crusaders
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist...
Hamas rejects the continuation of the ceasefire if Israel does not lift the blockade
Israeli and Palestinian officials agree to a 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt
An Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone occurred in 2014, along with the neighbouring countries of Guinea and Liberia.
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
Israeli airstrike in Rafah kills Mohammed Abu Shammala, Raed al-Atar, and Mohammed Barhoum, three of Hamas's top commanders
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
Alex Puccio (born Alexandrea Elizabeth Cocca on June 15, 1989 in McKinney, Texas) is an American professional climber specializing in bouldering.
Nurse William Pooley flies back to the UK for emergency treatment after contracting the Ebola virus while attempting to treat patients in Sierra Leone
The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in US prime time television programming from June 1, 2013, until May 31, 2014, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls the international response to Ebola “irresponsible” and “slow and derisory”
Riots break out in Guinea following rumors that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
Nalanda University in eastern India begins its first academic year, on the site of the world's oldest university, a Buddhist monastic institution that operated 427 to 1197 CE
Archaeological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, Vallø Borgring, are discovered in Denmark
World Health Organization estimates 1,900 people have died from the Ebola virus out of 3,500 infected in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone
A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2014, including the first robotic landing on a comet and the first complete stem-cell-assisted recovery from paraplegia.
Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, undergoes prostate surgery
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
40 people are killed after T. B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations collapses in Nigeria
The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the tournament previously known as the FIBA World Championship.
The prime minister of Poland, officially the president of the Council of Ministers, is the head of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland.
Eight people (including two children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida
New Zealand's National Government wins a third term in the elections despite allegations of corruption and revelations about state surveillance
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014.
43 students from Ayotzinapa Teachers College go missing and are presumed murdered in Iguala on their way to a protest, one of Mexico's worst human rights cases
A volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake (御嶽山, Ontake-san) took place on September 27, 2014, killing 63 people.
New Zealand's All Blacks score 4 tries to beat Argentina 34-13 in La Plata and claim their third consecutive Rugby Championship; All Blacks' first five-eighth Beauden Barrett kicks 6 from 6
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
The following is a timeline of the Syrian civil war from August to December 2014. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found at Casualties of the Syrian Civil War.
A gunpowder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria, killing 15 people
The 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach was a cyberattack against American bank JPMorgan Chase that is believed to have compromised data associated with over 83 million accounts—76 million households...
French F1 driver Jules Bianchi collides with a recovery vehicle during the Japanese Grand Prix and dies 10 months later; the first F1 death due to a racing accident in 21 years (Ayrton Senna 1994)
John O'Keefe is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London. O'Keefe discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of...
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes
Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television.
Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the...
Anita Sarkeesian ( sar-KEE-zee-ən; born 1983) is a Canadian-American feminist media critic.
The 2014 United Nations Security Council election was held on 16 October 2014 during the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
A functioning human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States
The trial of Oscar Pistorius for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp and several gun-related charges (The State vs Oscar Pistorius) in the High Court of South Africa in Pretoria opened on 3 March 2014.
"Montevallo" debut album by Sam Hunt is released (American Country Countdown Award Digital Album of the Year 2016, Billboard Album of the Year 2015)
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (福岡ソフトバンクホークス, Fukuoka Sofutobanku Hōkusu) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture.
Australian A-League soccer club Western Sydney Wanderers draw 0-0 with Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh to win the AFC Champions League, 1-0 on aggregate
60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan
New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks
The 2014 Emirates Melbourne Cup was the 154th running of the Melbourne Cup, Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key rules out sending troops to fight against Islamic State, but claims there are 40 New Zealanders on 'terror watchlist'
Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption
Ethel Kennedy was an American human rights advocate. She was the widow of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a sister-in-law of U.S. president John F.
58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District, Pakistan
67P h. Churyumov–Gerasimenko is approximately 4.3 by 4.1 km at its longest and widest dimensions.
American harness racing trainer/driver Dave Palone sets the world record for wins when he drive Missy Tap Tina to the winner's circle for his 16,754th career victory
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning
Vladimir Putin's press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense
The Church of England adopts legislation enabling the appointment of female bishops
The Jamaica women's national football team, nicknamed the "Reggae Girlz", represents Jamaica in international women's football.
Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona sets a new goal scoring record in La Liga of 253 goals
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Japan
British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit to clinch his second F1 World Drivers Championship, 67 points ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg
"Take Your Time" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Sam Hunt.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon orders hundreds more US National Guard troops to the town of Ferguson to prevent a second night of rioting and looting
Phillip Joel Hughes (30 November 1988 – 27 November 2014) was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire.
The 2016 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 26 January 2017. It is the 24th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. 2016's...
"U2 Minus 1" performs at Times Square in New York City for World AIDS Day; Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay's Chris Martin each sing two songs in place of injured frontman Bono
Thierry Daniel Henry is a French professional football coach, pundit, sports broadcaster, and former player.
After featuring in a magazine article with long-time life partner, veteran MLB umpire and crew chief Dale Scott openly acknowledges his homosexuality; overwhelmingly positive reaction from baseball circles
Comedian Bill Cosby resigns from the board of trustees of an American university following renewed sexual assault allegations
Australian Rugby star David Pocock is arrested after protesting against a coal mine under construction in an Australian national forest
Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Blackpool, England: Team Europe beats US, 11-5 for 5th straight title; MVP: Niels Feijen (Netherlands)
Human Rights Watch Asia Division call for investigation into Indonesian security forces shooting of peaceful protesters
The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program is a report compiled by the bipartisan United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about...
Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for their discoveries of nerve cells in the brain that enable a sense of place and navigation [1]
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories.
80th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Mariota, Oregon (QB)
An Army Public School in Pakistan is attacked by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants who kill 145 people
Thierry Daniel Henry is a French professional football coach, pundit, sports broadcaster, and former player.
-year-old Gus Andreone records the 8th ace of his career on the 113-yard, 14th hole of the Lakes Course, Palm Aire, Sarasota, FL; oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one
Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley kills 2 NYPD officers in Brooklyn, New York, supposedly in revenge for the killing of Eric Garner, before killing himself
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore.
36 die and 47 are wounded during a stampede of New Year revellers on Shanghai's Bund riverfront
Like Nastya, American russian-american youtuber, known for russian-american youtuber, was born on 2014-01-27.
Prince George, British prince, known for british prince, was born on 2014-07-22. Prince George of Wales (George Alexander Louis; born 22 July 2013) is a member of the British royal family.
Wojciech Jaruzelski dies
Dutchman Michael van Gerwen wins his first PDC World Darts Championship, defeating Peter Wright of Scotland 7-4; it is the first time no Englishman has been in the final
English "Roxy Music" singer-songwriter Bryan Ferry [68] divorces second wife English public relations specialist Amanda Sheppard [32] after a year and a half of marriage
Ukrainian Revolution of 2014 begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people on board loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, occupied it, and then annexed it after an illegitimate referendum.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (often abridged as Last Week Tonight) is an American news satire late-night talk show hosted by John Oliver.
General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all 543 members of the Lok Sabha.
Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, stage a coup in Thailand, suspend the kingdom's constitution, and take control of the government, the 12th since the country's first coup in 1932
"Gangnam Style" is a K-pop song by South Korean singer Psy, released on July 15, 2012, by YG Entertainment as the lead single of his sixth studio album, Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1.
Actress Melanie Griffith (45) and actor Antonio Banderas (53) file for divorce citing irreconcilable differences after 18 years of marriage
Islamic State of Iraq forces seize control of government offices and other important buildings in the northern city of Mosul
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
"How Stella Got Her Groove Back" actor Taye Diggs (44) and Broadway actress Idina Menzel (43) file for divorce after 11 years of marriage
American comedian ans TV host Nick Cannon (37) files for divorce from American pop singer Mariah Carey (48) after 6 years of marriage
30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India
Cambodian garment workers go on strike demanding a wage increase
14 people are killed after a three-story building construction site collapses in Goa, India
First known interstellar meteor to hit Earth, CNEOS 2014-01-08, crash lands in Papua New Guinea [1]
Five people are killed at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan
14 people are killed and 7 are injured from an explosion in an illegal gambling hall in Kaili City, China
David A. Satter is an American journalist and historian who writes about Russia and the Soviet Union.
LA Dodgers sign pitcher Clayton Kershaw to the biggest deal in baseball history, a 7-year, $215 million package averaging $30.7 million per season
21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan
The 86th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2013 and took place on March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre in...
Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked
Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
21 people are killed after a tourist boat capsizes off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
DNA analysis confirms that the 6th century Plague of Justinian was caused by a variant of Yersinia pestis (the same bacteria for the Black Death)
Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
24 hostages are killed after 6 suicide bombers temporarily take over the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation in Baghdad
Gerald Eugene Sloan (March 28, 1942 – May 22, 2020) was an American professional basketball player and coach.
Decommunization in Ukraine started during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and expanded afterwards.
10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Scotland since 16 December 2014. As family law is not reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament has legislative competence to make...
Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code
German treasurer Helmut Linssen resigns amid a scandal involving offshore banking accounts in the Bahamas and Panama
The 2014 Medina hotel fire was a hotel fire that occurred in a hotel in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The fire killed at least 15 people and another 130 were injured.
17 people are killed after a truck & bus collide in Mendoza, Argentina
The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by its combined nations' history, its interaction with the cultures of Europe, the individual diverse cultures of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern...
After winning Vancouver (2010) Olympic moguls title, Canadian freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau wins 2nd consecutive Olympic gold medal in Sochi; beats teammate Mikaël Kingsbury
11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan
French biathlete Martin Fourcade wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the individual competition; also claims the pursuit title
Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the men's large hill event; also wins normal hill gold
American Bode Miller (36) becomes the oldest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing history when he ties for bronze in the super-G in Sochi
American snowboarder David Wise wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic halfpipe gold medals in Sochi; wins again in Pyeongchang (2018)
After winning the combined gold in Turin (2006), American alpine skier Ted Ligety has to wait 8 years for his next Olympic success, gold in the giant slalom in Sochi
The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese.
After winning the men's parallel giant slalom at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian snowboarder Vic Wild wins his 2nd gold in the parallel slalom
56th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt Jr. breaks a 55-race winless streak to win his 2nd Great American Race
7 people are killed & 37 are injured after a bridge collapses in Vietnam
50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria
The prime minister of Ukraine is the head of government of Ukraine. The prime minister presides over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the...
29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China
A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, occupied it, and then annexed it after an illegitimate referendum.
Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
On March 12, 2014, an explosion occurred at 9:31 a.m. in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States.
Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design
Israel sends airforce against Syrian military units involved in an attack yesterday on an Israeli patrol in the Golan Heights
On March 22, 2014, a boat traveling on Africa's Lake Albert capsized. According to local police, 45 survivors were rescued. Officially, 251 people died in the accident.
The Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine are areas of southern and eastern Ukraine that are controlled by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the ongoing invasion.
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, occupied it, and then annexed it after an illegitimate referendum.
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
Andrej Kiska is a Slovak politician, entrepreneur, writer and philanthropist who served as the fourth president of Slovakia from 2014 to 2019.
NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, is a Maltese politician who was president of Malta from 2014 to 2019.
President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to battles over water and food within the next five to ten years
Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire picks up the 1,000th win of his MLB career as the Twins score a 7 - 3 victory over the Cleveland Indians
ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Dhaka: captain Meg Lanning's 44 from 30 balls leads Australia to 106/4; beat England 105/8 to win by 6 wickets (with 29 balls remaining); 3rd consecutive T20 WC
The new drug, ABT-450, with a 90-95% success rate for treating Hepatitis C, is announced
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes primarily in the marathon.
The 2014 Copa del Rey final was the 112th final of Spain's premier football cup since its establishment (including two seasons where two rival editions were played).
On 18 April 2014, seracs on the western spur of Mount Everest failed, resulting in an ice avalanche that killed sixteen climbing Sherpas in the Khumbu Icefall.
David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United
60 people are killed & 80 are injured after a train crashes in The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Oratorio for chorus evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life "Anthracite Fields" by composer Julia Wolfe premieres in Philadelphia (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2015) [1]
The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety comedy show that originally aired from January 9, 1995, to April 27, 2023, on CBS.
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations...
Hundreds march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose Western education
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations...
Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank and international financial institution that aims to collectively improve economic and social outcomes in Asia.
Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, releases a 57 minute video boasting about abducting schoolgirls in Nigeria
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations...
The 2014 NFL draft was the 79th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible football players to the league.
Kara Walker's artwork "The Subtlety" opens - an installation of a sphinx made of sugar at the Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn, NY [1]
Thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China
Eastern Ukraine or East Ukraine is primarily the territory of Ukraine east of the Dnipro (or Dnieper) river, particularly Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts (provinces).
On 13 May 2014, blasting at Eynez coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May.
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. & Manchester City F.C. are each fined €60 million for breaching Fair Play Regulations
The 2013–14 La Liga season (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) was the 83rd since its establishment. Matchdays were drawn on 9 July 2013.
St Johnstone FC win the Scottish Cup for 1st time in 130 years, defeating Dundee United 2-0
Swiss voters reject a $25 per hour minimum wage
Decorated Dutch coach Louis van Gaal confirmed as manager of Manchester United; Ryan Giggs named assistant, confirms retirement as a player at age 40 after 963 games and English record 22 major trophies
José Mário Vaz is a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as president of Guinea-Bissau from 23 June 2014 to 27 February 2020.
Jason Koumas is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Tranmere Rovers, Cardiff City, West Bromwich Albion and Wigan Athletic, as well as the Wales national team. He...
On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état, the twelfth since the country's first coup in...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish director, screenwriter, photographer and actor. His film Winter Sleep (2014) won the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, while six of his films have been...
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the 6th president of Egypt since 2014. After the 2011 Egyptian revolution and...
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula.
Former Liberation Front guerilla fighter Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, is sworn in as president in El Salvador
10 Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers are court-martialed for providing arms and information to jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram
MLB Draft: Cathedral Catholic HS (CA) pitcher Brady Aiken first pick by Houston Astros
The 68th Annual Tony Awards were held June 8, 2014, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2013–14 season.
The 2014 Gush Etzion kidnapping and murder refers to the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank during June 2014.
Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: LA Kings edge New York Rangers, 3-2 in double OT for a 4-1 series win; second Championship in LA franchise history
The Ilyushin Il-76 is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the...
British actor Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters
Qhapaq Ñan, the Andean Road System of the Inca Empire, 30,000km long (18,600 miles) through six countries, granted World Heritage status by UNESCO [1]
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations...
Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
Joel Hans Embiid ( joh-EL em-BEED; born 16 March 1994) is a Cameroonian and American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The Arizona Coyotes are an inactive professional ice hockey team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor.
Israeli Air Force strike kills 7 Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip
Israel launches a "counter-terrorist operation" dubbed Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza
Yair Lapid warns of Israeli Defense Force ground operation if Gazan rocket fire do not stop
The UN Security Council calls for a special meeting to discuss the current Israel–Palestinian conflict; Israel continue attacks on Gaza
World premiere of Richard Blackford and Bernie Krause's "The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony," combining natural recordings of animals, including gibbons, whales, birds, and frogs, with a traditional classical orchestra, by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales led by Martyn Brabbins at the Cheltenham
After 7 days, Israel has struck Gaza 1320 times, while Gaza has fired 940 rockets at Israel
20 people are killed and 100 are injured after a train derails in Moscow
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist...
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) call 18,000 additional reserves soldiers in campaign against Gaza
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
Many states began to intervene against the Islamic State, in both the Syrian civil war and the War in Iraq (2013–2017), in response to its rapid territorial gains from its 2014 invasion of Iraq,...
The 2014 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014 were an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth...
Air Algérie SpA is the flag carrier of Algeria, with its head office in the El-Djazair office block in Algiers.
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
Death toll in Gaza reaches 1,346, while 56 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians are killed
"Between Riverside and Crazy," a play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, premieres Off-Broadway at the Linda Gross Theater in New York and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015 [1]
Indiana Pacers NBA superstar Paul George suffers a gruesome compound fracture of his lower right leg during a Team USA scrimmage
Super Rugby Final, ANZ Stadium, Sydney: NSW Waratahs win their first SR title in a nail-biting 33-32 home effort against New Zealand's Canterbury Crusaders
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist...
Hamas rejects the continuation of the ceasefire if Israel does not lift the blockade
Israeli and Palestinian officials agree to a 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt
An Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone occurred in 2014, along with the neighbouring countries of Guinea and Liberia.
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
Israeli airstrike in Rafah kills Mohammed Abu Shammala, Raed al-Atar, and Mohammed Barhoum, three of Hamas's top commanders
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
Alex Puccio (born Alexandrea Elizabeth Cocca on June 15, 1989 in McKinney, Texas) is an American professional climber specializing in bouldering.
Nurse William Pooley flies back to the UK for emergency treatment after contracting the Ebola virus while attempting to treat patients in Sierra Leone
The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in US prime time television programming from June 1, 2013, until May 31, 2014, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls the international response to Ebola “irresponsible” and “slow and derisory”
Riots break out in Guinea following rumors that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
Nalanda University in eastern India begins its first academic year, on the site of the world's oldest university, a Buddhist monastic institution that operated 427 to 1197 CE
Archaeological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, Vallø Borgring, are discovered in Denmark
World Health Organization estimates 1,900 people have died from the Ebola virus out of 3,500 infected in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone
A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2014, including the first robotic landing on a comet and the first complete stem-cell-assisted recovery from paraplegia.
Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, undergoes prostate surgery
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
40 people are killed after T. B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations collapses in Nigeria
The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the tournament previously known as the FIBA World Championship.
The prime minister of Poland, officially the president of the Council of Ministers, is the head of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland.
Eight people (including two children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida
New Zealand's National Government wins a third term in the elections despite allegations of corruption and revelations about state surveillance
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014.
43 students from Ayotzinapa Teachers College go missing and are presumed murdered in Iguala on their way to a protest, one of Mexico's worst human rights cases
A volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake (御嶽山, Ontake-san) took place on September 27, 2014, killing 63 people.
New Zealand's All Blacks score 4 tries to beat Argentina 34-13 in La Plata and claim their third consecutive Rugby Championship; All Blacks' first five-eighth Beauden Barrett kicks 6 from 6
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
The following is a timeline of the Syrian civil war from August to December 2014. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found at Casualties of the Syrian Civil War.
A gunpowder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria, killing 15 people
The 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach was a cyberattack against American bank JPMorgan Chase that is believed to have compromised data associated with over 83 million accounts—76 million households...
French F1 driver Jules Bianchi collides with a recovery vehicle during the Japanese Grand Prix and dies 10 months later; the first F1 death due to a racing accident in 21 years (Ayrton Senna 1994)
John O'Keefe is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London. O'Keefe discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of...
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes
Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television.
Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the...
Anita Sarkeesian ( sar-KEE-zee-ən; born 1983) is a Canadian-American feminist media critic.
The 2014 United Nations Security Council election was held on 16 October 2014 during the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
A functioning human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States
The trial of Oscar Pistorius for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp and several gun-related charges (The State vs Oscar Pistorius) in the High Court of South Africa in Pretoria opened on 3 March 2014.
"Montevallo" debut album by Sam Hunt is released (American Country Countdown Award Digital Album of the Year 2016, Billboard Album of the Year 2015)
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (福岡ソフトバンクホークス, Fukuoka Sofutobanku Hōkusu) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture.
Australian A-League soccer club Western Sydney Wanderers draw 0-0 with Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh to win the AFC Champions League, 1-0 on aggregate
60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan
New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks
The 2014 Emirates Melbourne Cup was the 154th running of the Melbourne Cup, Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key rules out sending troops to fight against Islamic State, but claims there are 40 New Zealanders on 'terror watchlist'
Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption
Ethel Kennedy was an American human rights advocate. She was the widow of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a sister-in-law of U.S. president John F.
58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District, Pakistan
67P h. Churyumov–Gerasimenko is approximately 4.3 by 4.1 km at its longest and widest dimensions.
American harness racing trainer/driver Dave Palone sets the world record for wins when he drive Missy Tap Tina to the winner's circle for his 16,754th career victory
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning
Vladimir Putin's press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense
The Church of England adopts legislation enabling the appointment of female bishops
The Jamaica women's national football team, nicknamed the "Reggae Girlz", represents Jamaica in international women's football.
Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona sets a new goal scoring record in La Liga of 253 goals
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Japan
British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit to clinch his second F1 World Drivers Championship, 67 points ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg
"Take Your Time" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Sam Hunt.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon orders hundreds more US National Guard troops to the town of Ferguson to prevent a second night of rioting and looting
Phillip Joel Hughes (30 November 1988 – 27 November 2014) was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire.
The 2016 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 26 January 2017. It is the 24th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. 2016's...
"U2 Minus 1" performs at Times Square in New York City for World AIDS Day; Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay's Chris Martin each sing two songs in place of injured frontman Bono
Thierry Daniel Henry is a French professional football coach, pundit, sports broadcaster, and former player.
After featuring in a magazine article with long-time life partner, veteran MLB umpire and crew chief Dale Scott openly acknowledges his homosexuality; overwhelmingly positive reaction from baseball circles
Comedian Bill Cosby resigns from the board of trustees of an American university following renewed sexual assault allegations
Australian Rugby star David Pocock is arrested after protesting against a coal mine under construction in an Australian national forest
Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Blackpool, England: Team Europe beats US, 11-5 for 5th straight title; MVP: Niels Feijen (Netherlands)
Human Rights Watch Asia Division call for investigation into Indonesian security forces shooting of peaceful protesters
The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program is a report compiled by the bipartisan United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about...
Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for their discoveries of nerve cells in the brain that enable a sense of place and navigation [1]
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories.
80th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Mariota, Oregon (QB)
An Army Public School in Pakistan is attacked by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants who kill 145 people
Thierry Daniel Henry is a French professional football coach, pundit, sports broadcaster, and former player.
-year-old Gus Andreone records the 8th ace of his career on the 113-yard, 14th hole of the Lakes Course, Palm Aire, Sarasota, FL; oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one
Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley kills 2 NYPD officers in Brooklyn, New York, supposedly in revenge for the killing of Eric Garner, before killing himself
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore.
36 die and 47 are wounded during a stampede of New Year revellers on Shanghai's Bund riverfront
Like Nastya, American russian-american youtuber, known for russian-american youtuber, was born on 2014-01-27.
Prince George, British prince, known for british prince, was born on 2014-07-22. Prince George of Wales (George Alexander Louis; born 22 July 2013) is a member of the British royal family.