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Events on the year of 2014 in history

Events
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05 Jan 2014 A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
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09 Jan 2014 An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
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19 Jan 2014 A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.
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23 Jan 2014 A fire breaks out in a L'Isle Verte, Quebec elderly home, killing 28 people.
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24 Jan 2014 The Philippines and the Bangsamoro agree to a peace deal that would help end the 45-year conflict.
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24 Jan 2014 Three bombs explode in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, killing about seven people and injuring over 100 others.
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03 Feb 2014 Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia.
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07 Feb 2014 Over 350 people were injured in the anti-government unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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07 Feb 2014 The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics is held in the Russian city of Sochi.
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08 Feb 2014 A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.
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11 Feb 2014 A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
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12 Feb 2014 A massive winter storm across states in the southern United States causes widespread power outages, travel disruptions and dangerous road conditions.
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15 Feb 2014 Renaud Lavillenie of France breaks Sergey Bubka's world record in pole vault with a mark of 6.16 m.
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18 Feb 2014 At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kiev, Ukraine.
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20 Feb 2014 Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.
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22 Feb 2014 President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328-0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
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23 Feb 2014 The closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics takes place in Sochi, Russia.
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01 Mar 2014 At least 29 people are killed and 130 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
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03 Mar 2014 The trial of Oscar Pistorius begins in Pretoria.
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07 Mar 2014 The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Paralympics take place in Sochi, Russia.
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08 Mar 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The aircraft is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia with the loss of all 239 people aboard.
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11 Mar 2014 Russia annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Getting 2014 Crimean crisis and 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
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12 Mar 2014 An explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills 8 and injures 70 others.
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16 Mar 2014 Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
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18 Mar 2014 The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
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20 Mar 2014 Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
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22 Mar 2014 At least 251 people die when a boat capsizes in Lake Albert.
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22 Mar 2014 Forty-three people are killed in a mudflow near Oso, Washington.
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24 Mar 2014 A train overruns the buffers at Chicago O'Hare Airport station, injuring 32 people.
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26 Mar 2014 A massive fire breaks out in Back Bay, Boston killing 2 firefighters and injuring at least 18 people.
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27 Mar 2014 Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
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29 Mar 2014 The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
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02 Apr 2014 A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood Army Base near the town of Killeen, Texas, with four people dead, including the gunman, and 16 others sustaining injuries.
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09 Apr 2014 A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
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12 Apr 2014 The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.
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13 Apr 2014 A bus traveling from Villahermosa to Mexico City crashes into a tractor-trailer and catches fire, killing at least 36 people.
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14 Apr 2014 Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Northeastern Nigeria.
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14 Apr 2014 Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.
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15 Apr 2014 A total lunar eclipse occurs, producing a Blood Moon.
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15 Apr 2014 More than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria.
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16 Apr 2014 The MV Sewol ferry carrying more than 450 people capsizes near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving 295 passengers and crew dead and 9 more missing.
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18 Apr 2014 Sixteen people are killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest.
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22 Apr 2014 More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
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27 Apr 2014 A tornado outbreak over much of the eastern United States kills more than 45 people.
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27 Apr 2014 Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints in the first papal canonization since 1954.
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30 Apr 2014 A bomb blast in Ürümqi kills three people and injures 79 others.
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02 May 2014 Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.
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04 May 2014 Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
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05 May 2014 22 people die after two boats carrying illegal immigrants collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
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05 May 2014 11 people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
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06 May 2014 Six people are injured in a knife attack at a Chinese train station in Guangzhou.
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11 May 2014 Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into the stand by police officers attempting to defuse a hostile incident.
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13 May 2014 Major floods in Southeast Europe kill at least 47 people.
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13 May 2014 An explosion at an underground coal mine in south-western Turkey kills 301 miners.
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16 May 2014 Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
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17 May 2014 A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.
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20 May 2014 More than 118 people are killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.
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21 May 2014 A knife attack on a Taipei Metro train leaves four people dead and almost two dozen others injured.
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21 May 2014 The National September 11 Museum opens to the public.
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22 May 2014 General Prayut Chan-o-cha of the Royal Thai Armed Forces announces a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
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22 May 2014 An explosion occurs in the city of Ürümqi, the capital of China's far-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
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23 May 2014 Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 13 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
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01 Jun 2014 A bombing at a football field in Mubi, Nigeria, kills at least 40 people.
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02 Jun 2014 Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India.
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19 Jun 2014 Felipe VI, Prince of Asturias, rises to the Spanish throne following the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I.
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23 Jun 2014 The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
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29 Jun 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
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08 Jul 2014 Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amidst rising tensions following the killing of Israeli teenagers.
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08 Jul 2014 Brazil loses 1-7 to Germany in the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final. The event is known as Mineirazo.
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17 Jul 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
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23 Jul 2014 The opening ceremony for the 2014 Commonwealth Games is held in Glasgow, Scotland.
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09 Aug 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
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03 Sep 2014 Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods leave over 200 people dead across India and Pakistan.
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10 Sep 2014 The first Invictus Games took place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
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12 Sep 2014 Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
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16 Sep 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobane offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
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18 Sep 2014 Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.
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19 Sep 2014 The Asian Games take place in Incheon, South Korea.
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24 Sep 2014 The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars.
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26 Sep 2014 Ayotzinapa mass kidnapping
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28 Sep 2014 Hong Kong protests : Benny Tai announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong's government headquarters is being occupied by thousands of protesters. Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse protesters but thousands remain.
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12 Oct 2014 Super-cyclone Hudhud in Visakhapatnam, major loss occurs
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14 Oct 2014 A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
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19 Oct 2014 Oort cloud Comet Siding Spring makes a close fly-by the planet Mars passing within 140,000 kilometers.
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22 Oct 2014 Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
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24 Oct 2014 The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
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26 Oct 2014 Britain withdraws from Afghanistan after the end of Operation Herrick which started on June 20, 2002 after 12 years four months and seven days.
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28 Oct 2014 An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
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29 Oct 2014 A mudslide in south-central Sri Lanka kills at least 16 people and more than 100 people missing.
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30 Oct 2014 Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
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31 Oct 2014 Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashes in the Mojave Desert during a test flight,
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02 Nov 2014 A suicide attack killed 60 at Wagah.
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03 Nov 2014 One World Trade Center officially opens
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28 Nov 2014 Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
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03 Dec 2014 The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to a asteroid to collect rock samples.
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05 Dec 2014 The first flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft launches successfully.
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11 Dec 2014 The city of Detroit, Michigan emerges from the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history.[1]
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13 Dec 2014 Landslides caused by heavy rain in Java, Indonesia, kill at least 56 people.
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15 Dec 2014 Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside the Martin Place Lindt Café for 16 hours in Sydney. He dies, along with two hostages, when police raid the café the following morning.
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16 Dec 2014 Militants belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attacked an Army Public School in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killing 145 people.
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17 Dec 2014 The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them 55 years ago.
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20 Dec 2014 Two police officers of the New York City Police Department are shot and killed, allegedly in retaliation against the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
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28 Dec 2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
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