Historical Events on August 14 (Part 2)

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• 2013 14 people are killed and 26 are injured by two roadside bombings in Baqubah, Iraq
• 2013 638 people are killed in violent clashes between police and protesters across Egypt
• 2015 Most extensive face transplant surgery ever performed on Patrick Hardison by Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez at New York University Langone Medical Center

• 2016 An all-British final in the men's cycling sprint with Jason Kenny beating teammate Callum Skinner at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics

• 2016 Justin Rose of Great Britain finishes with a score of 16 under par to win the inaugural men's individual golf gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Rose is 2 strokes ahead of Henrik Stenson (Sweden) and 3 from American Matt Kuchar
• 2016 Kenya's Jemima Sumgong wins women's marathon gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2:24:04; Eunice Kirwa (Bahrain) takes silver, and Mare Dibaba (Ethiopia) bronze
• 2016 South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk sets world record 43.03 to win the men's 400m gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Kirani James (Grenada) silver, American LaShawn Merritt bronze
• 2017 Cholera has now infected more than 500,000 people in Yemen and killed over 2,000 according to the World Health Organization
• 2017 Mudslide and flooding in Freetown, Sierra Leone kills over 500 with 600 missing
• 2017 Parliamentary citizenship scandal deepens in Australia after Barnaby Joyce, Deputy PM revealed to be a New Zealand citizen

• 2018 2.3 million estimated Venezuelans have left crisis-hit Venezuela since 2015 according to the UN
• 2018 Italy's Morandi Bridge collapses in Genoa, taking 30 vehicles with it and killing 43
• 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury alleges 300 "predator priests" abused over 1000 children over 30 years and Catholic leaders covered it, up after 2-year investigation
• 2019 "It is raining plastic," survey published, plastic found in 90% of rain samples taken in Colorado by the US Department of the Interior and US Geological Survey
• 2019 "The 1619 Project" produced by Nikole Hannah-Jones, to examine legacy of slavery in America, launched in "The New York Times Magazine"
• 2019 American rapper ASAP Rocky found guilty of assault in Stockholm and given a suspended sentence
• 2019 French woman Stephanie Frappart is the first woman to referee a major match in a European men's tournament - UEFA Super Cup Chelsea vs Liverpool in Istanbul
• 2019 Iowa congressman Steve King says without rape and incest "“Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?" in video for "The Des Moines Register"

• 2021 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes south-west Haiti near city of Les Cayes, killing at least 2,200 people, injuring many more and destroying 52,000 homes
• 2021 Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Tyler Gilbert throws a no-hitter in his MLB debut, defeating San Diego Padres, 7-0 in Phoenix; record equalling 8th no-hitter of the season
• 2021 Calder Fire, near Lake Tahoe, begins in California, goes on to destroy 1000 structures and over 218,000 acres [1]
• 2021 It rains for the first time at Greenland ice sheets' highest point, at Summit Station research facility, above freezing conditions create some melting for 337,000 square miles of ice [1]
• 2021 Spain records its highest ever temperature of 47.2C (117F) in Montoro, Córdoba [1]
• 2022 Fire at Abu Sefein Church in Giza, Egypt, results in 41 deaths [1]
• 2022 Unsealed court papers of FBI search of Trump residence Mar-a-Lago show 11 sets of classified documents recovered, some labelled top secret [1]
• 2023 Former US President Donald Trump and 18 others, including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, indicted by a grand jury in Atlanta on felony charges for attempting to overturn 2020 election in Georgia [1]
• 2023 July 2023 was the warmest month in 174 years "by a long shot" according to NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 2.02 degrees F above 20th century average [1]
• 2126 Comet Swift-Tuttle approaches close to Earth

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