Historical Events in 2014

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• Jan 1 New Zealand cricket batsman Corey Anderson smashes a record century off just 36 balls in the Black Caps' 159 run ODI win over the West Indies in Queenstown; finishes on 131 not out off 47 balls
• Jan 2 30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India

• Jan 3 Cambodian garment workers go on strike demanding a wage increase
• Jan 3 Tommy Lynn Sells is executed at Texas State Penitentiary, Huntsville, for the murder of nine-year-old Mary Perez, thought to have committed 21 more murders
• Jan 4 14 people are killed after a three-story building construction site collapses in Goa, India

• Jan 8 First known interstellar meteor to ever hit Earth - CNEOS 2014-01-08 crash lands in Papua New Guinea [1]
• Jan 9 Five people are killed at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan
• Jan 9 Taliban suicide car bomb assassinates senior police officer Chaudhry Aslam and kills three others in Pakistan, Pakistan
• Jan 9 Yaya Toure wins African Footballer of the Year

• Jan 11 Pianist Menahem Presser (90) makes his Berlin Philharmonic debut as soloist in Mozart's 17th Piano Concerto; he had fled Nazi persecution in Germany as a teenager

• Jan 12 Stephen Bunting and Lisa Ashton win the 2014 BDO World Darts Championship
• Jan 13 14 people are killed and 7 are injured from an explosion in an illegal gambling hall in Kaili City, China

• Jan 14 American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia

• Jan 15 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
• Jan 17 21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan

• Jan 20 Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked
• Jan 22 Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres
• Jan 26 21 people are killed after a tourist boat capsizes off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

• Jan 28 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)
• Jan 28 Peter Cosgrove is named the next Governor-General of Australia
• Jan 29 Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
• Jan 29 Bohuslav Sobotka becomes Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
• Jan 29 Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the 1st non-Spanish player to captain Real Madrid, making his 500th appearance for the club

• Jan 29 Scientists discover how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice
• Jan 30 24 hostages are killed after 6 suicide bombers temporarily take over the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation in Baghdad

• Feb 1 14 people are killed after Mount Sinabung erupts in Indonesia

• Feb 1 Ray Guy (Oakland/LA Raiders) becomes second pure kicker, and first pure punter to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Feb 1 Syrian civil war death toll reaches 130,000, while 4 million are displaced
• Feb 2 Protests in Ukraine turn violent after parliament passes legislation that outlaws protest

• Feb 3 Teenage student shoots and kills a geography teacher and a police officer, and wounds 8 at School 263 on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia
• Feb 4 10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India
• Feb 4 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Scotland

• Feb 5 Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code

• Feb 6 The Taliban and Pakistani government begin peace negotiations
• Feb 7 German treasurer Helmut Linssen resigns amid a scandal involving offshore banking accounts in the Bahamas and Panama
• Feb 7 XXII Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi, Russia
• Feb 8 15 people are killed & 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia
• Feb 8 17 people are killed after a truck & bus collide in Mendoza, Argentina
• Feb 8 Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe claim gold and silver medals in the moguls freestyle skiing event at the Sochi Winter Olympics; first Canadian sisters to stand together on the podium
• Feb 8 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 5,000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Sven Kramer retains title ahead of teammates Jan Blokhuijsen and Jorrit Bergsma
• Feb 8 Ole Einar Bjørndalen equals the Winter Olympics medal record with 12
• Feb 8 Slopestyle snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Sage Kotsenburg is inaugural men's gold medallist
• Feb 9 Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old
• Feb 9 Olympic teams figure skating event debuts in Sochi with Russia taking the gold medal; pairs champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov win first of 2 gold at the Games
• Feb 9 Protest erupt in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina; the unemployment rate remains at 40% (57% for youth)
• Feb 9 Slopestyle snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Jamie Anderson is inaugural women's gold medallist
• Feb 9 Slovak biathlete Anastasiya Kuzmina retains her Olympic 7.5k sprint title (Vancouver 2010) at the Sochi Winter Games
• Feb 9 Switzerland votes to return immigration quotas

• Feb 10 Canadian short track speed skater Charles Hamelin wins his 3rd career Olympic gold medal in the 1,500m in Sochi; Vancouver (2010) 500m and 5,000m relay champion
• Feb 10 German alpine skier Maria Höfl-Riesch retains her Olympic combined title (Vancouver 2010) when she Nicole Hosp beats of Austria by 0.4s
• Feb 10 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 500m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Michel Mulder wins gold ahead of teammates Jan Smeekens and Ronald Mulder
• Feb 11 11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan
• Feb 11 77 people are killed after a military transport plane crashes in Algeria
• Feb 11 Peace talks resume in Geneva as leaders attempt to bring an end to the civil war in Syria
• Feb 11 Slopestyle freestyle skiing event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; Canadian Dara Howell is inaugural women's gold medallist

• Feb 12 German Nordic combined skier Eric Frenzel wins the 1st of 3 career Olympic gold medals in Individual normal hill/10 km event in Sochi; wins event again Pyeongchang and long hill 4 x 5k relay

• Feb 12 Switzerland’s Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze of Slovenia tie for gold in the women’s downhill event at 1:41.57s at the Sochi Winter Games; first-ever dead-heat in Olympic alpine skiing
• Feb 12 Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating
• Feb 13 French biathlete Martin Fourcade wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the individual competition; also claims the pursuit title

• Feb 13 Polish cross country skier Justyna Kowalczyk follows her Vancouver (2010) Olympic women's 30k classical title with a gold medal in the 10k classical in Sochi
• Feb 13 Slopestyle freestyle skiing event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Joss Christensen is inaugural men's gold medallist
• Feb 13 Women's luge singles champion Natalie Geisenberger and men's doubles winners Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt earn their 2nd Olympic gold medals in Sochi in team relay event; Germany sweeps 4 events

• Feb 14 Britain's Lizzy Yarnold wins her first of 2 consecutive Olympic women's skeleton gold medals in Sochi; also wins event in Pyeongchang (2018)
• Feb 14 For the first time in men's figure skating, all 3 Olympic singles medalists are of Asian descent; Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan) gold, Patrick Chan (Canada) and Denis Ten (Kazakhstan)
• Feb 14 Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in office
• Feb 14 Swiss cross country skier Dario Cologna wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the 15k classical; also wins 30k skiathlon
• Feb 15 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
• Feb 15 Tammam Salam is elected Prime Minister of Lebanon after a 10 month gridlock
• Feb 15 World champion Aleksandr Tretyakov of Russia wins the men's skeleton gold medal at his home Sochi Winter Olympics
• Feb 16 American Bode Miller (36) becomes the oldest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing history when he ties for bronze in the super-G in Sochi
• Feb 16 Léa Seydoux is nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award
• Feb 16 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the women's 1,500m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Jorien ter Mors wins gold ahead of teammates Ireen Wüst and Lotte van Beek

• Feb 17 American pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White win the first Olympic gold medal for the US in ice dance at the Sochi Winter Games
• Feb 17 Belarus takes the aerials double at the Sochi Winter Olympics when Anton Kushnir wins the men's event; Alla Tsuper claims the women's section
• Feb 17 Belarusian biathlete Darya Domracheva wins her 3rd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mass start; also wins individual and pursuit gold

• Feb 18 American snowboarder David Wise wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic halfpipe gold medals in Sochi; wins again in Pyeongchang (2018)
• Feb 18 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 1,000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Jorrit Bergsma wins gold ahead of teammates Sven Kramer and Bob de Jong
• Feb 18 Police clash with protesters in Bangkok, Thailand

• Feb 19 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
• Feb 19 Canadian team Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyes win their second consecutive Olympic 2-woman bobsleigh gold medal at the Sochi Winter Games
• Feb 19 Czech speed skater Martina Sáblíková retains her Olympic 5,000m title (Vancouver 2010) in Sochi; also Vancouver 3,000m gold
• Feb 19 Death toll in Ukraine reaches 26 after Government crackdown on protesters
• Feb 19 Norwegian biathletes Ole Einar Bjørndalen (sprint gold) and Emil Hegle Svendsen (mass start gold), each win their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mixed relay

• Feb 20 Adelina Sotnikova convincingly wins the women's singles figure skating gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics for Russia's first title in the ladies event
• Feb 20 After winning the individual large hill 10k Nordic combined title Jørgen Graabak of Norway wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the team large hill / 4 x 5 km relay
• Feb 20 Canada beats Sweden, 6-3 in final to become first women's curling team to go through the Olympics undefeated as they win Sochi gold medal; first Manitoba based team to win Olympic gold
• Feb 20 France sweeps the medals in the men's ski cross at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Jean-Frédéric Chapuis takes the gold ahead of teammates Arnaud Bovolenta and Jonathan Midol
• Feb 20 Marie-Philip Poulin scores in overtime to lead Canada to a 3-2 win over the US and 4th consecutive Olympic women's ice hockey gold medal at the Sochi Winter Games
• Feb 21 10 words from the 15th C Voynich manuscript have been decoded
• Feb 21 11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia
• Feb 21 Canada take the curling double at the Sochi Winter Olympics beating Great Britain, 9-3 in the final; also win women's gold medal
• Feb 21 Park Seung-hi wins Olympic women's 1,000m short track speed skating gold medal in Sochi for her 2nd gold medal of the Games; 3,000m relay winner
• Feb 21 Police in Kiev open fire on protesters: 27 killed and around 570 injured

• Feb 21 Viktor An of Russia wins 6th career Olympic short track speed skating gold medal as part of the 5,000m relay team in Sochi; 2nd gold of the day (500m) and 3rd of Games (1,000m)
• Feb 22 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
• Feb 22 At age 34, Mario Matt of Austria becomes the oldest champion in Olympic alpine skiing history with the slalom gold medal at Sochi
• Feb 22 Dutch speed skaters Jorien ter Mors (1,500m champion) and Ireen Wüst (3,000m winner) each claim their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics as part of the women's pursuit team
• Feb 22 Matteo Renzi becomes Prime Minister of Italy
• Feb 22 Norway sweeps the medals in the women's 30k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Marit Bjørgen wins her 6th career gold ahead of teammates Therese Johaug and Kristin Størmer Steira
• Feb 22 Snowboard Olympic parallel special slalom event debuts and is run for the only time at the Sochi Winter Games; Russian Vic Wild and Julia Dujmovits of Canada win unique gold medals

• Feb 23 56th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt Jr. breaks a 55-race winless streak to win his 2nd Great American Race
• Feb 23 A pro-Euromaidan rally is held in Simferopol, Ukraine, while in Kerch, protesters attempt to replace the Ukrainian flag from city hall with a Russian flag

• Feb 23 Russia sweeps the medals in the men's 50k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Alexander Legkov wins gold ahead of teammates Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilia Chernousov
• Feb 23 XXII Winter Olympic Games close in Sochi, Russia
• Feb 24 7 people are killed & 37 are injured after a bridge collapses in Vietnam
• Feb 24 A 4.4 billion-year-old Crystal is discovered to be the oldest known fragment from the earth's crust

• Feb 25 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria
• Feb 25 Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters block the Crimean parliament and demand a referendum on Crimea's independence

• Feb 27 Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine
• Feb 27 Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm
• Feb 27 Republic of Crimea announces a referendum and ousts its regional government
• Feb 27 Unmarked Russia special forces invade neighboring Crimea, Ukraine to assist pro-Russian nationalists, occupying government buildings in preparation for annexation
• Feb 27 US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a "religious freedom" bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers
• Mar 1 29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China

• Mar 2 86th Academy Awards: "12 Years a Slave," Matthew McConaughey & Cate Blanchett win
• Mar 2 President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from Russia's parliament to send troops to Ukraine

• Mar 5 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
• Mar 6 Crimean parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea part of Russia

• Mar 11 Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
• Mar 12 8 people are killed, 70 injured, & 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion in East Harlem, New York

• Mar 13 After protests earlier this month, the Israeli parliament votes 65 to 1 for legislation that ends exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students
• Mar 16 Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design

• Mar 17 The Republic of Crimea is declared

• Mar 18 Russia formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine. by signing Treaty on Accession
• Mar 18 Transnistria formally requests to join the Russian Federation
• Mar 18 US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats
• Mar 19 Israel sends airforce against Syrian military units involved in an attack yesterday on an Israeli patrol in the Golan Heights
• Mar 19 Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol
• Mar 21 Canadian freestyle skier (moguls) and two-time Olympic gold medalist Alexandre Bilodeau retires at 26
• Mar 21 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
• Mar 22 251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda
• Mar 22 43 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington
• Mar 22 Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people
• Mar 22 The US and EU impose sanctions on Russia
• Mar 24 Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea

• Mar 26 Taavi Rõivas becomes Prime Minister of Estonia
• Mar 27 UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea
• Mar 28 2 cases of Ebola are reported in Liberia among people who have travelled to Guinea
• Mar 28 Russia increases the price of gas to Ukraine by 80%
• Mar 29 Andrej Kiska is elected President of Slovakia
• Mar 29 First same-sex couples marry in the UK as a result of the passing of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
• Apr 1 NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia
• Apr 3 Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta
• Apr 3 Pope Francis canonizes François de Laval, first bishop of Quebec, as a Catholic saint
• Apr 4 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
• Apr 5 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

• Apr 6 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

• Apr 9 Joel Embiid declares for the 2014 NBA draft, forgoing his final three years of college eligibility
• Apr 9 Stuart Parkin is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for his work on magnetic storage

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