Historical Events in 2014 (Part 3)

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• Sep 5 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
• Sep 7 Asteroid 2014 RC makes a close approach to Earth (39,900 km; 24,800 mi)

• Sep 11 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
• Sep 13 40 people are killed after T. B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations collapses in Nigeria
• Sep 13 At least 8 people are killed after the ferry MV Maharlika II sinks off the Philippines coast

• Sep 14 The United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup
• Sep 15 Ewa Kopacz becomes Prime Minister of Poland

• Sep 18 8 people (including 2 children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida

• Sep 18 Scotland votes to stay a member of the United Kingdom in an independence referendum

• Sep 20 New Zealand's National Government wins a 3rd term in the elections despite allegations of corruption and revelations about state surveillance
• Sep 22 NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars

• Sep 26 43 students from Ayotzinapa Teachers College go missing (and presumed murdered) in Iguala on their way to a protest - one of Mexico's worst human rights cases
• Sep 26 World Health Organizations estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091 - with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit hardest
• Sep 27 57 people are killed after Mount Ontake erupts in Japan
• Sep 27 Hawthorn Football Club defeats the Sydney Swans in the 2014 AFL Grand Final 137-74
• Sep 27 New Zealand's All Blacks scores 4 tries to beat Argentina, 34-13 in La Plata and claim their 3rd straight Rugby Championship; All Blacks first five eighth Beauden Barrett kicks 6 from 6

• Sep 30 A case of Ebola Virus reaches Dallas, Texas
• Oct 1 41 children are killed by a suicide bombing on the Akrameh al-Makhzumi school in Homs, Syria
• Oct 2 15 people are killed after a gunpowder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria
• Oct 2 Siege of Syrian town Kobani and its surrounds by ISIS prompts 130,00 people to flee the area
• Oct 3 83 million accounts are compromised after a cyber attack on JP Morgan Chase & 9 other financial institutions

• Oct 6 John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Oct 7 Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes
• Oct 7 Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa
• Oct 8 Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
• Oct 8 The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the third $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
• Oct 9 Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
• Oct 9 Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature

• Oct 14 Richard Flanagan's novel "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize

• Oct 14 World Health Organization announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%
• Oct 16 New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council
• Oct 19 A working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States

• Oct 20 Laquan McDonald (17) is shot dead by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke while jaywalking, the murder caught on video footage
• Oct 21 Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

• Oct 27 "Montevallo" debut album by Sam Hunt is released (American Country Countdown Award Digital Album of the Year 2016, Billboard Album of the Year 2015)

• Oct 30 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks win the 2014 Japan Series

• Nov 1 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
• Nov 2 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan
• Nov 2 New York City Marathon: Wilson Kipsang of Kenya wins in 2:10:59; compatriot Mary Keitany wins first of 3 straight women's titles in 2:25:07

• Nov 4 Protectionist wins the 2014 Melbourne Cup
• Nov 4 The body of the last missing victim is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, during its dismantling in Genoa
• Nov 4 The US votes in mid-term elections: Republicans retain the house & regain the Senate
• Nov 4 Tim Scott becomes the first African-American Senator in the south since the Reconstruction

• Nov 8 Protests across New Zealand against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations

• Nov 8 US President Obama authorises deployment of 1,500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants
• Nov 9 Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption

• Nov 9 Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak
• Nov 9 United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS)

• Nov 10 Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama
• Nov 11 58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District, Pakistan
• Nov 11 An Italian appeals court overturns a manslaughter conviction against 6 scientists for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake
• Nov 11 Samsung Lions beat Nexen Heroes, 11-1 in Game 6 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul to win the Korean Series
• Nov 11 The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison
• Nov 11 The leaders of China and Japan meet for formal talks after more than two years of severe tension over a territorial dispute
• Nov 11 The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence
• Nov 12 European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

• Nov 13 Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout wins the MVP awards in MLB for 2014
• Nov 13 Indian cricket batsman Rohit Sharma sets new world ODI record of 264 runs off 173 balls against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata
• Nov 14 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
• Nov 15 A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning
• Nov 15 The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the government's handling of the case

• Nov 15 World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth

• Nov 16 Klaus Iohannis wins the Romanian Presidential election

• Nov 17 The Church of England adopts legislation enabling the appointment of female bishops
• Nov 18 Jamaica win the 2014 Caribbean Cup in football

• Nov 20 Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes

• Nov 22 Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy, is shot dead by police in Cleveland, after brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun in a playground
• Nov 23 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Japan
• Nov 23 A suicide bomber kills 40 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan
• Nov 23 An adviser to the Kenyan president says the slaughter of 28 people on a bus by the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab is intended to create a religious war in the country

• Nov 23 Mass protests in Mexico by relatives of 43 missing Mexican students, who the authorities say were murdered by a drugs gang
• Nov 23 Republicans condemn US President Obama's use of executive powers to force through immigration reform
• Nov 24 "Take Your Time" single is released by Sam Hunt (Billboard Song of the Year 2015)
• Nov 25 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
• Nov 25 Protest erupt across US after a decision by Missouri grand jury not to bring charges against a white policeman who shot dead a black teenager
• Nov 25 Switzerland's Bern Art Museum agrees to accept artworks looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis
• Nov 25 US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigns, ending nearly two years in the Pentagon's top job
• Nov 27 Cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being struck on the head by a bouncer
• Nov 27 Stephanie Gilmore wins her 6th women's world surfing title
• Nov 30 Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded
• Nov 30 Tabaré Vázquez is re-elected President of Uruguay

• Dec 1 Utility Claudio Liverziani becomes first 3-time MVP in the Italian Baseball League; 291/.444/.472 season, with 30 HRs and 20 RBI in 38 games for Fortitudo Bologna
• Dec 2 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

• Dec 2 Elizabeth Lauten, an aide to a Republican congressman resigns after her online criticism of President Barack Obama's teenage daughters
• Dec 2 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists clash with police as they try to surround the government's headquarters in some of the worst violence since the protests began

• Dec 2 The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds
• Dec 2 Vanuatu police arrest at least 20 people over the deaths by hanging of two men accused of sorcery
• Dec 3 Australian Rugby star David Pocock is arrested after protesting against a coal mine under construction in an Australian national forest
• Dec 3 Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resigns
• Dec 3 Protests erupt in cities across the US after a grand jury decides not to charge the New York City police officer who killed Eric Garner with a choke-hold
• Dec 4 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Blackpool, England: Team Europe beats US, 11-5 for 5th straight title; MVP: Niels Feijen (Netherlands)

• Dec 4 The United Nations warns that the world is on course for the warmest year since records began
• Dec 4 Ukraine and Pro-Russian rebels agree to cease fire in the eastern war zone, beginning December 9
• Dec 4 US authorities promise a "fair" investigation into the death of African American Eric Garner, after a white New York City police officer held him in a choke-hold faces no charges
• Dec 7 Human Rights Watch Asia Division call for investigation into Indonesian security forces shooting of peaceful protesters
• Dec 7 Mayor of Paris calls for diesel cars to be banned from the French Capital by 2020, in order to reduce pollution
• Dec 7 The Archbishop of Canterbury claims that he is more shocked by the plight of Britain's hunger-stricken poor than suffering in African refugee camps
• Dec 7 The Syrian military accuse Israel of carrying out two air strikes on Syria
• Dec 7 Typhoon Hagupit hits central Philippines; millions flee homes for shelter
• Dec 9 CIA Torture Report released, detailing the CIA's use of torture on detainees between 2001-2006
• Dec 10 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]

• Dec 11 World's 1st penis transplant procedure by a team from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
• Dec 12 Over 200 pro-democracy activists arrested in Hong Kong
• Dec 12 UN climate change talks in Peru continue past scheduled time as negotiations continue to stall
• Dec 13 80th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Mariota, Oregon (QB)
• Dec 13 A civil rights protest march in Washington, D.C. takes place, against the police killing of unarmed black men
• Dec 13 Divisions emerge between rich and poor nations at the UN climate change talks in Peru
• Dec 13 Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, criticizes UN Security Council for its lack of action over war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan
• Dec 13 The British Government announces it will send hundreds of troops to Iraq, to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces in the conflict with Islamic State
• Dec 13 Two US soldiers killed in a Taliban bombing of a NATO convoy in Kabul

• Dec 16 An Army Public School in Pakistan is attacked by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants who kill 145 people
• Dec 16 Thierry Henry announces his retirement as a player and states he will begin working for Sky Sports as a pundit
• Dec 17 103-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

• Dec 19 The Guardian newspaper calls 2014 'The year the people stood up'
• Dec 20 Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley kills 2 NYPD officers in Brooklyn, New York, supposedly in revenge for the killing of Eric Garner, before killing himself

• Dec 28 Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashes in bad weather in the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board
• Dec 31 36 die and 47 are wounded during a stampede of New Year revellers on Shanghai's Bund riverfront

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