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Daniel Mametta Colchico was an American athlete who played defensive end in the National Football League (NFL).
Daniel Colchico, American football player and coach (born 1935)
Henry Leslie Firth, OAM was an Australian racing driver and team manager. Firth was a leading race and rally driver during the 1950s and 1960s and continued as an influential team …
Harry Firth, Australian race car driver and manager (born 1918)
Barbara Fiske Calhoun was an American cartoonist and painter, one of the few female creators from the Golden Age of Comic Books. She co-founded Quarry Hill Creative Center, one of …
Barbara Fiske Calhoun, American cartoonist and painter (born 1919)
William Holmes Honan was an American journalist and author who directed coverage of the arts at The New York Times as its culture editor in the 1980s. Honan held senior editorial p…
William Honan, American journalist and author (born 1930)
Dennis David Kahekilimamaoikalanikeha Kamakahi was a Hawaiian slack key guitarist, recording artist, music composer, and Christian minister. He was a three-time Grammy Award winner…
Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (born 1953)
The 2014 Ludian earthquake struck Ludian County, Yunnan, China, with a moment magnitude of 6.2 on 3 August. The earthquake killed at least 615 people, injuring at least 2,400 other…
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
Ferguson is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. Per the 2020 census, the population was 18,527, and is predo…
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police…
Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Iranian capital Tehran Mehrabad International Airport to Tabas, South Khorasan province, Iran. On 10 Aug…
Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.
The Cessna Citation Excel is an American midsize business jet in the Cessna Citation family. Announced in October 1994, the Model 560XL first flew on February 29, 1996, certificati…
A Cessna Citation Excel crashes in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil killing all seven people aboard, including Brazilian…
Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 and has a geographic area of 8,479 km2. H…
Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of…
Edgar Louis "Beaver" Laprade was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. The son of Thomas and Edith Laprade, h…
Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)
Muhammad Idris Sardi was an Indonesian violinist and composer.
Idris Sardi, Indonesian violinist and composer (born 1938)
Frederic David Schwartz was an American architect, author, and city planner whose work includes Empty Sky, the New Jersey 9-11 Memorial, which was dedicated in Liberty State Park o…
Frederic Schwartz, American architect, co-designed Empty Sky (born 1951)
Ryan Tandy was an international rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played as a prop in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the St. George Illawarra Drago…
Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (born 1981)
The 2014 South Napa earthquake occurred in the northern San Francisco Bay Area on August 24 at 03:20:44 Pacific Daylight Time. At 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and with a maxim…
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the largest in that area since 1989.
From the late 1980s until 2013, group-based child sexual exploitation affected an estimated 1,400 girls, generally from care home backgrounds, in the town of Rotherham, South Yorks…
The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal is published.
Songs of Innocence is the thirteenth studio album by the Irish rock band U2, released on 9 September 2014. It was produced by Danger Mouse, with additional production from Paul Epw…
The album Songs of Innocence by U2 is digitally released at no charge to all customers of the iTunes Music Store,…
A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014. The referendum question was "Should Scotland be an independent country?", w…
Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan, is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Researc…
The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to…
Iveta Bartošová was a Czech singer, actress and celebrity, three-time best female vocalist in the music poll Zlatý slavík. She was also known for her turbulent lifestyle attracting…
Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer and actress (born 1966)
Albert Bernard Feldstein was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. After…
Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (born 1925)
Robert William Hoskins was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making …
Bob Hoskins, English actor (born 1942)
On September 26, 2014, forty-three male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared after being forcibly abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, in what has been…
A mass kidnapping of 43 students from a teaching college occurs in Iguala, Mexico.
A volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake took place on September 27, 2014, killing 63 people. Mount Ontake is a volcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu around 100 kilometres (…
63 people are killed in an eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan.