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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…
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)
Khaled Choudhury was a theatre personality and artist of Bengal. He worked for various directors of both Bengali and Hindi plays, including Sombhu Mitra, Tripti Mitra, and Shyamana…
Khaled Choudhury, Indian painter and set designer (born 1919)
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.
The 2014 Gorni Lom explosions were a series of explosions that began on the afternoon of October 1, 2014, at 16:59 pm local time at the former Midzhur Ammo Plant in the village of …
A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
The 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster occurred in central Nepal on 14 October 2014 and resulted in the deaths of at least 43 people of various nationalities, including at least 21 trek…
A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
A UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match involving the national association football teams of Serbia and Albania took place on 14 October 2014 at the Partizan Stadium in Belgrade, Serbia.…
The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the…
The 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill occurred on 22 October 2014, at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a Canadian soldier, and reservist on ceremonial sentry dut…
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
Ian Charles "Roscoe" Ross was an Australian television news presenter for Seven News in Sydney and for Nine News.
Ian Ross, Australian journalist (born 1940)
Alhaji Adamu Atta was the first civilian governor of the Nigerian Kwara State during the Second Republic, representing the National Party of Nigeria (NPN).
Adamu Atta, Nigerian lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Kwara State (born 1927)
Radhia Cousot was a French computer scientist known for inventing abstract interpretation.
Radhia Cousot, Tunisian-American computer scientist and academic (born 1947)
Assaf "Assi" Dayan was an Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer.
Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1945)
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is the national space agency of China. Headquartered in Haidian, Beijing, it is responsible for China's civil space programs and inte…
The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind…
Operation Herrick was the operational name for the British Armed Forces' operations during the War in Afghanistan, from 2002 to the end of combat operations in 2014. It consisted o…
Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
Orbital-3, also known as Orb-3, was an attempted flight of Cygnus, an automated cargo spacecraft developed by United States–based company Orbital Sciences, on October 28, 2014. The…
A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after…
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. A supranational union with a total area of 4,233,255 km2 (1,634,…
Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign…
The Beechcraft Super King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by Beechcraft. The Model 200 and Model 300 series were originally marketed as the "Super …
Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in…
Juan de Dios Castillo González was a Mexican footballer and coach, last with F.C. Motagua of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras, the top tier of the Honduran football. He has …
Juan de Dios Castillo, Mexican footballer and coach (born 1951)