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China Zorrilla was a Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area, she is often regarded a…
China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress (born 1922)
Milan Marcetta was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 54 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars between 1967 a…
Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1936)
Earl Ross was a Canadian race car driver who competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series from 1973 to 1976 driving the Carling Red Cap No. 52.
Earl Ross, Canadian racing driver (born 1941)
Hirofumi Uzawa was a Japanese economist.
Hirofumi Uzawa, Japanese economist and academic (born 1928)
Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards.
Kenny Wheeler, Canadian-English trumpet player and composer (born 1930)
Audrey Gwendoline Long was an American stage and screen actress of English descent, who performed mainly in low-budget films in the 1940s and early 1950s. Some of her more notable …
Audrey Long, American actress (born 1922)
Anatoly Nikolayevich Berezovoy was a Soviet and later Russian cosmonaut.
Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (born 1942)
Polly Bergen was an American actress and singer. She won an Emmy Award in 1958 for her performance as Helen Morgan in Helen Morgan . For her stage work, she was nominated for the T…
Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (born 1930)
Takako Doi was a Japanese politician who served as leader of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) from 1986 to 1991 and later its successor the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 1996 …
Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (born 1928)
George Sluizer was a French-born Dutch filmmaker whose credits included features as well as documentary films.
George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932)
MV Sewol was a South Korean vehicle-passenger ferry, built and previously operated in Japan. She operated between Incheon and Jeju. On 16 April 2014, Sewol capsized and sank with t…
The ferry MV Sewol capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High
The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis from 2014 to 2025 which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Leg…
A water crisis began when officials in Flint, Michigan, switched the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to
On 30 April 2014, a bomb-and-knife attack occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The terrorist attack killed 3 people, and injured 79 others. The attack coincided with t…
A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China, killed three people and injured 79 others
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research in…
NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habi
Flint is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. The city's population was 81,252 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 79,735 in 2024, maki…
The city of Flint, Michigan, U
The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russ…
Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrain
On 2 May 2014, a pair of mudslides occurred in Argo District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. The death toll is uncertain, the number of deaths is believed to be at least 350 and…
Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people
On 13 May 2014, blasting at Eynez coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May. In total, 301 people were killed, making it the wor…
The worst mining disaster in Turkish history took place when an explosion caused an underground mine fire at a coal mine
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
Julieka Ivanna Dhu, an Aboriginal Australian woman, died in police custody after her deteriorating condition was…
On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri,…
On 17 May 2014, an Antonov An-74 transport aircraft of the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force crashed while en route to Xiangkhouang Province, northern Laos, killing all but on…
A military plane crash killed 17 people and left one survivor in northern Laos
On 16 May 2014, two improvised explosive devices were detonated simultaneously in the Gikomba market in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 12 people and injuring 70. The first blast …
At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya
On 21 May 2014, a Taiwanese man carried out a stabbing spree targeting random civilians on a Taipei Metro C321 train near Jiangzicui Station, resulting in four deaths and 24 injuri…
A Taiwanese man carried out a stabbing spree on a Taipei Metro train, killing four people and injuring 24 others
Prayut Chan-o-cha is a Thai former politician and military officer who became the 29th prime minister of Thailand after seizing power in the 2014 coup d'état and served until 2023.…
Prayut Chan-o-cha (pictured), the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état against the caretake