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Date	Event
January 5, 2014	A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
January 9, 2014	An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
January 19, 2014	A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.
January 21, 2014	Rojava conflict: The Jazira Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
January 27, 2014	Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
January 29, 2014	Rojava conflict: The Afrin Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
February 3, 2014	Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia.
February 7, 2014	Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
February 8, 2014	A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
February 11, 2014	A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
February 18, 2014	At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine.
February 20, 2014	Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, many reportedly killed by snipers.
February 22, 2014	President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
March 1, 2014	Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
March 8, 2014	In one of aviation's greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
March 12, 2014	A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
March 16, 2014	Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
March 18, 2014	The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
March 20, 2014	Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
March 27, 2014	Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
March 29, 2014	The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
April 2, 2014	A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
April 8, 2014	Windows XP reaches it's standard End Of Life and is no longer supported
April 9, 2014	A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
April 12, 2014	The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.
April 15, 2014	In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.
April 16, 2014	The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.
April 17, 2014	NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
April 21, 2014	The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
April 25, 2014	The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to lead and bacteria contamination upon the citizens.
April 30, 2014	A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.
May 2, 2014	Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.
May 4, 2014	Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
May 11, 2014	Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
May 13, 2014	An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners.
May 16, 2014	Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya.
May 17, 2014	A military plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.
May 21, 2014	Random killings occurred on the Bannan Line of the Taipei MRT, killing four and injuring 24.
May 22, 2014	General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
May 22, 2014	An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
May 23, 2014	Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
May 24, 2014	A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
May 24, 2014	At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.
June 2, 2014	Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh.
June 8, 2014	At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.
June 12, 2014	Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[20] on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. It's the second deadliest act of terrorism in history, only behind 9/11.
June 14, 2014	A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
June 23, 2014	The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
June 27, 2014	At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
June 29, 2014	The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
July 8, 2014	Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.
July 15, 2014	A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
July 17, 2014	Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
July 17, 2014	A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
July 18, 2014	The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands, or be killed.
July 19, 2014	Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.
July 23, 2014	TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
July 24, 2014	Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people onboard are killed.
July 30, 2014	Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
July 31, 2014	Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
August 2, 2014	At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
August 3, 2014	A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
August 3, 2014	The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
August 9, 2014	Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
August 10, 2014	Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.
August 20, 2014	Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
August 24, 2014	A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the largest in that area since 1989.
August 26, 2014	The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal is published.
August 30, 2014	Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
September 16, 2014	The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
September 18, 2014	Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
September 24, 2014	The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
September 26, 2014	A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico.
September 27, 2014	The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs.
September 28, 2014	The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
October 1, 2014	A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
October 1, 2014	A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.
October 8, 2014	Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
October 14, 2014	A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
October 14, 2014	The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.
October 22, 2014	Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
October 24, 2014	The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
October 27, 2014	Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
October 28, 2014	A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.
October 29, 2014	A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.
October 30, 2014	Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
October 30, 2014	Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas.
October 31, 2014	During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California,
November 3, 2014	One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, replacing the Twin Towers after they were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.
November 11, 2014	Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.
November 12, 2014	The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
November 21, 2014	A stampede in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least eleven people and injures 40 others.
November 28, 2014	Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
December 3, 2014	The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.
December 4, 2014	Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.
December 5, 2014	Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion, is launched.
December 10, 2014	Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein is killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.
December 15, 2014	Gunman Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.
December 16, 2014	Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.
December 17, 2014	The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961.
December 28, 2014	Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
December 28, 2014	Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea, in Italian waters.
December 31, 2014	A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.