Events in History in 2014 (Part 2)

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• Jul 25 Israeli airstrike kills leader of Islamic Jihad's military wing, Salah Abu Hassanein
• Jul 25 Palestinian officials call for a "Day of Rage" in the West Bank and within Israel against Israel's operation against Gaza; Israeli Defence Force prepares for protests

• Jul 26 Taghrooda wins the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
• Jul 26 The Chinese government suspends a Shanghai meat dealer and makes arrests after the company sold out-of-date meat to fast food chains, including McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken
• Jul 26 While Israel reject long-term ceasefire that does not include destroying the Hamas tunnels, they agree to 12 hour ceasefire; Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip now exceeds 1000
• Jul 27 Liberia shuts down most of its borders with fears about the spread of Ebola epidemic

• Jul 28 Missiles strike near Gaza's main hospital and a nearby refugee camp Monday, leaving 10 dead and many wounded; Israeli Defence Force say they are not responsible
• Jul 28 UN Security Council hold emergency meeting calling for an immediate and indefinite humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
• Jul 29 100 Gazans killed overnight by Israeli strikes
• Jul 29 France contributes 8 million Euros in aid to Gaza
• Jul 30 Death toll in Gaza reaches 1,346, while 56 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed
• Jul 30 The EU and US extend sanctions on Russia to include banks, energy, and defense firms; Moscow denies the allegation that Russia is arming rebels in Eastern Ukraine
• Jul 31 Israel and Hamas agree to a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire
• Jul 31 The US agree to resupply arms to Israel - including rocket launchers, mortar rounds, grenades - despite condemnation of civilian casualties in Gaza
• Aug 1 USA and UN announce a 72 hour ceasefire between Israel and Palestine, though it quickly breaks down
• Aug 3 At least 13 Palestinians reported killed in ongoing air raids and tank shelling by Israel
• Aug 3 The Israeli Defence Force remove much of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants
• Aug 4 Hamas and Israel agree to another 72 hour ceasefire
• Aug 5 Obama signs The Iron Dome Bill providing $225 million in additional funding for Israel's Iron Dome defense
• Aug 8 Hamas rejects continuation of cease fire if Israel does not lift blockade
• Aug 8 The West African Ebola outbreak is categorized as an international concern by the WHO
• Aug 10 Israeli and Palestinian officials agree to another 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt
• Aug 10 Unrest breaks out in Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting death of African-American Michael Brown (18) by a police officer Darren Wilson
• Aug 12 Ebola outbreak death toll exceeds 1000
• Aug 12 World Health Organization (WHO) gives its 'cautious blessing' to the use of experimental drugs to treat the Ebola virus
• Aug 13 Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics
• Aug 13 Israeli and Palestinian cease fire agreed to on August 8 is extended for another 120 hours to provide time for further negotiations

• Aug 19 The 24 hour ceasefire extension renewal between Israel and Palestine is violated as Hamas fire rockets; Israeli Air Force respond, killing 9 Gazans
• Aug 21 Israeli airstrike in Rafah kills Mohammed Abu Shammala, Raed al Atar and Mohammed Barhoum - 3 of Hamas's top commanders
• Aug 22 2nd Ebola death in Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country
• Aug 24 Nurse William Pooley flies back to the UK for emergency treatment after contracting Ebola virus after attempting to treat patients in Sierra Leone
• Aug 26 Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry informs the WHO of an outbreak of Ebola; later confirmed as a different strain to that affecting west Africa
• Aug 26 Israel and Hamas accept another ceasefire
• Aug 27 Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls the international response to Ebola “irresponsible” and “slow and derisory”
• Aug 29 Riots break out in Guinea following rumours that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
• Aug 29 Senegal is 5th country hit by Ebola
• Sep 1 Nalanda University in eastern Indian begins its first academic year, on the site of the world's oldest university, a Buddhist monastic institution that operated 427 to 1197 CE
• Sep 4 Aracheological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, the Vallø Borgring, is discovered in Denmark
• Sep 4 Monsoon rains begin and cause flooding over a sustained period that kills over 400 people in India & Pakistan
• 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 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 15 President Obama announces the US will send 3,000 troops to help combat spread of the Ebola virus
• Sep 17 Voreqe Bainimarama's Fiji First Party wins the first Fijian elections since his coup in 2006
• 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 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 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 30 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks win the 2014 Japan Series
• Nov 2 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan

• 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 Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance
• 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 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 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 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 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 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 30 Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded
• Nov 30 Tabaré Vázquez is re-elected President of Uruguay
• 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 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 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 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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