Moments in History
The events Wikipedia's editors chose for each day of the year — about 6,500 turning points, each at the day it happened.
Events 6531 totals
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May
16
2014
📜 At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market…
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May
17
2014
📜 A military plane crash killed 17 people and left one survivor in northern Laos.
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May
21
2014
📜 A Taiwanese man carried out a stabbing spree on a Taipei Metro train, killing four…
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May
22
2014
📜 Prayut Chan-o-cha (pictured), the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a…
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May
24
2014
📜 A gunman involved in Islamic extremism opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in…
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May
27
2014
📜 The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada were…
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Jun
14
2014
📜 War in Donbas: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot…
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Jul
8
2014
📜 In the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final at the Mineirão, Germany defeated Brazil 7–1…
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Jul
8
2014
📜 German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known…
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Jul
13
2014
📜 Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against Argentina, with Mario Götze scoring the…
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Jul
14
2014
📜 Lightning strikes started four fires in the Methow Valley in the U.S. state of…
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Jul
17
2014
📜 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people…
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Jul
18
2014
📜 The conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been found…
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Jul
19
2014
📜 Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian military checkpoint in the Libyan Desert near Farafra,…
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Jul
24
2014
📜 Air Algérie Flight 5017 disappeared from radar shortly after take-off from Ouagadougou,…
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Jul
30
2014
📜 More than 150 people died after heavy rains triggered a landslide in the village of…
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Aug
4
2014
📜 Julieka Ivanna Dhu, an Aboriginal Australian woman, died in police custody after her…
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Aug
8
2014
📜 The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola epidemic, which began…
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Aug
9
2014
📜 Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was killed by a white police officer…
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Sep
22
2014
📜 The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
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Sep
26
2014
📜 Forty-three students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in Iguala, Mexico, were…
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Sep
27
2014
📜 Mount Ontake in central Japan unexpectedly erupted, killing 63 people in the nation's…
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Oct
5
2014
📜 Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi crashed at the Japanese Grand Prix, sustaining…
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Oct
14
2014
📜 A snowstorm and series of avalanches occurred on and around the Himalayan peaks of…
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Oct
22
2014
📜 In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings…
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