Researched and compiled by Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday
The 2014′s events were a test, one that the global health system failed. Yet, the people who fought Ebola were able to act as a barrier to keep the disease at bay. The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year.”
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (Boeing 777) crashes in Ukraine, after being shot down by a missile. 298 people die, including 15 crew members.
January
January
1 – Latvia officially adopts the Euro as its currency and becomes the 18th
member of the Eurozone.
February
February–ongoing
– The Ebola virus epidemic heroes persons of the year 2014 in West Africa begins, infecting over 18,000 people
and killing at least 6,000 people, the most severe both in terms of numbers of
infections and casualties.
February
7–23 – The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia.
February
13 – Belgium becomes the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia for
terminally ill patients of any age.
February
22 – The Ukrainian parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from
office, replacing him with Oleksandr Turchynov, after days of civil unrest left
around 100 people dead in Kiev.
February
26–ongoing – The pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine leads to the annexation of
Crimea by the Russian Federation and an insurgency in the Donetsk and Luhansk
oblasts.
March
March
5 – Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, severs diplomatic and political
ties with Panama, accusing Panama of being involved in a conspiracy against the
Venezuelan government.
March
8 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 airliner en route to Beijing
from Kuala Lumpur, disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on
board. The aircraft is presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.
March 16 – A referendum on the status of Crimea is held.
March
21 – Russia formally annexes Crimea after President Vladimir Putin signed a
bill finalizing the annexation process.
March
24 – During an emergency meeting, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy,
Germany, France, Japan, and Canada temporarily suspend Russia from the G8.
March
27 – The United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 68/262, recognizing
Crimea within Ukraine’s international borders and rejecting the validity of the
2014 Crimean referendum.
March
31 – The United Nations International Court of Justice rules that Japan's
Antarctic whaling program is not scientific but commercial and forbids grants
of further permits.
April
April
10 – In response to the 2014 Crimean crisis, the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) passes a resolution to temporarily strip Russia of its
voting rights; its rights to be represented in the Bureau of the Assembly, the
PACE Presidential Committee, and the PACE Standing Committee; and its right to
participate in election-observation missions.[
April
14 – An estimated 276 girls and women are abducted and held hostage from a
school in Nigeria.
April
16 – Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after an unmanageable cargo
shift, killing more than 290 people, mostly high school students.
April
27 – The Catholic Church simultaneously canonizes Popes John XXIII and John
Paul II.
April
28 – United States President Barack Obama's new economic sanctions against
Russia go into effect, targeting companies and individuals close to Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
May
May
5- The World Health Organization identifies the spread of poliomyelitis in at
least 10 countries as a major worldwide health emergency.
Boko Haram militants kill approximately 300 people in a
night attack on Gamboru Ngala.[24]
May 20 – Terrorists in Nigeria detonate bombs at Jos,
killing 118 people.
May 22 – The Royal Thai Army overthrows the caretaker
government of Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan after a failure to resolve the political
unrest in Thailand.
June
June 5–ongoing – A Sunni militant group called the
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (also known as the ISIS or ISIL) begins an
offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of
Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki.
June 12 – July 13 – The 2014 FIFA World Cup is held in
Brazil, and is won by Germany.
June 19 – King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates in favor
of his son, who ascends the Spanish throne as King Felipe VI.
July
July 8–August 26 – Amid growing tensions between Israel
and Hamas following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in
June and the revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in July, Israel launches
Operation Protective Edge on the Palestinian Gaza Strip starting with numerous
missile strikes, followed by a ground invasion a week later. In 7 weeks of
fighting, 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis are killed.
July 17
After a five-hour humanitarian ceasefire, Israel confirms
the beginning of a ground offensive in Gaza.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (Boeing 777) crashes in
Ukraine, after being shot down by a missile. 298 people die, including 15 crew
members.
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July 21 – The United Nations Security Council adopts
Resolution 2166 in response to the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
July 24 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashes in Mali,
killing all 116 people on board.
August
August 7 – Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu
Samphan are found guilty of crimes against humanity and are sentenced to life
imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
August 8 – The United States military begins an air
campaign in northern Iraq to stem the influx of ISIS militants.
September
September 22 – The United States and several Arab
partners begin their airstrike campaign in Syria.
September 26 – The 2014 World Summit of Nobel Peace
Laureates, to be held in Cape Town from 13 to 15 October, is suspended after a
boycott of Nobel Laureates to protest the third time refusal of a visa to the
14th Dalai Lama by a South African Government "kowtowing to China".
October
October 19 – The Roman Catholic Church beatifies Pope
Paul VI.
October 31 – Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré
resigns after widespread protests in response to the attempt in abolishing
presidential term limits.
November
November 2 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) releases the final part of its Fifth Assessment Report, warning
that the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage from
global emissions of CO2.
November 12 – The Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe
successfully lands on Comet 67P, the first time in history that a spacecraft has
landed on such an object.
December
December 16 – At least 141 people including 132 children
are killed when Taliban gunmen storm a school in Peshawar (Pakistan).
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