What happened in 2014

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Pharrell Williams · 10 weeks at #1 in 2014

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1. Jan 4The MonsterEminem Featuring Rihanna2 wks
2. Jan 18TimberPitbull Featuring Ke$ha3 wks
3. Feb 8Dark HorseKaty Perry Featuring Juicy J4 wks
4. Mar 8HappyPharrell Williams10 wks
5. May 17All Of MeJohn Legend3 wks
6. Jun 7FancyIggy Azalea Featuring Charli XCX7 wks
7. Jul 26RudeMAGIC!6 wks
8. Sep 6Shake It OffTaylor Swift4 wks
9. Sep 20All About That BassMeghan Trainor8 wks
10. Nov 29Blank SpaceTaylor Swift5 wks

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1. Feb 18A series of violent events involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters began in Kyiv that culminated in the ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych five days later.
2. Mar 8Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, with aircraft debris subsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean.
3. Mar 12A gas leak caused an explosion in East Harlem, New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.
4. Apr 17NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habitable zone of another star.
5. May 2Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrainian unity protesters in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa.
6. May 23Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in the Isla Vista attacks near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
7. May 26Narendra Modi takes oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India.
8. Jun 14War in Donbas: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, killing all 49 people on board.
9. Jul 17Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
10. Jul 17Eric Garner is killed by police officer Daniel Pantaleo in New York City, after the latter put him in a prohibited chokehold while arresting him.
11. Aug 9Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, resulting in widespread protests and unrest.
12. Sep 22The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
13. Nov 3One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, replacing the Twin Towers after they were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.
14. Nov 22While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Barack Obama

• UK Prime Minister

  David Cameron

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Stephen Harper

• President of France

  François Hollande

• German Chancellor

  Angela Merkel

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Shinzō Abe

• President of Russia

  Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2014, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Arabella StantonBritish actress, plays Hermione Granger · Apr 11

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.