2014

2014 (MMXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade.

Western Africa Ebola virus epidemicChibok schoolgirls kidnappingWar against the Islamic StateAnnexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation2014 Thai coup d'étatMalaysian Airlines Flight 3702014 Winter Olympics2014 Scottish independence referendum
From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of water inside of a C-17 Globemaster III in the War against the Islamic State; Thai soldiers at the Chang Phueak Gate during the 2014 Thai coup d'état; Pro-independence campaigners in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi; Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappears in the Indian Ocean while Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over eastern Ukraine; Crimea is annexed by Russia.
Juanita Moore
Eusébio
Ariel Sharon
Pete Seeger
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Shirley Temple
Sid Caesar
James Rebhorn
Adolfo Suárez
Mickey Rooney
Gabriel García Márquez
H. R. Giger
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Maya Angelou
Casey Kasem
Ramón José Velásquez
Ana María Matute
Eduard Shevardnadze
Nadine Gordimer
James Garner
Robin Williams
Lauren Bacall
Richard Attenborough
Joan Rivers
Gustavo Cerati
Ian Paisley
Martin Lewis Perl
Siegfried Lenz
Gough Whitlam
Jack Bruce
Alexander Grothendieck
P. D. James
Fabiola of Belgium
Joe Cocker
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