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Arts and culture. For the first time in sixty years, a new Viking ring fortress is found, the fifth in present-day Denmark; it is located near the town of Køge and believed to have been founded by Harold Bluetooth. (The Copenhagen Post) Comedy legend Joan Rivers dies at age 81. (New York Times) September 5, 2014.
Iguala mass kidnapping. On September 26, 2014, forty-three male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared after being forcibly abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, in what has been called one of Mexico’s most infamous human rights cases. [1] They were allegedly taken into custody by local police officers from Iguala ...
Hurricane Odile is tied for the most intense landfalling tropical cyclone in the Baja California Peninsula during the satellite era. [1] Sweeping across the peninsula in September 2014, Odile inflicted widespread damage, particularly in the state of Baja California Sur, in addition to causing lesser impacts on the Mexican mainland and Southwestern United States.
By ANDREW TAVANI Many of the images that emerged in September were out of this world -- both figuratively and quite literally. Consider the first photo above among the former: a lone hiker is seen ...
The Houthi takeover in Yemen, also known as the September 21 Revolution (by supporters), [7] or 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état (by opponents), [8] was a popular revolution against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis and their supporters that pushed the Yemeni government from power. It had origins in Houthi-led protests that ...
An intrusion of the White House occurred on September 19, 2014, when Omar J. Gonzalez, an Iraq War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, jumped over the White House's fence and entered the building's front door, overpowered a security officer, was stopped by another who was off-duty, then later by multiple security officers, and arrested.
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2014. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
The Minsk agreements were a series of international agreements which sought to end the Donbas war fought between armed Russian separatist groups and Armed Forces of Ukraine, with Russian regular forces playing a central part. [1] After a defeat at Ilovaisk at the end of August 2014, Russia forced Ukraine to sign the first Minsk Protocol, or the ...