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The Germany national football team represents Germany in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, f…
Germany wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating Argentina in the final 1–0 after extra time.
On 15 July 2014, at around 8:40 am MSK (UTC+03:00), an outbound Moscow Metro train derailed between Park Pobedy and Slavyansky Bulvar stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. Cas…
A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-backed forces with a Buk 9M38 surface-to-air missile on 17…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All…
Transport express régional is the brand name used by the SNCF, the French national railway company, to denote rail service run by the regional councils of France, specifically thei…
A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in…
Henry Leslie Firth, OAM was an Australian racing driver and team manager. Firth was a leading race and rally driver during the 1950s and 1960s and continued as an influential team …
Harry Firth, Australian race car driver and manager (born 1918)
Barbara Fiske Calhoun was an American cartoonist and painter, one of the few female creators from the Golden Age of Comic Books. She co-founded Quarry Hill Creative Center, one of …
Barbara Fiske Calhoun, American cartoonist and painter (born 1919)
William Holmes Honan was an American journalist and author who directed coverage of the arts at The New York Times as its culture editor in the 1980s. Honan held senior editorial p…
William Honan, American journalist and author (born 1930)
Dennis David Kahekilimamaoikalanikeha Kamakahi was a Hawaiian slack key guitarist, recording artist, music composer, and Christian minister. He was a three-time Grammy Award winner…
Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (born 1953)
On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, an 43-year-old African American man, was killed in the New York City borough of Staten Island by Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City Police Department (…
Eric Garner is killed by police officer Daniel Pantaleo in New York City, after the latter put him in a prohibited…
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnation…
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands,…
New Valley, or El Wadi El Gedid, is a governorate of Egypt. It is in the southwestern part of the country, in the south of Egypt Western Desert, between the Nile, northern Sudan, a…
Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21…
TransAsia Airways Flight 222 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by TransAsia Airways from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to Magong, Penghu Island. On 23 July 2014, the ATR 72-5…
TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Penghu Airport. Forty-eight…
Air Algérie Flight 5017 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed near Gossi, Mali, on 24 July 2014. The McD…
Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between…
Edgar Louis "Beaver" Laprade was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. The son of Thomas and Edith Laprade, h…
Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)
Muhammad Idris Sardi was an Indonesian violinist and composer.
Idris Sardi, Indonesian violinist and composer (born 1938)
Frederic David Schwartz was an American architect, author, and city planner whose work includes Empty Sky, the New Jersey 9-11 Memorial, which was dedicated in Liberty State Park o…
Frederic Schwartz, American architect, co-designed Empty Sky (born 1951)
Ryan Tandy was an international rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played as a prop in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the St. George Illawarra Drago…
Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (born 1981)
The 2014 Ludian earthquake struck Ludian County, Yunnan, China, with a moment magnitude of 6.2 on 3 August. The earthquake killed at least 615 people, injuring at least 2,400 other…
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
Ferguson is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. Per the 2020 census, the population was 18,527, and is predo…
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police…
Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Iranian capital Tehran Mehrabad International Airport to Tabas, South Khorasan province, Iran. On 10 Aug…
Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.
The Cessna Citation Excel is an American midsize business jet in the Cessna Citation family. Announced in October 1994, the Model 560XL first flew on February 29, 1996, certificati…
A Cessna Citation Excel crashes in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil killing all seven people aboard, including Brazilian…
Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 and has a geographic area of 8,479 km2. H…
Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of…
Iveta Bartošová was a Czech singer, actress and celebrity, three-time best female vocalist in the music poll Zlatý slavík. She was also known for her turbulent lifestyle attracting…
Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer and actress (born 1966)
Albert Bernard Feldstein was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. After…
Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (born 1925)