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Oswaldo Vigas was a Venezuelan artist who worked as a painter, muralist, and sculptor. His body of work encompassed paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, and tapestries. He integr…
Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (born 1926)
Benjamín Brea was a Spanish-born Venezuelan musician, arranger and teacher, mostly associated with jazz, even though he had the advantage to play several music genres in various ba…
Benjamín Brea, Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, clarinet player, and conductor (born 1946)
Michael Glawogger was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer, born in Graz.
Michael Glawogger, Austrian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (born 1959)
On the afternoon of 24 May 2014, a gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people in an antisemitic Islamist terrorist attack. Three of them, a…
At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the membe…
Narendra Modi takes oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India
Telangana is a state in southern India on the Deccan Plateau bordering Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh to the north and Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka to the south. It is the eleventh l…
Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh
Shia Islam in Iraq has a history going back to the times of Ali ibn Abi Talib who moved the capital of the Rashidun Caliphate from Medina to Kufa, two decades after the death of Mu…
Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Camp Sp
On 14 June 2014, an Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the 25th Transport Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the Russia-backed separatists fro…
A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board
Conrado Eugenio Marrero Ramos, nicknamed "Connie", was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher. The right-handed Marrero pitched in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1954 for the Wa…
Connie Marrero, Cuban baseball player and coach (born 1911)
Felix Michael Rogers, usually known as Michael Rogers, was a general in the United States Air Force and the former commander of the Air Force Logistics Command, with headquarters a…
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Mark Roland Shand, a brother of Queen Camilla, was an English travel writer and conservationist. Shand wrote four travel books, and as a BBC conservationist appeared in documentari…
Mark Shand, English conservationist and author (born 1951)
Syria's chemical weapons program began in the 1970s with weapons and training from Egypt and the Soviet Union, with production of chemical weapons in Syria beginning in the mid-198…
The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction
GAIL (India) Limited is an Indian state-owned energy corporation with primary interests in the trade, transmission production and distribution of natural gas. GAIL also has interes…
At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari distric
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 self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east,…
Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli…
Patric Standford was an English composer, supporter of composers' rights, educationalist and author.
Patric Standford, English composer and educator (born 1939)
Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the …
Hans Hollein, Austrian architect, designed Haas House (born 1934)
William Judson Holloway Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
William Judson Holloway Jr
Francesc "Tito" Vilanova Bayó was a Spanish professional football central midfielder and manager.
Tito Vilanova, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1968)
Paul Leroy Robeson Jr. was an American author, archivist and historian.
Paul Robeson, Jr
The Brazil national football team, nicknamed Canarinho, represents Brazil in men's international football and is administered by the Brazilian Football Confederation, the governing…
The Brazil national football team suffers its joint-worst defeat, losing 7–1 to Germany in the semi-finals of the FIFA…
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…