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April 9, 2014

On April 9, 2014, a student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. The year's #1 song was "Happy" by Pharrell Williams. Arabella Stanton, Arabella Stanton, Arabella Stanton would arrive in the same year.

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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.

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On April 9, 2014

  1. 2014 A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

    2014 stabbing spree in Pennsylvania

    The Franklin Regional High School stabbing was a mass stabbing that took place on April 9, 2014, at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. Alexander Hribal, a 16-year-old sophomore at the school, used a pair of eight-inch kitchen knives to stab and slash 20 students and a security guard. Four students sustained life-threatening injuries, but all survived.

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Died on April 9, 2014

Gil Askey American jazz musician
Chris Banks American football player (1973–2014)
Rory Ellinger American lawyer and politician
Norman Girvan Jamaican economist (1941–2014)
Aelay Narendra Indian politician
A. N. R. Robinson President of Trinidad and Tobago from 1997 to 2003
Svetlana Velmar-Janković Serbian novelist and essayist

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Arabella Stanton 2014– British actress, plays Hermione Granger
Arabella Stanton 2014– British actress, plays Hermione Granger
Arabella Stanton 2014– British actress, plays Hermione Granger
Arabella Stanton 2014– British actress, plays Hermione Granger

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