Date in year · 2014 · The 2010s
On August 3, 2014, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China. 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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Featured · August 3, 2014
1 on 3 August. The earthquake killed at least 615 people, injuring at least 2,400 others. At least 114 people remained missing.
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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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6.1 magnitude earthquake in Yunnan, China
1 on 3 August. The earthquake killed at least 615 people, injuring at least 2,400 others. At least 114 people remained missing.
2014-2017 genocide campaign by the Islamic State
The Yazidi genocide also known as the 74th firman by Yazidis, was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking people who are indigenous to Kurdistan who practice Yazidism, a monotheistic Iranian ethnoreligion derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.
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