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Events in the year 2014 in the United States.
* February 1 – The
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that Pennsylvania ban on Same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and goes into effect immediately, making Pennsylvania the nineteenth state to legalize same-sex marriage when counting Same-sex marriage in Illinois, Illinois. * May 23 – 22-year-old 2014 Isla Vista killings, Elliot Rodger kills 3 students by stabbing and another 3 by gunshot in Isla Vista, California, near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, injuring an additional 13 before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Rodger uploaded a YouTube video the day before the shooting claiming "retribution" for college girls' lack of sexual attention toward him, and his writings revealed that he was a Misogyny, misogynist and a Racism, racist. * May 25 – Ryan Hunter-Reay wins the 2014 Indianapolis 500, becoming the first American to win the race since 2006 Indianapolis 500, 2006. * May 30 – Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014, VA scandal: United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki resigns from office. * May 31 ** Bowe Bergdahl, a United States Army soldier who was being held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan since June 2009, is released back to the United States, traded for five Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantanamo Bay detainees. Many critics believe the handover was illegal. ** Two 12-year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, stab their friend, also 12, in the arms, legs and torso nineteen times, leaving her hospitalized. The two girls appear in court and are tried as adults for attempted first-degree intentional homicide. The two girls confirm they were inspired by a horror website based around the fictional character and Internet meme Slender Man.
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and the District of Columbia vote to Drug liberalization, legalize recreational marijuana. ** Voters i
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reject referendums to define Personhood, life at conception. ** Tim Scott, who was appointed in 2013 to fill the vacancy left by retiring Senator Jim DeMint, becomes the first African-American in Southern United States, the South elected to the Senate since Reconstruction Era, Reconstruction. ** Joni Ernst becomes the first woman elected to represent Iowa in the Senate. ** The United States Senate election in North Carolina, 2014, Senate race in North Carolina becomes the most expensive to date, topping more than US Dollar, $100 million. ** In one of the few Democratic gains of the night, Brad Ashford wins Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, defeating Lee Terry, who has represented the district since 1999 and is a member of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Committee on Energy and Commerce. ** Voters in Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois (''non-binding measure''), Nebraska, and South Dakota approve raising their state's minimum wage. ** Arkansas' Tom Cotton, along with Joni Ernst of Iowa, become the first Iraq War veterans elected to the Senate. ** No candidate in the 2014 Vermont gubernatorial election, Vermont gubernatorial race reached a 50% threshold to win. According to the Constitution of Vermont, Vermont Constitution, in this scenario, it rests on the state legislature to decide the winner.
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* February 1
** Floyd Adams Jr., American politician (b. 1945)
** Antone S. Aguiar Jr., American judge and politician (b. 1930)
** John J. Cali, American real estate developer (b. 1918)
** Rene Ricard, American poet, painter and art critic (b. 1946)
** Gordon Zacks, American businessman and presidential advisor (b. 1933)
* February 2
** Tommy Aquino, American motorcycle racer, training collision (b. 1992)
** Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor and producer (b. 1967)
** Eric O. Stork, American civil servant (United States Environmental Protection Agency, E.P.A.) (b. 1927)
** Al Vandeweghe, American football player (Buffalo Bills (AAFC), Buffalo Bisons) (b. 1920)
* February 3
** Louise Brough, American tennis player (b. 1923)
** Richard Bull (actor), Richard Bull, American actor (b. 1924)
**Gloria Leonard, American pornographic actress and magazine publisher (b. 1940)
**Joan Mondale, wife of Walter Mondale, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1930)
**John F. Rockart, American organizational theorist (b. 1931)
**Bill Sinkin, American equality and alternative energy activist (b. 1913)
* February 4
** Howard Kupperman, American politician (b. 1931)
** R. Ellen Magenis, American pediatrician and geneticist
** Hazel Sampson, American Klallam elder and language preservationist (b. 1910)
** Alfred S. Yue, American engineer and professor emeritus (b. 1914)
* February 5
** Suzanne Basso, American convicted murderer (b. 1954)
** Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist and professor emeritus (b. 1915)
** Richard Hayman, American musician and conductor (b. 1920)
** Edward B. Sell, American taekwondo instructor (b. 1942)
* February 6 – Ralph Kiner, baseball player, announcer, and Navy pilot (b. 1922)
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* March 1 – Alejandro Zaffaroni, Uruguayan-American chemist and businessman (b. 1923)
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* April 1
**King Fleming, pianist and bandleader (b. 1922)
**Rudolph Hargrave, lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
**Andrew Joseph McDonald, bishop (b. 1923)
* April 2
**Carl Epting Mundy Jr., general (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
**Lucy Hood, businesswoman, founded Fox Mobile Entertainment (b. 1957)
* April 3 – Tommy Lynn Sells, serial killer (b. 1964 in the United States, 1964)
* April 6 – Mickey Rooney, actor and husband of Ava Gardner and Martha Vickers (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* April 8 – The Ultimate Warrior, wrestler (b. 1959 in the United States, 1959)
* April 10
**Joe Dini, businessman and politician (b. 1929)
**Bill Doolittle, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
**Phyllis Frelich, actress (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
* April 16 – Basil A. Paterson, lawyer and politician (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* April 18 – Deon Jackson (singer), Deon Jackson, singer and songwriter (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
* April 20
**Torrey C. Brown, American physician and politician (b. 1937)
**Rubin Carter, boxer, died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* April 24 – Ray Musto, politician (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* April 26
**William Ash (writer), William Ash, pilot and author (b. 1917)
**W. E. "Pete" Snelson, soldier, journalist, and politician (b. 1923)
* May 1
** Spike Maynard, American lawyer and judge (b. 1942)
** Howard Smith (director), Howard Smith, American journalist, director, and producer (b. 1936)
* May 2 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* May 3
** Gary Becker, Nobel economist (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Bobby Gregg, drummer and record producer (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
* May 5 – Butler Derrick, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
* May 6 – Jimmy Ellis (boxer), Jimmy Ellis, boxer (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
* May 8
**Leo Marentette, baseball player (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
**R. Douglas Stuart Jr., businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Norway (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
**Nancy Malone, actress, director, and producer (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
**Joseph P. Teasdale, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (b. 1936)
* May 10
**Gene Chyzowych, Ukrainian-American soccer player and coach (b. 1935)
**Patrick Lucey, soldier and politician, 38th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1918)
* May 11
**Thelma Eisen, baseball player and manager (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
**Ed Gagliardi, bass guitarist (b. 1952 in the United States, 1952)
**Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and author (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
* May 15 – Robert J. Flynn, American soldier, pilot, and navigator (b. 1937)
* May 17
**Miss Beazley (dog), Miss Beazley, dog belonging to
* June 1
**Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
**Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist (b. 1921)
* June 2 – Alexander Shulgin, pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* June 6 – Karen DeCrow, lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* June 7
**E. W. Foy, basketball player and coach (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
**Rafael A. Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast and academic (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
**James McNair, comedian (b. 1952 in the United States, 1952)
* June 8
**Jean Geissinger, baseball player (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
**Billy McCool, American baseball player (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
* June 11 – Ruby Dee, actress, activist, poet, and playwright and wife of Ossie Davis (b. 1922)
* June 12 – Jimmy Scott, jazz vocalist (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* June 15
** Casey Kasem, American radio host and actor (b. 1932)
** Daniel Keyes, author (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* June 16 – Tony Gwynn, baseball player (b. 1960)
* June 18
** Stephanie Kwolek, chemist (b. 1923)
** Horace Silver, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1928)
* June 19
** Alan Moller, meteorologist and photographer (b. 1950)
** Bill Renna, baseball player and coach (b. 1924)
* June 21 – Jimmy C. Newman, American country singer (b. 1927)
* June 22
** Teenie Hodges, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1945)
** Chuck Tatum, US Marine and race car driver (b. 1926)
* June 23
** Nancy Garden, American writer and LGBT activist (b. 1938)
** Paula Kent Meehan, American hair products executive, newspaper owner and philanthropist, co-founder of Redken (b. 1931)
** Charles R. Moore (minister), Charles R. Moore, American Methodist minister (b. 1934)
** Steve Viksten, 53, American television writer and voice actor (b. 1960)
* June 24 – Eli Wallach, American actor (b. 1915)
* June 25 – Paul Patterson (neuroscientist), Paul Patterson, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1943)
* June 26
** Howard Baker, American politician and diplomat (b. 1925)
** Rollin King, American businessman (b. 1931)
** Bob Mischak, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
* June 27 – Bobby Womack, American singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
* June 28 – Meshach Taylor, American actor (b. 1947)
* June 29 – Paul Horn (musician), Paul Horn, jazz and New Age musician (b. 1930)
* June 30
** Bob Hastings, American actor (b. 1925)
** Paul Mazursky, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
* July 2 – Louis Zamperini, American war veteran and Christian evangelist (b. 1917)
* July 4
** Earl Robinson (baseball), Earl Robinson, baseball player (b. 1936)
** Richard Mellon Scaife, businessman (b. 1932)
* July 5 – Rosemary Murphy, German-born American actress (b. 1925 in Germany, 1925)
* July 7 – Dick Jones (actor), Dick Jones, actor (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* July 9 – Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* July 11
** Charlie Haden, jazz double bassist (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
** Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (b. 1949)
** John Seigenthaler, American journalist (b. 1927)
* July 13
** Thomas Berger (novelist), Thomas Berger, novelist (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Lorin Maazel, French-American conductor and violinist (b. 1930)
* July 14 – Alice Coachman, American athlete (b. 1923)
* July 16 – Johnny Winter, American singer and guitarist (b. 1944)
* July 17
** Henry Hartsfield, American colonel and astronaut (b. 1933)
** Elaine Stritch, actress and singer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* July 18 – Augie and Margo Rodriguez, Augie Rodriguez, American dancer (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* July 19
** David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist (b. 1917)
** Skye McCole Bartusiak, actress (b. 1992 in the United States, 1992)
** James Garner, actor (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* July 22 – Robert Newhouse, American football player (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
* July 28
** Margot Adler, journalist and author (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
** Torrin Lawrence, sprinter (b. 1989 in the United States, 1989)
** James Shigeta, actor (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
** Theodore Van Kirk, soldier, pilot, and navigator (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* July 30 – Dick Smith (make-up artist), Dick Smith, make-up artist (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* August 1 – Michael Johns (singer), Michael Johns, contestant on ''American Idol (season 7), American Idol'' (b. 1978)
* August 2 – Pete Van Wieren, sports announcer (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
* August 4 – James Brady, 15th White House Press Secretary and gun control advocate (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
* August 5
** Marilyn Burns, actress (b. 1949 in the United States, 1949)
** Harold J. Greene, American military officer (b. 1959)
* August 6 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist (b. 1927)
* August 7 – Henry Stone, record company executive and producer (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* August 9 – Ed Nelson, American actor (b. 1928)
* August 11 – Robin Williams, actor and comedian (b. 1951 in the United States, 1951)
* August 12 – Lauren Bacall, actress (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* August 15
** James Freeman Gilbert, geophysicist and academic (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Jerry Lumpe, baseball player and coach (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* August 16
** Mike Matarazzo, bodybuilder and boxer (b. 1965 in the United States, 1965)
** Fernand St. Germain, lawyer and politician (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* August 18 – Don Pardo, radio and television announcer (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* August 19 – Brian G. Hutton, actor and director (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* August 20 – Edmund Szoka, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* August 21 – Robert Hansen, serial killer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* August 23 – Dan Magill, swimmer, tennis player, and coach (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* August 27 – Joal Stanfield, tennis coach and educator (b. 1979 in the United States, 1979)
* August 30 – Andrew V. McLaglen, British-born American film and television director (b. 1920 in the United Kingdom, 1920)
* September 1
** David Anderle, American record producer (b. 1937)
** Bernard Baran, American teacher's aide (b. 1965)
** Frank Calloway, American artist and longevity claimant (b. 1915)
** Mary T. Clark, American academic and civil rights advocate (b. 1913)
** Dillard Crocker, American basketball player (b. 1925)
** Donnie Humphrey, American football player (b. 1961)
** Jimi Jamison, American musician, singer, and songwriter (b. 1951)
** Jim Jennings (basketball), Jim Jennings, American basketball player (b. 1941)
** Roger McKee, American baseball player (b. 1926)
** Joseph Shivers, American textile chemist (b. 1920)
* September 4 – Joan Rivers, American comedian and television producer (b. 1933)
* September 8
** S. Truett Cathy, restaurateur (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
** Gerald Wilson, jazz trumpeter and composer (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* September 9 – Denny Miller, actor (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
* September 10 – Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
* September 11 – Bob Crewe, singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* September 12 – Joe Sample, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* September 13 – Frank Torre, American baseball player and brother of Joe Torre (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
* September 15 – Jackie Cain, jazz vocalist (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* September 17 – George Hamilton IV, American country singer (b. 1937)
* September 20
** Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
** Eric the Midget, radio personality (b. 1975 in the United States, 1975)
* September 30 – Martin Lewis Perl, American Nobel physicist (b. 1927)
* October 3 – Benedict Groeschel, American Catholic priest (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* October 5
** John Best (soccer), John Best, British-born American soccer player (b. 1940 in the United Kingdom, 1940)
** Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, choreographer, singer, director and painter (b. 1930)
** Misty Upham, Native American actress (b. 1982 in the United States, 1982)
* October 6 – Marian Seldes, actress and wife of Garson Kanin (b. 1928 in the United States, 1929)
* October 7 – Cigar (horse), Cigar, racehorse (b. 1990 in the United States, 1990)
* October 9 – Jan Hooks, American comedian and actress (b. 1957)
* October 10 – Donald Rawson, American historian (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* October 12
**Louise Daniel Hutchinson, historian and academic (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
**Tommy Lewis (American football), Tommy Lewis, American football player and coach (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
* October 14 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959 in the United States, 1959)
* October 15 – Robert Tiernan, American politician (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* October 18 – Rebel Steiner, American football player (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* October 19 – Stephen Paulus, American composer (b. 1949 in the United States, 1949)
* October 20 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (b. 1932)
* October 21 – Benjamin Bradlee, newspaper editor and husband of Sally Quinn (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* October 23
** Jeanne Black, American singer (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
** Terry Keenan, American financial news anchor and journalist (b. 1961 in the United States, 1961)
* October 24
** James F. Hastings, American politician (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Marcia Strassman, American actress (b. 1948 in the United States, 1948)
* October 26 – Jeff Robinson (starting pitcher), Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1961 in the United States, 1961)
* October 28 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* October 30 – Thomas Menino, politician, 53rd Mayor of Boston (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
* October 31 – David Manker Abshire, American diplomat (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* November 1 – Wayne Static, guitarist and vocalist (b. 1965 in the United States, 1965)
* November 3 – Gordon Tullock, economist and academic (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* November 11 – Carol Ann Susi, American actress (b. 1952)
* November 12
** John Briscoe (water engineer), John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (b. 1948 in South Africa, 1948)
** Marge Roukema, educator and politician (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* November 13 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* November 14
** Diem Brown, American journalist and activist (b. 1982)
** Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1933)
** Eugene Dynkin, Russian-born American mathematician (b. 1924 in Russia, 1924)
** Glen A. Larson, television producer and writer (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* November 16
**Charles Champlin, historian, author, and critic (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
**Juan Joseph, American football player and coach (b. 1987 in the United States, 1987)
**Carl Sanders, soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* November 17 – Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (b. 1936)
* November 19 – Mike Nichols, German-born American director and producer and husband of Diane Sawyer (b. 1931 in Germany, 1931)
* November 23 – Marion Barry, American politician (b. 1936)
* November 25 – Irvin J. Borowsky, publisher and philanthropist (b. 1924)
Incumbents
Federal government
*President
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: Barack Obama
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( D-Illinois
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)
* Vice President
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: Joe Biden (D-Delaware
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)
* Chief Justice: John Roberts
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( New York)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: John Boehner ( R-Ohio
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)
* Senate Majority Leader
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: Harry Reid
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(D-Nevada
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* Congress
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: 113th
Events
January
*January 1
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** The following laws go into effect:
*** Thirteen states – Arizona
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, Colorado
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, Connecticut
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, Florida
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, Missouri
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, Montana
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, New Jersey
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, New York, Ohio
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, Oregon
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, Rhode Island
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, Vermont
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, and Washington
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– all increase their minimum wages.
*** Numerous provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, go into effect.
*** Provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
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, signed into law by then-President George W. Bush
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, go into effect, banning the sale of 40-to-60 watt incandescent light bulb
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s throughout the nation.
*** The state of Oregon
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bans smoking in vehicles when children are present.
*** The state of Colorado
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allows the sale of recreational cannabis
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from legally licensed businesses.
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neighborhood of Minneapolis
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, Minnesota
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. The cause is yet to be determined.
* January 2 – Satmar
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Hasidic businessman Menachem Stark
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The cousins Erskine Felix, Kendel Felix, ...
of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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, is kidnapped during a snowstorm and found murdered the next day in Great Neck, New York
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, after a botched robbery.
* January 6
** 2014 BCS National Championship Game
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: The number-one-ranked Florida State Seminoles beats the number-two-ranked Auburn Tigers
The Auburn Tigers are the athletic teams representing Auburn University, a public four-year coeducational university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. The Auburn Tigers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Associat ...
at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, by a score of 34–31.
** The 2014 North American polar vortex hits the Northern United States, breaking coldest temperature records throughout the entire country.
* January 7 – All 50 states in the U.S. experience temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F). The National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the ...
observes that "It's not unprecedented, but it is unusual."
* January 8 – The Baseball Writers' Association of America
The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) is a professional association for journalists writing about Major League Baseball for daily newspapers, magazines and qualifying websites. The organization was founded in 1908, and is known ...
Baseball Hall of Fame announces its inductees. Pitchers Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine
Thomas Michael Glavine (born March 25, 1966) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball, for the Atlanta Braves (1987–2002, 2008) and New York Mets (2003–2007).
With 164 victories durin ...
and slugger Frank Thomas are enshrined. Maddux sees his name appear on 97.2 percent of the ballots, falling short of the all-time mark still held by Tom Seaver
George Thomas Seaver (November 17, 1944 – August 31, 2020), nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "the Franchise", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the New York Mets, Cinc ...
, who was elected with 98.84 percent of the vote in 1992. Glavine receives 91.9 percent of the vote while Thomas is elected with 83.7 percent.
* January 9
** Cygnus CRS Orb-1
Orbital-1, also known as Orb-1, was the second flight of the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo spacecraft, its second flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and the third launch of the company's Antares launch vehicle. The mission launche ...
, the second flight of the Orbital Sciences
Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and medium- class space and launch vehicle systems for commercial, military and other governmen ...
Cygnus uncrewed cargo spacecraft
Cargo spacecraft are robotic spacecraft that are designed to carry cargo, possibly to support space stations' operation by transporting food, propellant and other supplies. This is different from a space probe, whose missions are to conduct sci ...
, launches successfully at 13:07 EST.
** A steel storage tank near Charleston, West Virginia
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, leaks the chemical 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) in large quantities into the Elk River, part of the watershed of the Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it fl ...
, leaving 300,000 people in nine West Virginia counties without clean water.
* January 13 – Retired law enforcement officer Curtis Reeves fatally shoots Chad Oulson.
* January 14 – A federal judge rules that Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional but immediately stays the ruling.
* January 16 – Nominations for the 86th Academy Awards are announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater
The Samuel Goldwyn Theatre is a screening-only movie theater named after filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn.
It is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, at headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). ...
in Beverly Hills, California. The nominees for Best Picture
This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards.
Best Actor/Best Actress
*See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
are ''12 Years a Slave
''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C. ...
'', '' American Hustle'', '' Captain Phillips'', ''Dallas Buyers Club
''Dallas Buyers Club'' is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof ( Matthew McConaughey), an AIDS patient diagnosed in ...
'', ''Gravity
In physics, gravity () is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things with mass or energy. Gravity is, by far, the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, approximately 1038 times weaker than the stro ...
'', ''Her
Her is the objective and possessive form of the English-language feminine pronoun She (pronoun), she.
Her, HER or H.E.R. may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Music
* H.E.R. (born 1997), American singer
**H.E.R. (album), ''H.E.R.'' ...
'', ''Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
'', ''Philomena
Philomena ( el, Ἁγία Φιλομένα), also known as Saint Philomena or ''Philomena of Rome'' was a young virgin martyr whose remains were discovered on May 24–25, 1802, in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Three tiles enclosing the tomb bore ...
'', and '' The Wolf of Wall Street''.
* January 20 – A feed processing plant in Omaha, Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
, explodes, killing two people.
* January 25 – A gunman identified as 19-year-old Darion Marcus Aguilar opens fire at a shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...
in Columbia, Maryland
Columbia is a census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland. It is one of the principal communities of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. It is a planned community consisting of 10 self-contained villages.
Columbia began with ...
, killing two people and then himself. It is reported that the shooter was also carrying "crude explosives" at the time of the attack. Though authorities originally believed Aguilar had some relationship with the victims, this was later dismissed.
* January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
* 1564 – The Council of Tren ...
– The price of a first-class mail
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal syst ...
stamp increases to $ 0.49.
* January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession ...
– President
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...
delivers his annual State of the Union Address
The State of the Union Address (sometimes abbreviated to SOTU) is an annual message delivered by the president of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress near the beginning of each calendar year on the current conditi ...
, focusing on, among other issues, the country's environmental policies
Environmental policy is the commitment of an organization or government to the laws, regulations, and other policy mechanisms concerning environmental issues. These issues generally include air and water pollution, waste management, ecosystem mana ...
, creating jobs and immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, a ...
reform
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, saying he wants 2014 to be a "year of action." Special attention is brought to Obama's willingness to circumvent the decisions of Congress
A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...
should they not go forward with his plans, which some critics believe would overstep his executive
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Role or title
* Executive, a senior management role in an organization
** Chief executive officer (CEO), one of the highest-ranking corporate officers (executives) or administrators
** Executive dir ...
powers and undermine the system of checks and balances
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.
February
* February 1 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio. Opened on September 7, , the Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in the sport of professional football, including players, coa ...
inductees are announced: Walter Jones, Derrick Brooks
Derrick Dewan Brooks (born April 18, 1973) is an American former football outside linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brooks played college football at Florida State, wh ...
, Michael Strahan
Michael T. Strahan ( ; born November 21, 1971) is an American television personality, journalist, and former professional football player. He played his entire 15-year professional career as a defensive end for the New York Giants of the Nation ...
, Andre Reed, Aeneas Williams
Aeneas Demetrius Williams (; born January 29, 1968) is an American former football cornerback and safety who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons, primarily with the Arizona Cardinals franchise. He played college footba ...
, Claude Humphrey
Claude B. Humphrey (June 29, 1944 – December 3, 2021) was an American professional football player who played as a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles. Humphrey was inducted into t ...
, and Ray Guy
William Ray Guy (December 22, 1949 – November 3, 2022) was an American professional football player who was a punter for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). Guy was a first-team All-American selecti ...
.
* February 2 – Super Bowl XLVIII
Super Bowl XLVIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos and National Football Conference (NFC) champion Seattle Seahawks to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for th ...
is played at MetLife Stadium
MetLife Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, 5 mi (8 km) west of New York City. Opened in 2010 to replace Giants Stadium, it serves as the home for the New York Giants a ...
at the Meadowlands Sports Complex
The Meadowlands Sports Complex is a sports complex located in East Rutherford, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The facility is owned and operated by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA).
The complex currently con ...
in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Seattle Seahawks win their first Super Bowl by defeating the Denver Broncos
The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver. The Broncos compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team is headquar ...
by a score of 43–8.
* February 3 – Janet Yellen
Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021. She previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. Yellen is ...
succeeds Ben Bernanke to become the 15th Chairperson of the Federal Reserve as well as the first woman to hold the position.
* February 4
** Sixteen missing children are rescued from Super Bowl-associated sex-trade slavery in an FBI
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sting.
** American science educator and engineer
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Bill Nye (popularly known as " Bill Nye the Science Guy") defends evolution in the classroom in a debate
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with creationist
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Ken Ham
Kenneth Alfred Ham (born 20 October 1951) is an Australian Christian fundamentalist, young Earth creationist and apologist, living in the United States. He is the founder, CEO, and former president of Answers in Genesis (AiG), a Christian apolo ...
on the topic of whether creation is a viable model of origins in the modern, scientific era.
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
* 1301 &nd ...
– ''The Lego Movie
''The Lego Movie'' is a 2014 computer-animated adventure comedy film written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from a story by Lord, Miller, and Dan and Kevin Hageman. Based on the Lego line of construction toys, its story focu ...
'' is released in theaters.
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
* 1301 &nd ...
– February 23 – The United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
compete at the Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...
in Sochi, Russia
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and win 9 gold, 7 silver, and 12 bronze medals.
* February 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, spar ...
– The Obama Administration delays the employer mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for the second time.
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
** A federal judge rules that Kentucky's ban on recognizing same-sex marriages performed outside the state is unconstitutional but later stays the ruling until March 20.
** President Obama signs an executive order
In the United States, an executive order is a directive by the president of the United States that manages operations of the federal government. The legal or constitutional basis for executive orders has multiple sources. Article Two of t ...
raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers from $7.25 to $10.10.
* February 13
** A federal judge rules that Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional but immediately stays the ruling.
** A federal judge rules that California's gun law restricting concealed weapons is unconstitutional because it violates the Second Amendment
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.
** Comcast buys Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable, Inc. (TWC) was an American cable television company. Before it was acquired by Charter Communications on May 18, 2016, it was ranked the second largest cable company in the United States by revenue behind only Comcast, operat ...
for $45 billion. If approved by the government, the merger will become the largest cable network provider in the nation.
** The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility opens in the Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert ( ; mov, Hayikwiir Mat'aar; es, Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Southwestern United States. It is named for the indigenous Mojave people. It is located primarily ...
of California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
, producing over 392 megawatts of electricity at full capacity and becoming the world's largest solar thermal power plant to date.
* February 14 – Workers at the Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant
The Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant (or Chattanooga Operations LLC) is an American automobile assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The plant was formally announced in July 2008 and was formally inaugurated in May 2011.
Production b ...
in Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
reject unionizing by a vote of 712–626. The result is considered by many media outlets to be a defeat for labor unions in the United States.
* February 17
**The Tonight Show
''The Tonight Show'' is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. The show has been hosted by six comedians: Steve Allen (1954–1957), Jack Paar (1957–1962), Johnny Carson (1962–1992), Jay Leno (1992–2009 and 201 ...
broadcasts its first episode in New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
in nearly 42 years with new host Jimmy Fallon. The nationally televised late-night talk show moved to Los Angeles
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in 1972
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.
** 2014 Olympics: Meryl Davis
Meryl Davis (born January 1, 1987) is a former competitive American ice dancer. With partner Charlie White, she is the 2014 Olympic champion, the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time (2011, 2013) World champion, five-time Grand Prix Final ...
& Charlie White became the first couple from the USA to win the ice dancing gold.
* February 19 – A Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
judge rules that allowing the governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
to directly approve the Keystone XL
The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned in 2010 and owned by TC Energy and as of 31 March 2020 the Government of Alberta. It runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta ...
pipeline and bypass legislative commissions is unconstitutional, further complicating the widely publicized project to connect the Canadian oil sands
Oil sands, tar sands, crude bitumen, or bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Oil sands are either loose sands or partially consolidated sandstone containing a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay, and wate ...
to the Gulf of Mexico
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.
* February 23 – In NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. The privately owned company was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1948, and ...
, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (born October 10, 1974) is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, team owner, author, and an analyst for '' NASCAR on NBC''. He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving ...
eventually wins the Daytona 500, ending a 55-race winless streak in the Sprint Cup Series
The NASCAR Cup Series is the top racing series of the NASCAR, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, and from 1950 to 1970 it was known as the Grand National Division. ...
after the race is red-flagged for several hours due to heavy rain and a tornado
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warning is put into effect for the area.
* February 24 – The Obama Administration proposes to significantly reduce the military budget
A military budget (or military expenditure), also known as a defense budget, is the amount of financial resources dedicated by a state to raising and maintaining an armed forces or other methods essential for defense purposes.
Financing militar ...
to $522 billion and to shrink the army
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to a level not seen since the years prior to World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
.
* February 26
** A federal judge rules that Texas's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional but immediately stays the ruling.
** Governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
Jan Brewer
Janice Kay Brewer (''née'' Drinkwine, formerly Warren; born September 26, 1944) is an American politician and author who was the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Brewer is the fourth woman (and was t ...
of Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
vetoes a bill
Bill(s) may refer to:
Common meanings
* Banknote, paper cash (especially in the United States)
* Bill (law), a proposed law put before a legislature
* Invoice, commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer
* Bill, a bird or animal's beak
Plac ...
that would have allowed business owners to refuse to serve people who are LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity.
The LGBT term ...
based solely on their religious beliefs.
* February 28 – Seth Meyers takes over as host of '' Late Night'', with his premiere guests Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler (; born September 16, 1971) is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, Poehler co-founded the improvisational-comedy tro ...
, Vice-President
A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on ...
Joe Biden, and A Great Big World. Meyers is the third consecutive ''Saturday Night Live
''Saturday Night Live'' (often abbreviated to ''SNL'') is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and Peacock (streaming service), Peacock. ...
'' alumnus (after Jimmy Fallon and Conan O'Brien) to host the show. The show's new bandleader, Fred Armisen
Fereydun Robert Armisen (born December 4, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician. With his comedy partner Carrie Brownstein, Armisen was the co-creator and co-star of the IFC sketch comedy series '' Portlandia''. ...
, is also an ''SNL'' veteran.
March
* March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his '' bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
– 86th Academy Awards:
** The ceremony, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( ; born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in the sitcom ''Ellen'' from 1994 to 1998, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for " The Puppy Episode". Sh ...
, is held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The telecast garners over 43.7 million viewers, the most-watched Oscar broadcast since 2000.
** Steve McQueen's ''12 Years a Slave
''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C. ...
'' wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.
** ''The Great Beauty
''The Great Beauty'' ( it, La grande bellezza ) is a 2013 art drama film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012. It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in co ...
'', an Italian film, wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
** Alfonso Cuarón's ''Gravity
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'' wins seven awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director. The film also co-leads in nominations with ten, next to David O. Russell
David Owen Russell (born August 20, 1958) is an American filmmaker. His early directing career includes the comedy films ''Spanking the Monkey'' (1994), '' Flirting with Disaster'' (1996), ''Three Kings'' (1999), and ''I Heart Huckabees'' (200 ...
's '' American Hustle''.
** Matthew McConaughey
Matthew David McConaughey ( ; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. He had his breakout role with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy '' Dazed and Confused'' (1993). After a number of supporting roles, his first succes ...
wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''Dallas Buyers Club
''Dallas Buyers Club'' is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof ( Matthew McConaughey), an AIDS patient diagnosed in ...
''.
** Cate Blanchett wins the Academy Award for Best Actress
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for her performance in ''Blue Jasmine
''Blue Jasmine'' is a 2013 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film tells the story of a rich Manhattan socialite (Cate Blanchett) who falls on hard times and has to move into her working-class sister's (Sally Ha ...
''.
** '' Frozen'' wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
* March 7
** Massachusetts
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bans the taking of candid upskirt
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photographs in public. Two days earlier, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court had ruled that the taking of such photographs is legal.
** '' Mr. Peabody & Sherman'' is released in theaters.
* March 12 – A gas explosion
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collapses a building in New York City
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, killing eight people and injuring over 70 others.
* March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
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** At the 2014 South by Southwest Festival
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in Austin, Texas
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, a suspected drunk driver
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crashes through barricades and drives through a crowd of pedestrians, killing two people and injuring over 20 others.
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signs an executive order
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directed at the Department of Labor
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to expand its role in regulating overtime pay.
* March 18
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– A television helicopter
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crashes in Seattle
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, Washington
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, killing two people.
* March 21
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– A federal judge rules that Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and does not stay the ruling, although the ruling is later suspended until at least March 26 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
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in order to consider an appeal by Michigan's Attorney General.
* March 22
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** A mudflow
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occurs near Oso, Washington
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, killing 43 people.
** A barge carrying nearly one million gallons of oil collides with a ship in Galveston Bay off the coast of Texas
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, causing a fuel oil spill.
* March 24
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** Disney
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announces that it is buying Maker Studios
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, an internet-video based company, for $500 million.
** A train derailment of the CTA Blue Line
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occurs at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago
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, leaving 32 people injured.
* March 26
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* 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
*1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, ...
** Facebook
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announces that it is buying Oculus, a firm that specializes in virtual reality
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displays, for $2 billion.
** Connecticut
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passes legislation that will raise its minimum wage from $8.70 to $10.10 by 2017, making it the first state to answer President
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's call for an increase in the minimum wage.
* March 28 – The 5.1 List of earthquakes in California, La Habra earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of VI (''Strong''), causing a few injuries and $10.8 million in damage.
* March 30 – Protests occur in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico after a video surfaces online of a March 16 fatal confrontation between local police and a homeless man.
* March 31 – Open enrollment for the first year of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplace ends, with the number of enrollees exceeding the Obama Administration's goal of 7 million.
April
* April 1 – General Motors CEO Mary Barra testifies in front of a congressional panel regarding the safety of their vehicles following a massive recall and the deaths of 13 people. * April 2 ** A gunman identified as Ivan Lopez 2014 Fort Hood shooting, opens fire at the Fort Hood military base in Killeen, Texas, Killeen,Texas
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, killing 3 people and then himself. Fort Hood was previously the site of a 2009 Fort Hood shooting, shooting in 2009.
** In a McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court strikes down certain Campaign finance in the United States, campaign finance regulations limiting the total amounts of money that individuals can contribute to political campaigns during two-year election cycles.
* April 3 – Governor of Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant of Mississippi signs a controversial bill that will allow individuals and businesses to deny service to anyone if it conflicts with their religion, religious beliefs. Civil rights organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU worry that such a law will have wide-ranging effects and lead to more animosity toward LGBT, sexual minorities and members of Persecution of Heathens (disambiguation), faiths other than Christianity.
* April 4 – ''Captain America: The Winter Soldier'', directed by the Russo brothers, is released by Marvel Studios as the ninth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to 2011's ''Captain America: The First Avenger''.
* April 7
**A critical bug called "Heartbleed" in OpenSSL is estimated to have left 17% of the Internet's secure web servers vulnerable to data theft.
**The 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game takes place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas with the 2013–14 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Connecticut Huskies defeating the 2013–14 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, Kentucky Wildcats by a score of 60–54.
* April 8 – Microsoft discontinues support for its Windows XP operating system.
* April 9 – Twenty-two people are injured following a Franklin Regional High School stabbing, stabbing incident at a Pennsylvania Franklin Regional School District, high school.
* April 10 – Ten people are killed when a semi-tractor trailer crosses the median and collides with a tour bus carrying high school students on a college visit in Orland, California, Orland, California
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.
* April 10–April 13, 13 – Bubba Watson wins the 2014 Masters Tournament.
* April 12 – A Bundy standoff, grazing dispute in Nevada
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between a rancher and the Federal government of the United States, federal government escalates to a standoff between Bureau of Land Management agents and armed Militia (United States), militiamen from across the country.
* April 13 – White supremacy, White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting, opens fire at a Judaism, Jewish community center in Overland Park, Kansas, killing three people.
* April 14 – A federal judge rules that Ohio's Ohio Constitution Section 15.11, ban on recognizing same-sex marriages performed outside the state is unconstitutional.
* April 18 – SpaceX CRS-3, an unmanned SpaceX Dragon, Dragon Comparison of space station cargo vehicles, cargo spacecraft, launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida
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with a cargo of experiments and equipment for the International Space Station.
* April 21 – Flint, Michigan, switches its water source to the Flint River (Michigan), Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis. The crisis has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
* April 22 – In a Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, 6–2 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court upholds an Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, amendment to the Constitution of Michigan, Michigan state constitution that bans the use of Affirmative action in the United States, affirmative action in public education, employment, and contracting.
* April 23
** Governor of Georgia, Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia signs the ''Safe Carry Protection Act'' into law, expanding the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, rights of gun owners to Open carry in the United States, openly carry gun, firearms in more public locations, such as government buildings, Church (building), churches, and Bar (establishment), bars. The law is set to go into effect on July 1.
** The Federal Communications Commission announces that it will consider a new rule that will allow Internet service providers to offer content providers a faster track to send content, thus reversing their earlier net neutrality position. A possible solution to net neutrality concerns may be municipal broadband, according to Susan P. Crawford, Professor Susan Crawford, a legal and technology expert at Harvard Law School.
* April 24 – The Food and Drug Administration announces its intention to begin regulating electronic cigarettes.
* April 25 – Connor Michalek, whose wish was to meet WWE wrestler Bryan Danielson, Daniel Bryan, dies at the age of 8 of a brain tumor in Pittsburgh. Following his death, WWE chief-brand officer Stephanie McMahon creates Connor's Cure in his memory.
* April 27–April 30, 30 – A Tornado outbreak of April 27–30, 2014, series of tornado
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es kills at least 35 people across the Midwest and the South.
* April 28 – The Obama Administration's new economic sanctions Russia–United States relations, against Russia go into effect, targeting companies and individuals close to President of Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
* April 29 – Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, is banned by the National Basketball Association, NBA from attending games and is fined US dollar, $2.5 million after racist comments from the owner surface online.
May
* May 2 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the first case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS virus) in the United States, contracted by an American health care worker fromIllinois
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who was working in Saudi Arabia. The disease has killed more than 100 people in the Middle East.
* May 3 – Victor Espinoza wins the 2014 Kentucky Derby riding California Chrome.
* May 5 – In a Town of Greece v. Galloway, 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court rules that opening prayers can precede city council, town hall meetings without violating the Establishment Clause, Constitution.
* May 8 – United States Department of Veterans Affairs#History, VA scandal: United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki is subpoenaed and called to Congress to respond to allegations of the department covering up wait times for veteran healthcare.
* May 9 – A state judge in Arkansas declares that the state's Arkansas Constitutional Amendment 3, ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. On May 16, the Supreme Court of Arkansas stayed the decision pending an appeal by the state government.
* May 15 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decides to consider two options regarding internet services: first, permit fast and slow broadband lanes, thereby compromising net neutrality; and second, reclassify broadband as a telecommunication service, thereby preserving net neutrality.
* May 19 – A federal district court judge rules that Oregon's Oregon Ballot Measure 36 (2004), ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Since the state government has declared no intention to appeal, same-sex marriage goes into effect immediately.
* May 20 – A federal district court judgrules
that Pennsylvania ban on Same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and goes into effect immediately, making Pennsylvania the nineteenth state to legalize same-sex marriage when counting Same-sex marriage in Illinois, Illinois. * May 23 – 22-year-old 2014 Isla Vista killings, Elliot Rodger kills 3 students by stabbing and another 3 by gunshot in Isla Vista, California, near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, injuring an additional 13 before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Rodger uploaded a YouTube video the day before the shooting claiming "retribution" for college girls' lack of sexual attention toward him, and his writings revealed that he was a Misogyny, misogynist and a Racism, racist. * May 25 – Ryan Hunter-Reay wins the 2014 Indianapolis 500, becoming the first American to win the race since 2006 Indianapolis 500, 2006. * May 30 – Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014, VA scandal: United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki resigns from office. * May 31 ** Bowe Bergdahl, a United States Army soldier who was being held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan since June 2009, is released back to the United States, traded for five Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantanamo Bay detainees. Many critics believe the handover was illegal. ** Two 12-year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, stab their friend, also 12, in the arms, legs and torso nineteen times, leaving her hospitalized. The two girls appear in court and are tried as adults for attempted first-degree intentional homicide. The two girls confirm they were inspired by a horror website based around the fictional character and Internet meme Slender Man.
June
* June 1 –Illinois
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's Same-sex marriage in Illinois, same-sex marriage law goes into effect.
* June 2 – The City Council of Seattle, Washington passes a local ordinance to increase the minimum wage of the city to $15 an hour, giving the city the highest minimum wage in the United States.
* June 5 – Gunman Aaron Ybarra opens fire at Seattle Pacific University, killing one student and injuring two others. According to law enforcement, he had a well-documented pent-up sense of anger toward society.
* June 6
**President
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and several other world leaders and war veterans gather in Colleville-sur-Mer in France to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the 1944 Normandy landings, invasion of Normandy in World War II
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.
**A United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, federal district court judge rules that Wisconsin's ban on Same-sex marriage in Wisconsin, same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Marriages are later halted by a different judge pending appeal.
* June 8 – Couple Jerad and Amanda Miller 2014 Las Vegas shooting, open fire inside a CiCi's restaurant in Las Vegas, killing 2 police officers. They then move to a Walmart, where they kill a civilian before getting into a firefight with police, resulting in their deaths. The couple was motivated by a desire to start a "revolution."
* June 10
** Gunman Jared Michael Padgett, age 15, opens fire at Reynolds High School (Troutdale, Oregon), Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon, 12 miles east of Portland, Oregon, Portland, killing one student and then himself, as well as wounding a teacher. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Everytown for Gun Safety reports that it is the 74th List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present), school shooting incident in the country since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012.
** House majority whip Eric Cantor ( R-Virginia's 7th congressional district, VA7) is defeated by primary opponent Dave Brat, becoming the first sitting House majority leader to lose a primary since 1899.
* June 13 – In the NHL, The Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference champions, the Los Angeles Kings win the Stanley Cup in double overtime against the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern Conference champions, the New York Rangers in the 2014 Stanley Cup Finals to have a 3-2 victory to have a 4-1 series win.
* June 14
** The FBI captures Ahmed Abu Khattala, one of the suspected leaders of the 2012 Benghazi attack, in Libya with no casualties.
** The Green Line (Minnesota), Green Line light rail from Minneapolis
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to Saint Paul, Minnesota, begins service.
* June 15 – The San Antonio Spurs beat the Miami Heat in the 2014 NBA Finals 4 games to 1.
* June 16 – A June 16–18, 2014 tornado outbreak sequence, tornado outbreak in northeastern Nebraska
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produces rare twin tornadoes and destroys the town of Pilger, Nebraska, Pilger, killing two people. Storms in this sequence also affected parts of Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota
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, Illinois
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and Wisconsin.
* June 19
** President Barack Obama
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announces that he will send up to 300 military advisers, but not troops, to Iraq to help the Shia Islam, Shiite government and to protect the American ambassadors in the Embassy of the United States, Baghdad, United States Embassy in the capital city of Baghdad, threatened by a heavily armed Sunni Islam, Sunni militant group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (also known as the ISIS, or ISIL).
** An estimated 86 Atlanta-based workers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been confirmed to have been unintentionally exposed to anthrax while working.
* June 23 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI announces that, in the week prior, during an annual nationwide crackdown, the bureau had rescued 168 children from Human trafficking, sex trafficking, many of whom had never been reported as Missing person, missing.
* June 25
** The United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court, in a Riley v. California, unanimous ruling, declares that police must obtain a search warrant, warrant in order to search through a phone or digital device.
** The Supreme Court, in a American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo, 6–3 decision, rules against Aereo for their practice of rebroadcasting over-the-air programming without applying for retransmission consent.
** The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 10th Circuit Federal Appeals Court rules against same-sex marriage in Utah, Utah's Utah Constitutional Amendment 3, same-sex marriage ban, becoming the first appeals court in the United States to rule in favor of same-sex unions.
** A federal judge in Indiana strikes down that same-sex marriage in Indiana, state's same-sex marriage ban.
** Republican Party (United States), Republican Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the House John Boehner announces his intention to ask the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) to file a lawsuit against President
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to counter his recent executive order
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s, saying these orders supersede the powers granted to the president in the United States Constitution, Constitution. Obama later dismisses the lawsuit as a "stunt", and says his orders are in response to the lack of productivity in the 113th United States Congress, current Congress
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, saying, "If you're really concerned about me taking too many executive actions, why don't you try getting something done through Congress?"
** North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency publicly condemns the upcoming American comedy film ''The Interview'', promising "stern" and "merciless" retaliation if the film is released.
* June 26 – The United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court in a National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, unanimous ruling limits the President of the United States, executive branch's power to bypass the United States Congress, legislature in appointing positions during short-recess periods.
* June 30 – The United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court rules in a 5–4 decision that the Contraceptive mandate (United States), contraception mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Affordable Care Act cannot be enforced on closely held corporations, in a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma City-based Handicraft, arts and crafts Chain stores, store chain Hobby Lobby and Pennsylvania-based wood manufacturer Conestoga Wood Specialties.
July
* July 3–July 7, 7 – According to Chicago Police Department Superintendent Garry McCarthy, 14 people are killed and an additional 68 are wounded in numerous separate gunfights in Chicago, making the weekend one of the most violent periods in the city, which is one of the most dangerous in the country, and drawing criticism of the city's police force. * July 8 –Washington
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becomes the Legality of cannabis by U.S. state, second state to Legal history of cannabis in the United States, legalize the sale of Cannabis (drug), recreational marijuana.
* July 9
** Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is sentenced to ten years in prison for bribery, money laundering and several other charges.
** A state judge in Colorado
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strikes down the state's same-sex marriage in Colorado, same-sex marriage Colorado Amendment 43, ban, but also stays his ruling pending an appeal by Colorado Attorney General, Attorney General John Suthers. Several county clerks defied the stayed ruling and continued to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, citing the recent Kitchen v. Herbert, ruling by the Tenth Circuit.
** Suspect 2014 Harris County shooting, Ronald Lee Haskell Jr. kills six people near the town of Spring, Texas, all of whom were related to his ex-wife. After a standoff, Haskell surrenders to police.
* July 13 – American marine salvage captain Death of Conrad Roy, Conrad Roy kills himself in his truck via carbon monoxide poisoning in Massachusetts
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, having been encouraged to take his own life by his girlfriend Michelle Carter. She is later convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the crime.
* July 16 – U.S. President Obama announces new sanctions targeting Russia's banking and energy sectors over Russia's continuing involvement in the Ukraine crisis 2014, Ukraine Crisis and annexing Crimea.
* July 18
** A federal appeals court upholds a federal judge's ruling overturning Same-sex marriage in Oklahoma, Oklahoma's same-sex marriage ban. However, since the appeals court put its ruling on hold pending an appeal, same-sex couples will not be immediately allowed to marry.
** U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement on the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which crashed over Eastern Ukraine near the Russia–Ukraine border, Russian border.
* July 25 – The 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, which has killed over 600 people, claims its first American life when health worker Patrick Sawyer dies in a Nigerian hospital after contracting the Ebola, virus in Liberia. The news worries the American news media that the virus could spread to the US.
* July 26 – ''Henry Danger'' debuts on Nickelodeon.
* July 28
** Barack Obama
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accuses Russia of violating the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, an agreement made between the United States and the Soviet Union, citing cruise missile tests dating back to 2008, and promises even tougher economic sanctions against the country in response.
** A federal appeals court upholds a federal judge's ruling overturning Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage. It's not presently clear if or when Virginia would need to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
* July 30 – The Government Accountability Office releases a non-partisan study that concluded the Obama administration did not provide "effective planning or oversight practices" in developing the HealthCare.gov website.
* July 31
** John O. Brennan, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, issues an apology to the United States Senate, admitting that the agency had spied on Senate staffers who backed an investigation into the agency's Enhanced interrogation techniques, controversial interrogation program.
** ''Sharknado 2: The Second One'' airs for the first time on Syfy.
August
* August 1 – ''Guardians of the Galaxy (film), Guardians of the Galaxy'', directed by James Gunn, is released by Marvel Studios as the tenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). * August 7 –Barack Obama
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signs into law a bill that ensures that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs has the necessary financial resources to provide adequate care for war veterans.
* August 8
** The US begins conducting 2014 American intervention in Iraq, targeted airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS militants in Iraq to prevent an invasion of the Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdistan Region capital city of Erbil. President Obama warns the airstrike campaign could last for several months, but that no actual troops will be sent to Iraq.
** Into the Storm (2014 film), Into the Storm, directed by Steven Quale is released in theaters.
* August 9
** In auto racing, NASCAR
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driver Tony Stewart runs over 20-year-old driver Kevin Ward Jr. during a sprint car race in northern New York. Ward is pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
** A policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, Shooting of Michael Brown, fatally shoots an unarmed black teenager, triggering 2014 Ferguson unrest, unrest across the St. Louis suburb.
* August 11
** Academy Award-winning actor Robin Williams commits suicide in his Paradise Cay, California home at the age of 63.
** A Tennessee
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state judge upholds that state's Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment, same-sex marriage ban, breaking a string of legal victories for same-sex marriage supporters.
* August 16 – Shooting of Michael Brown: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon issues a state of emergency for Ferguson and a curfew lasting from midnight to 5:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time, CDT. A second curfew is approved the following night.
* August 19 – An online video surfaces showing James Foley (photojournalist), James Foley, an American Photojournalism, photojournalist held hostage in Syria, being Decapitation, beheaded by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, ISIS militants in response to the US 2014 American intervention in Iraq, airstrike campaign in Iraq.
* August 21 – A federal district court judge rules that Florida
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's Same-sex marriage in Florida, same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, but immediately stays the ruling, pending an appeal by the state circuit court.
* August 24 – A 2014 South Napa earthquake, magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Napa, California injuring 120 people, 6 critically. It is the largest earthquake to strike the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
* August 25 – 66th Primetime Emmy Awards:
**The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards for American television shows are held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California on a Monday for the first time since 28th Primetime Emmy Awards, 1976 (to avoid conflicts with NBC's ''NBC Sunday Night Football, Sunday Night Football'' and MTV's 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, Video Music Awards on the 24th).
**''Modern Family'' wins the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series tying with ''Frasier'' at most wins in that category with five each.
**''Breaking Bad'' wins the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series.
* August 26 – Amazon.com, Amazon purchases the Streaming media, live streaming site Twitch (service), Twitch for US Dollar, $970 million.
* August 31 – A group of hackers utilize sites like Reddit and 4chan to 2014 celebrity pictures hack, release hundreds of private, many of them nude, photographs of around 100 individuals, most of them A-list celebrities, leading to an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI and criticism of Apple Inc., Apple's iCloud service.
September
* September 1 – In response to 2014 Ferguson unrest, several weeks of protests following the Shooting of Michael Brown, fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, police in Ferguson, Missouri, begin to wear Body worn video, body cameras donated by two private security firms. * September 2 – Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, ISIS militants release an online video showing the Decapitation, beheading of American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff. * September 3 – CVS Pharmacy rebrands itself as CVS Health, and phases out cigarette sales to reflect the name change. * September 4 – The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit deems the Same-sex marriage in the United States, same-sex marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana unconstitutional and immediately stays the ruling pending appeal. * September 5 – At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO 2014 Wales summit, summit in Wales, PresidentBarack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...
enlists nine international allies to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS threat in Iraq and Syria, fearing that such a group cannot be simply contained.
* September 10 – President Barack Obama
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gives a televised speech detailing the country's plan to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, ISIS threat in the Middle East with the help of a multinational coalition, which includes increasing the number of non-combat American military advisers in Iraq, heightening 2014 American intervention in Iraq, airstrike efforts in Iraq and Syria, stemming the flow of funding to ISIS, and increasing humanitarian efforts to the minorities facing genocide from ISIS.
* September 12 – Self-taught survivalist Eric Frein 2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack, opens fire outside the Troop R barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, killing one trooper and critically injuring another, prompting a weeks-long manhunt.
* September 14 – The Miss America 2015, 88th Miss America pageant is held. Kira Kazantsev of New York wins the title, becoming the third consecutive Miss America winner from that state after Mallory Hagan and Nina Davuluri.
* September 15 – Microsoft announces that it is purchasing Mojang, creator of the popular sandbox video game ''Minecraft'', for $2 billion.
* September 18
** The Home Depot, Home Depot says that around 56 million customer debit and credit cards are at risk after a cyber attack on their payment systems.
** Ukraine, Ukrainian President of Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko visits the United States Congress to seek assistance in combating War in Donbas (2014–2022), pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
** A grandfather in the town of Bell, Florida, Bell, Florida
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fatally shoots his adult daughter and six grandchildren, prompting an investigation.
* September 19 – Armed with a knife, Iraq War veteran Omar Gonzalez jumps the fence of the White House and allegedly enters the East Room of the building, where he was then subdued. The incident draws criticism of the United States Secret Service.
* September 22 – The United States and several Arab partners begin their 2014 multinational military intervention in Syria, airstrike campaign in Syria.
* September 24 – At a food processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma, Alton Alexander Nolan Vaughn Foods beheading incident, beheads coworker Colleen Hufford in a fit of rage after being fired.
* September 30
** The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC reports the first Ebola virus disease, Ebola 2014 Ebola virus case in the United States, case diagnosed in the United States in Dallas, Texas
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.
** Amid criticism related to a September 19 White House infiltration incident, the United States Secret Service, Secret Service's competence is questioned after it is revealed that an armed ex-convict was allowed on an elevator with Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...
during the President's visit to Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia on September 16.
October
* October 1 – Former head of corporate security for Comcast Joseph Clancy (Secret Service), Joseph Clancy takes over as Director of the United States Secret Service, Director of the United States Secret Service after previous director Julia Pierson resigns following several scandals surrounding the agency. * October 3 – The United States Department of Labor reports that in September 2014, employers added 248,000 new jobs to the Economy of the United States, U.S. economy, setting the unemployment rate to 5.9%, the lowest since July 2008 at the onset of the Financial crisis of 2007-08, 2008 global financial meltdown. * October 6–October 12, 12 – The Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court decides to not hear cases on Same-sex marriage in the United States, same-sex marriage appeals, thus immediately legalizing same-sex marriage in Virginia, Utah, Indiana, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. The action is followed by the legalization of same-sex marriage inNevada
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, Colorado
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, West Virginia
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, Idaho, North Carolina, and Alaska.
*October 12 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC confirms that a health care worker in Texas was found to be positive for the Ebola virus disease, Ebola virus, the first known case of the disease to be contracted in the United States.
*October 17
** President Barack Obama
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names Ron Klain as "Ebola response coordinator" (or, less officially, Ebola "czar"), to help coordinate the nation's response to the Ebola virus.
** A federal district court judge strikes down Arizona
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's ban on same-sex marriage and does not stay the ruling, allowing marriages to begin in the state immediately. The same day, a judge strikes down Wyoming's same-sex marriage ban, staying the ruling until October 23.
*October 22 – United States Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security United States Homeland Security Council, Council Kenneth L. Wainstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill academics-athletics scandal, releases a report revealing that, for 18 years, many student athletes attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were given passing grades in "nonexistent classes" in order to remain eligible for school sports.
*October 23 – A hatchet-wielding man, Zale H. Thompson, attacks and injures two police officers on a New York City
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sidewalk before the officers shot and killed him. The incident is investigated as an act of terrorism, as Thompson was a recent convert to Islam.
*October 24 – A 14-year-old student at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington, Marysville, Washington
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** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
, Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting, fatally shoots four students before committing suicide.
*October 28 – An Antares (rocket), Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus CRS Orb-3 uncrewed resupply spacecraft explodes shortly after liftoff at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia, Wallops Island, Virginia when two NASA operators push a self-destruct button in response to a rocket malfunction.
*October 29 – The San Francisco Giants defeat American League champion Kansas City Royals 4 games to 3 in the 2014 World Series.
*October 30
**After a 48-day manhunt, survivalist Eric Frein, accused of committing the 2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack in September, is arrested outside an abandoned airfield in Tannersville, Pennsylvania, Tannersville, Pennsylvania. Prosecutors announce several hours after that they will be seeking the death penalty for Frein.
**A Beechcraft Super King Air, Beechcraft King Air B200 plane crashes into the FlightSafety International building at the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kansas, killing three people in the building and injuring five.
*October 31 – During a test flight, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo experiences an in-flight anomaly followed by an 2014 Virgin Galactic crash, explosion and crash in the Mojave desert, killing the co-pilot and injuring the pilot.
November
* November 3 – The new One World Trade Center building inNew York City
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opens.
* November 4 – The 2014 United States elections, 2014 senatorial, congressional, and gubernatorial elections are held. (''See 2014 in the United States#Elections, section'')
* November 6 – For the first time since the ''United States v. Windsor'' case, an appellate court (6th Circuit Court of Appeals) defends state same-sex marriage bans, effectively sending the issue back to the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court. The 6th Circuit's ruling applies to Same-sex marriage in Michigan, Michigan, Same-sex marriage in Ohio, Ohio, Same-sex marriage in Kentucky, Kentucky, and Recognition of same-sex unions in Tennessee, Tennessee.
* November 7
** President
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* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
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* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
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authorizes sending over 1,500 troops back into Iraq to combat the Islamic terrorism, Islamic terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL.
** Walt Disney Animation Studios' 54th feature film, ''Big Hero 6 (film), Big Hero 6'', loosely based on the Big Hero 6 (comics), superhero team of the same name by Marvel Comics, is released to critical and commercial success.
* November 10 – Barack Obama, President Obama recommends the Federal Communications Commission, FCC reclassify Internet access, broadband Internet service as a telecommunications service in order to preserve net neutrality.
* November 12
** Barack Obama, President Obama and China, Chinese President of the People's Republic of China, President Xi Jinping announce an agreement between the US and China to increase efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the two countries by 2030.
** The Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court lifts the stay on a ruling overturning the ban on Same-sex marriage in the United States, same-sex marriage in the state of Kansas.
* November 14 – The Washington National Cathedral, National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. invites five Muslim groups to participate in the Church's first Islamic prayer service.
* November 16 – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS militants in Syria release an online video showing the 2014 ISIL beheading incidents, beheading of American aid worker Peter Kassig, who was a recent convert to Islam.
* November 17
** Dr. Martin Salia, after being rushed to the United States for Ebola treatment, dies at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, becoming the second death in the nation due to the outbreak.
** It is announced that 80-year-old convicted serial killer Charles Manson has successfully obtained a marriage license, and plans to marry 26-year-old Afton Elain "Star" Burton while still in prison.
* November 18 – A major lake effect snow storm, dubbed Winter Storm Knife, hits the Great Lakes region, dumping a record breaking of snow in the Buffalo, New York region. The storm strands hundreds, kills 13, and causes Governor Andrew Cuomo to call a state of emergency in the area.
* November 19 – A federal judge in Montana
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strikes down same-sex marriage in Montana, that state's same-sex marriage ban.
* November 20 – President
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
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* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
Barack Obama
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gives a televised speech announcing his plans to use executive action to reform American policy on Immigration to the United States, immigration, proposing a "commonsense, middle-ground approach" that would deport criminals and grant citizenship to about 4.4 million illegal immigrants. The proposal is met with severe backlash from the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party.
* November 21 – Ricky Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman, wrongful conviction, wrongfully convicted of murder in 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, are released from prison. Jackson becomes the person with the longest time in incarceration among those who have been released on a wrongful conviction in the US (39 years).
* November 22 – The Texas Education Agency, Texas Board of Education approves a new controversial version of textbooks to be used in the state, ending months of outcry over lessons some say exaggerate the influence of Moses in Politics of the United States, American democracy and negatively portray Muslims. The board sanctions 89 books and classroom software packages for more than 5 million public school students to begin using next fall after hours of sometimes testy discussion and hundreds of last-minute edits, some to no avail.
* November 24 – Shooting of Michael Brown: Riots break out in Ferguson, Missouri after it is announced that there was insufficient evidence to indict officer Darren Wilson. The protests include mass looting and the burning of 12 buildings in Ferguson, as well as 29 arrests. Protests also break out in other major cities including New York City
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and Los Angeles
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and continue for over a week.
* November 25 – The University of Virginia suspends its Fraternities and sororities in North America, fraternity program after a highly controversial A Rape on Campus, report in the December 2014 issue of ''Rolling Stone'' released on November 19 alleges a vicious gang rape on the UVA campus by one of the university's fraternities. Protests on the campus of UVA and other universities nationwide are sparked.
December
* December – The unemployment rate drops to 5.6%, the lowest since June 2008 as well the historical average. * December 1 – Actor and comedian Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University's board of trustees in light of Bill Cosby#Sexual assault cases, accusations of sexual assault by at least 26 women. * December 2 – TheFBI
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launches a probe into a massive hacking attack on Sony Pictures, believing the Politics in North Korea, leadership of North Korea to be responsible.
* December 4 – Death of Eric Garner: Protests erupt in New York City
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after a grand jury decides not to indictment, indict New York Police Department, NYPD officers Daniel Pantaleo and Justin Damico in the death of Garner. Protests continue throughout the week in cities across the country for both the deaths of Garner and Death of Michael Brown, Michael Brown.
* December 5 – The Exploration Flight Test 1, first test flight of the Orion (spacecraft), Orion spacecraft successfully takes place from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 37, Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida
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.
* December 6 – An American civilian and a South African civilian held hostage by al-Qaeda die during an attempt to rescue the two of them by U.S. Navy SEALs in Yemen.
* December 7 – A chlorine gas leak injures 19 at Chicago
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's Midwest FurFest, a furry convention. Police say the act was Chlorine#Use as a weapon, intentional.
* December 9 – A coalition of Democratic Party (United States), Democrats in the United States Senate, Senate releases a highly redacted 500-page report of its four-year investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA's Enhanced interrogation techniques, torture interrogation methods during the George W. Bush, Bush Presidency of George W. Bush, Administration, which concludes that the interrogation methods were inhumane and largely ineffective. Most of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party criticizes the release of the report as a political stunt, though Republican 2008 United States presidential election, 2008 presidential candidate John McCain came out in support of the report.
* December 10
** In light of the United States Senate, Senate Democratic Party (United States), Democrats critical report of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, the Obama Administration orders the release of the final detainees of the Parwan Detention Facility in Afghanistan, ending American operation of prisons in the country after 13 years.
** A federal appeals court overturns the insider trading convictions of two former Hedge fund, hedge fund traders, Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson, based on the "erroneous" instructions given to jurors by the trial judge.
* December 13 – The Downtown Athletic Club names University of Oregon, Oregon Oregon Ducks football, Ducks quarterback Marcus Mariota the most outstanding player in college football awarding him the 2014 Heisman Trophy.
* December 15
** The Supreme Court of the United States rules by an Heien v. North Carolina, 8–1 vote that Evidence (law), evidence collected based on a reasonable misinterpretation of the law can be used at trial and is not deemed an Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, unreasonable search or seizure.
** 35-year-old Bradley William Stone kills six people in a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania shootings, rampage shooting in Salford Township, Pennsylvania, Salford Township, Pennsylvania. A large manhunt follows in pursuit of the shooter ending in the discovery of Stone dead in the woods from a drug overdose.
* December 17
** President
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
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Barack Obama
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announces the resumption of normal Cuba-United States relations, relations between the U.S. and Cuba, and an end to the United States embargo against Cuba, for the first time since January 1961.
** New York becomes the first state in the nation to issue a full and complete ban on any hydraulic fracturing.
** In response to the Sony Pictures hack, release of sensitive information and threats of violence by a group sympathetic to North Korea, and the decision by five major American theater chains to refuse to show the film, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures decides to cancel the release of the upcoming comedy film ''The Interview''. The decision is made despite assurances by the United States Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Homeland Security that there is "no credible evidence" of an imminent attack, and is met with harsh criticism from many individuals in the film industry.
* December 18 – President Barack Obama signs Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 into law.
* December 20 – 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley 2014 killings of NYPD officers, fatally shoots two New York City Police Department, NYPD police officers sitting in their police cruiser, supposedly in retaliation for the deaths of Death of Eric Garner, Eric Garner and Shooting of Michael Brown, Michael Brown, before committing suicide in a subway station.
* December 24 – Sony Pictures, Sony gives the controversial film ''The Interview'' a limited release, limited theatrical release and also releases the film on Google Play, YouTube, Xbox Live, and the film's website.
* December 24–December 26, 26 – Hacker group Lizard Squad takes credit for crashing both Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox Live servers in an apparent Denial-of-service attack, DDos attack.
* December 28 – The United States and the United Kingdom officially withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, marking the end of their War in Afghanistan (2001–present), 13-year involvement in the War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Afghan Civil War. The United States completes its scaling back of War in Afghanistan (2001–present), combat operations in Afghanistan, leaving a small residual force in the country until 2016.
Ongoing
* War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)Elections
November
* November 4 – The 2014 2014 United States Senate elections, senatorial, 2014 United States House of Representatives elections, House, and 2014 United States gubernatorial elections, gubernatorial midterm Elections in the United States, elections were held. Some highlights include: ** Republicans secure a majority in the United States Senate and expand upon their numbers in the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives to a level not seen sinceWorld War II
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.
** Republicans are elected to many traditionally "Red states and blue states, blue" states in 2014 United States gubernatorial elections, gubernatorial races. Republican candidates are elected in 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Massachusetts, 2014 Maryland gubernatorial election, Maryland, and 2014 Illinois gubernatorial election, Illinois. Additionally, Republican candidates are re-elected in the traditionally "blue" states 2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Wisconsin, 2014 Michigan gubernatorial election, Michigan, 2014 Iowa gubernatorial election, Iowa, and 2014 Maine gubernatorial election, Maine.
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reject referendums to define Personhood, life at conception. ** Tim Scott, who was appointed in 2013 to fill the vacancy left by retiring Senator Jim DeMint, becomes the first African-American in Southern United States, the South elected to the Senate since Reconstruction Era, Reconstruction. ** Joni Ernst becomes the first woman elected to represent Iowa in the Senate. ** The United States Senate election in North Carolina, 2014, Senate race in North Carolina becomes the most expensive to date, topping more than US Dollar, $100 million. ** In one of the few Democratic gains of the night, Brad Ashford wins Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, defeating Lee Terry, who has represented the district since 1999 and is a member of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Committee on Energy and Commerce. ** Voters in Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois (''non-binding measure''), Nebraska, and South Dakota approve raising their state's minimum wage. ** Arkansas' Tom Cotton, along with Joni Ernst of Iowa, become the first Iraq War veterans elected to the Senate. ** No candidate in the 2014 Vermont gubernatorial election, Vermont gubernatorial race reached a 50% threshold to win. According to the Constitution of Vermont, Vermont Constitution, in this scenario, it rests on the state legislature to decide the winner.
December
* December 6 – Because no candidate in the United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2014, Louisiana Senate race obtained a 50%-majority, a run-off is triggered on this date between Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu and her Republican challenger Bill Cassidy.Births
Deaths
January
* January 1
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** Pete DeCoursey, journalist (b. 1961 in the United States, 1961)
** Juanita Moore, actress (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
** Tabby Thomas, blues musician and singer (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* January 2
** Bernard Glasser, American film producer (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** R. Crosby Kemper Jr., American banker and civic philanthropist (b. 1927)
** Michael J. Matthews, American politician and convicted criminal (b. 1934)
** Arnold A. Saltzman, American businessman and diplomat (b. 1916)
** Jay Traynor, American singer (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
* January 3
** Alicia Rhett, actress and painter (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
** Saul Zaentz, American film producer (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* January 4
**Caixa Eletronica, race horse (b. 2005 in the United States, 2005)
** Irving Fishman, lawyer and politician (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* January 5 – Jerry Coleman, American baseball player, manager, broadcaster, and Marine Corps pilot (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* January 6
** Bob Bolen, American politician and businessman (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Don Chuy, American football player (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
** Frank Illiano, American criminal (Genovese crime family) (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Larry D. Mann, Canadian-American actor (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Thomas Patrick Melady, American educator and diplomat (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
** H. Owen Reed, American composer, conductor and educator (b. 1910 in the United States, 1910)
** Bishop Robinson (police officer), Bishop Robinson, American police chief, Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department (b. 1927)
** Julian Rotter, American psychologist (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
** Todd Williams (American football), Todd Williams, American football player (b. 1978 in the United States, 1978)
* January 8
** Vicente T. Blaz, American general and politician (b. 1928)
** Madeline Gins, American poet and architect (b. 1941)
* January 9
** Amiri Baraka, American poet (b. 1934)
** Roy Campbell Jr., American jazz trumpeter (b. 1952)
** Franklin McCain, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
** Dale T. Mortensen, American Nobel economist (b. 1939)
* January 10 – Sam Berns, notable victim of rare congenital deformity (b. 1996 in the United States, 1996)
* January 12 – Neal Barrett Jr., American writer (b. 1929)
* January 14 – Mae Young, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
* January 15 – John Dobson (amateur astronomer), John Dobson, American amateur astronomer (b. 1915)
* January 16
** Ruth Duccini, actress and last surviving female "Munchkin"-character of ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wizard of Oz'' (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
** Russell Johnson, actor (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1931 in Canada, 1931)
* January 19
** Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (b. 1945)
** Al Lerner (composer), Al Lerner, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1919)
** Ben Starr (American producer), Ben Starr, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1921)
** Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1929)
* January 20
** Vern Benson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1924)
** Otis G. Pike, American judge and politician (b. 1921)
* January 21
** G. Thompson Brown, missionary, theologian, and author (b. 1921)
** Wilford Moore, American football player and coach (b. 1919)
** Dick Shrider, basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
** George C. Wortley, soldier and politician (b. 1926)
* January 25 – John Dobson (amateur astronomer), John Dobson, American amateur astronomer (b. 1915)
* January 27 – Pete Seeger, folk singer and musician (born 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* January 29 – Robert Resnick, American physicist, academic, and author (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* January 30
** The Mighty Hannibal, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
** William Motzing, American-born Australian composer (b. 1937)
** Arthur Rankin Jr., animation producer and director, died in Harrington Sound, Bermuda (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* January 31
** Anna Gordy Gaye, American businesswoman, composer and songwriter (b. 1922)
** Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer and academic (b. 1928)
** Christopher Jones (actor), Christopher Jones, actor and husband of Susan Strasberg (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
February
* February 1
** Floyd Adams Jr., American politician (b. 1945)
** Antone S. Aguiar Jr., American judge and politician (b. 1930)
** John J. Cali, American real estate developer (b. 1918)
** Rene Ricard, American poet, painter and art critic (b. 1946)
** Gordon Zacks, American businessman and presidential advisor (b. 1933)
* February 2
** Tommy Aquino, American motorcycle racer, training collision (b. 1992)
** Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor and producer (b. 1967)
** Eric O. Stork, American civil servant (United States Environmental Protection Agency, E.P.A.) (b. 1927)
** Al Vandeweghe, American football player (Buffalo Bills (AAFC), Buffalo Bisons) (b. 1920)
* February 3
** Louise Brough, American tennis player (b. 1923)
** Richard Bull (actor), Richard Bull, American actor (b. 1924)
**Gloria Leonard, American pornographic actress and magazine publisher (b. 1940)
**Joan Mondale, wife of Walter Mondale, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1930)
**John F. Rockart, American organizational theorist (b. 1931)
**Bill Sinkin, American equality and alternative energy activist (b. 1913)
* February 4
** Howard Kupperman, American politician (b. 1931)
** R. Ellen Magenis, American pediatrician and geneticist
** Hazel Sampson, American Klallam elder and language preservationist (b. 1910)
** Alfred S. Yue, American engineer and professor emeritus (b. 1914)
* February 5
** Suzanne Basso, American convicted murderer (b. 1954)
** Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist and professor emeritus (b. 1915)
** Richard Hayman, American musician and conductor (b. 1920)
** Edward B. Sell, American taekwondo instructor (b. 1942)
* February 6 – Ralph Kiner, baseball player, announcer, and Navy pilot (b. 1922)
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
* 1301 &nd ...
– J. Mack Robinson, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
* February 8
**Nancy Holt, sculptor and painter (b. 1938 in the United States, 1938)
**Keith Hughes (basketball), Keith Hughes, basketball player and coach (b. 1968)
**Abe Woodson, American football player and minister (b. 1934)
* February 9
** Eric Bercovici, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1933)
** Hal Herring, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
* February 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, spar ...
– Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (b. 1928)
* February 11
** John Fichter, American politician (b. 1935)
** Max McLeary, American minor league baseball umpire (b. 1948)
** Emory Williams, American businessman (b. 1911)
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
** Stewart W. Bainum Sr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1919)
** Thomas Borcherding, American economist (b. 1939)
** Sid Caesar, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
** Maggie Estep, American writer and poet (b. 1963)
** William Zeckendorf Jr., American real estate developer (b. 1929)
* February 13 – Ralph Waite, American actor (b. 1928)
* February 14
** Jim Fregosi, baseball player and manager (b. 1942)
** John Henson (puppeteer), John Henson, puppeteer and son of Jim Henson (b. 1965)
* February 15 – Horst Rechelbacher, Austrian-American businessman, founded the Aveda, Aveda Corporation (b. 1941)
* February 19 – Hailey Owens, murder victim (b. 2003 in the United States, 2003 or 2004 in the United States, 2004)
* February 20 – Garrick Utley, television journalist (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* February 22 – Richard Daugherty, American archaeologist and academic (b. 1922)
* February 24 – Harold Ramis, American film director, writer, and actor (b. 1944)
* February 28 – Lee Lorch, American mathematician and activist (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915) ***
March
* March 1 – Alejandro Zaffaroni, Uruguayan-American chemist and businessman (b. 1923)
* March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his '' bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
– Ted Bergmann, television and radio producer, screenwriter and network executive (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* March 3
** Robert Ashley, American composer (b. 1930)
** William R. Pogue, American astronaut (b. 1930)
* March 8 – William Guarnere, World War II veteran (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* March 9 – William Clay Ford, Sr., business executive and American football team owner (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* March 10
**Don Ingalls, writer and producer (b. 1918)
**Samuel W. Lewis, diplomat, United States Ambassador to Israel (b. 1930)
**Joe McGinniss, journalist and author (b. 1942)
**Rob Williams (basketball), Rob Williams, basketball player (b. 1961)
* March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
*1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
**Reubin Askew, 37th Governor of Florida from 1971–79 (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
**Joseph Bacon Fraser Jr., businessman (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* March 14
**Gary Burger, singer and guitarist (b. 1942)
**Sam Lacey, basketball player (b. 1948)
* March 15 – David Brenner, comedian and actor (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
* March 17 – L'Wren Scott, fashion designer (suicide) (b. 1964 in the United States, 1964)
* March 19 – Fred Phelps, minister and activist (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
– James Rebhorn, actor (b. 1948 in the United States, 1948)
* March 25 – Ralph Wilson, American football team owner (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* March 27 – James R. Schlesinger, 12th Secretary of Defense from 1973–75 (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* March 31
** Charles Keating, athlete, lawyer and banker (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Frankie Knuckles, disc jockey and record producer (b. 1955 in the United States, 1955)
April
* April 1
**King Fleming, pianist and bandleader (b. 1922)
**Rudolph Hargrave, lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
**Andrew Joseph McDonald, bishop (b. 1923)
* April 2
**Carl Epting Mundy Jr., general (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
**Lucy Hood, businesswoman, founded Fox Mobile Entertainment (b. 1957)
* April 3 – Tommy Lynn Sells, serial killer (b. 1964 in the United States, 1964)
* April 6 – Mickey Rooney, actor and husband of Ava Gardner and Martha Vickers (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* April 8 – The Ultimate Warrior, wrestler (b. 1959 in the United States, 1959)
* April 10
**Joe Dini, businessman and politician (b. 1929)
**Bill Doolittle, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
**Phyllis Frelich, actress (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
* April 16 – Basil A. Paterson, lawyer and politician (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* April 18 – Deon Jackson (singer), Deon Jackson, singer and songwriter (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
* April 20
**Torrey C. Brown, American physician and politician (b. 1937)
**Rubin Carter, boxer, died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* April 24 – Ray Musto, politician (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* April 26
**William Ash (writer), William Ash, pilot and author (b. 1917)
**W. E. "Pete" Snelson, soldier, journalist, and politician (b. 1923)
May
* May 1
** Spike Maynard, American lawyer and judge (b. 1942)
** Howard Smith (director), Howard Smith, American journalist, director, and producer (b. 1936)
* May 2 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* May 3
** Gary Becker, Nobel economist (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Bobby Gregg, drummer and record producer (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
* May 5 – Butler Derrick, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
* May 6 – Jimmy Ellis (boxer), Jimmy Ellis, boxer (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
* May 8
**Leo Marentette, baseball player (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
**R. Douglas Stuart Jr., businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Norway (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
**Nancy Malone, actress, director, and producer (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
**Joseph P. Teasdale, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (b. 1936)
* May 10
**Gene Chyzowych, Ukrainian-American soccer player and coach (b. 1935)
**Patrick Lucey, soldier and politician, 38th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1918)
* May 11
**Thelma Eisen, baseball player and manager (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
**Ed Gagliardi, bass guitarist (b. 1952 in the United States, 1952)
**Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and author (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
* May 15 – Robert J. Flynn, American soldier, pilot, and navigator (b. 1937)
* May 17
**Miss Beazley (dog), Miss Beazley, dog belonging to George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...
(b. 2004 in the United States, 2004)
**Gerald Edelman, Nobel biologist (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
**Clarence Ellis (computer scientist), Clarence Ellis, computer scientist and academic (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
**Bob Odom, politician (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* May 18 – Gordon Willis, cinematographer (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
* May 23 – Michael Gottlieb (director), Michael Gottlieb, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
* May 28
** Maya Angelou, poet and author (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Malcolm Glazer, businessman and American football team owner (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* May 31 – Martha Hyer, actress and wife of Hal B. Wallis (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
June
* June 1
**Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
**Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist (b. 1921)
* June 2 – Alexander Shulgin, pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* June 6 – Karen DeCrow, lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* June 7
**E. W. Foy, basketball player and coach (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
**Rafael A. Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast and academic (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
**James McNair, comedian (b. 1952 in the United States, 1952)
* June 8
**Jean Geissinger, baseball player (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
**Billy McCool, American baseball player (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
* June 11 – Ruby Dee, actress, activist, poet, and playwright and wife of Ossie Davis (b. 1922)
* June 12 – Jimmy Scott, jazz vocalist (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* June 15
** Casey Kasem, American radio host and actor (b. 1932)
** Daniel Keyes, author (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* June 16 – Tony Gwynn, baseball player (b. 1960)
* June 18
** Stephanie Kwolek, chemist (b. 1923)
** Horace Silver, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1928)
* June 19
** Alan Moller, meteorologist and photographer (b. 1950)
** Bill Renna, baseball player and coach (b. 1924)
* June 21 – Jimmy C. Newman, American country singer (b. 1927)
* June 22
** Teenie Hodges, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1945)
** Chuck Tatum, US Marine and race car driver (b. 1926)
* June 23
** Nancy Garden, American writer and LGBT activist (b. 1938)
** Paula Kent Meehan, American hair products executive, newspaper owner and philanthropist, co-founder of Redken (b. 1931)
** Charles R. Moore (minister), Charles R. Moore, American Methodist minister (b. 1934)
** Steve Viksten, 53, American television writer and voice actor (b. 1960)
* June 24 – Eli Wallach, American actor (b. 1915)
* June 25 – Paul Patterson (neuroscientist), Paul Patterson, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1943)
* June 26
** Howard Baker, American politician and diplomat (b. 1925)
** Rollin King, American businessman (b. 1931)
** Bob Mischak, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
* June 27 – Bobby Womack, American singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
* June 28 – Meshach Taylor, American actor (b. 1947)
* June 29 – Paul Horn (musician), Paul Horn, jazz and New Age musician (b. 1930)
* June 30
** Bob Hastings, American actor (b. 1925)
** Paul Mazursky, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
July
* July 2 – Louis Zamperini, American war veteran and Christian evangelist (b. 1917)
* July 4
** Earl Robinson (baseball), Earl Robinson, baseball player (b. 1936)
** Richard Mellon Scaife, businessman (b. 1932)
* July 5 – Rosemary Murphy, German-born American actress (b. 1925 in Germany, 1925)
* July 7 – Dick Jones (actor), Dick Jones, actor (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* July 9 – Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* July 11
** Charlie Haden, jazz double bassist (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
** Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (b. 1949)
** John Seigenthaler, American journalist (b. 1927)
* July 13
** Thomas Berger (novelist), Thomas Berger, novelist (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Lorin Maazel, French-American conductor and violinist (b. 1930)
* July 14 – Alice Coachman, American athlete (b. 1923)
* July 16 – Johnny Winter, American singer and guitarist (b. 1944)
* July 17
** Henry Hartsfield, American colonel and astronaut (b. 1933)
** Elaine Stritch, actress and singer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* July 18 – Augie and Margo Rodriguez, Augie Rodriguez, American dancer (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* July 19
** David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist (b. 1917)
** Skye McCole Bartusiak, actress (b. 1992 in the United States, 1992)
** James Garner, actor (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* July 22 – Robert Newhouse, American football player (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
* July 28
** Margot Adler, journalist and author (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
** Torrin Lawrence, sprinter (b. 1989 in the United States, 1989)
** James Shigeta, actor (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
** Theodore Van Kirk, soldier, pilot, and navigator (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* July 30 – Dick Smith (make-up artist), Dick Smith, make-up artist (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
August
* August 1 – Michael Johns (singer), Michael Johns, contestant on ''American Idol (season 7), American Idol'' (b. 1978)
* August 2 – Pete Van Wieren, sports announcer (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
* August 4 – James Brady, 15th White House Press Secretary and gun control advocate (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
* August 5
** Marilyn Burns, actress (b. 1949 in the United States, 1949)
** Harold J. Greene, American military officer (b. 1959)
* August 6 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist (b. 1927)
* August 7 – Henry Stone, record company executive and producer (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* August 9 – Ed Nelson, American actor (b. 1928)
* August 11 – Robin Williams, actor and comedian (b. 1951 in the United States, 1951)
* August 12 – Lauren Bacall, actress (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* August 15
** James Freeman Gilbert, geophysicist and academic (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Jerry Lumpe, baseball player and coach (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* August 16
** Mike Matarazzo, bodybuilder and boxer (b. 1965 in the United States, 1965)
** Fernand St. Germain, lawyer and politician (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* August 18 – Don Pardo, radio and television announcer (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* August 19 – Brian G. Hutton, actor and director (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* August 20 – Edmund Szoka, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* August 21 – Robert Hansen, serial killer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* August 23 – Dan Magill, swimmer, tennis player, and coach (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* August 27 – Joal Stanfield, tennis coach and educator (b. 1979 in the United States, 1979)
* August 30 – Andrew V. McLaglen, British-born American film and television director (b. 1920 in the United Kingdom, 1920)
September
* September 1
** David Anderle, American record producer (b. 1937)
** Bernard Baran, American teacher's aide (b. 1965)
** Frank Calloway, American artist and longevity claimant (b. 1915)
** Mary T. Clark, American academic and civil rights advocate (b. 1913)
** Dillard Crocker, American basketball player (b. 1925)
** Donnie Humphrey, American football player (b. 1961)
** Jimi Jamison, American musician, singer, and songwriter (b. 1951)
** Jim Jennings (basketball), Jim Jennings, American basketball player (b. 1941)
** Roger McKee, American baseball player (b. 1926)
** Joseph Shivers, American textile chemist (b. 1920)
* September 4 – Joan Rivers, American comedian and television producer (b. 1933)
* September 8
** S. Truett Cathy, restaurateur (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
** Gerald Wilson, jazz trumpeter and composer (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* September 9 – Denny Miller, actor (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
* September 10 – Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
* September 11 – Bob Crewe, singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* September 12 – Joe Sample, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* September 13 – Frank Torre, American baseball player and brother of Joe Torre (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
* September 15 – Jackie Cain, jazz vocalist (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* September 17 – George Hamilton IV, American country singer (b. 1937)
* September 20
** Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
** Eric the Midget, radio personality (b. 1975 in the United States, 1975)
* September 30 – Martin Lewis Perl, American Nobel physicist (b. 1927)
October
* October 3 – Benedict Groeschel, American Catholic priest (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* October 5
** John Best (soccer), John Best, British-born American soccer player (b. 1940 in the United Kingdom, 1940)
** Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, choreographer, singer, director and painter (b. 1930)
** Misty Upham, Native American actress (b. 1982 in the United States, 1982)
* October 6 – Marian Seldes, actress and wife of Garson Kanin (b. 1928 in the United States, 1929)
* October 7 – Cigar (horse), Cigar, racehorse (b. 1990 in the United States, 1990)
* October 9 – Jan Hooks, American comedian and actress (b. 1957)
* October 10 – Donald Rawson, American historian (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* October 12
**Louise Daniel Hutchinson, historian and academic (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
**Tommy Lewis (American football), Tommy Lewis, American football player and coach (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
* October 14 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959 in the United States, 1959)
* October 15 – Robert Tiernan, American politician (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* October 18 – Rebel Steiner, American football player (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* October 19 – Stephen Paulus, American composer (b. 1949 in the United States, 1949)
* October 20 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (b. 1932)
* October 21 – Benjamin Bradlee, newspaper editor and husband of Sally Quinn (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* October 23
** Jeanne Black, American singer (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
** Terry Keenan, American financial news anchor and journalist (b. 1961 in the United States, 1961)
* October 24
** James F. Hastings, American politician (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Marcia Strassman, American actress (b. 1948 in the United States, 1948)
* October 26 – Jeff Robinson (starting pitcher), Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1961 in the United States, 1961)
* October 28 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* October 30 – Thomas Menino, politician, 53rd Mayor of Boston (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
* October 31 – David Manker Abshire, American diplomat (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
November
* November 1 – Wayne Static, guitarist and vocalist (b. 1965 in the United States, 1965)
* November 3 – Gordon Tullock, economist and academic (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* November 11 – Carol Ann Susi, American actress (b. 1952)
* November 12
** John Briscoe (water engineer), John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (b. 1948 in South Africa, 1948)
** Marge Roukema, educator and politician (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* November 13 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* November 14
** Diem Brown, American journalist and activist (b. 1982)
** Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1933)
** Eugene Dynkin, Russian-born American mathematician (b. 1924 in Russia, 1924)
** Glen A. Larson, television producer and writer (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* November 16
**Charles Champlin, historian, author, and critic (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
**Juan Joseph, American football player and coach (b. 1987 in the United States, 1987)
**Carl Sanders, soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* November 17 – Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (b. 1936)
* November 19 – Mike Nichols, German-born American director and producer and husband of Diane Sawyer (b. 1931 in Germany, 1931)
* November 23 – Marion Barry, American politician (b. 1936)
* November 25 – Irvin J. Borowsky, publisher and philanthropist (b. 1924)
December
* December 2 – Don Laws, figure skater and coach (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929) * December 6 – Ralph H. Baer, German-born American video game designer (b. 1922 in Germany, 1922) * December 10 **Robert B. Oakley, diplomat, 19th United States Ambassador to Pakistan (b. 1931 in Germany, 1931) **Judy Baar Topinka, journalist and politician (b. 1944 in Germany, 1944) * December 11 – Michel du Cille, Jamaican-born American photographer and journalist (b. 1956) * December 14 – Fred Thurston, American football player (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933) * December 15 – Booth Colman, actor (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923) * December 16 – Ernie Terrell, boxer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939) * December 17 – Dieter Grau, German-born American rocket scientist (b. 1913 in Germany, 1913) * December 19 – Arthur Gardner (producer), Arthur Gardner, television and film producer and actor (b. 1910 in the United States, 1910) * December 20 **Bob Lanier (politician), Bob Lanier, lawyer, banker, and politician, 58th List of mayors of Houston, Mayor of Houston (b. 1925) **William Lowell Putnam III, mountaineer and businessman (b. 1924) * December 21 – Frank Truitt, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925) * December 22 ** Christine Cavanaugh, actress (b. 1963 in the United States, 1963) ** Joe Cocker, British singer and musician, died in Crawford, Colorado (b. 1944 in the United Kingdom, 1944) ** Joseph Sargent, film director (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925) * December 30 – Luise Rainer, German-born American actress and wife of Clifford Odets, died in London, England (b. 1910 in Germany, 1910) * December 31 – Edward Herrmann, actor (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)See also
* 2014 in American music * 2014 in American soccer * 2014 in American television * List of American films of 2014 * History of the United States * Outline of United States history * Timeline of United States history * Timeline of United States history (2010–present) * United States at the 2014 Winter OlympicsReferences
External links
* {{Year in North America, 2014 2014 in the United States, 2010s in the United States 2014 by country, United States 2014 in North America, United States Years of the 21st century in the United States