Page 2: Historical Events In 2014

Feb 17   The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon premieres on NBC.   

Feb 18   2014 Ukrainian Revolution begins   

Feb 19   2014 BRIT Awards: David Bowie, Ellie Goulding, and Arctic Monkeys win.   

Feb 21   11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia.   

Feb 22   Matteo Renzi is recorded as becoming Prime Minister of Italy.   

Feb 23   A pro-Euromaidan rally is held in Simferopol, Ukraine, while in Kerch, protesters attempt to replace the Ukrainian flag from city hall with a Russian flag.   

Feb 24   Pope Francis creates a second Secretariat with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time   

Feb 25   50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria.   

Feb 27   Republic of Crimea announces a referendum and ousts its regional government.   

Mar 01   34th Golden Raspberry Awards: Movie 43 claims   

Mar 02   86th Academy Awards: "12 Years a Slave," Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett win.   

Mar 04   US President Obama announces 2015 budget   

Mar 05   A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15   

Mar 06   Crimea's parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea a part of Russia.   

Mar 08   Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history.   

Mar 10   German Chancellor Merkel warns Russia's Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution.   

Mar 11   Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan.   

Mar 12   8 people are killed, 70 are injured, and 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion in East Harlem, New York   

Mar 13   After protests earlier this month, the Israeli parliament votes 65 to 1 for legislation that ends exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students   

Mar 16   Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design.   

Mar 17   The Republic of Crimea is declared.   

Mar 18   Phil Jackson signs a five-year contract to be president of the New York Knicks.   

Mar 19   Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol   

Mar 21   Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemenation   

Mar 22   251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda.   

Mar 24   Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea   

Mar 26   Taavi Rõivas is recorded as becoming Prime Minister of Estonia   

Mar 27   UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea.   

Mar 28   Russia increases the price of gas to the Ukraine by 80%   

Apr 01   NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia   

Apr 03   Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta.   

Apr 04   In this year, President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to battles over water and food within the next five to ten years   

Apr 06   Viktor Orbán's Fidesz is re-elected Prime Minister of Hungary   

Apr 08   In this year, Mike Babcock claims his 414th career game as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, becoming the winningest coach in Red Wings history (passing Jack Adams)   

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Feb 19   Armen alchian: American economist (b. 1914)   

Feb 19   Robert coleman richardson: American nobel physicist (b. 1937)   

Mar 05   Hugo ch�vez: President of venezuela (b. 1954)   

Mar 05   Paul bearer: American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)   

Mar 07   Peter banks: British guitarist (b. 1947)   

Mar 07   Damiano damiani: Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)   

Mar 23   Boris berezovsky: Russian businessman (b. 1946)   

Mar 23   Joe weider: Canadian-born american bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1920)