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The testimony by a deputy in the Defense Ministry, if accurate, illustrates how arms makers from Germany, France, Sweden and Russia passed out payoffs to sell Greece weaponry that it could ill afford.
Fifty years later, audience members who were present at the birth of Beatlemania remember the electric atmosphere and the screaming.
Speaker John A. Boehner was under pressure from conservative groups on immigration, after he had defeated them on other issues.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is now seeking to revive the populist zeal of his mayoral bid for a new campaign: persuading state lawmakers to back a tax increase to pay for prekindergarten.
With many of the orchestra’s members not present, a veteran musical director was enlisted for the orchestra’s return performance.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 5, 2014, covering February 8, 2014.
Soundtrack
Various Artists
A Great Big World
Beyonce
Lorde
2014Els Borst, Dutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1932)[†]
Else "Els" Borst-Eilers was a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and physician. She was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 21 December 2012.
2014Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (born 1988)[†]
Maicon Pereira de Oliveira commonly known as Maicon, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward in the Ukrainian Premier League for most of his professional career.
2014Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (born 1938)[†]
Nancy Holt was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art, concrete poetry, and land art. Throughout her career, Holt also produced works in other media, including film and photography. Since 2018, her legacy has been cared for by Holt/Smithson Foundation.
2014A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia, kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.[†]
The 2014 Medina hotel fire was a hotel fire that occurred in a hotel in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The fire killed at least 15 people and another 130 were injured.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]