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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 7, 2014, covering May 13, 2014.
Soundtrack
Future
Iggy Azalea
Pharrell Williams
August Alsina
Neon Trees
Luke Bryan
Various Artists
Lorde
Bethel Music
2014David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (born 1926)[†]
David Malet Armstrong, often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a functionalist theory of the mind, an externalist epistemology, and a necessitarian conception of the laws of nature.
2014Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish director and producer (born 1977)[†]
Malik Bendjelloul was a Swedish documentary filmmaker, journalist and actor. He directed the 2012 documentary Searching for Sugar Man, which won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.
2014J. F. Coleman, American soldier and pilot (born 1918)[†]
James Francis Coleman, nicknamed "Skeets", was an American military fighter and test pilot.
2014Ron Stevens, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1949)[†]
Ronald Gordon "Ron" Stevens was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Conservative until his resignation on May 15, 2009. He was subsequently appointed a Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta on May 20, 2009, by the government of Canada.
2014Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author (born 1948)[†]
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, born as Diana Moore, subsequently known as Morning Glory Ferns, Morning Glory Zell and briefly Morning G'Zell, was an American community leader, writer, and lecturer in Neopaganism, as well as a priestess of the Church of All Worlds. An advocate of polyamory, she is credited with coining the word. With her husband Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, she designed deity images.
2014An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners.[†]
On 13 May 2014, blasting at Eynez coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May. In total, 301 people were killed, making it the worst mine disaster in Turkey's history. The mine, operated by coal producer Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş., suffered a fire, the causes of which were later found to be complex. The fire occurred at the mine's shift change, when 787 workers were underground. At the time, the disaster was thought to be mainly an explosion rather than fire. After the last bodies were pulled from the mine on 17 May 2014, four days after the fire, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yıldız confirmed the number of dead was 301. Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) announced the names of the 301 workers who died in the mine disaster and the 486 miners who survived.
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