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Jacob deGrom and the Giantsâ Jake Peavy carried no-hit bids through six innings before the Mets scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh to earn the win.
As Israel began to redeploy significant numbers of troops away from populated areas of Gaza on Sunday, an Israeli Air Force missile struck near the school entrance.
Unlocking the Truth, a trio of middle-schoolers who make blunt rock music, defies expectations as it gets closer to making its metal dreams come true.
David Eimer aims to give Chinaâs ethnic minorities a voice in his timely new book.
A House Natural Resources Committee report criticized the commission behind a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower over spending and its choice of a designer.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 2014, covering August 3, 2014.
Weird Al Yankovic
Jason Mraz
Rise Against
Kidz Bop Kids
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2014Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (born 1928)[â ]
Miangul Aurangzeb was the last Wali Ahad of the former Swat State, the son of the last Wali of Swat, Miangul Jahan Zeb, and the son-in-law of the former president of Pakistan, Muhammad Ayub Khan. He served in the National Assembly of Pakistan and as governor of Balochistan and subsequently as governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
2014Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (born 1923)[â ]
Edward Bede Clancy AC was an Australian Catholic bishop and cardinal. He was the seventh Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001. He was made Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1988.
2014Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author (born 1916)[â ]
Dorothy Margaret Salisbury Davis was an American crime fiction writer.
2014Kenny Drew, Jr., American pianist and composer (born 1958)[â ]
Kenny Drew Jr. was an American jazz pianist. His music is known for its hard-swinging bluesy sound and large, two-handed rooty chords contrasting with fast runs. The son of jazz pianist Kenny Drew, he did not credit his father as an influence.
2014Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic (born 1944)[â ]
Lydia N. Yu-Jose was a Filipino professor of political science and Japanese Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. A graduate of Sophia University, she was best known for her research into the history of JapanâPhilippines relations, as well as aiding in the development of Japanese studies in the Philippines as a separate academic discipline.
2014A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.[â ]
The 2014 Ludian earthquake struck Ludian County, Yunnan, China, with a moment magnitude of 6.1 on 3 August. The earthquake killed at least 615 people, injuring at least 2,400 others. At least 114 people remained missing. Over 12,000 houses collapsed and 30,000 were damaged. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake occurred 29Â km (18Â mi) west-southwest of Zhaotong city at 16:30 local time (08:30Â UTC).
2014The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.[â ]
The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking people who are indigenous to Kurdistan who practice Yazidism, a monotheistic Iranian ethnoreligion derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]