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Mike Moustakas hit a home run in the fourth inning and had a perfect sacrifice bunt in the ninth as the Royals took a commanding 2-0 lead in the American League Championship Series.
Officials were trying to figure out how a nurse who had treated Thomas Eric Duncan became infected despite wearing protective gear, as news of the new infection stoked the fears of health care workers across the country.
A burst of moviegoing, led by “Gone Girl,” follows a spring-summer season that saw domestic sales drop 15 percent from a year ago.
The BomPlenazo Artists Collective performed Afro-Puerto Rican roots music with plenty of dancing at Hostos Community College.
Fall for Dance’s second program had thrilling elements but was lacking depth.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 8, 2014, covering October 12, 2014.
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Kenny Chesney
Barbra Streisand
Alt-J
Pentatonix
2014Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (born 1933)[†]
Ali Al'amin Mazrui, was a Kenyan-born American academic, professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies, and North-South relations. He was born in Mombasa, Kenya. His positions included Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and Director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He produced the 1980s television documentary series The Africans: A Triple Heritage.
2014Graham Miles, English snooker player (born 1941)[†]
Graham Miles was an English snooker player.
2014Roberto Telch, Argentinian footballer and coach (born 1943)[†]
Roberto "Oveja" Telch was an Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder. He was born in San Vicente, Córdoba, and won four league championships with San Lorenzo in Argentina and represented the Argentina national football team at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He died in Buenos Aires of a heart attack.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]