On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 à 1920 PNG · created on your device
Mr. Bradlee, a quintessential newspaper editor, supervised The Washington Postâs exposure of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.
Lawmakers in several states have voted to increase the fees or the interest rates that lenders can charge on personal loans used by millions of poor or financially struggling borrowers.
Even as Tunisians have approved a new constitution and the country has one of the Arab worldâs most educated populations, militants are recruiting more openly there than in any other country.
With every passing week or month, it seems, some American government agency has had a misstep or scandal that has led to a deeply eroded public confidence.
Conceived at the World Wildlife Fund, the initiative uses bulk purchasing power to allow for discounts on home systems.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 22, 2014, covering October 22, 2014.
Jason Aldean
Hozier
Barbra Streisand
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Weezer
2014George Francis, English footballer and soldier (born 1934)[â ]
George Edward Francis was an English professional footballer, best remembered for his two spells as a centre forward in the Football League with Brentford. He is a member of the Brentford Hall of Fame and is synonymous with Jim Towers â their close friendship and strike partnership saw the pair dubbed 'The Terrible Twins'.
2014John-Roger Hinkins, American religious leader and author (born 1934)[â ]
John-Roger Hinkins was an American author, public speaker, and founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), as well as several other New Age, spiritual, and self-help organizations.
2014Ashok Kumar, Indian director and cinematographer (born 1941)[â ]
Ashok Kumar Aggarwal was an Indian cinematographer who worked mainly in the South Indian film industry. In a career that spanned nearly four decades, he worked in over 125 feature films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi languages. Aggarwal was a member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC).
2014John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (born 1922)[â ]
John Raymond Postgate, FRS was an English microbiologist and writer, latterly Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Sussex. Postgate's research in microbiology investigated nitrogen fixation, microbial survival, and sulphate-reducing bacteria. He worked for the Agricultural Research Council's Unit of Nitrogen Fixation from 1963 until he retired, by then its director, in 1987. In 2011, he was described as a "father figure of British microbiology".
2014Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.[â ]
The 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill occurred on 22 October 2014, at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a Canadian soldier and reservist on ceremonial sentry duty, was fatally shot at the National War Memorial, followed by an attack on the nearby Centre Block parliament building, where members of the Parliament of Canada were attending caucuses. The attack ended with a shootout when the perpetrator, 32-year old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, ran inside the parliament buildings and was shot 31 times by six RCMP officers and died on scene. Following the shootings, the downtown core of Ottawa was placed on lockdown and majority of schools in Ottawa were on lockdown while police searched for any potential additional threats.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]