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2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche

The 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche was a serac collapse on April 18, 2014, that killed 16 Sherpa workers in the Khumbu Icefall, the deadliest accident in Everest's history.

2014 NBA draft

2014 NBA draft, held June 26, 2014 in New York; 60 picks, 54 played in NBA. Cleveland won the lottery at 1.70% and took Andrew Wiggins No. 1; Nikola Jokic, picked 41st, became the class's best player.

2014 NBA Finals

2014 NBA Finals: San Antonio Spurs beat the Miami Heat 4-1 in a rematch of 2013, winning their fifth title; Kawhi Leonard won Finals MVP with 17.8 ppg.

2014 NBA playoffs

2014 NBA playoffs: the San Antonio Spurs (62-20) beat the Miami Heat 4-1 in a Finals rematch for their fifth title; Kawhi Leonard was Finals MVP, and the series' plus-70 margin set a Finals record.

2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season

2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season: first College Football Playoff year; Ohio State beat Oregon 42-20 for the title, Mariota won the Heisman, Baylor and TCU were snubbed.

2014 New England Patriots season

2014 New England Patriots season: NFL team's 55th season under Bill Belichick; went 12-4, won AFC East, beat Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in Super Bowl XLIX on Malcolm Butler's interception for the franchise's fourth title.

2014 New Zealand general election

The 2014 New Zealand general election, held 20 September 2014, returned John Key's National Party for a third term with 47.04% of the party vote and 60 of 121 seats, forming a minority government with the Māori Party, United Future, and ACT.

2014 NFL Draft

2014 NFL Draft, held May 8-10, 2014 at Radio City Music Hall; 256 picks. Jadeveon Clowney went first overall to Houston; Khalil Mack, Sammy Watkins, Blake Bortles, and Johnny Manziel headlined the class.

2014 NFL season

2014 NFL season: 95th NFL season ending with Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona, won by the New England Patriots. Aaron Rodgers was MVP; the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson cases dominated off-field coverage.

2014 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

2014 Ohio State Buckeyes football team: 14-1 Urban Meyer squad that won the first College Football Playoff title, beating Alabama 42-35 and Oregon 42-20 after a 59-0 Big Ten championship game despite losing three quarterbacks to injury.

2014 Oso landslide

The 2014 Oso landslide, also known as the Oso mudslide or Steelhead landslide, was a debris avalanche near Oso, Washington, that killed 43 people and destroyed the Steelhead Haven neighborhood.

2014 Overland Park shootings

The 2014 Overland Park shootings: Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., also booked as Frazier Glenn Cross, killed three people at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom on April 13, 2014; convicted 2015, sentenced to death.

2014 Peshawar school massacre

2014 Peshawar school massacre, also called the Army Public School (APS) attack: TTP gunmen killed 147 people including 132 children at a military-run school in Peshawar on December 16, 2014, in retaliation for Operation Zarb-e-Azb, prompting Pakistan's National Action Plan, military courts, and restored executions.

2014 Pilger tornado family

The 2014 Pilger tornado family was a sequence of five tornadoes from one supercell in northeast Nebraska on June 16, 2014, including twin EF4 tornadoes that struck Pilger simultaneously.

2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine

The 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: post-Euromaidan demonstrations and armed separatist seizures in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Odesa and Slovyansk, leading to the Donbas war.

2014 Russian annexation of Crimea

Russia's February–March 2014 seizure and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula by unbadged troops and a disputed 96.77% referendum; recognized only by states such as North Korea and Sudan, condemned by UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262.

2014 Ryder Cup

2014 Ryder Cup, the 40th Europe-USA golf matches at Gleneagles, Scotland, September 26–28: Paul McGinley's Europe beat Tom Watson's USA 16½–11½ for a third straight win, built on a 7-1 foursomes run; Jamie Donaldson clinched.

2014 San Francisco Giants season

2014 San Francisco Giants season: the MLB campaign in which the 88-74 Giants won the Wild Card Game, NLDS, NLCS, and a seven-game World Series over Kansas City, their third title in five years, behind Madison Bumgarner's 0.43 ERA Series.

2014 Scottish independence referendum

The 2014 Scottish independence referendum, held 18 September 2014 on "Should Scotland be an independent country?", was defeated 55.25% No to 44.65% Yes on 84.6% turnout, under the Edinburgh Agreement and Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013.

2014 Seattle Seahawks season

2014 Seattle Seahawks season: defending Super Bowl champions, 12-4, NFC West and No. 1 seed, beat Packers in OT NFC title game, lost Super Bowl XLIX 28-24 to New England on a goal-line interception.

2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa

October 22, 2014 Ottawa attack: Michael Zehaf-Bibeau killed Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial, entered Centre Block with a .30-30 hunting rifle, and was shot dead inside; prompted major Parliament Hill security reform.

2014 Stanley Cup Finals

The 2014 Stanley Cup Finals: Los Angeles Kings beat the New York Rangers 4-1, June 4-13, 2014, winning the Cup on Alec Martinez's double-overtime goal in Game 5.

2014 Stanley Cup playoffs

The 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs, the NHL's first under its division-based fixed-bracket format, ended with the Los Angeles Kings beating the New York Rangers 4-1; the Kings set records with 26 games, a 3-0 comeback, and 7-0 in elimination games.

2014 Summer Youth Olympics

2014 Summer Youth Olympics (Nanjing 2014, 南京青奥会): second Summer Youth Olympic Games, Nanjing China, 16–28 August 2014; 28 sports, 222 events, about 3,600 athletes; China led the medal table with 38 golds.

2014 Synagogue Church building collapse

The 2014 Synagogue Church building collapse was the 12 September 2014 failure of a guest house at T.B. Joshua's church in Lagos, Nigeria, killing at least 115 people.

2014 Syrian presidential election

The 2014 Syrian presidential election, held 3 June 2014 during the civil war, re-elected Bashar al-Assad with 88.7% and 73.42% turnout, in government-held areas only, without UN or independent monitors, and was condemned by the UN, US, and opposition.

2014 Tanzanian naturalisation of Burundian refugees

The 2014 Tanzanian naturalisation of Burundian refugees granted Tanzanian citizenship to 162,156 former refugees who had fled Burundi in 1972, the largest naturalisation group UNHCR had seen.

2014 Texas Attorney General election

The 2014 Texas Attorney General election, in which Republican state senator Ken Paxton of McKinney beat Dan Branch in the runoff and Democrat Sam Houston in the general election, 58.80% to 38.02%, taking office January 5, 2015.

2014 Thai coup d'état

The 2014 Thai coup d'état: Royal Thai Army chief Prayut Chan-o-cha seized power on May 22, 2014, establishing the NCPO junta, ousting Yingluck Shinawatra's caretaker government two days after martial law was declared nationwide.

2014 Tour de France

2014 Tour de France, 101st edition (5–27 July, Leeds to Paris, 3,660.5 km, 21 stages), won by Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) ahead of Péraud and Pinot, with a 7'10" margin, four stage wins, and Froome and Contador abandoning.