Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
A bombing took place on a trolleybus in Russia.
The San Miguel volcano (also known as Volcán Chaparrastique) erupted in El Salvador.
The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, was released.
China successfully landed its moon rover.
Beyoncé's fifth studio album, 'Beyoncé,' was released.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was released in theaters in the US.
British physicist Stephen Hawking won the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most profitable academic prize in the world.
Metallica became the first band to have performed on all seven continents when they held a concert in Antarctica.
Walt Disney's 'Frozen' was released in American movie theaters.
NASA's MAVEN space probe was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Sony released their PlayStation 4 in North America and sold one million units within 24 hours.
Same-sex marriage was legalized in Hawaii.
Category five Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines and claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people with gusts up to 145 miles per hour.
The Marvel superhero movie 'Thor: The Dark World' premiered in London, UK.
New Zealand singer Lorde released her debut album 'Pure Heroine.'
Grand Theft Auto V smashed records after topping $1 billion in sales.
Microsoft purchased Nokia for $7.2 billion.
Period drama movie '12 Years a Slave' premiered and went on to win Best Picture at the Telluride Film Festival in 2014.
Kristofer Helgen announced the discovery of the olinguito, a mammal of the raccoon family Procyonidae.
The 14th IAAF World Championships opened in Moscow, Russia.
The Paluweh volcano in Indonesia erupted and claimed six lives.
A male cheerleader shot and killed four people, and injured four more at two locations in Dallas, Texas.
A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in Quetta, Pakistan, during the funeral of a police officer.
The world's first lab-grown bovine stem cell burger was consumed in London.
Former US Army Private Chelsea Manning was convicted on 17 espionage charges.
Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
Selena Gomez's debut studio album 'Stars Dance' was released.
Seven people were killed when a French passenger train derailed in Brétigny-Sur-Orge.
American comedy-drama 'Orange Is the New Black' was released on Netflix.
The International Astronomical Union named Pluto's fourth and fifth moons Kerberos and Styx.
Edward Snowden was charged with spying and stealing 'government property.'
The Last of Us was released exclusively for the PlayStation 3.
Edward Snowden publicly declared that he was the source of the leaked NSA documents.
Microsoft announced the release of the Xbox One.
The Church of Scotland voted in favor of allowing openly gay men and women to be ministers.
Sweden defeated Switzerland in the 2013 World Ice Hockey Championship.
Dan Brown released his fourth novel in the Da Vinci Code series, Inferno, which became an instant success.
Michael Jordan married his second wife, Yvette Prieto, at Palm Beach, Florida, US.
British boy band JLS, known from the talent show X-Factor, announced they had split up.
A garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed.
Two Earth-like planets in one solar system were discovered.
Paleontologists unearthed dinosaur eggs with embryonic bones inside in China.
The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher died at 87 years old.
Ariana Grande released her first single, 'The Way.'
Europe's Planck spacecraft found evidence that our universe is 13.8 billion years old.
The world's largest postage stamp was released.
Water-bearing minerals were discovered on Mars by NASA's Curiosity Rover.
Willcom announced the world's smallest and lightest phone.
A Duke University neuroscientist connected two rat brains together over the internet.
Nineteen tourists were killed in a hot air balloon crash in Luxor, Egypt.
