Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
Santiago de Compostela derailment.
Selena Gomez's debut studio album 'Stars Dance' was released.
Government of Detroit declares bankruptcy.
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.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash lands in San Francisco International Airport.
Coup in Egypt.
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.
The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begins.
The widest tornado ever recorded hits El Reno, Oklahoma.
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.
Pope Francis succeeds Pope Benedict XVI.
Willcom announced the world's smallest and lightest phone.
Pope Benedict XVI resigns.
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.
The first electric car charging network debuted in Estonia.
Lionel Messi scored his 300th goal for Barcelona's soccer team.
A meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which sent shockwaves that smashed windows and injured 1,500 people.
A category 3 blizzard wreaked havoc in the US and Canada.
The House of Commons voted in favor of same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom.
House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey, was released as a Netflix Original.
The French government made it so that Parisian women could legally wear pants.
South Korea's first launch vehicle successfully reached orbit for the first time.
Earth-like calcium-rich deposits were found on Mars by NASA's Curiosity Rover.
Seven-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, admitted doping during all wins on Oprah Winfrey.
Twenty One Pilots released their third studio album called 'Vessel.'
Vladimir Putin signed a law banning the US adoption of Russian children.
Eleven kindergarten children were killed after a minivan plunged into a roadside pond in Jiangxi, China.
Psy's music video for 'Gangnam Style' surpassed one billion views on YouTube, becoming the first video to do so in the website's history.
First female President of South Korea elected.
Gunmen killed six health workers in Pakistan.
NASA completed a successful mission to map the Moon's gravity field.
