China successfully landed its moon rover.
British physicist Stephen Hawking won the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most profitable academic prize in the world.
NASA's MAVEN space probe was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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.'
The Westgate Mall is attacked in Nairobi, Kenya.
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.
Santiago de Compostela derailment.
Government of Detroit declares bankruptcy.
Seven people were killed when a French passenger train derailed in Brétigny-Sur-Orge.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash lands in San Francisco International Airport.
Coup in Egypt.
Edward Snowden was charged with spying and stealing 'government property.'
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.
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.
British boy band JLS, known from the talent show X-Factor, announced they had split up.
A garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed.
Paleontologists unearthed dinosaur eggs with embryonic bones inside in China.
The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher died at 87 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.
Nineteen tourists were killed in a hot air balloon crash in Luxor, Egypt.
The first electric car charging network debuted in Estonia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
After countless failures, North Korea launched its first satellite.
