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The World in 2014 the year of the ice bucket challenge

The Rosetta probe chased its comet for ten years and about 4 billion miles. In November it dropped a small lander onto the ice, the first landing on a comet. That flight was like going from Earth to the Sun and back more than 20 times.

Life back then

Frozen's Let It Go played everywhere, whether parents liked it or not. Flappy Bird, made by one programmer in Vietnam, got so addictive that he deleted it in February. The Serial podcast had millions hooked on a true story told week by week. And all summer, friends dared each other to dump ice water on their heads for the Ice Bucket Challenge, raising over 100 million dollars for ALS research.

The year in 8 events

• ✈️Mar 8 Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanishes with 239 people aboard. It has never been found.
• 🪖Mar 18 Russia annexes Crimea after seizing the peninsula from Ukraine.
• ⚽Jul 13 Germany beats Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup in Brazil. Five days earlier Germany had beaten the hosts 7-1.
• 🕯️Jul 17 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is shot down over eastern Ukraine. All 298 people aboard die.
• 😷Aug 8 The WHO declares the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a global health emergency.
• 🕯️Aug 9 A police officer shoots Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri. Protests over policing spread across the US.
• 🛰️Sep 24 India's orbiter reaches Mars. No other country had managed it on a first try.
• 🤝Dec 17 President Obama announces the US and Cuba will restore ties after more than 50 years.

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