What Happened in February 2014

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• Feb 1 14 people are killed after Mount Sinabung erupts in Indonesia

• Feb 1 Ray Guy (Oakland/LA Raiders) becomes second pure kicker, and first pure punter to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Feb 1 Syrian civil war death toll reaches 130,000, while 4 million are displaced
• Feb 2 Protests in Ukraine turn violent after parliament passes legislation that outlaws protest

• Feb 3 Teenage student shoots and kills a geography teacher and a police officer, and wounds 8 at School 263 on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia
• Feb 4 10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India
• Feb 4 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Scotland

• Feb 5 Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code

• Feb 6 64th Berlin International Film Festival: "Black Coal, Thin Ice" wins the Golden Bear

• Feb 6 The Taliban and Pakistani government begin peace negotiations
• Feb 7 German treasurer Helmut Linssen resigns amid a scandal involving offshore banking accounts in the Bahamas and Panama
• Feb 7 XXII Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi, Russia
• Feb 8 15 people are killed & 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia
• Feb 8 17 people are killed after a truck & bus collide in Mendoza, Argentina
• Feb 8 Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe claim gold and silver medals in the moguls freestyle skiing event at the Sochi Winter Olympics; first Canadian sisters to stand together on the podium
• Feb 8 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 5,000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Sven Kramer retains title ahead of teammates Jan Blokhuijsen and Jorrit Bergsma
• Feb 8 Ole Einar Bjørndalen equals the Winter Olympics medal record with 12
• Feb 8 Slopestyle snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Sage Kotsenburg is inaugural men's gold medallist
• Feb 9 Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old
• Feb 9 Olympic teams figure skating event debuts in Sochi with Russia taking the gold medal; pairs champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov win first of 2 gold at the Games
• Feb 9 Protest erupt in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina; the unemployment rate remains at 40% (57% for youth)
• Feb 9 Slopestyle snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Jamie Anderson is inaugural women's gold medallist
• Feb 9 Slovak biathlete Anastasiya Kuzmina retains her Olympic 7.5k sprint title (Vancouver 2010) at the Sochi Winter Games
• Feb 9 Switzerland votes to return immigration quotas

• Feb 10 Canadian short track speed skater Charles Hamelin wins his 3rd career Olympic gold medal in the 1,500m in Sochi; Vancouver (2010) 500m and 5,000m relay champion
• Feb 10 German alpine skier Maria Höfl-Riesch retains her Olympic combined title (Vancouver 2010) when she Nicole Hosp beats of Austria by 0.4s
• Feb 10 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 500m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Michel Mulder wins gold ahead of teammates Jan Smeekens and Ronald Mulder
• Feb 11 11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan
• Feb 11 77 people are killed after a military transport plane crashes in Algeria
• Feb 11 Peace talks resume in Geneva as leaders attempt to bring an end to the civil war in Syria
• Feb 11 Slopestyle freestyle skiing event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; Canadian Dara Howell is inaugural women's gold medallist

• Feb 12 German Nordic combined skier Eric Frenzel wins the 1st of 3 career Olympic gold medals in Individual normal hill/10 km event in Sochi; wins event again Pyeongchang and long hill 4 x 5k relay

• Feb 12 Switzerland’s Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze of Slovenia tie for gold in the women’s downhill event at 1:41.57s at the Sochi Winter Games; first-ever dead-heat in Olympic alpine skiing
• Feb 12 Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating
• Feb 13 French biathlete Martin Fourcade wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the individual competition; also claims the pursuit title

• Feb 13 Polish cross country skier Justyna Kowalczyk follows her Vancouver (2010) Olympic women's 30k classical title with a gold medal in the 10k classical in Sochi
• Feb 13 Slopestyle freestyle skiing event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Joss Christensen is inaugural men's gold medallist
• Feb 13 Women's luge singles champion Natalie Geisenberger and men's doubles winners Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt earn their 2nd Olympic gold medals in Sochi in team relay event; Germany sweeps 4 events

• Feb 14 Britain's Lizzy Yarnold wins her first of 2 consecutive Olympic women's skeleton gold medals in Sochi; also wins event in Pyeongchang (2018)
• Feb 14 For the first time in men's figure skating, all 3 Olympic singles medalists are of Asian descent; Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan) gold, Patrick Chan (Canada) and Denis Ten (Kazakhstan)
• Feb 14 Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in office
• Feb 14 Swiss cross country skier Dario Cologna wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the 15k classical; also wins 30k skiathlon
• Feb 15 Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the men's large hill event; also wins normal hill gold
• Feb 15 Tammam Salam is elected Prime Minister of Lebanon after a 10 month gridlock
• Feb 15 World champion Aleksandr Tretyakov of Russia wins the men's skeleton gold medal at his home Sochi Winter Olympics

• Feb 16 American Bode Miller (36) becomes the oldest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing history when he ties for bronze in the super-G in Sochi
• Feb 16 Léa Seydoux is nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award
• Feb 16 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the women's 1,500m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Jorien ter Mors wins gold ahead of teammates Ireen Wüst and Lotte van Beek

• Feb 17 American pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White win the first Olympic gold medal for the US in ice dance at the Sochi Winter Games
• Feb 17 Belarus takes the aerials double at the Sochi Winter Olympics when Anton Kushnir wins the men's event; Alla Tsuper claims the women's section
• Feb 17 Belarusian biathlete Darya Domracheva wins her 3rd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mass start; also wins individual and pursuit gold

• Feb 18 American snowboarder David Wise wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic halfpipe gold medals in Sochi; wins again in Pyeongchang (2018)
• Feb 18 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 1,000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Jorrit Bergsma wins gold ahead of teammates Sven Kramer and Bob de Jong
• Feb 18 Police clash with protesters in Bangkok, Thailand

• Feb 19 After winning the combined gold in Turin (2006), American alpine skier Ted Ligety has to wait 8 years for his next Olympic success, gold in the giant slalom in Sochi

• Feb 19 Canadian team Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyes win their second consecutive Olympic 2-woman bobsleigh gold medal at the Sochi Winter Games
• Feb 19 Czech speed skater Martina Sáblíková retains her Olympic 5,000m title (Vancouver 2010) in Sochi; also Vancouver 3,000m gold
• Feb 19 Death toll in Ukraine reaches 26 after Government crackdown on protesters
• Feb 19 Norwegian biathletes Ole Einar Bjørndalen (sprint gold) and Emil Hegle Svendsen (mass start gold), each win their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mixed relay

• Feb 20 Adelina Sotnikova convincingly wins the women's singles figure skating gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics for Russia's first title in the ladies event
• Feb 20 After winning the individual large hill 10k Nordic combined title Jørgen Graabak of Norway wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the team large hill / 4 x 5 km relay
• Feb 20 Canada beats Sweden, 6-3 in final to become first women's curling team to go through the Olympics undefeated as they win Sochi gold medal; first Manitoba based team to win Olympic gold
• Feb 20 France sweeps the medals in the men's ski cross at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Jean-Frédéric Chapuis takes the gold ahead of teammates Arnaud Bovolenta and Jonathan Midol
• Feb 20 Marie-Philip Poulin scores in overtime to lead Canada to a 3-2 win over the US and 4th consecutive Olympic women's ice hockey gold medal at the Sochi Winter Games
• Feb 21 10 words from the 15th C Voynich manuscript have been decoded
• Feb 21 11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia
• Feb 21 Canada take the curling double at the Sochi Winter Olympics beating Great Britain, 9-3 in the final; also win women's gold medal
• Feb 21 Park Seung-hi wins Olympic women's 1,000m short track speed skating gold medal in Sochi for her 2nd gold medal of the Games; 3,000m relay winner
• Feb 21 Police in Kiev open fire on protesters: 27 killed and around 570 injured

• Feb 21 Viktor An of Russia wins 6th career Olympic short track speed skating gold medal as part of the 5,000m relay team in Sochi; 2nd gold of the day (500m) and 3rd of Games (1,000m)

• Feb 22 After winning the men's parallel giant slalom at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian snowboarder Vic Wild wins his 2nd gold in the parallel slalom
• Feb 22 At age 34, Mario Matt of Austria becomes the oldest champion in Olympic alpine skiing history with the slalom gold medal at Sochi
• Feb 22 Dutch speed skaters Jorien ter Mors (1,500m champion) and Ireen Wüst (3,000m winner) each claim their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics as part of the women's pursuit team
• Feb 22 Matteo Renzi becomes Prime Minister of Italy
• Feb 22 Norway sweeps the medals in the women's 30k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Marit Bjørgen wins her 6th career gold ahead of teammates Therese Johaug and Kristin Størmer Steira

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• Feb 15 The O.C. actor Adam Brody and Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester marry

• Feb 1 Luis Aragonés, Spanish soccer forward (11 caps; Atlético Madrid) and manager (Spain 2004-08; Atlético Madrid, Barcelona), dies from leukemia at 75

• Feb 3 Joan Mondale (née Adams;), American artist, author, and wife of US vice-president Walter Mondale, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 83

• Feb 5 Richard Hayman, American orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 93
• Feb 6 Ralph Kiner, American Baseball HOF left fielder (NL HR leader 1946–52; 6×MLB All-Star; Pittsburgh Pirates) and sportscaster (NY Mets), dies at 91
• Feb 9 Graham Hills, English physical scientist and principal (Strathclyde University, England), dies at 87

• Feb 11 Alice Babs [Nilson], Swedish jazz singer (The Swe-Danes; Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts), and actress (Swing It, Teacher!), dies of Alzheimer's disease complications at 90
• Feb 12 Diarmuid Downs, British automotive engineer, dies at 91
• Feb 12 Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar, American comic actor and writer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 91
• Feb 13 Piero d'Inzeo, Italian equestrian rider (Olympic silver individual & team jumping 1956, 60; bronze 1956, 60, 64, 72), dies at 90
• Feb 13 Ralph Waite, American actor, director and political candidate (Cool Hand Luke; The Waltons), dies at 85
• Feb 16 Michael Shea, American sci-fi author (World Fantasy Award: Nifft the Lean, Growlimb), dies at 67
• Feb 16 Raymond Louis "Ray" Kennedy, American songwriter ("Sail On, Sailor"), session and touring singer, musician, and record producer, dies at 67
• Feb 17 Bob Casale, (aka Bob 2), American new wave rock musician (Devo - "Whip It!"), and record producer, dies from heart failure at 61
• Feb 18 Big Daddy V, [Nelson Frazier Jr.] American professional wrestler, dies of a heart attack at 43
• Feb 18 Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-born American singer, dies at 99
• Feb 19 Dale Gardner, American astronaut, dies from a brain aneurysm at 65
• Feb 19 Imre Olsvik, Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist, dies at 82

• Feb 20 Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist (briefly interim President of Uruguay), dies at 90
• Feb 22 Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist and poet, dies at 98
• Feb 24 Harold Ramis, American actor and director, dies from vasculitis at 69
• Feb 25 Paco de Lucía, Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer, dies of a heart attack at 66
• Feb 26 Frank Reed, American R&B singer (Chi-Lites, 1988-2014), dies at 59
• Feb 28 Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch essayist and mathematician, dies at 78
• Feb 28 Rostislav Belyakov, Russian chief designer of the MiG fighter jet, dies at 94