April 1, 2014, Release of Pirate Fairy
April 1, 2014, An 8.2 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Pacific Ocean near Chile causing landslides and killing at least five people. A tsunami warning is issued. (USGS)
April 1, 2014, 2014 Crimean crisis:NATO
suspends "all practical civilian and military cooperation" with Russia
as a result of the annexation of Crimea, and no sign that Russian troops
have withdrawn from the Ukrainian border. (CNN)
April 2, 2014, 2014 Fort Hood shooting: A shooting is reported at the Fort Hood Army Base near the US town of Killeen, Texas with reports of at least four deaths and 14 injuries. (Washington Post)
April 2, 2014, 2014 Iquique earthquake: The President of Chile Michelle Bachelet declares the northern part of Chile to be a disaster zone including the regions of Arica, Parinacota and Tarapaca. (ABC News Australia)
-A 7.8 aftershock follows in the same area causing more damage. (USGS)
April 2, 2014, The Supreme Court of the United States, in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission,
votes (5-4) to overturn limits on the amount of money that an
individual can donate to politicians' campaigns over a two-year cycle. (Washington Post)
April 3, 2014,
April 3, 2014,
April 3, 2014,
April 3, 2014,
April 4, 2014, Release of Captain America: Winter Soldier
April 4, 2014, Release of Under The Skin
April 4, 2014, Release of Captain America: Winter Soldier
April 4, 2014, Release of Under The Skin
April 4, 2014, The two largest cement manufacturers in the world, Lafarge and Holcim, announce plans for a merger. (Reuters)
April 5, 2014,
April 5, 2014, Series Premiere of Silicon Valley
April 29, 2014, Release of video game Child of Light
April 29, 2014, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announces that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is banned from the league for life after a recording of Sterling making racist comments surfaces. Sterling is also fined the maximum allowable US$2.5 million as the NBA examines options for a forced sale. (ABC News)
April 29, 2014,
April 29, 2014, Sinking of the MV Sewol: Surveillance video footage captures the captain of MV Sewol Lee Joon-seok escaping the vessel and leaving behind his passengers. (CNN)
-The President of South Korea Park Geun-hye apologises on national television for the government's poor handling of the incident. (BBC)
-The death toll rises to 205, with 97 passengers still unaccounted for. (CNN)
April 29, 2014, American prisoner Clayton Lockett dies of a heart attack in Oklahoma after a botched execution by lethal injection. (Al Jazeera)
April 29, 2014, A shooting at a FedEx facility in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States, leaves six injured with the gunman committing suicide. (CNN)
April 6, 2014, Series Premiere of TURN
April 6, 2014, Season 3 Premiere of Veep
April 6, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of Game of Thrones
April 6, 2014, The world's two largest cement manufacturers, LaFarge of France and Holcim of Switzerland, agree to a merger that would create a firm with a market value of $55 billion. (Reuters)
April 7, 2014, In basketball, Connecticut defeats Kentucky 60–54 in the NCAA Men's Division I Tournament final. It is the fourth national title for the Huskies. (AP via ESPN)
April 7, 2014,
April 7, 2014, A critical vulnerability referred to as the Heartbleed bug is discovered in certain versions of the popular OpenSSL software which allows attackers to steal information from internet servers which would otherwise be protected. (BBC)
April 8, 2014, In the first NCAA Division I basketball championship game for either men or women to feature two unbeaten teams, Connecticut defeats Notre Dame 79–58 to claim the school's ninth women's national title. (AP via ESPN)
April 8, 2014,
April 8, 2014,
April 8, 2014, 2014 pro-Russian protests in Ukraine: Ukrainian police detain about 70 people in Kharkiv in an "anti-terrorist" operation that clear government buildings seized by pro-Russian protesters in Kharkiv.(CNN)
-United States Secretary of State John Kerry accuses Russian agents and special forces on Tuesday of stirring separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine. (Reuters)
-Russia warns Ukraine that any use of force in eastern Ukraine could lead to a civil war. (CNN)
April 8, 2014, Ford Motor Company recalls nearly 435,000 vehicles, citing rust and seat issues. (Fox News)
April 9, 2014, Franklin Regional High School stabbing: A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA. (NBC)
April 9, 2014, Toyota announces that it will recall nearly 6.5 million vehicles due to steering and other faults. (Reuters)
April 9, 2014, Microsoft officially concludes Windows XP after 12 years of support. (Sydney Morning Herald)
April 9, 2014, Oso, Washington mudslide: The death toll reaches 36 as rescuers struggle to find 10 who are still missing. (CNN)
April 9, 2014, Bank of America agrees to pay $727 million to customers as restitution for deceptive marketing practices and unfair billing. An additional $45 million will be paid as fines to government regulatory groups. (Reuters)
April 10, 2014,
April 10, 2014, At least 10 people are killed after a tour bus collides with a FedEx truck on Interstate 5 near Orland, California. (CNN)
April 10, 2014,
April 10, 2014, American comedian Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report is announced to replace David Letterman to host the Late Show on CBS in 2015. (CBS)
April 10, 2014, Sunflower Movement in Taiwan: Protesters against a proposed trade deal with China peacefully ended their 24-day occupation of the legislature, as lawmakers prepare to review bills requiring greater oversight for such agreements. (Bloomberg)
April 10, 2014, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius resigns from the Obama Administration. OMB Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell is expected to be nominated to replace Sebelius. (Fox News)
April 11, 2014, Release of Draft Day
April 11, 2014, Release of Rio 2
April 11, 2014, Release of Oculus
April 11, 2014, Release of Hateship, Loveship
April 11, 2014,
April 11, 2014, A woman is arrested after she throws a shoe at the head of former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she was giving a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AP via Columbus Dispatch)
April 11, 2014,
April 11, 2014, Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (CNN)
April 11, 2014, A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes off the coast of Papua New Guinea, setting off tsunami warnings for the country. (Australia Network News)
April 11, 2014, $1.8 billion in fines are imposed on S.A.C. Capital Advisors by the United States for insider trading violations. (BBC)
April 11, 2014, President of the United States Barack Obama nominates Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be the next United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to replace the resigning Kathleen Sebelius. (Reuters)
April 11, 2014, Astronomers, for the first time, discover a moon orbiting around an exoplanet. (space.com via Huffington Post)
April 12, 2014, Bundy standoff: Amidst controversy, the Bureau of Land Management accedes to the release of the Bundy family's cattle.
April 12, 2014,
April 12, 2014,
April 13, 2014, Season 6 Premiere of Nurse Jackie
April 13, 2014, Season 7 Premiere of Californication
April 13, 2014,
April 13, 2014, Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting. A shooting occurs at a Jewish community center in Overland Park, Kansas, U.S., and another shooting occurs at a Jewish retirement center in a nearby city. Three people are killed. A gunman is arrested. (CNN)
April 13, 2014, 2014 Masters Tournament: American golfer Bubba Watson wins the 2014 US Masters. (AAP via SBS)
April 13, 2014, A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 204 miles southeast of Honiara, Solomon Islands with no reported casualties or damage. (AP via Fox News)
April 13, 2014, 2014 pro-Russian protests in Ukraine: Ukraine launches a "full-scale anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Russian protesters who have captured police and security forces buildings in the town of Slaviansk. (Reuters)
-Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov says that Ukrainian Ground Forces will conduct a similar operation in the eastern part of the country against armed protesters. (BBC)
April 14, 2014,
April 14, 2014,
April 14, 2014, The Washington Post and The Guardian newspapers win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their stories on the National Security Agency based on leaks from Edward Snowden. (AP via Salt Lake Tribune)
April 14, 2014, American financial services company TIAA–CREF agrees to buy Nuveen Investments for $6.25 billion. (Wall Street Journal)
April 14, 2014, The Parliament of Malta passed a law to recognise same sex civil unions and adoption by same sex couples. By this law Malta is going to become the 22nd European nation to accept civil union between same sex couples and 10th European nation to accept adoption by same sex couples.
April 15, 2014, Series Premiere of Fargo
April 15, 2014, A total lunar eclipse occurs, peaking at around 8AM UTC. (space.com via Fox News)
April 15, 2014,
April 16, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: Yonhap news agency reports that the Republic of Korea Coast Guard has been dispatched to rescue a ferry with 476 passengers sinking off the southeastern coast of South Korea with claims that at least four passengers have died and scores are injured. Approximately 280 people remain unaccounted for. (AP), (AFP via Nine MSN)
April 16, 2014,
April 16, 2014, Scientists discover a new moon forming in the outer edge of Saturn's A ring, unofficially called "Peggy". (nasa.gov)
April 16, 2014, Scientists discover an egg membrane protein, Juno, that facilitates fertilization in mammals. (The Independent)
April 17, 2014, Release of Transcendence
April 17, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: Republic of Korea Coast Guard and Navy divers resume the search for 290 missing people from yesterday's ferry capsizing off the coast of the island of Jindo. (Reuters via Yahoo)
April 17, 2014,
April 17, 2014,
April 17, 2014,
April 17, 2014, 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: Russia and Ukraine together with the United States and the European Union sit down for emergency talks in Geneva. The outcome of the meeting is that all four agree that "illegal military formations in Ukraine" must be dissolved, and that everyone occupying buildings must be disarmed and leave them but that there would be an amnesty for all anti-government protesters under the agreement. (The Guardian)
April 17, 2014, Scientists announce creation of cloned human stem cells derived from adult cells. (TIME)
April 18, 2014, Release of Bears
April 18, 2014, Release of A Haunted House 2
April 18, 2014, Release of Fading Gigolo
April 18, 2014,
April 18, 2014,
April 18, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: The death toll of the accident rises to 28. (Yonhap)
-South Korean prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for the captain, Lee Joon-seok, and are seeking the arrest of two other crew members of the Sewol in the wake of the ferry capsizing. (CNN)
April 18, 2014, A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits near Petatlán, Guerrero, Mexico. (USGS)
April 18, 2014, 12 people are killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest. (The Guardian)
April 18, 2014, Arts and crafts retailer Michaels announces that 3 million customers were affected by the 8-month long security breach that resulted in the theft of their customers' personal information. (CNN)
April 19, 2014, A suspected meteorite explosion has been recorded over Murmansk, Russia. (Mirror UK)
April 20, 2014, Series Premiere of Salem
April 20, 2014,
April 20, 2014,
April 20, 2014, A Boeing 737 operated by Malaysian Airlines carrying 166 people makes an emergency landing after a tire on the main landing gear blew out. (ABC News)
April 20, 2014, Over 150,000 people turn out for Pope Francis' Easter mass, as Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. (TIME)
April 20, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: The death toll rises to 58 as Navy and Coast Guard divers comb the ferry to retrieve victims from the Sewol. Five routes into the ferry have been established, and operations are expected to pick up pace. (Yonhap)
April 21, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of The Boondocks
April 21, 2014, 2014 Boston Marathon: More than a million people gather to participate and watch in the Boston Marathon, one year after the Boston Marathon bombings. (CNN)
-Thirty-eight year old American Meb Keflezighi wins the Boston Marathon men's competition, making him the first American in 31 years to do so. (USA Today)
April 21, 2014, A sixteen-year-old teenager stows away in the landing-gear compartment of a flight from San Jose International Airport to Kahului Airport, surviving a severe lack of oxygen and -80°F temperatures during a 5+ hour flight. (Los Angeles Times)
April 22, 2014,
April 22, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: A total of 113 people are known to have died, with 190 more passengers missing and presumed trapped inside the vessel. Seven crew members are detained for their failure to evacuate Sewol ferry. The reason for sinking is not yet clear. (BBC)
April 22, 2014, Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels becomes the 26th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 500 career home runs. (AP via ESPN)
April 22, 2014, Gilead Sciences reports sales of US$2.27 billion for its new hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, the most ever for a drug during its first quarter on the market. (Reuters)
April 23, 2014,
April 23, 2014, A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits 94 km south of Port Hardy in the Canadian province of British Columbia at around 8:10 pm PDT. Seismic activity was felt as far as Kamloops. (USGS)
April 23, 2014, Sinking of the MV Sewol: The official death toll of the ferry capsizing rises to 150 with 150 people still missing. (CBS)
April 24, 2014, Series Premiere of Blackbox
April 24, 2014, Series Premiere of Bad Teacher
April 24, 2014,
April 25, 2014, Release of Brick Mansions
April 24, 2014, Release of The Other Women
April 24, 2014, Release of the Quiet Ones
April 25, 2014,
April 25, 2014,
April 25, 2014, The ex-chief financial officer of Bank of America, Joe Price, agrees to pay a $7.5 million fine for misleading investors during the acquisition of Merrill Lynch. (Reuters via Fox Business)
April 25, 2014, Scientists announce the discovery of Kryptodrakon, the oldest pterosaur yet found.(Times of India)
April 26, 2014, Copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and other Atari games that were buried in 1983 are discovered in a New Mexican desert. (IGN)
April 27, 2014, Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II: Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints by Pope Francis in the first papal canonization since 1954. (Time)
April 27, 2014,
April 27, 2014, Sinking of the MV Sewol: The Prime Minister of South Korea Jung Hong-won announces his immediate resignation following growing criticism of the response to the sinking of the MV Sewol. (Al-Jazeera)
April 28, 2014, April 2014 tornado outbreak: Seventeen people are killed by tornadoes after a huge storm system sweeps across the central and southern United States. (BBC)
April 28, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: The search area for the missing aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean is expanded with any debris likely to be found on the ocean floor with the minimum time anticipated for the search eight months. (TV New Zealand)
April 28, 2014, U.S. Representative Michael Grimm is taken into federal custody on charges relating to a failed restaurant business and allegations that he made false statements. (CNN)
April 6, 2014, Season 3 Premiere of Veep
April 6, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of Game of Thrones
April 6, 2014, The world's two largest cement manufacturers, LaFarge of France and Holcim of Switzerland, agree to a merger that would create a firm with a market value of $55 billion. (Reuters)
April 7, 2014, In basketball, Connecticut defeats Kentucky 60–54 in the NCAA Men's Division I Tournament final. It is the fourth national title for the Huskies. (AP via ESPN)
April 7, 2014,
April 7, 2014, A critical vulnerability referred to as the Heartbleed bug is discovered in certain versions of the popular OpenSSL software which allows attackers to steal information from internet servers which would otherwise be protected. (BBC)
April 8, 2014, In the first NCAA Division I basketball championship game for either men or women to feature two unbeaten teams, Connecticut defeats Notre Dame 79–58 to claim the school's ninth women's national title. (AP via ESPN)
April 8, 2014,
April 8, 2014,
April 8, 2014, 2014 pro-Russian protests in Ukraine: Ukrainian police detain about 70 people in Kharkiv in an "anti-terrorist" operation that clear government buildings seized by pro-Russian protesters in Kharkiv.(CNN)
-United States Secretary of State John Kerry accuses Russian agents and special forces on Tuesday of stirring separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine. (Reuters)
-Russia warns Ukraine that any use of force in eastern Ukraine could lead to a civil war. (CNN)
April 8, 2014, Ford Motor Company recalls nearly 435,000 vehicles, citing rust and seat issues. (Fox News)
April 9, 2014, Franklin Regional High School stabbing: A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA. (NBC)
April 9, 2014, Toyota announces that it will recall nearly 6.5 million vehicles due to steering and other faults. (Reuters)
April 9, 2014, Microsoft officially concludes Windows XP after 12 years of support. (Sydney Morning Herald)
April 9, 2014, Oso, Washington mudslide: The death toll reaches 36 as rescuers struggle to find 10 who are still missing. (CNN)
April 9, 2014, Bank of America agrees to pay $727 million to customers as restitution for deceptive marketing practices and unfair billing. An additional $45 million will be paid as fines to government regulatory groups. (Reuters)
April 10, 2014,
April 10, 2014, At least 10 people are killed after a tour bus collides with a FedEx truck on Interstate 5 near Orland, California. (CNN)
April 10, 2014,
April 10, 2014, American comedian Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report is announced to replace David Letterman to host the Late Show on CBS in 2015. (CBS)
April 10, 2014, Sunflower Movement in Taiwan: Protesters against a proposed trade deal with China peacefully ended their 24-day occupation of the legislature, as lawmakers prepare to review bills requiring greater oversight for such agreements. (Bloomberg)
April 10, 2014, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius resigns from the Obama Administration. OMB Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell is expected to be nominated to replace Sebelius. (Fox News)
April 11, 2014, Release of Draft Day
April 11, 2014, Release of Rio 2
April 11, 2014, Release of Oculus
April 11, 2014, Release of Hateship, Loveship
April 11, 2014,
April 11, 2014, A woman is arrested after she throws a shoe at the head of former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she was giving a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AP via Columbus Dispatch)
April 11, 2014,
April 11, 2014, Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (CNN)
April 11, 2014, A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes off the coast of Papua New Guinea, setting off tsunami warnings for the country. (Australia Network News)
April 11, 2014, $1.8 billion in fines are imposed on S.A.C. Capital Advisors by the United States for insider trading violations. (BBC)
April 11, 2014, President of the United States Barack Obama nominates Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be the next United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to replace the resigning Kathleen Sebelius. (Reuters)
April 11, 2014, Astronomers, for the first time, discover a moon orbiting around an exoplanet. (space.com via Huffington Post)
April 12, 2014, Bundy standoff: Amidst controversy, the Bureau of Land Management accedes to the release of the Bundy family's cattle.
April 12, 2014,
April 12, 2014,
April 13, 2014, Season 6 Premiere of Nurse Jackie
April 13, 2014, Season 7 Premiere of Californication
April 13, 2014,
April 13, 2014, Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting. A shooting occurs at a Jewish community center in Overland Park, Kansas, U.S., and another shooting occurs at a Jewish retirement center in a nearby city. Three people are killed. A gunman is arrested. (CNN)
April 13, 2014, 2014 Masters Tournament: American golfer Bubba Watson wins the 2014 US Masters. (AAP via SBS)
April 13, 2014, A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 204 miles southeast of Honiara, Solomon Islands with no reported casualties or damage. (AP via Fox News)
April 13, 2014, 2014 pro-Russian protests in Ukraine: Ukraine launches a "full-scale anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Russian protesters who have captured police and security forces buildings in the town of Slaviansk. (Reuters)
-Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov says that Ukrainian Ground Forces will conduct a similar operation in the eastern part of the country against armed protesters. (BBC)
April 14, 2014,
April 14, 2014,
April 14, 2014, The Washington Post and The Guardian newspapers win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their stories on the National Security Agency based on leaks from Edward Snowden. (AP via Salt Lake Tribune)
April 14, 2014, American financial services company TIAA–CREF agrees to buy Nuveen Investments for $6.25 billion. (Wall Street Journal)
April 14, 2014, The Parliament of Malta passed a law to recognise same sex civil unions and adoption by same sex couples. By this law Malta is going to become the 22nd European nation to accept civil union between same sex couples and 10th European nation to accept adoption by same sex couples.
April 15, 2014, Series Premiere of Fargo
April 15, 2014, A total lunar eclipse occurs, peaking at around 8AM UTC. (space.com via Fox News)
April 15, 2014,
April 16, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: Yonhap news agency reports that the Republic of Korea Coast Guard has been dispatched to rescue a ferry with 476 passengers sinking off the southeastern coast of South Korea with claims that at least four passengers have died and scores are injured. Approximately 280 people remain unaccounted for. (AP), (AFP via Nine MSN)
April 16, 2014,
April 16, 2014, Scientists discover a new moon forming in the outer edge of Saturn's A ring, unofficially called "Peggy". (nasa.gov)
April 16, 2014, Scientists discover an egg membrane protein, Juno, that facilitates fertilization in mammals. (The Independent)
April 17, 2014, Release of Transcendence
April 17, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: Republic of Korea Coast Guard and Navy divers resume the search for 290 missing people from yesterday's ferry capsizing off the coast of the island of Jindo. (Reuters via Yahoo)
April 17, 2014,
April 17, 2014,
April 17, 2014,
April 17, 2014, 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: Russia and Ukraine together with the United States and the European Union sit down for emergency talks in Geneva. The outcome of the meeting is that all four agree that "illegal military formations in Ukraine" must be dissolved, and that everyone occupying buildings must be disarmed and leave them but that there would be an amnesty for all anti-government protesters under the agreement. (The Guardian)
April 17, 2014, Scientists announce creation of cloned human stem cells derived from adult cells. (TIME)
April 18, 2014, Release of Bears
April 18, 2014, Release of A Haunted House 2
April 18, 2014, Release of Fading Gigolo
April 18, 2014,
April 18, 2014,
April 18, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: The death toll of the accident rises to 28. (Yonhap)
-South Korean prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for the captain, Lee Joon-seok, and are seeking the arrest of two other crew members of the Sewol in the wake of the ferry capsizing. (CNN)
April 18, 2014, A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits near Petatlán, Guerrero, Mexico. (USGS)
April 18, 2014, 12 people are killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest. (The Guardian)
April 18, 2014, Arts and crafts retailer Michaels announces that 3 million customers were affected by the 8-month long security breach that resulted in the theft of their customers' personal information. (CNN)
April 19, 2014, A suspected meteorite explosion has been recorded over Murmansk, Russia. (Mirror UK)
April 20, 2014, Series Premiere of Salem
April 20, 2014,
April 20, 2014,
April 20, 2014, A Boeing 737 operated by Malaysian Airlines carrying 166 people makes an emergency landing after a tire on the main landing gear blew out. (ABC News)
April 20, 2014, Over 150,000 people turn out for Pope Francis' Easter mass, as Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. (TIME)
April 20, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: The death toll rises to 58 as Navy and Coast Guard divers comb the ferry to retrieve victims from the Sewol. Five routes into the ferry have been established, and operations are expected to pick up pace. (Yonhap)
April 21, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of The Boondocks
April 21, 2014, 2014 Boston Marathon: More than a million people gather to participate and watch in the Boston Marathon, one year after the Boston Marathon bombings. (CNN)
-Thirty-eight year old American Meb Keflezighi wins the Boston Marathon men's competition, making him the first American in 31 years to do so. (USA Today)
April 21, 2014, A sixteen-year-old teenager stows away in the landing-gear compartment of a flight from San Jose International Airport to Kahului Airport, surviving a severe lack of oxygen and -80°F temperatures during a 5+ hour flight. (Los Angeles Times)
April 22, 2014,
April 22, 2014, 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: A total of 113 people are known to have died, with 190 more passengers missing and presumed trapped inside the vessel. Seven crew members are detained for their failure to evacuate Sewol ferry. The reason for sinking is not yet clear. (BBC)
April 22, 2014, Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels becomes the 26th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 500 career home runs. (AP via ESPN)
April 22, 2014, Gilead Sciences reports sales of US$2.27 billion for its new hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, the most ever for a drug during its first quarter on the market. (Reuters)
April 23, 2014,
April 23, 2014, A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits 94 km south of Port Hardy in the Canadian province of British Columbia at around 8:10 pm PDT. Seismic activity was felt as far as Kamloops. (USGS)
April 23, 2014, Sinking of the MV Sewol: The official death toll of the ferry capsizing rises to 150 with 150 people still missing. (CBS)
April 24, 2014, Series Premiere of Blackbox
April 24, 2014, Series Premiere of Bad Teacher
April 24, 2014,
April 25, 2014, Release of Brick Mansions
April 24, 2014, Release of The Other Women
April 24, 2014, Release of the Quiet Ones
April 25, 2014,
April 25, 2014,
April 25, 2014, The ex-chief financial officer of Bank of America, Joe Price, agrees to pay a $7.5 million fine for misleading investors during the acquisition of Merrill Lynch. (Reuters via Fox Business)
April 25, 2014, Scientists announce the discovery of Kryptodrakon, the oldest pterosaur yet found.(Times of India)
April 26, 2014, Copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and other Atari games that were buried in 1983 are discovered in a New Mexican desert. (IGN)
April 27, 2014, Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II: Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints by Pope Francis in the first papal canonization since 1954. (Time)
April 27, 2014,
April 27, 2014, Sinking of the MV Sewol: The Prime Minister of South Korea Jung Hong-won announces his immediate resignation following growing criticism of the response to the sinking of the MV Sewol. (Al-Jazeera)
April 28, 2014, April 2014 tornado outbreak: Seventeen people are killed by tornadoes after a huge storm system sweeps across the central and southern United States. (BBC)
April 28, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: The search area for the missing aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean is expanded with any debris likely to be found on the ocean floor with the minimum time anticipated for the search eight months. (TV New Zealand)
April 28, 2014, U.S. Representative Michael Grimm is taken into federal custody on charges relating to a failed restaurant business and allegations that he made false statements. (CNN)
April 29, 2014, Release of video game Child of Light
April 29, 2014, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announces that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is banned from the league for life after a recording of Sterling making racist comments surfaces. Sterling is also fined the maximum allowable US$2.5 million as the NBA examines options for a forced sale. (ABC News)
April 29, 2014,
April 29, 2014, Sinking of the MV Sewol: Surveillance video footage captures the captain of MV Sewol Lee Joon-seok escaping the vessel and leaving behind his passengers. (CNN)
-The President of South Korea Park Geun-hye apologises on national television for the government's poor handling of the incident. (BBC)
-The death toll rises to 205, with 97 passengers still unaccounted for. (CNN)
April 29, 2014, American prisoner Clayton Lockett dies of a heart attack in Oklahoma after a botched execution by lethal injection. (Al Jazeera)
April 29, 2014, A shooting at a FedEx facility in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States, leaves six injured with the gunman committing suicide. (CNN)
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