September

September 1, 2014, Mini Series Premiere of Houdini

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September 2, 2014, The FBI announces that it is investigating the major iCloud leak that exposed nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Ariana Grande, among others. (MTV)

September 2, 2014, Syrian Civil War: The Islamic State releases an Internet video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff. (Washington Post)

September 2, 2014, Iraqi insurgency (2011–present): The United States sends an additonal 250 US troops to protect American personnel. (Fox News)

September 3, 2014, Season 6 Premiere of The League

September 3, 2014, Syrian Civil War: A spokesman for the White House confirms that a video showing American journalist Steven Sotloff being beheaded is real. (Fox News/AP)

-A spokesman for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that Sotloff was a dual citizen of Israel and the U.S., a fact that had been concealed during his captivity, including by Sotloff himself. ((USA Today)

September 3, 2014, Pharmacy chain CVS Pharmacy announces it will change its name to "CVS Health" and cease marketing tobacco products. (KPIX)

September 4, 2014, Release of Before I Go to Sleep

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September 4, 2014, Release of The Identical

 

September 6, 2014, Release of Horns

  September 6, 2014, Series Premiere of The Chair

September 7, 2014, Series Premiere of Utopia

  September 7, 2014, Season 5 Premiere of Boardwalk Empire

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September 9, 2014, Season 7 Premiere of Sons of Anarchy

 
September 9, 2014, Release of Destiny

September 9, 2014, Release of NHL 15

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September 11, 2014, Season 5 Premiere of Haven

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September 11, 2014, South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp but may be convicted of a lesser charge. (AP)

September 12, 2014, Release of The Drop

September 12, 2014, Release of No Good Deed

September 12, 2014, Release of Dolphins Tale 2

September 12, 2014, Release of Chris Brown album X

 
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September 12, 2014, NASA's Mars Curiosity rover reaches its final destination Aeolis Mons, a mountain that rises 5.5 km at the center of Gale Crater. (Gizmodo)
September 12, 2014, South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the "culpable homicide" of his partner Reeva Steenkamp. (BBC)
September 12, 2014, Australia raises its terror threat level to high following concerns about militants returning from conflicts in Iraq and Syria. (BBC)

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September 13, 2014, In American football, Adrian Peterson, running back for the Minnesota Vikings, turns himself in to authorities in the Houston area. The day before, he had been indicted on child abuse charges stemming from an incident in which he spanked his 4-year-old son with a tree branch that he used as a switch. The Vikings have deactivated him from Sunday's game against the New England Patriots. (ESPN)
 
September 14, 2014, 2014 Pacific hurricane season: Hurricane Odile reaches Category 4 strength as it nears Mexico's Baja California coast. (AFP via Telesur)

September 14, 2014,

September 14, 2014, North Korea holds a trial for American tourist Matthew Miller who was detained in April and sentences him to six years of hard labor. (AP) (CNN)
September 14, 2014, The Carolina Panthers deactivate defensive end Greg Hardy after his conviction on two counts of female assault and communicating threats. (USA Today)
September 14, 2014, The closing ceremony of the inaugural Invictus Games takes place in London, with a music concert at Olympic Park featuring artists and groups such as Bryan Adams, Ellie Goulding, James Blunt and the Kaiser Chiefs. (BBC)
September 14, 2014, In basketball, the United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. (New York Times)

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September 15, 2014, An accidental fire severely burns a giant white rabbit erected by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in Taoyuan, Taiwan. (AFP via Channel NewsAsia)
September 15, 2014, Microsoft agrees to buy Swedish company Mojang, the makers of Minecraft, for US$2.5 billion. (AP)
September 15, 2014, Information technology company Cognizant agrees to buy health care information company TriZetto Corporation for US$2.7 billion. (New York Times)

September 16, 2014,  Season 3 Premiere of Brickleberry

September 16, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of New Girl

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September 16, 2014,  2014 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Kalmaegi sweeps past Hong Kong after causing six deaths in the Philippines on Saturday. (PTI via The Hindu)
September 16, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Indonesian police chief General Sutarman says he knows what happened to the MH370 and an aviation expert claims MH370’s pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, caused the plane to crash by locking his copilot out of the cockpit, depressurised the cabin and shut down all communications before turning the plane around. (News.com.au)
September 16, 2014, Twelve thousand people have been evacuated from the area near the Mayon Volcano on the Philippines island of Luzon due to concerns over a possible eruption. (Reuters via Time)

September 17, 2014, Series Premiere of The Mysteries of Laura

September 17, 2014, Series Premiere of Red Band Society

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September 17, 2014, Forensic teams from the University of Leicester reveal that King Richard III of England was killed at the Battle of Bosworth by a combination of blows to the skull and pelvis. (BBC)
September 17, 2014, Evacuations continue from the area surrounding the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines as lava flows down the mountain ahead of a possible eruption. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
September 17, 2014, The Minnesota Vikings National Football League team place star running back Adrian Peterson on the exempt/commissioner's permission list until his child abuse charges have been dealt with. (AP via ABC News America)

 September 18, 2014, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: Islamic State release a video purporting to be from British journalist John Cantlie as propaganda. (Reuters)

-The United States Senate passes a budget measure authorising President Barack Obama to equip and train moderate rebels to fight ISIL in Syria. (Washington Examiner)

 September 18, 2014, German president Joachim Gauck welcomes state officials to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to address demographic change in Europe and commemorate 25 years of the Peaceful Revolution. (Official press release)
 September 18, 2014, Ultracompact dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1 is revealed to be the smallest known galaxy to have a supermassive black hole at its centre. (Washington Post via Sydney Morning Herald)
 September 18, 2014, Eight people have been shot dead including six children in the small American town of Bell, Florida. (AAP via The Australian)
 September 18, 2014, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa: The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon announces the creation of an emergency mission to respond to the virus which has killed over 2,500 people in West Africa . (Bloomberg via Washington Post)

 September 19, 2014, Release of Maze Runner

September 19, 2014, Release of Tusk

September 19, 2014, Release of This is Where I Leave You

September 19, 2014, Release of A Walk Among the Tombstones

September 19, 2014, 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Scotland votes "No" to Scottish independence. (The New York Times)
September 19, 2014, China fines Glaxosmithkline US$490 million for its alleged involvement in a bribery scandal. (BBC)
September 19, 2014, Japan vows to continue its whaling program despite passage of an anti-whaling vote in the International Whaling Commission. (Reuters)
September 19, 2014, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: France launches airstrikes against the Islamic State. (Fox News)
September 19, 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group lists on NYSE in one of the largest initial public offerings in history. (BBC)
September 19, 2014, Between 20,000 to 30,000 people are evacuated in Luzon as the Philippine volcano Mayon spews lava. (TIME)

September 20, 2014, Tropical Storm Fung-wong (2014): Tropical Storm Fung-wong heads towards Taiwan after leaving five people dead and 200,000 displaced in the Philippines. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)

September 21, 2014, Series Premiere of Madam Secretary

September 21, 2014, Season 6 Premiere of The Good Wife

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September 21, 2014, An estimated 400 thousand participate in the People's Climate March occurring in various location on the globe.(Vice)
September 21, 2014, Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Albania. (BBC)

September 22, 2014,  Series Premiere of Gotham

September 22, 2014, Series Premiere of Scorpion

September 22, 2014, Series Premiere of Forever

  September 22, 2014, Season 2 Premiere of The Blacklist

 September 22, 2014, Season 2 Premiere of Sleepy Hollow

 September 22, 2014, Season 8 Premiere of The Big Bang Theory

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September 22, 2014, NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars. (BBC)
 

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September 22, 2014, German conglomerate Siemens AG announces plans to acquire American oilfield equipment maker Dresser-Rand Group Inc for US$7.6 billion. (Reuters via Yahoo!)
September 22, 2014, German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA agrees to buy American chemical company Sigma-Aldrich for US$17 billion. (AP via USA Today)

September 23, 2014, Season 1 Premiere of NCIS: New Orleans

September 23, 2014, Season 2 Premiere of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

September 23, 2014, Season 3 Premiere of The Mindy Project

September 23, 2014, Season 3 Premiere of Chicago Fire

September 23, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of Person of Interest

September 23, 2014, Season 12 Premiere of NCIS

 September 24, 2014, Series Premiere of Black-ish

 September 24, 2014, Season 2 Premiere of Chicago PD

  September 24, 2014, Season 2 Premiere of The Goldbergs

September 24, 2014, Season 6 Premiere of Modern Family

 September 24, 2014, Season 16 Premiere of  Law and Order: SVU

   September 24, 2014, Season 18 Premiere of Southpark

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September 25, 2014, Series Premiere of How to Get Away with Murder

September 25, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of Scandal

September 25, 2014,  Season 6 Premiere of Parenthood

September 25, 2014,  Season 10 Premiere of Grey's Anatomy

September 25, 2014,  Season 11 Premiere of Bones
 

September 26, 2014, Season 5 Premiere of Hawaii 5-0

September 26, 2014, Season 5 Premiere of Blue Bloods

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September 27, 2014, 2014 Mount Ontake eruption: Dozens of people are rescued from Japan's Mount Ontake following a volcanic eruption, with at least 30 feared dead. This is the first deadly eruption in Japan since 1991. (BBC)
 

September 28, 2014, Season 2 Premiere of Resurrection

September 28, 2014, Season 2 Premiere of Brooklyn Nine-Nine

September 28, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of Once Upon a Time

September 28, 2014, Season 4 Premiere ofRevenge

September 28, 2014, Season 8 Premiere of Heartland
September 28, 2014, Season 13 Premiere of Family Guy

September 28, 2014, Season 15 Premiere of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

September 28, 2014, Season 26 Premiere of The Simpsons

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September 28, 2014, 2014 Hong Kong protests: Benny Tai announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong's government headquarters is being occupied by thousands of protesters. (The Guardian)

-Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse protesters but thousands remain. (Reuters UK)

September 28, 2014, The European team wins the Ryder Cup, for the third straight time. (Associated Press)

September 28, 2014, Dennis Kimetto sets a new world record at the Berlin Marathon.(Daily Mail)

September 29, 2014, Season6 Premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles

September 29, 2014, Season 7 Premiere of Castle

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 September 29, 2014, Ashraf Ghani is sworn in as new president of Afghanistan. (BBC)

September 30, 2014, Series Premiere of Manhattan Love Story

September 30, 2014, Series Premiere of Selfie

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