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Events

January 25 - Columbia Mall Zumiez shooting
February 20 to March 26 - Crimea is invaded and annexed by Russia on the orders of Vladimir Putin, beginning the Russo-Ukrainian War.
February 23 - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is ousted from office in the aftermath of the Euromaiden protests.
April 7 - The Donetsk People's Republic is declared. Beginning of the War in Donbass.
April 13 - Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting
April 14 - 276 schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram.
May 13 - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is sentenced to 6 years in prison for bribery.
May 16 - Beginning of the Second Libyan Civil War.
May 21 - The Metro attack is perpetrated in Taipei by Cheng Chieh.
May 22 - The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), lead by Prayuth Chan-o-cha, seizes power in Thailand as part of a coup d'état. The People's Democratic Reform Committee is disbanded.
May 23 - Isla Vista shootings
May 26 - Narendra Modi is elected Prime Minister of India.
May 31 - The Slender Man stabbing: Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier lure their best friend, 12-year old Payton Leutner, into the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin and stab her 19 times. Leutner manages to survive the attack.
June 2 - The Palestinian Unity Government is established by Hamas and Fatah in an attempt to foster peace between the two organizations.
June 8 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is elected President of Egypt.
June 29 - Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declares itself to be a worldwide caliphate, claiming global authority over all Muslims worldwide. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is formally recognized as Caliph.
June 30 - The Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade pledges allegiance to Islamic State.
July 17 - Eric Garner dies after being choked by police officer Daniel Pantaleo.
August 3 to 8 - Sinjar Massacre: ISIL captures the city of Sinjar in Iraq. Over the course of five days, Yazidis in Sinjar are killed en masse, with an estimated 5,000 being killed. The massacre marks the beginning of ISIL's campaign of genocide against the Yazidis.
August 7 - The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia find Nuon Chea, right-hand man of former dictator Pol Pot, guilty of crimes against humanity committed during the Khmer Rouge regime and sentence him to life in prison.
August 28 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is elected President of Turkey.
September 16 - Beginning of the Yemeni Civil War.
October 24 - Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting
October 31 - Blaise Compaoré steps down as President of Burkina Faso.
December 4 - Yaser Abdel Said is placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
December 5 - Keith Farnham pleads guilty to possession of child pornography.
December 23 - Luka Magnotta is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the murder of Jun Lin.

Births

Victim births

July 19 - Hayden Umbenhower
November 8 - Mariah Woods

Deaths

Villain deaths

January 11 - Ariel Sharon
January 25 - Darion Aguilar
March 10 - Theresa Riggi
March 19 - Fred Phelps
March 31 - Charles Keating, Jr.
April 3 - Tommy Lynn Sells
May 12 - Keith Luke
May 23 - Elliot Rodger
May 25 - Wojciech Jaruzelski
August 21 - Robert Hansen
September 1 - Mukhtar Abu Zubair
September 12 - Ian Paisley
October 24 - Jaylen Fryberg
December 16 - Man Haron Monis

Victim deaths

July 13 - Conrad Roy
July 17 - Eric Garner
October 11 - Jennifer Laude
November 22 - Tamir Rice

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 * March 31 - [[Charles Keating, Jr.]]
 * April 3 - [[Tommy Lynn Sells]]
+* May 12 - [[Keith Luke]]
 * May 23 - [[Elliot Rodger]]
 * May 25 - [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]]