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A book with special anniversaries for every day of the year 2014. Whether you're interested in history or are looking for story ideas, you find thousands of special anniversaries grouped into historical events, births and deaths listed throughout the book.

The images on the book cover highlight the following very impactful events that have a special anniversaries in 2014.

150 years (1864)

• August 22: 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention.

100 years (1914)

• August 15: Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.

70 years (1944)

• June 6: World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops.

50 years (1964)

• February 2: The Beatles first arrived in the US to start the British Invasion.

30 years (1984)

• January 24: The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.

25 years (1989)

• March 24: Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska.
• November 9: Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall.

10 years (2004)

• January 4: Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars.
• December 26: A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami killing over 230,000 people in Asia.

Credits

The book text is compiled from the English Wikipedia and published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA).

Cover Images

• Original Geneva Conventions a picture of the original signed and sealed Geneva Convention in Geneva, Switzerland by Kevin T. Quinn
• SS Ancon entering west chamber a picture of the SS Ancon entering west chamber, Mira Flores lower locks, Panama Canal
• Into the Jaws of Death a picture of U.S. Army troops on Omaha Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944 (D-Day) by Robert F. Sargent
• The Beatles in America a picture of The Beatles waving to fans after arriving at Kennedy Airport by UPI
• Macintosh 128k a picture of the Macintosh 128K running Finder 4.1 Italian from the All About Apple museum
• Oiled Birds a picture of birds killed as a result of oil from the Exxon Valdez spill by Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
• The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 a picture showing people standing on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate which is part of the public photo documentation wall at Former Check Point Charlie, Berlin
• Mars Spirit a picture of the artist's concept of rover by NASA
• 2004 Tsunami a picture of the 2004 tsunami in Ao Nang, Krabi Province, Thailand by David Rydevik

About the Author

Ramiro Gómez

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I'm a programmer from Berlin, who loves open source software and open data. I've published on the Web since the late 1990s and now focus on data mining and visualization.

Learn more about me and what I do on my homepage.