Timeline March 2014

Events in March 2014 8

• 1932 – 2014 Adolfo Suarez (1932-2014) Died 23 March 2014, aged 81 Adolfo Suarez, Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after the death of Francisco Franco, died in Madrid. He oversaw Spain's peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy in the late 1970s. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for years before his death.
• 1932 – 2014 Adolfo Suárez First Democratic PM The pivotal Prime Minister during the transition who legalized political parties.
• 1957 – 2014 L'Wren Scott (1957-2014) Died 17 March 2014, aged 49 L'Wren Scott, the American fashion designer and longtime partner of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, died by suicide in her New York apartment. She had built her own fashion label after a career as a stylist to celebrities. Her death came amid reported financial difficulties with her fashion business.
• 2014 Album "Kiss Me Once" released Album featuring collaborations with contemporary producers Kiss Me Once, released in March 2014, featured collaborations with producers and artists including Pharrell Williams and Ariel Rechtshaid, blending her pop sensibility with more contemporary production. The single "Into the Blue" served as the lead release.
• 2014 Iditarod 2014 Winner: Dallas Seavey — 8 days 13h Dallas Seavey won his second Iditarod in 2014.
• 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears Boeing 777 vanishes over the Indian Ocean Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, lost contact with air traffic control and disappeared. Despite an extensive multinational search of the southern Indian Ocean, the aircraft's main wreckage was never found. It remains one of aviation's greatest unsolved mysteries.
• 2014 Russia annexes Crimea First European territory seizure since WWII Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine following a contested referendum on March 16, 2014, the first annexation of European territory by force since World War II.
• 2014 West African Ebola epidemic Deadliest Ebola outbreak in history declared an international emergency An Ebola virus outbreak centered on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone became the largest and deadliest in history, ultimately killing over 11,000 people. The World Health Organization declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 8 August 2014. The crisis prompted a major international medical relief effort.