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Nikita Filatov (born 1990) is a Russian professional ice hockey player. Since 2012, he has been a member of Salavat Yulaev, a club based in Ufa, Bashkortostan, that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. He began his career playing for CSKA Moscow in their minor and junior hockey systems. He joined the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2008 Entry Draft as the top-ranked European skater by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau, and was selected sixth overall by the Columbus Blue Jackets. He has played two seasons in North America, splitting time between the Blue Jackets and their previous AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch. During the 2009–10 season, Filatov was unhappy with his situation in Columbus and was loaned to CSKA Moscow for the remainder of the season. At the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, Filatov was traded to the Ottawa Senators, and then was again loaned to CSKA Moscow. Filatov has represented Russia in international hockey at two World U18 Championships, winning gold and silver medals, and three World Junior Championships, where he has won two bronze medals. He was named to the Tournament All-Star Team at the 2008 World U18 Championships and the 2009 World Junior Championships. ( Full article...)

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Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina (pictured) is elected as Pope Francis, becoming the first Latin American pope of the Catholic Church.

JOGMEC announces the first successful extraction of methane hydrate from seabed deposits.

A binary brown dwarf system, WISE 1049-5319, is observed 6.5 light-years from Earth, making it the closest star system discovered since 1916.

Syrian rebels capture ar-Raqqah, making it the first major city to come under rebel control during the Syrian civil war.

A newly discovered Y-chromosome haplogroup is thought to push back the time of Y-chromosomal Adam to 338,000 years ago.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dies at the age of 58.

A standoff in Lahad Datu between the Malaysian Armed Forces and a group claiming to represent the Sultanate of Sulu escalates into a military conflict in eastern Sabah.

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March 14: New Year's Day ( Sikhs); White Day in Japan; Pi Day

1885 – The Mikado (poster pictured), Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed Savoy Opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.

1915 – First World War: British forces cornered and sank the SMS Dresden, the last remnant of the German East Asia Squadron, near the Chilean island of Más a Tierra.

1937 – Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, condemning antisemitism, criticizing Nazism, listing breaches of an agreement signed with the Roman Catholic Church.

1978 – Israeli–Lebanese conflict: The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Litani, invading and occupying southern Lebanon, and pushing PLO troops north up to the Litani River.

2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.

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The Great Picture is a 32-by-111-foot (9.8 by 34 m) photograph on muslin taken to mark the end of 165 years of film/chemistry-based photography and the start of the age of digital photography. It was taken by converting an old hangar into a pinhole camera.

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