2013

• Anna Kendrick – “Cups”
• Avicii – “Wake Me Up”
• Baauer – “Harlem Shake”
• Bruno Mars – “Locked Out of Heaven”
• Bruno Mars – “When I Was Your Man”
• Capital Cities – “Safe and Sound”
• Daft Punk ft Pharrell Williams – “Get Lucky”
• Drake ft Majid Jordan – “Hold On, We’re Going Home”
• Eminem ft Rihanna – “The Monster”
• Florida Georgia Line ft Nelly – “Cruise”
• Icona Pop ft Charli XCX – “I Love It”
• Imagine Dragons – ‘Radioactive”
• Imagine Dragons - "Demons"
• Justin Timberlake – “Mirrors”
• Katy Perry – “Roar”
• Lorde – “Royals”
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft Ray Dalton – “Can’t Hold Us”
• Maroon 5 – “Daylight”
• Maroon 5 – “Love Somebody”
• Miley Cyrus – “We Can’t Stop”
• Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
• Pink – “Try”
• Pink ft Nate Ruess – “Just Give Me a Reason”
• Pitbull ft Christina Aguilera – “Feel This Moment”
• Rihanna – “Diamonds”
• Rihanna ft Mikky Ekko – “Stay”
• Robin Thicke ft TI and Pharrell – “Blurred Lines”
• Selena Gomez – “Come & Get It”
• Taylor Swift – “I Knew You Were Trouble”
• The Lumineers – “Ho Hey”

• Iron Man 3
• Despicable Me 2
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Fast & Furious 6
• Monsters University
• Frozen
• Gravity
• Man of Steel
• Thor: the Dark World

• Under the Dome
• Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls
• Hollywood Game Night
• Orange is the New Black
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• The Blacklist
• Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
• The Goldbergs
• Masterchef Junior
• The Originals
• Reign

• Fringe
• Private Practice
• 30 Rock
• CSI: NY
• 90210
• The Office
• Smash
• Body of Proof
• Dexter
• Breaking Bad
• What Not to Wear

• Season: Blood vs Water
• 2 tribes of ten; returning players against their loved ones
• Winner: Tyson Apostol
• Runners-up: Monica Culpepper, Gervase Peterson

• Season: Caramoan
• Location: Philippines
• Winner: John Cochran
• Votes: John (8), Dawn (0), Sherri (0)

• Randy Jackson returned as judge
• New judges: Keith Urban as well as Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj 
• Winner: Candice Glover 
• Runner-up: Kree Harrison
• First time in show's history, top 5 contestants were all female

• Winner: Tessanne Chin
• Runner-up: Jacquie Lee
• Coaches:
• • Adam Levine*
  • Blake Shelton
  • CeeLo Green
  • Christina Aguilera

• Winner: Danielle Bradbery
• Runner-up: Michelle Chamuel
• Coaches:
• • Blake Shelton*
  • Adam Levine
  • Shakira
  • Usher

• Paul Walker - actor, in "Fast & Furious" movies
• Corey Monteith - Canadian actor, in "Glee"
• Chris Kyle - Navy Seal marksman, book/movie of his life "American Sniper"
• James Avery - actor, played Uncle Phil on "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"
• Nelson Mandela - South Africa's first black president
• Tom Clancy - author, many of his books have been turned into movies such as "The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games" and "Jack Ryan: Shadow One"
• Ray Dolby - the inventor and engineer whose surname became synonymous with high-quality cinema sound
• Lisa Robin Kelley - actress, on "That 70s Show"
• Dennis Burkley - actor, "King of the Hill"
• James Galdofini - actor, played troubled crime boss on "The Sopranos"
• Chris Kelly - best known as one half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, hit "Jump"
• Annette Funicello - child star, became pop-culture icon with her series of frolicking beach-movie roles opposite Frankie Avalon in the 1960s
• Roger Ebert - film critic, teamed up with Gene Siskel - gave their "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" system of reviews
• Jane Henson - with Jim Henson was instrumental in bringing the Muppets to life in the 1950s
• Mindy McCready - country singer, "Guys Do It All the Time", "Ten Thousand Angels"
• Pauline Phillips - best known as "Dear Abby" to readers worldwide
• Conrad Bain - actor, starred as Phillip Drummond on "Diff'rent Strokes"

• Vine app

• bingeable

The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin led to the creation of #BlackLivesMatter

February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century. The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.

Prince William and Princess Kate had their first child, a baby boy, on July 22. They named him George Alexander Louis. There was a media frenzy, waiting to get the first picture of them leaving the hospital. He is third in line of succession to the British throne, after his paternal grandfather, Prince Charles and his father.  

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West had their first child on June 15. They named their daughter North West. They had offers for $2-5 million for the first pictures of their baby but they rejected them all. They posted the first picture of North 2 months after she was born.

February 28 – Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since 1294  (Celestine V). March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.

April 15 – Two Chechen Islamist brothers explode two bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.

June 6 – American Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged by a US government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.

March 13 - Chris Hadfield became the first Canadian to be the master on board the International Space Station (ISS), to the successor to the American NASA Kevin Ford.

South African sprint runner Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee, competed in the Paralympic and Olympic Games (2012). On Valentine's Day, Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in his Pretoria home. He claimed he had mistaken her for an intruder hiding in the bathroom. He was arrested and at his trial was found guilty of murder. 

Feb 2: killed by an ex-Marine with mental illness; shot at a gun range. Chris Kyle was a Navy SEAL marksman whose autobiography ‘American Sniper’ became a bestseller and was made into a major Hollywood film starring Bradley Cooper.

In tennis, Andy Murray finally won the big one, becoming the first male British-born tennis player to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936.