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• 1777 - North Carolina ratifies the American Declaration of Independence.
• 1861 - American Civil War begins with the bombardment of Fort Sumter in South Carolina by Confederate forces.
• 1945 - American President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, Georgia of a brain hemmorage.
• 1961 - Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space.
• 1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.

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in terms of space exploration yuri gagarin is more important than the columbia shuttle launch. If one wishes to avoid further soviet x americans discussion, put an image of galileu galilei

I could have also used the STS-1 patch, cycling in and out with Gagarin's pic, but I was too busy elsewhere that day. We'll re-visit this next year. -- PFHLai 10:05, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)

Why is this locked anyway?--Alexandre Van de Sande 17:36, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, everything on the MainPage is "locked" to avoid vandalism. -- PFHLai 10:05, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)

Unsourced Image

Needs to be replaced. Would do it my self, but am at work. Admrb♉ltz (T | C) 00:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

it's also my birthday >_>;; --Keatsta 02:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Columbia

Columbia was actually the second space shuttle (after the Enterprise), though the first opperational shuttle. The portion of this page that links to the main page should be modified accordingly. —ScouterSig 17:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Error in Gagarin blurb

His spacecraft wasn't Vostok 3KA-2; it was called Vostok 3KA-3. There were two previous unmanned spacecraft of the same model, and his was the third (hence the "3"). Hopefully this can be fixed before tomorrow. Mlm42 (talk) 15:45, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! :) Mlm42 (talk) 20:17, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

2012 notes

• Omitted: Anthemius; Battle of Fort Sumter; SMS Zrínyi; Yuri Gagarin; Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel
• Included: Siege of Constantinople (1204)/Fourth Crusade (1st appearance for Siege; 4th for Crusade, last in 2009—rescued from Ineligible); Terry Fox (3rd appearance, last in 2010); Jim Gary (first appearance); Disneyland Paris (first appearance)
• Repeats: Broughton Suspension Bridge (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:06, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

2013 notes

• New articles (unused): Halifax Resolves
• Added but then deleted: Dugway sheep incident (wrong date; moved to March 17)
• Omitted: Terry Fox; Jim Gary; Disneyland Paris
• Included: SMS Zrínyi (first appearance); Yuri Gagarin (9th appearance, last in 2011); 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing (first appearance);
• Repeats: Siege of Constantinople (1204) (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; blurb also featured Fourth Crusade, which is now ineligible); Broughton Suspension Bridge (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:36, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes

• New articles (unused): Edwin of Northumbria
• Omitted: Siege of Constantinople (1204); SMS Zrínyi; 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing
• Included: Shapur I (first appearance); Halifax Resolves (first appearance); Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 20th anniversary)
• Repeats: Broughton Suspension Bridge (4th consecutive appearance, 4 total); Yuri Gagarin (2nd consecutive appearance, 10 total)

—howcheng {chat} 10:28, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

2015 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Anthemius (maintenance)
• Omitted: Shapur I; Halifax Resolves; Broughton Suspension Bridge; Yuri Gagarin; Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel
• Included: Edwin of Northumbria (first appearance); Siege of Constantinople (1204) (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Battle of the Saintes (first appearance); SMS Zrínyi (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Jim Gary (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 25th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 08:20, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

2016 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Yuri Gagarin (maintenance); Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel (maintenance)
• Omitted: Edwin of Northumbria; Battle of the Saintes; SMS Zrínyi; Jim Gary
• Included: Shapur I (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Battle of Fort Sumter (5th appearance, last in 2011); Terry Fox (4th appearance, last in 2012); 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing (2nd appearance, last in 2013)
• Repeats: Siege of Constantinople (1204) (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:22, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

2017 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Jim Gary (maintenance); Disneyland Paris (maintenance)
• Omitted: Shapur I; Siege of Constantinople (1204) (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Fort Sumter
• Included: Halifax Resolves (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Broughton Suspension Bridge (5th appearance, last in 2014); SMS Zrínyi (4th appearance, last in 2015)
• Repeats: Terry Fox (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 10th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:37, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

2018 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Shapur I (maintenance); Battle of the Saintes (maintenance)
• Omitted: Halifax Resolves; Broughton Suspension Bridge; Terry Fox; 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing; Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood; Beverly Cleary; Xin Fengxia
• Included: Edwin of Northumbria (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Froberg mutiny (first appearance); Battle of Fort Sumter (6th appearance, last in 2016); Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel (3rd appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); Charles VII of Sweden (first appearance); Alexander Ostrovsky (first appearance); Imogen Holst (first appearance)
• Repeats: SMS Zrínyi (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:25, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

2019 notes

• Omitted: Edwin of Northumbria; Battle of Fort Sumter; Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel (ineligible—maintenance); Charles VII of Sweden; Alexander Ostrovsky; Keiko Fukuda
• Included: Halifax Resolves (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Broughton Suspension Bridge (6th appearance, last in 2017); Terry Fox (6th appearance, last in 2017); George N. Briggs (first appearance); Imogen Holst (first appearance); Karim Fakhrawi (first appearance)
• Repeats: Froberg mutiny (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); SMS Zrínyi (3rd consecutive appearance, 6 total)

—howcheng {chat} 15:42, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

2020 notes

• Deleted: Sack of Constantinople (1204) (moved to April 13)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Yuri Gagarin
• Omitted: Halifax Resolves; Froberg mutiny; Broughton Suspension Bridge; George N. Briggs; Imogen Holst; Karim Fakhrawi
• Included: Edwin of Northumbria (3rd appearance, last in 2018); Chios massacre (6th appearance, last in 2018; moved from March 31); Great Fire of Valparaíso (first appearance); Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre (first appearance); Addie Joss (first appearance); Sydney Allard (first appearance)
• Repeats: SMS Zrínyi (4th consecutive appearance, 7 total); Terry Fox (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total; 40th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 21:54, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

2021 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): Fourth Crusade (blurb previously featured Sack of Constantinople and was moved back from April 13); Jane Withers
• Omitted: Edwin of Northumbria; Chios massacre; SMS Zrínyi; Terry Fox; Great Fire of Valparaíso; Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre; Addie Joss; Sydney Allard
• Included: Broughton Suspension Bridge (7th appearance, last in 2019); Battle of Fort Sumter (7th appearance, last in 2018); Yuri Gagarin (12th appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible; 60th anniversary); 2013 Kidal suicide attack (first appearance); Tenby Davies (first appearance); Beverly Cleary (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Karim Fakhrawi (2nd appearance, last in 2019; 10th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 06:45, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

2022 notes

• New articles (unused): Zelia Nuttall
• Omitted: Broughton Suspension Bridge; Battle of Fort Sumter; 2013 Kidal suicide attack; Tenby Davies; Beverly Cleary; Karim Fakhrawi
• Included: Fourth Crusade (6th appearance, last in 2020); Chios massacre (7th appearance, last in 2020; 200th anniversary); 1980 Liberian coup d'état (first appearance;; rescued from Ineligible; blurb previously featured Samuel Doe, which remains ineligible); Great Fire of Valparaíso (2nd appearance, last in 2020); Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (first appearance); Nicola Amati (first appearance); Abbie Hoffman (first appearance)
• Repeats: Yuri Gagarin (2nd consecutive appearance, 13 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:06, 13 April 2022 (UTC)