Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/August 28

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2008 Krishna Janmashtami falls on August 24, and not on August 28[1].--124.184.230.33 (talk) 04:09, 28 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Feast of Dormition or Assumption

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In Macedonia, this holiday is not "Feast of Dormition" but, like in the Western Christianity, "Feast of Assumption" (Uspenie = Assumption). Due to the fact that in some Eastern churches it is "Assumption", and in others it is "Dormition", I would suggest to keep the same format as for the WP:Selected anniversaries/August_15. So the more accurate wording would be:

Feast of the Assumption/Feast of the Dormition (Julian Calendar). Crnorizec (talk) 20:25, 23 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

Enceladus Error

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Saturn's moon Enceladus was discovered with a forty foot telescope, not a 1.2 meter or 3.9' telescope. This error is also present on the page for Enceladus itself, which uses citation 22 "Herschel, W. (1795) Description of a Forty-feet Reflecting Telescope" to support a statement that, "Enceladus was discovered by Fredrick William Herschel on August 28, 1789, during the first use of his new 1.2 m telescope, then the largest in the world.[22][23]" Raphael Luckom (talk) 20:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Please see my comment at WP:ERRORS; 1.2 m is correct. It's an aperture measurement, not a length measurement (40 ft is a length measurement). --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:25, 28 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

2012 notes

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howcheng {chat} 04:33, 27 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

2013 notes

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howcheng {chat} 08:50, 27 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

2014 notes

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howcheng {chat} 06:43, 27 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Addendum: Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) removed for phrasing issues; replaced by Silliman University (3rd appearance, last in 2012). howcheng {chat} 07:29, 26 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

2015 request

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This year I suggest including the following as it is the 205th anniversary.

A British naval squadron surrendered to a French force at the Battle of Grand Port

This is the only French naval battle, which is commemorated on the Arc de Triomphe. It is the only time a British squadron surrendered to the French in the Napoleonic Wars. Although the Battle finished on the 27th, the squadron did not surrender until the morning of the 28th. [1]

Murfas (talk) 21:06, 23 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

That article is already included on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 27. howcheng {chat} 07:18, 26 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

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2015 notes

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howcheng {chat} 07:37, 26 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

transclusion error

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There is a missing { before {SelAnnivFooter|Month=August|Day=28}} and I am not authorized to fix it.  Randall Bart   Talk  00:22, 28 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

  Done Thank you. GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:50, 28 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

2016 notes

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howcheng {chat} 07:24, 28 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

2017 notes

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howcheng {chat} 01:32, 28 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

2018 notes

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2019 notes

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2020 notes

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2021 notes

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howcheng {chat} 20:40, 28 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

2022 notes

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howcheng {chat} 17:56, 12 September 2022 (UTC)Reply