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250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart

This event is coming up on the 27 January 2006 - the press is already covering it (BBC at least) and I expect things will be happening all around the world. Anyone object to me adding it to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 27? --Oldak Quill 22:56, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Re Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries#Selected_births_and_deaths, this might belong at In the News instead. I've added it to Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates. Melchoir 05:32, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

2012 notes

• Deleted: Gunpowder Plot (appears on November 5)
• Moved to Ineligible: University of Georgia (maintenance)
• Omitted: Ali (ineligible—maintenance), Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara/Mahamane Ousmane, Porfirio Lobo Sosa
• Included: Walls of Constantinople (first appearance), National Geographic Society (5th appearance, last in 2009), Canadian Caper (first appearance), Lagos armoury explosion (first appearance)
• Repeats: Battle of Toba-Fushimi (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:44, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

2013 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Porfirio Lobo Sosa (maintenance)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): University of Georgia; Outer Space Treaty
• New articles (unused): Republic of Ezo (moved from December 15)
• Omitted: Walls of Constantinople; Battle of Toba-Fushimi; Canadian Caper; Lagos armoury explosion
• Included: Yue Fei (first appearance); Auschwitz concentration camp (7th appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Akebono Tarō (first appearance; 20th anniversary); National Recording Registry (first appearance; 10th anniversary)
• Repeats: National Geographic Society (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total; 225th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 23:59, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Holocaust Memorial Days (maintenance); Republic of Ezo (appears on May 18)
• Omitted: Yue Fei; National Geographic Society; Auschwitz concentration camp; Akebono Tarō; National Recording Registry
• Included: Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) (6th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Pope Clement VI (4th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); University of Georgia (first appearance); Apollo 1 (7th appearance, last in 2010); 1974 Brisbane flood (first appearance; 40th anniversary); Yemeni Revolution (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 08:24, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Addendum: Siege of Leningrad added for Main Page balance (and the 70th anniversary). Normally it appears on September 8, but Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive is ineligible due to empty sections. —howcheng {chat} 04:22, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad is listed as ineligible due to "already featured on September 8", but according to talk, it last appeared on that date two years ago (and it looks like the lifting fact didn't make it to On this day before). Could we place the lifting of the siege this time due to the 70th anniversary? Brandmeister^talk 23:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

The 70th anniversary of the start of the siege was included in 2011. The columns do look unbalanced to me right now, so sure, let's put that in. —howcheng {chat} 04:12, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 27 January 2014: change Unigenitus to wikilinked Unigenitus

In the following

• 1343 – Pope Clement VI (cameo pictured) issued the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.

Unigenitus can be wikilinked to Unigenitus

changing the listing to

• 1343 – Pope Clement VI (cameo pictured) issued the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.

Peaceray (talk) 20:07, 27 January 2014 (UTC) Peaceray (talk) 20:07, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Not done: as stated in several notices, to report an error on the Main Page, please see WP:ERRORS. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:48, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

And it's a completely different "Unigenitus" anyway, as the article itself and the hidden comment that you have copied and pasted here make clear. Bencherlite^Talk 21:07, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

2015 notes

• Omitted: Pope Clement VI; University of Georgia; Siege of Leningrad; Apollo 1; 1974 Brisbane flood; Yemeni Revolution
• Included: Holocaust Memorial Days (rescued from Ineligible); Walls of Constantinople (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Yue Fei (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Battle of Toba–Fushimi (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Auschwitz concentration camp (8th appearance, last in 2013; 70th anniversary); Canadian Caper (2nd appearance, last in 2012)

—howcheng {chat} 06:18, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

2016 notes

• Omitted: Walls of Constantinople; Auschwitz concentration camp; Canadian Caper
• Included: University of Georgia (2nd appearance, last in 2014); 1974 Brisbane flood (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Mahamane Ousmane (4th appearance, last in 2011)
• Repeats: Yue Fei (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Battle of Toba–Fushimi (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:13, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

2017 notes

• Deleted: Walls of Constantinople (moved to November 6)
• Moved to Ineligible: Pope Clement VI (ineligible—maintenance); 2002 Lagos armoury explosion (ineligible—maintenance)
• Omitted: International Holocaust Remembrance Day/Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) (both: ineligible—maintenance); University of Georgia; Battle of Toba–Fushimi; 1974 Brisbane flood
• Included: Auschwitz concentration camp (9th appearance, last in 2015); Apollo 1 (8th appearance, last in 2014; 50th anniversary); Yemeni Revolution (2nd appearance, last in 2014)
• Repeats: Yue Fei (3rd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Mahamane Ousmane (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:47, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

2018 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: University of Georgia (maintenance); National Geographic Society (maintenance); Akebono Tarō (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): Antarctica
• Omitted: Yue Fei; Auschwitz concentration camp; Apollo 1; Mahamane Ousmane; Yemeni Revolution
• Included: Trajan (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Pope Clement VI (5th appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); 1974 Brisbane flood (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Canadian Caper (3rd appearance, last in 2015); 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); Angela Merici (first appearance); John Perkins (Royal Navy officer) (first appearance); Mohamed Al-Fayed (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 02:49, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

2019 notes

• Omitted: Trajan; Pope Clement VI; 1974 Brisbane flood; Canadian Caper; 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis; Angela Merici; John Perkins (Royal Navy officer); Mohamed Al-Fayed
• Included: Yue Fei (5th appearance, last in 2017); Antarctica (first appearance); Auschwitz concentration camp (10th appearance, last in 2017); Outer Space Treaty (3rd appearance, last in 2017; normally appears on October 10 and should be deleted here next year); Mahamane Ousmane (6th appearance, last in 2017); George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (first appearance); Eunice Hale Waite Cobb (first appearance); Paul Zorner (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 17:46, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

2020 notes

• Omitted: Yue Fei (moved to January 28); Outer Space Treaty; Mahamane Ousmane; George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington; Eunice Hale Waite Cobb; Paul Zorner
• Included: University of Georgia (3rd appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Canadian Caper (4th appearance, last in 2018; 40th anniversary); 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 10th anniversary); Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (first appearance); Giuseppe Verdi (first appearance); Yang Chuan-kwang (first appearance)
• Repeats: Antarctica (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 200th anniversary); Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp/Auschwitz concentration camp (Liberation: first appearance; Camp: 2nd consecutive appearance, 11 total; 75th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 16:50, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

2021 notes

• Omitted: University of Georgia; Antarctica; Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp/Auschwitz concentration camp; Canadian Caper; 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis; Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim; Giuseppe Verdi; Yang Chuan-kwang
• Included: Trajan (4th appearance, last in 2018); Pope Clement VI (6th appearance, last in 2018); Trần Văn Hương (first appearance); Mahamane Ousmane (7th appearance, last in 2019); Yemeni Revolution (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Edward of Angoulême (first appearance); Eli Whitney Blake (first appearance); Victoria Ocampo (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 03:41, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

2022 notes

• Omitted: Trajan; Pope Clement VI; Trần Văn Hương; Mahamane Ousmane; Yemeni Revolution; Edward of Angoulême; Eli Whitney Blake; Victoria Ocampo
• Included: Stephen Lekapenos/Constantine Lekapenos (Stephen: 2nd appearance, last in 2018; previously appeared on April 18, his birth date; Constantine: first appearance); Antarctica (3rd appearance, last in 2020); Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp/Auschwitz concentration camp (Liberation: 2nd appearance; Auschwitz: 12th; both last in 2020); 1974 Brisbane flood (4th appearance, last in 2018); National Recording Registry (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Marcian (first appearance); Titumir (first appearance); Perfecto Yasay Jr. (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 07:39, 28 January 2022 (UTC)