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I removed a anon user's recent addition of Photography Day.[1] I would prefer that an article is created for that subject, or a reference and citation is added to an already existing article, before it is put back. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 22:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

...ordered his crew to "Don't...

Latest comment: 16 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

How about someone corrects this enormous blunder? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.24.111 (talk) 20:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

2012 notes

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Crete (maintenance)
Omitted: Secret Treaty of Dover (ineligible—maintenance); Louis Brandeis; CNN (ineligible—maintenance); Nepalese royal massacre (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: Battle of Maidstone (first appearance); Glorious First of June (3rd appearance, last in 2010); Capture of USS Chesapeake (3rd appearance, last in 2010)
Repeats: Attack on Sydney Harbour (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 70th anniversary); Air France Flight 447 (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:40, 31 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

2013 notes

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

New articles (unused): Conquest of Tunis (1535); Mary Dyer
Omitted: Battle of Maidstone; Glorious First of June; Capture of USS Chesapeake; Attack on Sydney Harbour; Air France Flight 447
Included: Scotch whisky (4th appearance, last in 2006; rescued from Ineligible); Kronan (ship)/Battle of Öland (both: first appearance); North Magnetic Pole (first appearance; blurb is making its 5th appearance, last in 2010; previously featured James Clark Ross, which is ineligible); Louis Brandeis (2nd appearance, last in 2011); BOAC Flight 777 (5th appearance, last in 2010; 70th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 06:13, 31 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

2014 notes

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: Scotch whisky; Kronan (ship); North Magnetic Pole; Louis Brandeis; BOAC Flight 777
Included: Conquest of Tunis (1535) (first appearance); Mary Dyer (first appearance); Napoléon, Prince Imperial (first appearance); Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (first appearance); CNN (5th appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible)

—howcheng {chat} 07:23, 31 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

2015 notes

Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: Conquest of Tunis (1535); Mary Dyer; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; CNN
Included: Glorious First of June (4th appearance, last in 2012); Attack on Sydney Harbour (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Flixborough disaster (first appearance); Air France Flight 447 (3rd appearance, last in 2012)
Repeats: Napoléon, Prince Imperial (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:04, 30 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

2016 notes

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Added and deleted: Sunday football in Northern Ireland (not notable enough)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Nepalese royal massacre
Omitted: Glorious First of June; Attack on Sydney Harbour; Flixborough disaster; Air France Flight 447
Included: Battle of Maidstone (2nd appearance, last in 2012); North Magnetic Pole (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Louis Brandeis (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 100th anniversary); Battle of Crete (first appearance; 75th anniversary); Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing (first appearance)
Repeats: Napoléon, Prince Imperial (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 22:53, 30 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Pancasila Day

Latest comment: 7 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

According to Presidential Decree No. 24 of 2016, every June 1 is designated as Pancasila day as well as a public holiday in Indonesia. So it can be added to the first line of this selected anniversaries. Regards. Mahali syarifuddin (talk) 07:32, 1 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Mahali syarifuddin: Two problems: 1) Pancsasila Day is not mentioned in the article. 2) There is a big orange maintenance tag about the Criticism section, which makes it not eligible for inclusion. —howcheng {chat} 16:26, 1 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

2017 notes

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Deleted: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (moved to May 26)
Moved to Ineligible: Flixborough disaster (maintenance); Nepalese royal massacre (maintenance); Air France Flight 447 (maintenance)
Omitted: Battle of Maidstone; Louis Brandeis; Battle of Crete
Included: Kronan (ship)/Battle of Öland (both: 2nd appearance, last in 2013); James Clark Ross (first appearance; blurb previously featured North Magnetic Pole and is making its 2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Attack on Sydney Harbour (4th appearance, last in 2015); CNN (6th appearance, last in 2014); Empress Dowager Xiao (Tang dynasty) (first appearance); Nargis (first appearance); Helene Bresslau Schweitzer (first appearance)
Repeats: Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:32, 1 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

2018 notes

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

New articles (ineligible): Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (facts in dispute)
Omitted: Kronan (ship); James Clark Ross; Attack on Sydney Harbour; CNN (ineligible—maintenance); Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing; Empress Dowager Xiao (Tang dynasty); Nargis (ineligible—maintenance); Helene Bresslau Schweitzer
Included: Scotch whisky (5th appearance, last in 2013); Capture of USS Chesapeake (4th appearance, last in 2012); Louis Brandeis (4th appearance, last in 2016); BOAC Flight 777 (6th appearance, last in 2013; 75th anniversary); Kitabatake Chikafusa (first appearance); Tiedemann Giese (first appearance); Helen Keller (2nd appearance, last in 2017; previously appeared on June 27, her birthday; 50th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 02:11, 2 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

2019 notes

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Maidstone (maintenance); Helene Bresslau Schweitzer (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Treaty of Bosque Redondo (blurb previously featured Long Walk of the Navajo, which is still ineligible); Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
New articles (unused): Dolphinarium discotheque massacre
Omitted: Scotch whisky (ineligible—maintenance); Capture of USS Chesapeake; Louis Brandeis; BOAC Flight 777; Kitabatake Chikafusa; Tiedemann Giese; Helen Keller (deleted, normally appears on birthday)
Included: Mary Dyer (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Glorious First of June (5th appearance, last in 2015; 225th anniversary); Attack on Sydney Harbour (5th appearance, last in 2017); Henry Heimlich/Abdominal thrusts (both: first appearance); American Airlines Flight 1420 (first appearance; 20th anniversary); Cornelis Saftleven (first appearance); Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden (first appearance); Morgan Freeman (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 16:05, 3 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

2020 notes

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Louis Brandeis (maintenance)
New articles (unused): 47th Infantry Regiment (United States)
Omitted: Mary Dyer; Glorious First of June; Attack on Sydney Harbour; Henry Heimlich/Abdominal thrusts; American Airlines Flight 1420; Cornelis Saftleven; Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden; Morgan Freeman
Included: Secret Treaty of Dover (2nd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); James Clark Ross (6th appearance, last in 2017); Treaty of Bosque Redondo (first appearance); Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (first appearance); Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Marguerite Porete (first appearance); Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (first appearance); Yarisley Silva (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 17:05, 2 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Tulsa

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Just a note that this is the 100th anniversary of the culmination of the Tulsa race massacre. - Featous (talk) 01:42, 29 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Featous: Yes, but there's a {{External links}} maintenance tag on it, which prevents its inclusion (and actually, it would be on May 31). I left a note on the talk page, but if you could prune that list, it would be appreciated. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 18:42, 29 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Howcheng: I took a chainsaw to the section and removed the tag. Thanks, Featous (talk) 14:12, 30 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

2021 notes

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

New articles (unused): Parveen Kumar
Omitted: Secret Treaty of Dover; Treaty of Bosque Redondo; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty; Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing; Marguerite Porete; Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill; Yarisley Silva
Included: Kronan (ship) (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Capture of USS Chesapeake (5th appearance, last in 2018); Henry Heimlich/Abdominal thrusts (both: 2nd appearance, last in 2019); Dolphinarium discotheque massacre (first appearance; 20th anniversary); Theodosius Romanus (first appearance); J. F. Oberlin (first appearance); Nambaryn Enkhbayar (first appearance)
Repeats: James Clark Ross (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:28, 3 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

2022 notes

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: Capture of USS Chesapeake; James Clark Ross; Henry Heimlich/Abdominal thrusts; Dolphinarium discotheque massacre; Theodosius Romanus; J. F. Oberlin; Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Included: Mary Dyer (3rd appearance, last in 2019); Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861) (first appearance); Attack on Sydney Harbour (6th appearance, last in 2019; 80th anniversary); Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing (4th appearance, last in 2020); Marguerite Porete (2nd appearance, last in 2020); Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden (2nd appearance, last in 2019; 200th birthday); Parveen Kumar (first appearance; 80th birthday)
Repeats: Kronan (ship)/Battle of Öland (both: 2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:26, 2 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

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