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• 632 - Muhammad, founder of Islam dies
• 1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer of Common Sense dies

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Shouldn't that be "dystopian" and not "dystopic"? Somehow "dystopic" doesn't sound right. Revolución 00:41, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

World Ocean Day

Please add World Ocean Day. Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 07:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Copied from WP:ERRORS for future reference

The card used for the 1887 punched card patent illustration is incorrect. The patent itself doesn't seem to specify the number of columns, but the cards first in use based upon that patent had 22 columns, and used round holes, rather than the 80 column rectangular hole cards shown in the illustration. The card illustrated is one which was common from the mid 1920's onward. It seems that people might well infer that the particular card illustrated was the one in use in 1887, which is incorrect. No illustration would probably be better. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.62.103.226 (talk • contribs) 05:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC).

On June 8 793AD the Vikings did their first raid. I think this is worth noting.Cameron Nedland 16:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

• We need a decent wikiarticle with the verifiable and confirmed date in the text. Which one is it ? -- 64.229.176.142 16:48, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • BTW, it's Viking Age#Historic overview.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91^{(review me!)} 17:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Kenenisa Bekele

I think it's worth adding a link to World records in athletics, perhaps thusly:

• 2004 - Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele broke the world record for outdoor 10,000 m in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

jnestorius^(talk) 00:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

World Ocean Day -> World Oceans Day

Since World Ocean Day is now official and named World Oceans Day, this article should call it that as well. --93.178.156.236 (talk) 20:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

 Done. I don't know why this wasn't done earlier. – Jonadin93 (talk) @ 18:45, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Wrong Date for Falklands War Battle

Wikipedia's English Main page has the wrong date for the Falklands War battle known as Bluff Cove. The year is completely wrong. In the "On this day..." section, it states that the battle took place in 1959. The Falklands War took place 23 years later, in 1982. Please correct it.

--Abebenjoe (talk) 01:35, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

World IPv6 Day

Please add World IPv6 Day to the list, thank you. Wiikipedian 00:59, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Minor changes

• 2004 – the first transit of Venus in modern history (pictured) takes place since 1882.

should be

• 2004 – the first transit of Venus since 1882 (pictured) takes place.

Also, arguably

• 1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by English writer George Orwell about life in the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania, was first published.

should be

• 1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by English writer George Orwell about life under the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania, was first published.

(remove random space and in->under)

Yaris678 (talk) 10:09, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

 Done, both seem uncontroversial. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:33, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks.

BTW. I note that this change was made to the venus item immediately before your change. I am happy with either of the later two versions... but hopefully it won't be controversial either way.

Yaris678 (talk) 11:39, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah, I hadn't noticed that. Well hopefully it's okay as it is. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:44, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

2012 notes

• Deleted: Transit of Venus (featured on December 4)
• Omitted: Viking Age (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Trois-Rivières; Nineteen Eighty-Four (ineligible—maintenance); Phan Thi Kim Phuc; Akihabara massacre
• Included: Laki (6th appearance, last in 2010); Punched card (6th appearance, last in 2008); Thomas Blamey (5th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); PHP (5th appearance, last in 2010); MV Pasha Bulker (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 05:14, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

2013 notes

• New articles (unused): Battle of Cross Keys
• Omitted: Punched card; Thomas Blamey; PHP; Akihabara massacre
• Included: Norfolk Island (first appearance); Rocket mail (first appearance); Bluff Cove Air Attacks (2nd appearance, last in 2010)
• Repeats: Laki (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total); MV Pasha Bulker (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 09:24, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes

• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Antiquities Act
• Omitted: World Oceans Day (ineligible—maintenance); Laki; Norfolk Island; Rocket mail; Bluff Cove Air Attacks; MV Pasha Bulker
• Included: Battle of Trois-Rivières (4th appearance, last in 2011); Punched card (7th appearance, last in 2012); Thomas Blamey (6th appearance, last in 2012); Phan Thi Kim Phuc (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Akihabara massacre (3rd appearance, last in 2012)

—howcheng {chat} 06:01, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

2015 notes

• New articles (unused): Margaret Bondfield (was TFA on March 18, 2015)
• Omitted: Battle of Trois-Rivières; Thomas Blamey; Phan Thi Kim Phuc; Akihabara massacre
• Included: Laki (8th appearance, last in 2013); Nineteen Eighty-Four (7th appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); PHP (6th appearance, last in 2012; 20th anniversary); 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea (first appearance)
• Repeats: Punched card (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:51, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

2016 notes

• Omitted: Punched card; Nineteen Eighty-Four; PHP; 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea
• Included: Norfolk Island (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Margaret Bondfield (first appearance); Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence (4th appearance, last in 2006); Akihabara massacre (4th appearance, last in 2014)
• Repeats: Laki (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:16, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Add World Oceans Day

The World Ocean Day was discussed here earlier. However I can't see it anywhere on tomorrow's template.

Please (re)add it ASAP!

--Fixuture (talk) 22:23, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

@Howcheng: @StevenJ81: @MusikAnimal: @Randykitty: Aaadmins please take a look - you're needed here now. --Fixuture (talk) 22:45, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

@Fixuture: Wow! I got promoted.

Seriously, though: As long as the "too promotional" tag is on the page, it won't be listed. StevenJ81 (talk) 23:00, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

@StevenJ81: Alright fixed and removed it! --Fixuture (talk) 23:10, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

It's still rather promotional, especially in the descriptions of past years. It reads like it belongs on the World Oceans Day web site. —howcheng {chat} 23:23, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

@Howcheng: Improved on it. It really should be okay now. Could you please check (read) it? If you still find problems please be more specific so that they can be corrected (if you don't fix them yourself).
Note that it doesn't have to be perfect to get featured - I will try to improve on it over the next few days if it gets featured. --Fixuture (talk) 01:49, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

@Fixuture: No, it doesn't have to be perfect, but it's not even in a good enough state. The 2015 section is still lacking references for most of it, and the ones you've been adding are all from the UN, so that's worth a {{primary sources}} tag. I appreciate the effort you've made to get it this far, but I think it's going to have to wait another year. —howcheng {chat} 08:32, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

@Howcheng: Alright. Thank you for your constructive assistance. It feels quite frustrating that I'm apparently alone at sufficiently improving and nominating this item. It's too late for it getting featured today anyways. It would be nice if you could give some feedback again once I did some more improvements so that it at least can be featured next year.
As a sidenote: people can't be expected to even find this place; it's basically hidden for most users of the site even if they are potential participants in the nomination and improvement of selected anniversaries. This needs to change somehow. --Fixuture (talk) 21:16, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

2017 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: USS Quaker City (1854); Nineteen Eighty-Four; Rocket mail
• Omitted: Laki; Norfolk Island; Margaret Bondfield; Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence
• Included: Battle of Antioch (218) (first appearance); Battle of Trois-Rivières (5th appearance, last in 2014); Syria–Lebanon Campaign (first appearance); Thomas Blamey (7th appearance, last in 2014); Harthacnut (first appearance); Barbara Bush (first appearance); Omar Bongo (first appearance)
• Repeats: Akihabara massacre (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:38, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

2018 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Laki (maintenance); Norfolk Island (maintenance); Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence (maintenance)
• Omitted: Battle of Trois-Rivières; Syria–Lebanon Campaign; Thomas Blamey; Harthacnut; Barbara Bush; Omar Bongo
• Included: Battle of Cross Keys (first appearance); Margaret Bondfield (3rd appearance, last on March 17, 2018 for her birthday); Phan Thi Kim Phuc (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Muhammad (first appearance); William of York (first appearance); Bonnie Tyler (first appearance)
• Repeats: Battle of Antioch (218) (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 800th anniversary); Akihabara massacre (3rd consecutive appearance, 6 total; 10th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 17:03, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Punched card

Hi Howcheng, For tomorrow we have 1887 – German-American statistician... There seems to be an error in the Punched card target article. The only mention of June 8 is for 1889 (not 1887). Then, also "The card shown in U.S. Patent 395,781 of June 8 was printed" but that has the wrong month. The ref says patent date was January (not June) 8, 1889. The other blue link Herman Hollerith article and its different ref have the correct date ie January 8, 1889 and no mention of anything in a June. The relevant patent refs are 395781, 395781, 395781 and 395782. All are dated January 8, 1889. I see the note on the staging page about Hollerith also appearing on January 8 - I think it's actually the same punch card patent? I hope I haven't got wrong end of stick. Thanks for taking a look. JennyOz (talk) 07:58, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Good spot. Deleted. —howcheng {chat} 15:24, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

2019 notes

• Deleted: Punched card (wrong date)
• Moved to Ineligible: Antiquities Act (maintenance)
• New articles (ineligible): Kim Clijsters (TFA for 2019)
• Omitted: Battle of Cross Keys; Phan Thi Kim Phuc; Akihabara massacre; Muhammad; William of York; Bonnie Tyler
• Included: Battle of Trois-Rivières (6th appearance, last in 2017); USS Liberty incident (3rd appearance, last in 2007; rescued from Ineligible); 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea (3rd appearance, last in 2015; 10th anniversary); George I Rákóczi (first appearance); John Q. A. Brackett (first appearance); Irina Lăzăreanu (first appearance)
• Repeats: Battle of Antioch (218) (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Margaret Bondfield (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total; 90th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 17:26, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

2020 notes

• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence
• Omitted: Battle of Antioch (218); Battle of Trois-Rivières; Margaret Bondfield; USS Liberty incident; 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea; George I Rákóczi; John Q. A. Brackett; Irina Lăzăreanu
• Included: Lindisfarne (first appearance; blurb previously featured Viking Age, which was replaced by the more specific Viking activity in the British Isles, but both of those are ineligible); Laki (10th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Thomas Blamey (8th appearance, last in 2017; 70th anniversary); PHP (7th appearance, last in 2015; 25th anniversary); MV Drake (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Richard Scrope (cleric) (first appearance); Anne de Xainctonge (2nd appearance, last in 2018; also appears on November 21, her birthday); Lauren Burns (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 20:59, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

2021 notes

• New articles (ineligible): Lucy Arbell (POTD for 2021); Keith Gill (DYK on 2021-02-02)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Omitted: Lindisfarne; Thomas Blamey; PHP; MV Drake; Richard Scrope (cleric); Anne de Xainctonge (deleted—appears elsewhere); Lauren Burns
• Included: Battle of Antioch (218) (4th appearance, last in 2019); Syria–Lebanon campaign (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 80th anniversary); Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence (5th appearance, last in 2016); Akihabara massacre (7th appearance, last in 2018); George I Rákóczi (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Charlotte Scott (first appearance); Bonnie Tyler (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 70th birthday)
• Repeats: Laki (2nd consecutive appearance, 11 total)

—howcheng {chat} 03:40, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

2022 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Lindisfarne (maintenance); Nineteen Eighty-Four (maintenance)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Kim Clijsters; Keith Gill
• Omitted: Laki; Syria–Lebanon campaign; Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence; Akihabara massacre; George I Rákóczi; Charlotte Scott; Bonnie Tyler
• Included: Types Riot (first appearance); Margaret Bondfield (5th appearance, last in 2019); Phan Thi Kim Phuc (4th appearance, last in 2018; 50th anniversary); Bluff Cove air attacks (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 40th anniversary); Harthacnut (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Lucy Arbell (first appearance); Irina Lăzăreanu (2nd appearance, last in 2019; 40th birthday)
• Repeats: Battle of Antioch (218) (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:44, 9 June 2022 (UTC)