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Katharine Hepburn

Actress Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) in a publicity photo taken c. 1941. Hepburn was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly played strong-willed, sophisticated women. She worked in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, which earned her various accolades, including four Academy Awards for Best Actress.

Photograph: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, restored by Adam Cuerden

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First edition of Time Magazine

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Why does this anniversary appear on this day, when in the article itself (and on the cover of the first edition) the date is March 3? eman 01:44, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Dunno ... but many magazines and journals are published before the date of issue.... Anyway, I've moved it to March 3. -- PFHLai 11:13, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)

2012 notes

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howcheng {chat} 10:21, 1 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

2013 notes

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2014 notes

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howcheng {chat} 11:26, 1 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

2015 notes

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howcheng {chat} 11:57, 28 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Nineteen Day Fast

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  • Next year, the Nineteen Day Fast will start on March 1st, rather than on March 2nd. This is due to a change in the Baha'i Calendar that aligns the start of the new year to the equinox in Tehran rather than the Gregorian date of March 21st. I wonder if we should make the change now for March 1st and March 2nd, so that it is not mistakenly copied over from 2015. Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 03:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
    • I would add a note to the talk page. Is this a permanent move, or a one-time deal? howcheng {chat} 06:12, 3 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
      • It's going to be year by year. The Nineteen Day Fast will now start 19 days before the vernal equinox, not 19 days before March 21st. Some years it's going to start on March 2nd, some on March 1st, and I can imagine in some years it could even be February 28th/29th. Regards, -- 174.115.93.215 (talk) 02:25, 4 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

2016 notes

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howcheng {chat} 11:09, 29 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

League of Lezhë

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"1444 – Skanderbeg organised the League of Lezhë, an alliance of Albanian principalities that is regarded as the first unified Albanian state."

This assertion is factually incorrect and violates NPOV. Multiple reliable sources used in the article explain that:

  • "Skanderbeg organised the League of Lezhë" - Skanderbeg did not organize the League of Lezhë. Venetians controlled Albania Veneta and organized this alliance in the Venetian-held town of Lezhë to create military alliance aimed against the Ottoman Empire. Skanderbeg was appointed as commander of this alliance, he did not organize it.
  • "an alliance of Albanian principalities" - This was not an alliance of Albanian principalities. Regional Albanian and Serbian chieftains concluded (along the Adriatic coast from southern Epirus to the Bosnian border) an alliance aimed against the Ottoman Empire.
  • "that is regarded as the first unified Albanian state" - Hipothesis about this alliance being a state has not received a significant scholarly support. Adjective "first unified Albanian" much less.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:36, 3 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
@Antidiskriminator: Please suggest some replacement text, as you seem to know more about the subject than I do. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 05:31, 6 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
@Howcheng: I would suggest completely neutral text only with information supported by scholarly consensus. That text should be quite sufficient without disputable assertions connected with Albanian nationalistic myth-making which insists that this alliance of pure Albanian regional chieftains was (first unified state) of Albanian nation, consisting of unified principalities that were also Albanian. My proposal is (please copy edit if necessary):

2017 notes

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2018 notes

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2019 notes

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2020 notes

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2021 notes

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2022 notes

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howcheng {chat} 08:05, 3 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Suggestion for the 2024 anniversary

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Remove: 1919Communist, revolutionary-socialist, and syndicalist delegates met in Moscow to establish the Communist International., which has a main article of 1st Congress of the Comintern
Add: 2022Russian forces capture the city of Kherson during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has a main article of the Battle of Kherson.

The battle article is in better shape than the 1919 article (it actually has pictures) & it is a recent event which had decent significance and attention across the world. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 21:25, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

As this got no attention or comments for over 2 months, I went ahead and did the replacement. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 21:50, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
@WeatherWriter: Hooks for OTD are usually swapped a couple days before the date. If you put it in the template now, future OTD swappers might think it ran the previous year and replace it. It is better to add new entries to the eligible list. Z1720 (talk) 22:42, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Oh got it. The swap was temporarily undone. If someone sees this discussion before March 2, 2024, please do the swap as I proposed. Cheers! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 23:11, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply