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Typo

The text "The final episode of the television series M*A*S*H was broadcast in the USA, and become the most-watched television program in history." should read 'became' instead. -- Matiasp 06:25, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Palme murder

Suggestion:

• 1986 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.

As it is the 20 year anniversary. --Apoc2400 10:04, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion. I like it. 20th anniversary, eh ? Good call, Apoc2400. I've posted it on the template. -- PFHLai 09:11, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

John Wesley & Methodism

May be better to feature these wikipages on May 24, Aldersgate Day. -- 199.71.174.100 07:47, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

2012 notes

• Deleted: Bulgarian Exarchate (moved to March 12, Gregorian date)
• Moved to Ineligible: Dord (too short), Peace Memorial Day in the Republic of China (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): Great Heck Rail Crash
• Omitted: USS Indiana (BB-1), Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, Asama-Sansō incident, North Hollywood shootout, GRB 970228
• Included: Ranavalona III (first appearance), Wallace Carothers (2nd appearance, last in 2009; rescued from Ineligible), 1972 Nixon visit to China (4th appearance, last in 2009), 1985 Newry mortar attack (first appearance), 1997 military memorandum (Turkey) (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 18:14, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

2013 notes

• Added then deleted: Republican Party (United States) (wrong date)
• Omitted: Ranavalona III; Wallace Carothers (ineligible—maintenance); 1972 Nixon visit to China; 1985 Newry mortar attack; 1997 military memorandum (Turkey)
• Included: Tichborne case (first appearance); USS Indiana (BB-1) (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Asama-Sansō incident (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Moorgate tube crash (first appearance); Naroda Patiya massacre/Gulbarg Society massacre (both: first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 03:29, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: 1997 military memorandum (Turkey) (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): Qin Dynasty; Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
• Omitted: USS Indiana (BB-1); Asama-Sansō incident; Moorgate tube crash; Naroda Patiya massacre/Gulbarg Society massacre
• Included: Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus (3rd appearance, last in 2011; 100th anniversary); C. V. Raman (first appearance); 1972 Nixon visit to China (5th appearance, last in 2012); Great Heck rail crash (first appearance)
• Repeats: Tichborne case (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:01, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

2015 notes

• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Olof Palme (blurb previously featured Assassination of Olof Palme, which remains ineligible); 1997 military memorandum
• Omitted: Tichborne case; Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus; 1972 Nixon visit to China; Great Heck rail crash
• Included: Qin dynasty (first appearance); Ranavalona III (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Moorgate tube crash (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 40th anniversary); 1985 Newry mortar attack (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 30th anniversary)
• Repeats: C. V. Raman (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 10:50, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

2016 notes

• Omitted: Qin dynasty; Ranavalona III; C. V. Raman; Moorgate tube crash; 1985 Newry mortar attack
• Included: Tichborne case (3rd appearance, last in 2014); USS Indiana (BB-1) (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus (4th appearance, last in 2014); Olof Palme (2nd appearance, last in 2006; 30th anniversary); Naroda Patiya massacre/Gulbarg Society massacre (both: 2nd appearance, last in 2013)

—howcheng {chat} 08:14, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Olof Palme

I have added the Olof Palme article ahead of time, it is 30 years ago on February 28, 2016 that Palme was assassinated. Perhaps an image of him could be used. Just a suggestion.BabbaQ (talk) 21:08, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Died this day - edit

I've just put Jane Russell into the "died this day" spot as I've noticed that the new b/d slot has been very male-heavy in recent days. The article is B-class. Thanks. MurielMary (talk) 11:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Note for Stephen - could you clarify here the background to your edit comment? Regarding the edit I made creating imbalance? Thanks. MurielMary (talk) 01:48, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

You're now adding white women to every date, and therefore creating an alternate imbalance. Stephen 01:51, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Not every date. And they're not all white women. While we're here, your undoing of my edits on the March 10 page seem rather unnecessary. One keystroke was required to remove an extra space in my edit however you chose to remove my edit completely and write me a comment regarding this. I'm surprised that an admin would create work for other editors like this rather than just hitting "backspace" and removing the extra space. MurielMary (talk) 02:00, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm on mobile so those edits are fiddly, and if I'd corrected it you wouldn't have learned anything and would have continued to make the same error. I'm surprised that you didn't refer to prior examples rather than create errors that other editors had to fix. Stephen 02:19, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Actually, if you'd corrected it and told me why, I would have learnt something and also felt welcomed and supported as a newbie to the section. Instead, I learnt something and felt my initial efforts here were being knocked back on pedantry. The affective aspects of teaching and learning have a huge impact on a person when acquiring new skills. Anyway, I appreciate the responses here to my queries Stephen. Thanks. MurielMary (talk) 09:28, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

@MurielMary: Please note that articles that are already listed on another day for a regular blurb are not eligible to appear in the births/deaths section. I just replaced Susan B. Anthony, for example. Please check the talk page of the article to see if it's been listed on another date. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 08:48, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

I see, thanks for pointing that out. MurielMary (talk) 09:28, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

2017 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: C. V. Raman (maintenance); 1972 Nixon visit to China (maintenance); 1997 Turkish military memorandum (maintenance); Great Heck rail crash (maintenance)
• Omitted: Tichborne case; USS Indiana (BB-1); Olof Palme; Naroda Patiya massacre/Gulbarg Society massacre
• Included: USS Princeton disaster of 1844 (first appearance); Ranavalona III (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Asama-Sansō incident (3rd appearance, last in 2013); GRB 970228 (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 20th anniversary)
• Repeats: Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:54, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

2018 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Vincent Massey (maintenance)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Great Heck rail crash
• Omitted: USS Princeton disaster of 1844; Ranavalona III (ineligible—maintenance); Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus; Asama-Sansō incident; GRB 970228; Michel de Montaigne; Koesbini
• Included: Qin dynasty (2nd appearance, last in 2015); USS Indiana (BB-1) (4th appearance, last in 2016); Moorgate tube crash (3rd appearance, last in 2015); North Hollywood shootout (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI (first appearance); Guillaume Delisle (first appearance); Hortense Allart (first appearance); Henry James (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 08:17, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

2019 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: USS Princeton (1843) (maintenance)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Ranavalona III; C. V. Raman

Apparently this year I had to abandon the update halfway through and never got around to finishing it. The only other change is that Henry James was omitted (ineligible—maintenance) and replaced by Martin Bucer (first appearance). —howcheng {chat} 17:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

2020 notes

• Deleted: Methodism (moved to May 24)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Dord
• Omitted: Qin dynasty; USS Indiana (BB-1); Moorgate tube crash; North Hollywood shootout; Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI; Martin Bucer; Guillaume Delisle; Hortense Allart
• Included: Tichborne case (4th appearance, last in 2016); Ranavalona III (4th appearance, last in 2017); S.L. Benfica (first appearance); Benjamin F. Lewis (first appearance); 1985 Newry mortar attack (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (first appearance); Alfred von Schlieffen (first appearance); Charles Bassett/Elliot See (both: first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 16:44, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

2021 request

@Howcheng: - 20th anniversary of the Selby rail crash (Great Heck). Mjroots (talk) 12:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

2021 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Olof Palme (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): National Covenant (was on DYK 2020-10-12)
• New articles (ineligible): Marah Halim Harahap (maintenance)
• Omitted: Ranavalona III; S.L. Benfica; Benjamin F. Lewis; 1985 Newry mortar attack; Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway; Alfred von Schlieffen; Charles Bassett/Elliot See
• Included: USS Princeton (1843) (2nd appearance, last in 2017; rescued from Ineligible); C. V. Raman (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Selby rail crash (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Thomas Cushing (first appearance); William Zorach (first appearance); Koesbini (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 30th anniversary)
• Repeats: Tichborne case (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:38, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

2022 request

@Howcheng: 1972 - U.S. president Richard Nixon finished his unprecedented visit to China and jointly issued the Shanghai Communiqué, ending 25 years of diplomatic isolation of the People's Republic of China.

February 2022 will be the 50th anniversary of the event and no other February OTD mentions Nixon's visit to China. Though another notable event in Chinese history is listed as an OTD for Feb. 28, I think this other OTD is geographically neutral to include since détente between the USA and the PRC is internationally relevant. Mewnst (talk) 01:18, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

This event has been issued before as an OTD five times; in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2014. The 2014 language was thus:

• 1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China concluded with the two countries issuing the Shanghai Communiqué, pledging to work toward the full normalization of diplomatic relations.

It was listed as ineligible due to "refimprove" and the communique page's stubbiness, but it's a half-century anniversary. It's special. I will make some improvements to the communique page in the meantime. Mewnst (talk) 01:33, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

@Mewnst: You've got a month, so happy editing! —howcheng {chat} 07:56, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

The article on the Shanghai Communiqué should now be satisfactory for listing in an OTD, as it is no longer stubby. Are there specific issues with the Nixon visit to China article that must be resolved before qualifying for the OTD listing? It was tagged with "refimprove" though I don't know if that was related to the visit page or the communiqué page. Mewnst (talk) 02:26, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

@Howcheng: The Shanghai Communiqué page should now be acceptable, and the primary page on Nixon's visit to China no longer has the glaring undue Winston Lord commentary. Is it all good to go now, or would you like a little extra to be put into the China visit page? Mewnst (talk) 04:04, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mewnst: I added a CN tag to the Communiqué article, but otherwise everything looks great. Nice work! —howcheng {chat} 08:21, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@Howcheng: Thanks for the CN tag, I dug deeper on the exact time of the signing of the communiqué and found that it was actually issued on February 27 (as Nixon left China in the morning of Feb. 28). I propose rewording the OTD to be less misleading about this fact:

• 1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China concluded after the two countries issued the Shanghai Communiqué in the prior evening.

Is that good? "on the day before" could also be plugged in at the end, I don't know what is the least awkward way to put it. Mewnst (talk) 08:17, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mewnst: Works for me! —howcheng {chat} 08:25, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

2022 notes

• Omitted: USS Princeton (1843); Tichborne case; Selby rail crash; Thomas Cushing; William Zorach; Koesbini
• Included: National Covenant (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); Ranavalona III (5th appearance, last in 2020; 125th anniversary); February 28 incident (7th appearance, last in 2010; 75th anniversary; rescued from Ineligible); Moorgate tube crash (5th appearance, last in 2019); Cornelius Gemma (first appearance); Pierre Fatou (first appearance); Yaşar Kemal (first appearance)
• Repeats: C. V. Raman (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 04:38, 1 March 2022 (UTC)