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Image:Terualsiege.jpg is a "scene during the Siege of Teruel, Spain, April 1 1938". It really has no business being on a March 28 selected anniversary. Not only is the date inaccurate, but the March 28 event took place in Madrid, not Teruel. It is wrong to show images that are "close enough" but not fully accurate. So I am removing Image:Terualsiege.jpg completely from the metapage. Use it for April 1.

Also, I am replacing it with the 3-mile island image. Kingturtle 09:58, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Semicolon

Page is protected, but the first line needs a semicolon, between the Earth Hour and the Teachers' Day factoids. —johndburger 00:28, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

2012 notes

• Omitted: 2 Pallas; St Nazaire Raid; Three Mile Island accident (blurb previously featured Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station but this article is no longer ineligible); 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident
• Included: Battle of Glorieta Pass (5th appearance, last in 2010); Fabre Hydravion (first appearance); 1933 Imperial Airways Dixmude crash (first appearance); 1979 vote of no confidence in the government of James Callaghan (2nd appearance, last in 2010)
• Repeats: Pertinax (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:20, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

2013 notes

• Omitted: Battle of Glorieta Pass; Fabre Hydravion; 1979 vote of no confidence in the government of James Callaghan
• Included: 2 Pallas (4th appearance, last in 2011); Izbica massacre (first appearance); 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident (3rd appearance, last in 2011; 20th anniversary)
• Repeats: Pertinax (3rd consecutive appearance, 8 total); 1933 Imperial Airways Dixmude crash (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 80th appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 05:28, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes

• Omitted: Pertinax; 1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash; Izbica massacre; 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident
• Included: Fabre Hydravion (2nd appearance, last in 2012); 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak (first appearance); Names of Istanbul (first appearance); Three Mile Island accident (2nd appearance, last in 2007; blurb previously featured Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and is making its 8th appearance overall, last in 2011)
• Repeats: 2 Pallas (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:41, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

2015 notes

• Omitted: 2 Pallas; 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; Names of Istanbul; Three Mile Island accident
• Included: Pertinax/Didius Julianus (Pertinax: 9th appearance, last in 2013; Julianus: 4th appearance, last in 2007); Battle of Glorieta Pass (6th appearance, last in 2012); St Nazaire Raid (2nd appearance, last in 2011); 1979 vote of no confidence in the government of James Callaghan (3rd appearance, last in 2013)
• Repeats: Fabre Hydravion (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

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

2016 notes

• Deleted: Ragnar Lodbrok (blurb now features Siege of Paris (845) and moved to March 29)
• Omitted: Battle of Glorieta Pass; Fabre Hydravion; St Nazaire Raid; 1979 vote of no confidence in the government of James Callaghan
• Included: 2 Pallas (6th appearance, last in 2014); 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Names of Istanbul (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Izbica massacre (2nd appearance, last in 2013)
• Repeats: Pertinax/Didius Julianus (both: 2nd consecutive appearance; Pertinax: 10 total; Julianus: 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:30, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

2017 notes

• Omitted: Pertinax/Didius Julianus (Julianus no longer eligible—maintenance); 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; Names of Istanbul; Three Mile Island accident; Izbica massacre
• Included: Battle of Glorieta Pass (7th appearance, last in 2015); Fabre Hydravion (4th appearance, last in 2015); 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident (4th appearance, last in 2013); James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (first appearance); Ernst Lindemann (first appearance); Lady Gaga (first appearance)
• Repeats: 2 Pallas (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:56, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

2018 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak (maintenance); Three Mile Island accident (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack
• Omitted: 2 Pallas; Battle of Glorieta Pass; Fabre Hydravion; James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan; Ernst Lindemann; Lady Gaga
• Included: Pertinax (11th appearance, last in 2016; 1025th anniversary); Battle of Valparaíso (first appearance); 1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 80th anniversary); St Nazaire Raid (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (first appearance); Terence MacSwiney (3rd appearance, last in 2013; normally appears on October 25); Sybil Irving (first appearance)
• Repeats: 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total; 10th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 03:02, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

2019 notes

• Omitted: Battle of Valparaíso (ineligible—maintenance); 1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash; St Nazaire Raid; 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident; Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova; Terence MacSwiney; Sybil Irving
• Included: 2 Pallas (8th appearance, last in 2017); Names of Istanbul (3rd appearance, last in 2016); 1979 vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry (4th appearance, last in 2015; 40th anniversary); Izbica massacre (3rd appearance, last in 2016; 20th anniversary); Isabella Markham (first appearance); Maxim Gorky (first appearance); Charles Schepens (first appearance)
• Repeats: Pertinax/Didius Julianus (Pertinax: 2nd consecutive appearance, 12 total; DJ: 6th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible)

—howcheng {chat} 16:17, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Istanbul, not Constantinople

The item about the "renaming" of Istanbul really ought never to have appeared here. The summary is blatantly misleading (there was no changing of the name of the city in 1930 or indeed at any other time; it had been called Istanbul since time immemorial; the only thing that may have happened in 1930 was that Turkish authorities asked people to start using the Turkish name in foreign languages). Also, there is only extremely slim evidence that any of this happened on this specific day in 1930, and no sourcing whatsoever about what exactly supposedly happened on that day. Of the two sources cited for the relevant sentence in the Names of Istanbul article, one doesn't mention this date at all, and the other is a blatantly unreliable junk piece from National Geographic (with factual howlers about all sorts of other issues, like "Ancient Greeks … called it Lygos", or, even worse: "… after the Greeks and Romans were forced out by the indigenous Ottoman Turks in about 1299". Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:48, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Future Perfect at Sunrise: Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 21:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

2020 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident (maintenance)
• New articles (ineligible): First Battle of Dernancourt (TFA for 2020)
• New articles (unused): John Amos Comenius; Harold Agnew
• Omitted: Pertinax/Didius Julianus; 1979 vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry; Izbica massacre; Isabella Markham; Maxim Gorky (ineligible—maintenance); Charles Schepens
• Included: Battle of Glorieta Pass (8th appearance, last in 2017); Fabre Hydravion (5th appearance, last in 2017); Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack (first appearance); Stephen Harding (first appearance); Gussie Busch (first appearance); Eileen Crofton (first appearance)
• Repeats: 2 Pallas (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total); Names of Istanbul (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total, then subsequently deleted as per above)

—howcheng {chat} 21:37, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Magellan's circumnavigation

It's the 500th anniversary of Magellan reaching the Philippines. I know you guys have Marcos fetishes, but hear me out. On March 28 was Magellan's first encounter in what would become Filipinos. Article looks great, but has 5 citation needed tags, but not about this specific event. Howard the Duck (talk) 21:32, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

@Howard the Duck: The article says he reached the Philippines on 16 March. We should have featured it that day. Other good options would be 1 November, when he sailed through the Strait or 20 September when they left Spain. —howcheng {chat} 06:58, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

@Howcheng: It reached the Philippines on March 16, but haven't encountered natives by March 28. This was the first contact between the cultures... unless you consider sand and some trees as culture. Howard the Duck (talk) 12:50, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

@Howard the Duck: I get that, but opinions are going to vary about which is the more significant date, and one the rules is that the date that the article gets featured on should be one of the most important ones to the subject. That's why I think the departure date or the date when they traversed the Strait (since that's named after him now) are better. —howcheng {chat} 16:06, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

@Howcheng: Surely the 500th anniversary of the first encounter of what would later become Filipinos is more significant than a routine presidential inauguration, isn't it?

Either way, another person has told me First Mass in the Philippines fits the bill. I suppose the Battle of Mactan does as well. Both articles are not yet up to par, but can be fixed up. Howard the Duck (talk) 16:16, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

I feel like the 16th is more significant because that's when they became the first known people to sail across the Pacific. Anyway, both of those articles would be fantastic additions. —howcheng {chat} 06:08, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

@Howcheng: Again, we missed the boat (literally) on this one. Very disappointing! Any of these three are 500x more significant than an inconsequential inauguration that was posted more than once. Howard the Duck (talk) 13:58, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

2021 notes

• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): First Battle of Dernancourt
• Omitted: Serfs Emancipation Day (ineligible—maintenance); 2 Pallas; Battle of Glorieta Pass (ineligible—maintenance); Fabre Hydravion; Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack; Stephen Harding; Gussie Busch; Eileen Crofton
• Included: Didius Julianus (7th appearance, last in 2019); St Nazaire Raid (4th appearance, last in 2018); Acheson–Lilienthal Report (first appearance; 75th anniversary); Izbica massacre (4th appearance, last in 2019); Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Ernst Lindemann (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Harold Agnew (first appearance; 100th birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 06:46, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

2022 notes

• Omitted: Didius Julianus; Acheson–Lilienthal Report; Izbica massacre; Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova; Ernst Lindemann; Harold Agnew
• Included: 2 Pallas (10th appearance, last in 2020); Vienna Philharmonic (first appearance); First Battle of Dernancourt (first appearance); 1979 vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry (5th appearance, last in 2019); Flodoard (first appearance); Solomon Foot (first appearance); John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice (first appearance)
• Repeats: St Nazaire Raid (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total; 80th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 04:19, 30 March 2022 (UTC)