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Is there any "best practice" for dates? The attack on Iraq in 1991 started at 3am local time (January 17), 7pm Washington time (January 16). If you consider Operation Desert Storm more as media event, then Jan 16 is correct as the starting date. But I personally would prefer local time for local events, and GMT for global ones. What do you think --zeno 07:08 Jan 16, 2003 (UTC)

7pm on Jan.16 in Washington is 0h on Jan.17 by UTC. So, January 17 is preferred, I suppose. -- PFHLai 09:50, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)

BBC says its January 17th (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/861164.stm). -- PFHLai 09:56, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)

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MLK Day for 2006

I moved MLK Day and copyright safe picture for MLK day from Jan 17 Ahseaton 02:40, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

2012 notes

• Deleted: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (appears on November 23)
• Moved to Ineligible: Abd-ar-Rahman III (maintenance)
• Omitted: Ivan the Terrible, Don Quixote (ineligible—maintenance), Zimmermann Telegram (ineligible—maintenance), League of Nations, Führerbunker
• Included: Mattu Pongal (first appearance), Augustus (7th appearance, last in 2010), Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) (first appearance), Benny Goodman (first appearance), Jan Palach (3rd appearance, last in 2009)
• Repeats: Marcha Real (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:08, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

• Addendum: Magen David Day deleted (does not seem to exist). —howcheng {chat} 04:48, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Does "Magen David Day" exist?

I never heard of it and anyway most Israeli days are linked to Jewis, not Gregorian, calander, so it's even less likely to be real. DGtal (talk) 23:30, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

• Yeah, a Google search turns up nothing reliable. Deleted now. —howcheng {chat} 04:47, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

2013 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Ivan the Terrible (maintenance)
• Omitted: Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780); Jan Palach; Marcha Real
• Included: Battle of Corunna (4th appearance, last in 2010); Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (3rd appearance, last in 2010); Führerbunker (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
• Repeats: Augustus (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total); Benny Goodman (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 75th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 12:06, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes

• Omitted: Augustus; Battle of Corunna; Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Benny Goodman; Führerbunker
• Included: Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Hartley Colliery Disaster (first appearance); League of Nations (8th appearance, last in 2011); TWA Flight 3 (first appearance); Hello, Dolly! (musical) (first appearance; 50th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 06:55, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Addendum: Augustus was added to August 19 for the bimillennium of his death. —howcheng {chat} 16:11, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

2015 notes

• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Internet Engineering Task Force
• Omitted: League of Nations; TWA Flight 3; Hello, Dolly! (musical)
• Included: Augustus (10th appearance, last in 2013 (was on August 19, 2014 for death anniversary)); Führerbunker (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 70th anniversary); Jan Palach (4th appearance, last in 2012)
• Repeats: Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Hartley Colliery Disaster (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:47, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

2016 notes

• Omitted: Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780); Hartley Colliery disaster; Führerbunker; Jan Palach
• Included: Battle of Corunna (5th appearance, last in 2013); Benny Goodman (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Internet Engineering Task Force (first appearance; 30th anniversary); Marcha Real (3rd appearance, last in 2012)
• Repeats: Augustus (2nd consecutive appearance, 11 total)

—howcheng {chat} 11:50, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

2017 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Hartley Colliery disaster (maintenance); Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (maintenance)
• Omitted: Augustus; Battle of Corunna; Benny Goodman; Internet Engineering Task Force; Marcha Real (ineligible—maintenance)
• Included: Rungholt (first appearance); Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) (4th appearance, last in 2015); League of Nations (9th appearance, last in 2014); TWA Flight 3 (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Hello, Dolly! (musical) (2nd appearance, last in 2014)

—howcheng {chat} 08:03, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

2018 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Augustus (maintenance); Benny Goodman (maintenance); Jan Palach (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): Frank McGee (ice hockey)
• Omitted: Rungholt; Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780); League of Nations; TWA Flight 3; Hello, Dolly! (musical) (ineligible—maintenance)
• Included: Battle of Corunna (6th appearance, last in 2016); Hartley Colliery disaster (3rd appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); Führerbunker (4th appearance, last in 2015); Internet Engineering Task Force (3rd appearance, last in 2016); 2016 Ouagadougou attacks (first appearance); Guru Har Rai (first appearance); Miguel Ángel Mancera (first appearance); Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 04:29, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 17 January 2018

Change "twenty-one United States-government-funded researchers" to "21 United States government–funded researchers" Holy (talk) 22:41, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Nope, per WP:MOSNUM, Integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in words (16 or sixteen, 84 or eighty-four, 200 or two hundred). Numbers between 21 and 99 are hyphenated (including when part of a larger number): fifty-six or fifty-six thousand but five hundred or five thousand. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:44, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

2019 notes

• Omitted: Battle of Corunna; Hartley Colliery disaster; Führerbunker; Internet Engineering Task Force; 2016 Ouagadougou attacks; Guru Har Rai; Miguel Ángel Mancera; Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri
• Included: Augustus (12th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) (5th appearance, last in 2017); Frank McGee (ice hockey) (first appearance); League of Nations (10th appearance, last in 2017); Hello, Dolly! (musical) (3rd appearance, last in 2017; rescued from Ineligible); Nikephoros Choumnos (first appearance); William Hall-Jones (first appearance); Pauline Phillips (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 17:15, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

2020 notes

• New articles (unused): Jose Calugas; Mrauk U riot
• Omitted: Augustus; Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780); Frank McGee (ice hockey); Hello, Dolly! (musical); Nikephoros Choumnos; William Hall-Jones; Pauline Phillips
• Included: Rungholt (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Battle of Corunna (7th appearance, last in 2018); Führerbunker (7th appearance, last in 2018; 75th anniversary); Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I) (first appearance); Edward Gibbon (5th appearance, last in 2015; moved from October 15); Marjorie Williams (first appearance)
• Repeats: League of Nations (2nd consecutive appearance, 11 total; 100th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 16:37, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

2021 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Internet Engineering Task Force (maintenance)
• New articles (ineligible): Richard Goodwin Keats (maintenance); John C. Breckinridge (TFA for 2021)
• Omitted: Rungholt (deleted—date unknown); Battle of Corunna; League of Nations; Führerbunker; Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I); Edward Gibbon; Marjorie Williams
• Included: Hartley Colliery disaster (4th appearance, last in 2018); Jose Calugas (first appearance); Hello, Dolly! (musical) (4th appearance, last in 2019); Mrauk U riot (first appearance); Anton Schindler (first appearance); Miguel Ángel Mancera (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Lorna Kesterson (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 03:27, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

2022 notes

• Omitted: Hartley Colliery disaster; Jose Calugas; Hello, Dolly! (musical); Mrauk U riot; Anton Schindler; Miguel Ángel Mancera
• Included: Bigod's rebellion (first appearance); Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) (6th appearance, last in 2019); Frank McGee (ice hockey) (2nd appearance, last in 2019); TWA Flight 3/Carole Lombard (Flight: 3rd appearance, last in 2017; Lombard: first); 2016 Ouagadougou attacks (2nd appearance, last in 2018); John C. Breckinridge (first appearance); Osip Brik (first appearance)
• Repeats: Lorna Kesterson (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 10th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 18:57, 17 January 2022 (UTC)