Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/June 20

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Hiyō (Flying Hawk) was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Begun as the ocean liner Izumo Maru in 1939, she was purchased by the Navy Ministry in 1941 for conversion to an aircraft carrier. Completed shortly after the Battle of Midway in June 1942, she participated in the Guadalcanal Campaign, but missed the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October because of an electrical generator fire. The carrier's aircraft were disembarked several times and used from land bases in battles in the South West Pacific. Hiyō was torpedoed in mid-1943 and spent three months under repair. She spent most of the next six months training and ferrying aircraft before returning to combat. She was sunk by a gasoline-vapour explosion caused by an American torpedo hit during the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 20 June 1944 with the loss of 247 officers and ratings, about a fifth of her complement. (This article is part of a featured topic: Hiyō class aircraft carrier.)

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Third Estate ? National Assembly ? edit

Re: 1789 - 577 Deputies of the French Third Estate (commoners) took the Tennis Court Oath, starting the French Revolution.

The Third Estate ? I thought the Third Estate ceased to exist three days earlier and was replaced by the National Assembly. No ? -- 64.229.229.120 14:11, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bugsy Siegel Death Location edit

Bugsy was murdered at the home he shared with Virginia Hill in Beverly Hills, California, not in Las Vegas. see here, or several other biographys can be found with a google search. - Satori 23:25, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Or his death certificate. Sounds good to me. Hajor 23:32, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fathers Day edit

Could someone change the text saying Father's day in bulgaria to say something like Father's day in several countries, or something similair? If you look at the fathers day article, there are many other countries celebrating fathers day on the same day.

Thanks! Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 02:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Fixed. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:21, 20 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Victoria edit

The entry reads "staring a reign"—"staring" should be "starting"; it would be appreciated if someone could correct that. Thanks. Janggeom (talk) 02:46, 20 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ezeiza edit

I have hidden the caption of the article about the Ezeiza massacre because, as I detailed in the talk page, the accuracy may be under dispute. I could also have erased that, but this would help is the problem is fixed and the caption restored. The article in Spanish is of no help (there is no neutral point of view at all), we should fix it ourselves. If I fix it before June, I will say so here. MBelgrano (talk) 14:54, 24 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

2012 notes edit

Note: International Surfing Day is normally on June 21, but this year is a leap year. howcheng {chat} 09:31, 19 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

2013 notes edit

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2014 notes edit

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2015 notes edit

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2016 notes edit

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2017 notes edit

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2018 notes edit

howcheng {chat} 07:10, 20 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Proposal edit

@Howcheng: I see today Death of Neda Agha-Soltan's article nominated for OTD has Tg and POV issue. I Wonder if you replace it with 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion which never be nominated for OTD as well as I expanded the article, now is not short. Regards!Saff V. (talk) 10:47, 19 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

I had to rewrite a lot of it (not your fault as you are obviously not a native English speaker), but there is one issue in the "Aftermath" section. It's not enough to keep the article out, but you may want to look at it. howcheng {chat} 16:49, 19 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

2019 notes edit

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2020 notes edit

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2021 notes edit

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2022 notes edit

howcheng {chat} 03:18, 22 June 2022 (UTC)Reply