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I would like to suggest that Sweetest Day be added as one of the holidays. It should say something like:

October 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day, Sweetest Day in the United States
--Transfinite 17:54, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd pass, as long as the {{dispute}} tag is on Sweetest Day. Not sure if this Hallmark holiday is notable enough, anyway. -- PFHLai 02:31, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks like people are now edit-warring on Sweetest Day. So let's not put it on MainPage. The 3rd Saturday in October is not October 22, anyway. --PFHLai 16:28, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Do not forget 100th anniversary of first heavier-than-air flight by Alberto Santos-Dumont today. --R.Sabbatini 21:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Wish I had seen this earlier. :-( Anyway, it's now on the Sel.Anniv. template for Oct.23rd and hopefully will appear on MainPage in 2007. --PFHLai 09:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Great Disappointment

I suggest a rename of the "great disappointment" to the following:

• "Millerites including future Seventh-day Adventists were..."

The Seventh-day Adventist Church sprang out of the Great Disappointment, and is the most prominent such group today, however there were also other groups which faded into nonexistence, and also others which remain today but are less notable. Colin MacLaurin 08:26, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

"Greatest" disaster

I don't know if "greatest" is the best word for a disaster. Maybe "worst"? Wknight94 ^talk 03:12, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

That's what it said in the article. :/ howcheng {chat} 06:54, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

2012 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Sam Houston (maintenance); Maurice Papon (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): 1740 Batavia massacre (TFA on September 4)
• Omitted: Scilly naval disaster of 1707; Incandescent light bulb; Panic of 1907
• Included Ladoga Canal (first appearance); Great Disappointment (6th appearance, last in 2010); Gare Montparnasse (first appearance)
• Repeats: Cuban missile crisis (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total); Chandrayaan-1 (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:32, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

2013 notes

• Omitted: Ladoga Canal; Great Disappointment; Montparnasse derailment; Chandrayaan-1
• Included: 1740 Batavia massacre (first appearance); André-Jacques Garnerin (first appearance); Blantyre mining disaster (first appearance); Panic of 1907 (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
• Repeats: Cuban missile crisis (3rd consecutive appearance, 8 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:07, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 22 October 2013

André-Jacques Garnerin didn't jump from a balloon, he dropped from one; he remained in the same gondola during the balloon ascent and parachute descent. So, change it to something like "Dropping from a hydrogen balloon..." WolfmanSF (talk) 01:16, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 03:10, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Ladoga Canal (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013
• Omitted: 1740 Batavia massacre; André-Jacques Garnerin; Blantyre mining disaster; Panic of 1907
• Included: Battle of Liaoluo Bay (first appearance); Scilly naval disaster of 1707 (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Incandescent light bulb (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Maurice Papon (3rd appearance, last in 2006; rescued from Ineligible)
• Repeats: Cuban missile crisis (4th consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:45, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

2015 notes

• Added and deleted: Disappearance of Tara Grinstead (not notable enough)
• Moved to Ineligible: Great Disappointment (maintenance)
• Omitted: Battle of Liaoluo Bay; Scilly naval disaster of 1707; Incandescent light bulb; Maurice Papon (ineligible—maintenance)
• Included: 1740 Batavia massacre (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 275th anniversary); Universal Time (2nd appearance, last in 2010; moved from October 13); Montparnasse derailment (first appearance; blurb previously featured Gare Montparnasse and is making its 2nd appearance, last in 2012); Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 (first appearance)
• Repeats: Cuban Missile Crisis (5th consecutive appearance; 10 total)

—howcheng {chat} 10:29, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

2016 notes

• Omitted: 1740 Batavia massacre; International Meridian Conference/Universal Time; Montparnasse derailment; Cuban Missile Crisis; Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013
• Included: Battle of Liaoluo Bay (2nd appearance, last in 2014); George II of Great Britain/Caroline of Ansbach (both: first appearance); Great Disappointment (7th appearance, last in 2012; rescued from Ineligible); Belgian government in exile (first appearance); Chandrayaan-1 (3rd appearance, last in 2012)

—howcheng {chat} 06:05, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

2017 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Incandescent light bulb (maintenance); International Meridian Conference/Universal Time (both: maintenance); Cuban Missile Crisis (maintenance); Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 (maintenance)
• Omitted: Battle of Liaoluo Bay; George II of Great Britain/Caroline of Ansbach (Caroline: ineligible—maintenance); Great Disappointment (ineligible—maintenance); Belgian government in exile; Chandrayaan-1 (ineligible—maintenance)
• Included: André-Jacques Garnerin (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Blantyre mining disaster (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Panic of 1907 (3rd appearance, last in 2013); The Supremes (first appearance); Grand Theft Auto III (first appearance); Qian Weijun (first appearance); Sahle Selassie (first appearance); Deepak Chopra (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 02:55, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

2018 notes

• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): George II of Great Britain/Caroline of Ansbach
• New articles (ineligible): Charles Scott (governor) (TFA for 2018)
• Omitted: André-Jacques Garnerin; Blantyre mining disaster; Panic of 1907; The Supremes; Grand Theft Auto III; Qian Weijun; Sahle Selassie; Deepak Chopra
• Included: Battle of Liaoluo Bay (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Scilly naval disaster of 1707 (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Montparnasse derailment (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Toastmasters International (4th appearance, last in 2007; rescued from Ineligible); Trollhättan school attack; George Coulthard (first appearance); Edith Kawelohea McKinzie (first appearance); Oona King (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 18:19, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

2019 notes

• Omitted: Battle of Liaoluo Bay (ineligible—maintenance); Scilly naval disaster of 1707; Montparnasse derailment; Toastmasters International; Trollhättan school attack; George Coulthard; Edith Kawelohea McKinzie; Oona King
• Included: Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh (first appearance); George II of Great Britain/Caroline of Ansbach (both: 2nd appearance, last in 2016); Blantyre mining disaster (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Belgian government in exile (2nd appearance, last in 2016); Grand Theft Auto III (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Johann Reinhold Forster (first appearance); Charles Scott (governor) (first appearance); Hannah Mitchell (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 16:41, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Franz Liszt

Will Liszt be included in the birth and death things? Thy Pyrometer (talk) 00:52, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

@Thy Pyrometer: I count 26 {{citation needed}} tags in there. The quality isn't good enough. —howcheng {chat} 03:00, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

@Howcheng: Thanks! Thy Pyrometer (talk) 06:14, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

2020 notes

• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Great Disappointment
• Omitted: Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh; George II of Great Britain/Caroline of Ansbach; Blantyre mining disaster; Grand Theft Auto III; Johann Reinhold Forster; Charles Scott (governor); Hannah Mitchell
• Included: Pope John Paul II (9th appearance, last in 2018; moved from October 16); André-Jacques Garnerin (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Montparnasse derailment (3rd appearance, last in 2018; 125th anniversary); The Supremes (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Trollhättan school attack (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (first appearance); Charles Kingston (first appearance); Betty Binns Fletcher (first appearance)
• Repeats: Belgian government in exile (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 80th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 02:43, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

2021 notes

• Deleted: Sam Houston (also appears on September 5)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013
• New articles (unused): James K. Baxter
• Omitted: André-Jacques Garnerin; Montparnasse derailment; The Supremes; Trollhättan school attack; Constantine Samuel Rafinesque; Charles Kingston; Betty Binns Fletcher
• Included: Battle of Liaoluo Bay (4th appearance, last in 2018; rescued from Ineligible); 1740 Batavia massacre (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Panic of 1907 (4th appearance, last in 2017); Grand Theft Auto III (3rd appearance, last in 2019; 20th anniversary); James Strachan-Davidson (first appearance); George Coulthard (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Deepak Chopra (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 75th birthday)
• Repeats: Belgian government in exile (3rd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:30, 23 October 2021 (UTC)