Wikipedia:Main Page history/2023 December 17

 Welcome to Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,758,230 articles in English

From today's featured article  J. Robert Oppenheimer The Oppenheimer security hearing, conducted by the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1954, explored the background, actions and associations of J. Robert Oppenheimer (pictured). He had headed the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, playing a key part in the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. Doubts about Oppenheimer's loyalty dated back to the 1930s, when he was associated with Communist Party USA members, including his wife Katherine. He was involved in disputes over the types of nuclear weapons the country required, technical disputes over the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb, and personal conflict with AEC commissioner Lewis Strauss. The panel found that he was loyal and discreet, but did not recommend that he regain his security clearance. This ended his role in government, and he became an academic exile, cut off from his former career and the world he had helped to create. The findings were seen as fair by some and as an expression of McCarthyism by others. (Full article...)

Recently featured: 


 * Lever House
 * Yugoslav torpedo boat T1
 * Temple of Apollo Palatinus

 Did you know ...  Commemoration of the Krasowo-Częstki massacre  In the news   Expo City in Dubai
 * Archive
 * By email
 * More featured articles
 * About
 * ... that during World War II, a Polish priest and a German officer could not prevent the massacre of 257 inhabitants of a Polish village (commemoration pictured) &#63;
 * ... that despite not owning a road bike the year before, Nickolas Zukowsky placed third in the 2016 Canadian National Junior Road Race Championships?
 * ... that rural Afghans keep fresh grapes in mud?
 * ... that the New York Post called Paige Lorenze the "female Pete Davidson"?
 * ... that Crystal Dynamics was the first developer for the PlayStation outside Japan?
 * ... that Walter A. Groves received a job offer from Centre College by telegram around the same time that he was forced to leave his work as a missionary in Iran due to the country being invaded?
 * ... that despite being rivals since 1977, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers have only played each other twice in the playoffs, with each team winning once?
 * ... that Jimmy Fallon and Meghan Trainor wrote their song "Wrap Me Up" over FaceTime, during which she described being "so nervous [her] heart was in [her] ass"?
 * Archive
 * Start a new article
 * Nominate an article

Ongoing:  Recent deaths&#58;   On this day December 17: Wright Brothers Day in the United States (1903); International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers  Memorial to victims killed during the 1970 Polish protests <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"> <ul><li>Rumi ( d. 1273)</li><li>Émile Roux  ( b. 1853)</li><li>Willard Libby  ( b. 1908)</li><li>Alicia Boole Stott  ( d. 1940)</li></ul> More anniversaries: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/>
 * Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah becomes Emir of Kuwait after the death of his half-brother, Nawaf.
 * The COP28 climate change summit (location pictured) ends with a call to transition away from the use of fossil fuels.
 * Donald Tusk becomes Prime Minister of Poland in the aftermath of the October parliamentary election.
 * Baldur's Gate 3 wins game of the year at The Game Awards.
 * At least 17 people are killed as Cyclone Michaung makes landfall in India.
 * Israel–Hamas war
 * Myanmar civil war
 * Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * timeline
 * War in Sudan
 * Frank Wycheck
 * Roger McMurrin
 * Gao Yaojie
 * Zahara
 * Renée
 * Andre Braugher
 * Nominate an article
 * 942 – William Longsword of Normandy was ambushed and assassinated by supporters of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, while the two were at a peace conference to settle their differences.
 * 1948 – The Finnish Security Police was established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
 * 1967 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered.
 * 1970 – Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country.
 * 2010 – Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian Revolution.
 * December 16
 * December 17
 * December 18
 * Archive
 * By email
 * List of days of the year

<h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">Today's featured picture <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects <templatestyles src="Wikipedia's sister projects/styles.css" /> Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:
 * Community portal – The central hub for editors, with resources, links, tasks, and announcements.
 * Village pump – Forum for discussions about Wikipedia itself, including policies and technical issues.
 * Site news – Sources of news about Wikipedia and the broader Wikimedia movement.
 * Teahouse – Ask basic questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
 * Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
 * Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics.
 * Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.

<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> <ul id="sister-projects-list"> <li> Commons Free media repository </li> <li> MediaWiki Wiki software development </li> <li> Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination </li> <li> Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals </li> <li> Wikidata Free knowledge base </li> <li> Wikinews Free-content news </li> <li> Wikiquote Collection of quotations </li> <li> Wikisource Free-content library </li> <li> Wikispecies Directory of species </li> <li> Wikiversity Free learning tools </li> <li> Wikivoyage Free travel guide </li> <li> Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus </li> </ul> <h2 id="mp-lang" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia languages <templatestyles src="Wikipedia languages/styles.css"/> This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below. <li> 1,000,000+ articles <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> </li> <li> 250,000+ articles <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> </li> <li> 50,000+ articles <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> </li> </ul>
 * <span class="autonym" title="Arabic (ar:)" lang="ar">العربية
 * <span class="autonym" title="German (de:)" lang="de">Deutsch
 * <span class="autonym" title="Spanish (es:)" lang="es">Español
 * <span class="autonym" title="French (fr:)" lang="fr">Français
 * <span class="autonym" title="Italian (it:)" lang="it">Italiano
 * <span class="autonym" title="Dutch (nl:)" lang="nl">Nederlands
 * <span class="autonym" title="Japanese (ja:)" lang="ja">日本語
 * <span class="autonym" title="Polish (pl:)" lang="pl">Polski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Portuguese (pt:)" lang="pt">Português
 * <span class="autonym" title="Russian (ru:)" lang="ru">Русский
 * <span class="autonym" title="Swedish (sv:)" lang="sv">Svenska
 * <span class="autonym" title="Ukrainian (uk:)" lang="uk">Українська
 * <span class="autonym" title="Vietnamese (vi:)" lang="vi">Tiếng Việt
 * <span class="autonym" title="Chinese (zh:)" lang="zh">中文
 * <span class="autonym" title="Indonesian (id:)" lang="id">Bahasa Indonesia
 * <span class="autonym" title="Malay (ms:)" lang="ms">Bahasa Melayu
 * <span class="autonym" title="Min Nan Chinese (nan:)" lang="nan">Bân-lâm-gú
 * <span class="autonym" title="Bulgarian (bg:)" lang="bg">Български
 * <span class="autonym" title="Catalan (ca:)" lang="ca">Català
 * <span class="autonym" title="Czech (cs:)" lang="cs">Čeština
 * <span class="autonym" title="Danish (da:)" lang="da">Dansk
 * <span class="autonym" title="Esperanto (eo:)" lang="eo">Esperanto
 * <span class="autonym" title="Basque (eu:)" lang="eu">Euskara
 * <span class="autonym" title="Persian (fa:)" lang="fa">فارسی&lrm;
 * <span class="autonym" title="Hebrew (he:)" lang="he">עברית
 * <span class="autonym" title="Armenian (hy:)" lang="hy">Հայերեն
 * <span class="autonym" title="Korean (ko:)" lang="ko">한국어
 * <span class="autonym" title="Hungarian (hu:)" lang="hu">Magyar
 * <span class="autonym" title="Norwegian (no:)" lang="no">Norsk bokmål
 * <span class="autonym" title="Romanian (ro:)" lang="ro">Română
 * <span class="autonym" title="Serbian (sr:)" lang="sr">Srpski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Serbo-Croatian (sh:)" lang="sh">Srpskohrvatski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Finnish (fi:)" lang="fi">Suomi
 * <span class="autonym" title="Turkish (tr:)" lang="tr">Türkçe
 * <span class="autonym" title="Asturian (ast:)" lang="ast">Asturianu
 * <span class="autonym" title="Bangla (bn:)" lang="bn">বাংলা
 * <span class="autonym" title="Bosnian (bs:)" lang="bs">Bosanski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Central Kurdish (ckb:)" lang="ckb">کوردی
 * <span class="autonym" title="Estonian (et:)" lang="et">Eesti
 * <span class="autonym" title="Greek (el:)" lang="el">Ελληνικά
 * <span class="autonym" title="Simple English (simple:)" lang="en">Simple English
 * <span class="autonym" title="Western Frisian (fy:)" lang="fy">Frysk
 * <span class="autonym" title="Irish (ga:)" lang="ga">Gaeilge
 * <span class="autonym" title="Galician (gl:)" lang="gl">Galego
 * <span class="autonym" title="Croatian (hr:)" lang="hr">Hrvatski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Georgian (ka:)" lang="ka">ქართული
 * <span class="autonym" title="Latvian (lv:)" lang="lv">Latviešu
 * <span class="autonym" title="Lithuanian (lt:)" lang="lt">Lietuvių
 * <span class="autonym" title="Malayalam (ml:)" lang="ml">മലയാളം
 * <span class="autonym" title="Macedonian (mk:)" lang="mk">Македонски
 * <span class="autonym" title="Norwegian Nynorsk (nn:)" lang="nn">Norsk nynorsk
 * <span class="autonym" title="Punjabi (pa:)" lang="pa">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
 * <span class="autonym" title="Albanian (sq:)" lang="sq">Shqip
 * <span class="autonym" title="Slovak (sk:)" lang="sk">Slovenčina
 * <span class="autonym" title="Slovenian (sl:)" lang="sl">Slovenščina
 * <span class="autonym" title="Thai (th:)" lang="th">ไทย
 * <span class="autonym" title="Telugu (te:)" lang="te">తెలుగు
 * <span class="autonym" title="Uzbek (uz:)" lang="uz">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча