Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 18


 * 1025 - Boleslaw I Chrobry is crowned as the first in history king of Poland.
 * 1506 - Construction of St. Peter's Basilica (pictured right) in Vatican City began.
 * 1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland and married to Sigismund I of Poland.
 * 1775 - Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons. Only Prescott finishes the ride.
 * 1906 - A very large earthquake hit San Francisco, California.
 * 1942 - World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo occurs.
 * 1947 - The British Royal Navy detonated 6,700 tonnes of explosives in Operation Big Bang to destroy bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany, creating the biggest non-nuclear explosion at that time.
 * 1955 - The first Bandung Conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia, with the aim of promoting Afro-Asian economic and cultural co-operation and opposing colonialism or neocolonialism.
 * 1955 - Albert Einstein dies in Princeton, New Jersey, United States
 * 1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) came into being.
 * 1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
 * 1996 - Over 100 Lebanese civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Qana (see Qana Massacre).
 * 2002 - A new order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.

Regarding the 1947 anniversary, is there any source that says that the intention was to destroy Heligoland? According to the (German) citation in the Heligoland page, it was used as a bombing range, and the British wished to destroy the German military fortifications, but I cannot see anything that indicates the British wanted to destroy the island itself. Indeed, the article says the opposite (using Google Translate). Could an administrator with access to the page please fix this? I suggest changing it to "...in a concentrated attempt to destroy German World War II fortifications on the small island of..." 68.42.243.198 (talk) 00:10, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

2012 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:00, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: 1996 shelling of Qana (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Paul Revere/William Dawes/Samuel Prescott (Dawes is ineligible—maintenance); 1906 San Francisco earthquake; Heligoland
 * Included: 1689 Boston revolt (first appearance); Superman (4th appearance, last in 2006; previously appeared on June 1); Doolittle Raid (7th appearance, last in 2010; 70th anniversary); Republic of Ireland (3rd appearance, last in 2005; previously appeared on December 29)
 * Repeats: St. Peter's Basilica (5th consecutive appearance, 9 total)

2013 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:02, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Superman; Doolittle Raid (ineligible—maintenance)
 * Included: Yankee Stadium (1923) (first appearance; 90th anniversary); Heligoland (3rd appearance, last in 2011); 1996 shelling of Qana (5th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible)
 * Repeats: St. Peter's Basilica (6th consecutive appearance, 10 total); 1689 Boston revolt (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Republic of Ireland (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

2014 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 08:22, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Omitted: St. Peter's Basilica (ineligible—Pietà (Michelangelo) is POTD for 2014); Yankee Stadium (1923) (ineligible—maintenance); Superman; Heligoland (ineligible—maintenance); Republic of Ireland (ineligible—maintenance)
 * Included: Battle of Cerro Gordo (first appearance); 1906 San Francisco earthquake (8th appearance, last in 2011); Ezra Pound (first appearance)
 * Repeats: 1689 Boston revolt (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total); 1996 shelling of Qana (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total)

2015 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 10:43, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Omitted: 1689 Boston revolt; 1906 San Francisco earthquake (ineligible—maintenance); Ezra Pound
 * Included: St. Peter's Basilica (11th appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible); Paul Revere (2nd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible; blurb previously also featured William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, but Dawes is currently ineligible and it doesn't make sense to feature Prescott if Dawes isn't also featured, but Revere can be featured by himself since he's the most famous); Superman/Action Comics 1 (Superman: 6th appearance, last in 2013; Action Comics: first appearance)
 * Repeats: Battle of Cerro Gordo (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); 1996 shelling of Qana (3rd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

2016 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:16, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Bolesław I the Brave
 * Omitted: Paul Revere
 * Included: 1689 Boston revolt (4th appearance, last in 2014)
 * Repeats: St. Peter's Basilica (2nd consecutive appearance, 12 total); Battle of Cerro Gordo (3rd appearance, 3 total); Superman/Action Comics 1 (both: 2nd consecutive appearance Superman: 7 total; Action: 2 total); 1996 shelling of Qana (4th consecutive appearance, 8 total; 20th anniversary)

2017 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:59, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Zimbabwe (ineligible—maintenance); St. Peter's Basilica (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Cerro Gordo
 * Included: Bolesław I the Brave (6th appearance, last in 2010); Ezra Pound (2nd appearance, last in 2014)
 * Repeats: 1689 Boston revolt (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Superman/Action Comics 1 (both: 3rd consecutive appearance; Superman: 8 total; Action: 3 total); Qana massacre (5th consecutive appearance, 9 total)

2018 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 04:27, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Bolesław I the Brave (deleted—exact date is unknown); 1689 Boston revolt; Lucrezia Borgia; John Leland (antiquary); Albert Einstein
 * Included: Real Academia de la Historia (first appearance); Roland Georges Garros (first appearance); Stephen Lekapenos (first appearance); Ludwig Levy (first appearance); Bertha Isaacs (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Superman (2nd consecutive appearance; blurb previously also featured Action Comics 1, which is now ineligible, and is making its 4th consecutive appearance, 5 total); Ezra Pound (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 60th anniversary); Qana massacre (6th consecutive appearance, 10 total)

2019 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 15:55, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Cerro Gordo (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Superman; Ezra Pound; Qana massacre; Stephen Lekapenos; Ludwig Levy; Bertha Isaacs
 * Included: Paul Revere (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Republic of Ireland (5th appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible; 70th anniversary); Bandung Conference (first appearance); Theobald of Bec (first appearance); Clara Elsene Peck (first appearance); Universo 2000 (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Real Academia de la Historia (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Roland Garros (aviator) (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2020 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 21:29, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Paul Revere; Roland Garros (aviator); Bandung Conference; Theobald of Bec; Clara Elsene Peck; Universo 2000
 * Included: 1689 Boston revolt (6th appearance, last in 2017); Ezra Pound (4th appearance, last in 2018); Robert Mugabe (8th appearance, last in 2015; moved from March 4); Ippolita Maria Sforza (first appearance); Justus von Liebig (2nd appearance, last in 2019; also appeared on May 12, his birthday); Martha Ripley (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Real Academia de la Historia (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Republic of Ireland (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total)

2021 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:43, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): Pigmeat Markham; Robert Christgau
 * Omitted: 1689 Boston revolt; Real Academia de la Historia; Republic of Ireland; Ezra Pound; Ludwig Levy; Martha Ripley
 * Included: Paul Revere (4th appearance, last in 2019); Roland Garros (aviator) (3rd appearance, last in 2019); Superman/Action Comics 1 (Superman: 10th appearance, last in 2018; AC: 4th appearance, last in 2017, was previously ineligible); Qana massacre (11th appearance, last in 2018; 25th anniversary); Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (first appearance); Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Robert Mugabe (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total); Ippolita Maria Sforza (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2022 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:47, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Real Academia de la Historia (maintenance); Bandung Conference (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Paul Revere; Action Comics 1 (blurb previously also featured Superman, which is currently ineligible); Qana massacre; Ippolita Maria Sforza; Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran; Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
 * Included: 1689 Boston revolt (7th appearance, last in 2020); Republic of Ireland (7th appearance, last in 2020); Ezra Pound (5th appearance, last in 2020); Mueller report (first appearance); Gratian (first appearance); Polydore Vergil (first appearance); Robert Christgau (first appearance; 80th birthday)
 * Repeats: Roland Garros (aviator) (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)