Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 2

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 * 1513 - Juan Ponce de León first European to enter Florida.

--mav 04:18, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * Oops. Juan Ponce de León was already featured last week for sighting Florida. -- PFHLai 07:19, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)

Candidates


 * 1801 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen - The British destroy the Danish fleet.
 * 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
 * 1902 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States , opens in Los Angeles, California.
 * 1982 - Falklands War: Argentina invades the British-owned Falkland Islands starting the war.
 * 1993 - Doom alpha version 0.4 is finished.
 * 2002 - Israeli forces surrounded the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem which has around 200 Palestinians inside. A siege ensues.

2012 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 10:10, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: As the World Turns (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Battle of Copenhagen; Liberal Movement (Australia); Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
 * Included: Suvarnadurg (first appearance); 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands (6th appearance, last in 2010); April 2, 2006 Central United States tornado outbreak
 * Repeats: Juan Ponce de León (4th consecutive appearance, 5 total); Census in Australia (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)
 * For future updates, do consider the opening of the National Convention of New Sudan. --Soman (talk) 04:15, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that article is too short. — howcheng  {chat} 04:38, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

2013 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:41, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Suvarnadurg; Census in Australia; April 2, 2006 Central United States tornado outbreak
 * Included: Battle of Copenhagen (9th appearance, last in 2011); Frog Lake Massacre (first appearance); LexisNexis (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Juan Ponce de León (5th consecutive appearance, 6 total; 500th anniversary); 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

2014 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:24, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Juan Ponce de León; LexisNexis
 * Included: Suvarnadurg (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Liberal Movement (Australia) (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
 * Repeats: Battle of Copenhagen (2nd consecutive appearance, 10 total); Frog Lake Massacre (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands (3rd consecutive appearance, 8 total)

2015 notes

 * New articles (unused): Third Battle of Petersburg (normally would be included for its 150th anniversary, but Battle of Five Forks was just used on April 1)
 * Omitted: World Autism Awareness Day (ineligible—stub); Battle of Copenhagen (1801) (ineligible—maintenance); Liberal Movement (Australia); 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands
 * Included: Census in Australia (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Rakesh Sharma (2nd appearance, last in 2008; rescued from Ineligible); Oikos University shooting (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Suvarnadurg (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Frog Lake Massacre (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

2016 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:35, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * New articles (ineligible): Onbashira (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Suvarnadurg; Frog Lake Massacre; Rakesh Sharma; Oikos University shooting;
 * Included: World Autism Awareness Day (rescued from Ineligible); Juan Ponce de León (7th appearance, last in 2013); Third Battle of Petersburg (first appearance); 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands (9th appearance, last in 2014); April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 10th anniversary)
 * Repeats: Census in Australia (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

2017 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:57, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Rakesh Sharma (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Juan Ponce de León; Third Battle of Petersburg; 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands; April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak
 * Included: Suvarnadurg (4th appearance, last in 2015); Frog Lake Massacre (4th appearance, last in 2015); Bijeljina massacre (first appearance; 25th anniversary); Garissa University College attack (first appearance); Prince George of Denmark (first appearance); Max Ernst (first appearance); Elizabeth Catlett (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Census in Australia (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

2018 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): John Gotti
 * New articles (unused): Sverdlovsk anthrax leak
 * Omitted: World Autism Awareness Day (ineligible—maintenance); Suvarnadurg (ineligible—maintenance); Frog Lake Massacre (ineligible—maintenance); Census in Australia (ineligible—maintenance); Garissa University College attack; Prince George of Denmark; Max Ernst (ineligible—maintenance); Elizabeth Catlett
 * Included: Juan Ponce de León (8th appearance, last in 2016); Southern bread riots (first appearance); Liberal Movement (Australia) (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (4th appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Maria Sibylla Merian (first appearance); Clément Ader (first appearance); Ranjitsinhji (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Bijeljina massacre (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2019 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 15:36, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: LexisNexis (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Liberal Movement (Australia); Bijeljina massacre; Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem; Maria Sibylla Merian; Clément Ader; Ranjitsinhji
 * Included: World Autism Awareness Day (rescued from Ineligible); Norodom Sihanouk (7th appearance, last in 2017; moved from April 4); Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (first appearance; 40th anniversary); Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary (first appearance); Wilhelmine Reichard (first appearance); Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet (first appearance); Juanito (footballer, born 1954) (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Juan Ponce de León (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total); Southern bread riots (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2020 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:59, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Southern bread riots; Norodom Sihanouk; Sverdlovsk anthrax leak; Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary; Wilhelmine Reichard; Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet; Juanito (footballer, born 1954)
 * Included: Malvinas Day (rescued from Ineligible); Third Battle of Petersburg (2nd appearance, last in 2016); Liberal Movement (Australia) (4th appearance, last in 2018); Rakesh Sharma (3rd appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (5th appearance, last in 2018); Muflih al-Turki (first appearance); Arthur, Prince of Wales (first appearance); Lise Thibault (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Juan Ponce de León (3rd consecutive appearance, 10 total)

2021 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 18:04, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Southern bread riots (maintenance); Norodom Sihanouk (date not certain)
 * New articles (ineligible): Giacomo Casanova (maintenance)
 * New articles (unused): Charlemagne; Paškal Buconjić
 * Omitted: Malvinas Day (ineligible—maintenance); Juan Ponce de León; Liberal Movement (Australia); Rakesh Sharma; Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem; Muflih al-Turki; Arthur, Prince of Wales; Lise Thibault
 * Included: 1911 Australian census (first appearance; blurb previously featured Census in Australia and its making its 5th appearance, last in 2017); Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Bijeljina massacre (3rd appearance, last in 2018); Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Maria Sibylla Merian (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Albert Pike (first appearance); Sue Townsend (first appearance; 75th birthday)
 * Repeats: Third Battle of Petersburg (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

2022 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:35, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): Arthur Kopit
 * Omitted: Third Battle of Petersburg; 1911 Australian census; Sverdlovsk anthrax leak; Bijeljina massacre; Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary; Maria Sibylla Merian; Albert Pike; Sue Townsend
 * Included: Malvinas Day (rescued from Ineligible); Treaty of Constantinople (1800) (first appearance); Southern bread riots (3rd appearance, last in 2019; rescued from Ineligible); 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands (6th appearance, last in 2016; 40th anniversary); John Gotti (10th appearance, last in 2009; 30th anniversary); Siege of the Church of the Nativity (first appearance); Charlemagne (7th appearance, last in 2009; previously appeared on December 25); Paškal Buconjić (first appearance); Juanito (footballer, born 1954) (2nd appearance, last in 2019; 30th anniversary)