Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 5


 * 1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
 * 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
 * 1621 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain.
 * 1654 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War.
 * 1792 - United States President George Washington vetos a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto has been used in the United States.
 * 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Yorktown (1862) - The battle begins when Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
 * 1930 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
 * 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
 * 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing heath.
 * 1957 - In India, Communists won the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad sworn in as the first chief minister.
 * 1973 - Pierre Messmer becomes Prime Minister of France
 * 1976 - In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement led to the Tiananmen incident
 * 1991 - ASA Embraer EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia killing all 23 aboard.
 * 1998 - In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing cost about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
 * 1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
 * 1999 - In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard.

Today is Arbor Day in South Korea. Pls add. Thanks.
Today is Arbor Day in South Korea. Pls add. Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 03:18, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Pls add Hansik instead. Thanks. --199.71.174.100 21:35, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

add Super Sentai first episode
Can you add the first episode of Gorenger, which started Super Sentai, pls add. 174.117.253.250 (talk) 00:50, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Himitsu Sentai Gorenger has a big fat maintenance box at the top of the article, so that's out. As for Super Sentai, we just had Kamen Rider Series, so there's no way we're going to have two tokusatsu articles appearing on the Main Page so close each other. Besides, that article needs more references as well. — howcheng  {chat} 03:53, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

We could select this next year 174.117.253.250 (talk) 19:51, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, we could. Please make sure the articles are improved by then. Thanks. — howcheng  {chat} 20:40, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

2012 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 05:24, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Easter Island; Birkenhead Park; Akashi Kaikyō Bridge; Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2
 * Included: Alexios I Komnenos (first appearance); Easter Sunday Raid (first appearance); Siege of Sarajevo (3rd appearance, last in 2010); Upper Big Branch Mine disaster (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Compromise of Nobles (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2013 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 01:11, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Deleted: Winston Churchill (moved to April 7)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Easter Island (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Compromise of Nobles; Easter Sunday Raid; Siege of Sarajevo; Upper Big Branch Mine disaster
 * Included: Invasion of Ryukyu (first appearance); Birkenhead Park (4th appearance, last in 2011); Linear B (first appearance); Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
 * Repeats: Alexios I Komnenos (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2014 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:15, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Alexios I Komnenos; Invasion of Ryukyu; Birkenhead Park; Linear B (ineligible—maintenance); Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2
 * Included: Compromise of Nobles (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Easter Island (2nd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Siege of Yorktown (1862) (3rd appearance, last in 2010); Ripple Rock (first appearance); Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (7th appearance, last in 2011)

2015 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 10:25, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak
 * Omitted: Compromise of Nobles; Siege of Yorktown (1862); Ripple Rock; Akashi Kaikyō Bridge
 * Included: Invasion of Ryukyu (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Birkenhead Park (5th appearance, last in 2013); Easter Sunday Raid (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Siege of Sarajevo (4th appearance, last in 2012)
 * Repeats: Easter Island (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

2016 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:55, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Invasion of Ryukyu; Easter Island; Easter Sunday Raid; Siege of Sarajevo
 * Included: Alexios I Komnenos (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Compromise of Nobles (4th appearance, last in 2014); 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak (3rd appearance, last in 2006; 80th anniversary); Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 (3rd appearance, last in 2013)
 * Repeats: Birkenhead Park (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total)

Saul Bellow and Thomas Hobbes
I've removed both these suggestions from the born/died this day section as neither seem to be at main-page standard on referencing. There are whole paragraphs in both articles which lack citations. MurielMary (talk) 10:31, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

2017 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 04:27, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Invasion of Ryukyu (maintenance); Easter Island (maintenance); Easter Sunday Raid (maintenance); Ripple Rock (maintenance); Siege of Sarajevo (maintenance); Upper Big Branch Mine disaster (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Compromise of Nobles; Birkenhead Park (ineligible—maintenance)
 * Included: Pocahontas (2nd appearance, last in 2010); Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (8th appearance, last in 2014); Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet (first appearance); Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (first appearance); Stella Creasy (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Alexios I Komnenos (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

2018 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 03:10, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Siege of Yorktown (1862) (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Pocahontas; Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2; Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet; Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté; Stella Creasy
 * Included: Cold Food Festival (rescued from Ineligible); Statute of Anne (4th appearance, last in 2016; moved from April 10 because there are almost no eligible articles on this date); 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing (first appearance); Al-Mu'tadid (first appearance); Thure de Thulstrup (first appearance); Olek (artist) (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Alexios I Komnenos (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total); 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total; 20th anniversary)

Hansik error
The entry for Hansik erroneously suggests that it is exclusive to the Republic of Korea - it is in fact celebrated accross the Vietnam, China, and the two Koreas. BrxBrx(talk)(please reply with BrxBrx ) 01:38, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * In China, it was replaced by the Qingming Festival, and in Vietnam, it's on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month. April 5 is specific to Korea. — howcheng  {chat} 15:57, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

2019 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 15:55, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * New articles (ineligible): Second Fatimid invasion of Egypt (appeared on DYK on March 2, 2019)
 * Omitted: Vincent Ferrer (ineligible—maintenance); Alexios I Komnenos; 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; Akashi Kaikyō Bridge; Al-Mu'tadid; Thure de Thulstrup; Olek (artist)
 * Included: Pocahontas (3rd appearance, last in 2017); 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence (first appearance); Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 (5th appearance, last in 2017; 10th anniversary); Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (first appearance); María Blanchard (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Statute of Anne (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2020 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:06, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Pocahontas; Statute of Anne; 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing; Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2; Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet; Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine; María Blanchard
 * Included: Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921) (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); Birkenhead Park (7th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak (6th appearance, last in 2018); Tiananmen Incident (4th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); José María Coppinger (first appearance); Stephan Gip (first appearance); Kurt Cobain (first appearance)
 * Repeats: 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 20th anniversary)

2021 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 02:48, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
 * New articles (ineligible): Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz (TFA for 2021)
 * Omitted: Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921); Birkenhead Park; Tiananmen Incident; 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence; José María Coppinger; Stephan Gip; Kurt Cobain
 * Included: Statute of Anne (6th appearance, last in 2019); Buddhist Uprising (first appearance); Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (10th appearance, last in 2018); Ivan Kőszegi (first appearance); Henry Havelock (first appearance); Julio Ángel Fernández (first appearance; 75th birthday)
 * Repeats: 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

2022 notes
"The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured."

This is alleged and has never been proven, and this is even alluded to in the article on the topic itself:

"Libya was accused by the US government of sponsoring the bombing, and US President Ronald Reagan ordered retaliatory strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya ten days later. The operation was widely seen as an attempt to kill Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.[4] However, in the bombing's aftermath, this claim was met with widespread skepticism. In 1987, Manfred Ganschow, the head of the West German team investigating the bombing, said that there was no evidence pointing the finger at Libya, a belief which was corroborated by numerous intelligence agencies in Europe at the time, according to a BBC report.[5]: 81  In 2001, following a four-year German trial called murky,[2] and marred by what the court called a "limited willingness" by the American and German governments to share evidence,[2][1] a court found that the bombing had been "planned by the Libyan Intelligence Service and the Libyan embassy",[1] but absolved Gaddafi of responsibility.[2][1][6]"

This seems *waaay* to nuanced to be included on the Main Page as it currently stands. PeaceThruPramana26 (talk) 09:01, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Would you mind rewriting the blurb to something more acceptable? Thanks. — howcheng  {chat} 07:32, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

"A West Berlin discotheque is bombed in a terrorist attack, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured; The United States alleges the Libyan Government is behind the incident"

Short of any objections, I think the language on this one is far more neutral and reflects both the content of the article and the reality of the situation far more at hand; Perhaps the wording 'terrorist attack' might be controversial, but I cannot see how anyone would dispute that this bombing was anything but. PeaceThruPramana26 (talk) 04:52, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

2022 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:31, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Upper Big Branch Mine disaster
 * New articles (unused): Al-Nuwayri
 * Omitted: Statute of Anne; 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; Buddhist Uprising; Akashi Kaikyo Bridge; Ivan Kőszegi; Henry Havelock; Julio Ángel Fernández
 * Included: Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921) (2nd appearance, last in 2020); Pocahontas (4th appearance, last in 2019); 1902 Ibrox disaster (first appearance); Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); West Berlin discotheque bombing (3rd appearance, last in 2019); Jules Cambon (first appearance); María Blanchard (2nd appearance, last in 2019; 90th anniversary); Jim Marshall (businessman) (first appearance; 10th anniversary)