Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/January 6

The accuracy of this statement is controversial:

1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.

Ms. Harding was not convicted of any such crime and there was never any proof that she did. The information as to what Ms. Harding was convicted of doing is readily available. This appears to be an irresponsible statement linked to press reports at the time that were not supported by the later court records.

2012 notes
--  howcheng  {chat} 20:05, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Harold Godwinson (maintenance), New Mexico (maintenance), Epiphany (holiday) (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Night of the Big Wind, Maria Montessori, Sex Pistols, Asian Socialist Conference
 * Included: Electrical telegraph (first appearance), Continental drift (first appearance, 100th anniversary), Sopore massacre (first appearance), Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding (Kerrigan: 2nd appearance, last in 2009; Harding: 3rd appearance, last in 2010), Melchora Aquino (first appearance, 100th anniversary of birth)
 * Left in: Constantine XI Palaiologos (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)
 * Um, 1812 was 200 years ago now, not 100 years ago. I've changed it to "bicentennial of the birth of Melchora Aquino". Angr (talk) 14:10, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * D'oh! Bad math. Thanks.  howcheng  {chat} 17:03, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Theophany (Eastern Christianity)
Should it be "Eastern Christianity that uses Gregorian Calendar"? Because for example Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Theophany on January, 6 Julian(!) that is January 19 Gregorian in this century. --Jonah.ru (talk) 14:16, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a little unwieldy. If most of Eastern Christianity uses the Julian calendar, I'm happy to move it to the 19th.  howcheng  {chat} 17:06, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Should it also be noted that it's Epiphany in Western Christianity?Rockhopper10r (talk) 20:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Epiphany (holiday) is ineligible because of maintenance issues.  howcheng  {chat} 22:31, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

But the "Epiphany" article to which this directs is not about the holiday. As that page itself says, "For the Christian holiday, see Epiphany (holiday)" 72.94.110.73 (talk) 22:43, 6 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Epiphany, regarded as one of the most important Christian observations, was celebrated today by 6th by Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches. How come this is not mentioned on the front page?--  R a f y  talk 21:44, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

2013 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:46, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Deleted: Melchora Aquino (was only included for bicentennial of birth)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Maria Montessori (maintenance)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Harold Godwinson; New Mexico; Four Freedoms
 * Omitted: Constantine XI Palaiologos; Electrical telegraph; Continental drift; Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding
 * Included: Stephen Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (first appearance); Night of the Big Wind (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Asian Socialist Conference (3rd appearance, last in 2011; 60th anniversary); Graniteville, South Carolina train crash (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Sopore massacre (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 20th anniversary)

Grammar
Shouldn't the very top entry read: "Having defeated..."??? — WylieCoyote 18:16, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks. — howcheng  {chat} 19:09, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 08:27, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Harold Godwinson (ineligible—maintenance); Asian Socialist Conference; Sopore massacre; Graniteville, South Carolina, train crash
 * Included: Little Christmas (first appearance); Constantine XI Palaiologos (4th appearance, last in 2012); Maria Montessori (8th appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Four Freedoms (2nd appearance, last in 2009); Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding (Kerrigan: 3rd appearance; Harding: 4th appearance; both last in 2012)
 * Repeats: Night of the Big Wind (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)


 * Epiphany (holiday) has over 110 refs and is now clear of mainenance tags.--  K a t h o v o  talk 13:09, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Nice work! I'll put it back in. — howcheng  {chat} 19:36, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

2015 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:48, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Night of the Big Wind; Four Freedoms; Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding (Harding now ineligible—maintenance)
 * Included: Harold Godwinson (2nd appearance, last in 2009; rescued from Ineligible); National Airlines Flight 2511 (first appearance); Sex Pistols (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
 * Repeats: Constantine XI Palaiologos (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Maria Montessori (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

2016 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:12, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Constantine XI Palaiologos; Maria Montessori; National Airlines Flight 2511; Sex Pistols
 * Included: Stefan Dečanski (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Night of the Big Wind (4th appearance, last in 2014); Continental drift (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Sopore massacre (3rd appearance, last in 2013)
 * Repeats: Harold Godwinson (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total; 950th anniversary)

For future refernce - wording of the Harold Godwinson hook was discussed here. Consensus was no change. Optimist on the run (talk) 22:46, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

2017 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:46, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Nancy Kerrigan (maintenance)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Four Freedoms
 * Omitted: Stefan Dečanski; Night of the Big Wind (ineligible—maintenance); Continental drift; Sopore massacre
 * Included: Maria Montessori (10th appearance, last in 2015); Asian Socialist Conference (4th appearance, last in 2013); Sex Pistols (3rd appearance, last in 2015; 40th anniversary)
 * Repeats: Harold Godwinson (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Constantine XI Palaiologos (4th consecutive appearance, 7 total)

2018 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 21:54, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Stefan Dečanski (maintenance); New Mexico (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Epiphany (holiday) (ineligible—maintenance); Constantine XI Palaiologos (ineligible—maintenance); Maria Montessori; Sex Pistols
 * Included: Continental drift (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Four Freedoms (3rd appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding (Kerrigan: 4th appearance; Harding: 5th appearance; both last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); Jane Dormer (first appearance); Jedediah Smith (first appearance); Sybil Plumlee (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Harold Godwinson (4th consecutive appearance, 6 total); Asian Socialist Conference (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)
 * Is there a reason for omitting the Maria Montessori anniversary, as none seems to be listed above? At present, the only anniversary covering something by a woman is the Tonya Harding fact, which has already appeared multiple times. Moira Paul (talk) 22:32, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * No particular reason; articles just get rotated in and out every year so that we can feature a wider variety of topics. Note that there were two women listed in the births/deaths for 2018. And if you're counting number of appearances, Montessori has been included 10 times, but Harding/Kerrigan have only appeared 5 times. — howcheng  {chat} 00:28, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying - and that will teach me to scroll up a bit and see the earlier reference! It would be great if we could aim to have an event highlighting a woman's achievement on every day each year to support Countering systemic bias. Births/deaths are things that happen to someone, events are things they achieved. Moira Paul (talk) 20:56, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * There are a few problems with that plan. First is article quality: if an article is not in good shape, it doesn't get selected. There are no exceptions for that. Second is the rules of scheduling which are intended to provide a variety of topics, locations, and dates, coupled with a preference for round-number anniversaries. So for example, this year being 2019, if on a certain date there is a 1920 item about women and a 1919 event that's not, the 1919 one gets priority due to the 100th anniversary, and the 1920 would be left out because we prefer not to have two items that close to each other chronologically, even if that meant that no items about women were included at all. Please see WP:OTDRULES and the "Guidelines" section a little further down the page. Thanks. — howcheng  {chat} 22:25, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

2019 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 17:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Sopore massacre (maintenance)
 * New articles (ineligible): Union of Arras (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Continental drift; Four Freedoms; Asian Socialist Conference; Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding (Harding: ineligible—maintenance); Jane Dormer; Jedediah Smith; Sybil Plumlee
 * Included: Anne of Cleves (first appearance); Maria Montessori (11th appearance, last in 2017); National Airlines Flight 2511 (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Sex Pistols (4th appearance, last in 2017); Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (first appearance); Clarence King (first appearance); Nigella Lawson (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Harold Godwinson (5th consecutive appearance, 7 total)

2020 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:41, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Harold Godwinson; Anne of Cleves; Maria Montessori; Sex Pistols; Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence; Clarence King
 * Included: Stefan Dečanski (3rd appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco (first appearance); Continental drift (4th appearance, last in 2018); Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding (Kerrigan: 5th appearance; Harding: 6th; both last in 2018; rescued from Ineligible); Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (first appearance); Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack (first appearance)
 * Repeats: National Airlines Flight 2511 (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 60th anniversary); Nigella Lawson (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 60th birthday)

2021 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:53, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros; Kahlil Gibran
 * Omitted: Stefan Dečanski; Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco; Continental drift; National Airlines Flight 2511; Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding; Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares; Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack; Nigella Lawson
 * Included: Constantine XI Palaiologos (8th appearance, last in 2017; rescued from Ineligible); Anne of Cleves (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Maria Montessori (12th appearance, last in 2019); Four Freedoms (4th appearance, last in 2018; 80th anniversary); Asian Socialist Conference (6th appearance, last in 2018); John of Ávila (first appearance); Gustav Bauer (first appearance); Sybil Plumlee (2nd appearance, last in 2018)

2022 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 05:27, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Constantine XI Palaiologos; Anne of Cleves; Four Freedoms; Asian Socialist Conference; John of Ávila; Gustav Bauer
 * Included: Harold Godwinson (8th appearance, last in 2019); Stefan Dečanski (4th appearance, last in 2020); Night of the Big Wind (5th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Nancy Kerrigan/Assault of Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding (Kerrigan: 6th appearance; Assault: first; Harding: 7th, last in 2020); Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros (first appearance); Kahlil Gibran (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Maria Montessori (2nd consecutive appearance, 13 total); Sybil Plumlee (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 10th anniversary)