Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/March 24


 * 1965 - NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brought images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing.
 * Needs wikifying.-- PFHLai 06:56, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)


 * 1989 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground.
 * 1999 - NATO launches air strikes in Yugoslavia which was refusing to sign a peace treaty. This marks the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
 * 2001 - Apple Computer releases Mac OS X version 10.0.

2012 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Dirty War (maintenance)
 * Omitted: James VI and I; Titokowaru's War; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Tuberculosis; Óscar Romero; Bhutanese general election, 2008
 * Included: Brandenburg concertos (first appearance); Sakuradamon incident (1860) (first appearance); McMahon murders (first appearance); Nanjing incident (first appearance); Stalag Luft III (5th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible)

2013 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 05:57, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Sakuradamon Incident (1860); McMahon murders; Stalag Luft III
 * Included: Titokowaru's War (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Tuberculosis (bacterium: first appearance; TB: 8th appearance, last in 2011); Exxon Valdez oil spill (7th appearance, last in 2010)
 * Repeats: Brandenburg concertos (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Nanking Incident (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2014 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:25, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Brandenburg concertos; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Tuberculosis; Nanking Incident
 * Included: James VI and I (9th appearance, last in 2011); Ardeatine massacre (first appearance; 70th anniversary); Bhutanese National Assembly election, 2008 (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
 * Repeats: Titokowaru's War (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Exxon Valdez (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total; 25th anniversary)

2015 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:13, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Brandenburg Concertos (maintenance); McMahon killings (maintenance)
 * Omitted: James VI and I; Titokowaru's War; Ardeatine massacre; Bhutanese National Assembly election, 2008
 * Included: Sakuradamon Incident (1860) (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Tuberculosis (bacterium: 2nd appearance; TB: 9th appearance; both last in 2013); Nanking Incident (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Stalag Luft III (6th appearance, last in 2012)
 * Repeats: Exxon Valdez oil spill (3rd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

2016 / Cowherd death
I offer the Cowherd death to bring back the earliest date and to add variety. I can see that it's not a major event at the time, and that that counts against it.

Although it *is* a minor death at the time, it's important in the development of a significant [edit: global] social movement (vegetarianism). And it's also an interesting, quirky, piece of history.

His followers are also important in the Salford liberal culture - they helped found the Guardian newspaper, opposed the slave trade, founded a municipal graveyard, etc. So though he's not a household name, his life had ripple effects.

Anyway, I thought I'd create a talk page section so that you know where it came from, and it was offered in good faith. Ian McDonald (talk) 00:48, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The article does not mention the date of his death. --BorgQueen (talk) 01:29, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Of course. Thanks for explaining your revert here. I'd independently realised it and added it, with more info about his burial and inscription, before I got your revert notification. Ian McDonald (talk) 15:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * (Just so that User talk:BorgQueen gets a notification) Ian McDonald (talk) 14:40, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

2016 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:46, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Deleted: Direct rule (wrong date)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Ardeatine massacre (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Sakuradamon Incident (1860); Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Tuberculosis; Nanking Incident; Stalag Luft III; Exxon Valdez oil spill
 * Included: James VI and I (10th appearance, last in 2014); Titokowaru's War (4th appearance, last in 2014); Tydings–McDuffie Act (first appearance); Germanwings Flight 9525 (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Exxon Valdez oil spill (4th consecutive appearance, 10 total)

2017 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:37, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Nanking Incident (maintenance); Stalag Luft III (maintenance)
 * Omitted: James VI and I; Tītokowaru's War; Germanwings Flight 9525
 * Included: Sakuradamon Incident (1860) (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium: 3rd appearance; Tuberculosis: 10th appearance; both last in 2015); Bhutanese National Assembly election, 2008 (3rd appearance, last in 2014); William Morris (first appearance); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (first appearance); David Irving (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Tydings–McDuffie Act (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Exxon Valdez oil spill (5th consecutive appearance, 11 total)

2018 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 05:56, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): McMahon killings
 * New articles (unused): Jessica Chastain (TFA for 2018)
 * Omitted: Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Tuberculosis; Exxon Valdez oil spill; William Morris; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; David Irving
 * Included: James VI and I (11th appearance, last in 2016); 1921 Women's Olympiad (first appearance); Wulfred (first appearance); Fanny Crosby (first appearance); Maria Radner (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Sakuradamon Incident (1860) (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Tydings–McDuffie Act (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Bhutanese National Assembly election, 2008 (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total; 10th anniversary)

2019 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 15:58, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Deleted: Commonwealth of the Philippines (already appears on November 15 and we have a separate blurb for Tydings–McDuffie Act); Tītokowaru's War (wrong date and the date in the article is not cited)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Óscar Romero
 * New articles (unused): Rough Wooing
 * Omitted: James VI and I; Sakuradamon Incident (1860); 1921 Women's Olympiad; Tydings–McDuffie Act; 2008 Bhutanese National Assembly election; Wulfred; Fanny Crosby; Maria Radner
 * Included: Tuberculosis (11th appearance, last in 2017; blurb also previously featured Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is currently ineligible); McMahon killings (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Dirty War (3rd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Exxon Valdez oil spill (12th appearance, last in 2017; 30th anniversary); Elizabeth Ridgeway (first appearance); Lorna Hodgkinson (2nd appearance, last in 2017; previously appeared on May 13, her birthday); Jessica Chastain (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible)

2020 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 15:59, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Germanwings Flight 9525 (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Tuberculosis; McMahon killings; Dirty War; Exxon Valdez oil spill; Elizabeth Ridgeway; Lorna Hodgkinson (deleted as already featured elsewhere); Jessica Chastain
 * Included: Rough Wooing (first appearance); Tītokowaru's War (5th appearance, last in 2016; restored to page after date verified); 1946 Cabinet Mission to India (first appearance); Óscar Romero (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 40th anniversary); 2008 Bhutanese National Assembly election (5th appearance, last in 2018); Catherine of Vadstena (first appearance); Fanny Crosby (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 200th birthday); Kitty O'Neil (first appearance)

2021 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:44, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Dirty War (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Rough Wooing; Tītokowaru's War; 1946 Cabinet Mission to India; Óscar Romero; 2008 Bhutanese National Assembly election; Kitty O'Neil
 * Included: James VI and I (12th appearance, last in 2018); Sakuradamon Incident (1860) (5th appearance, last in 2018); Tuberculosis (12th appearance, last in 2019); 1921 Women's Olympiad (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 100th anniversary); Exxon Valdez oil spill (13th appearance, last in 2019); E. T. Whittaker (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Catherine of Vadstena (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Fanny Crosby (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

2022 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 02:48, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Omitted: James VI and I; Sakuradamon Incident (1860); Tuberculosis; 1921 Women's Olympiad; Exxon Valdez oil spill; Catherine of Vadstena; Fanny Crosby; E. T. Whittaker
 * Included: Tītokowaru's War (6th appearance, last in 2020); Winton Motor Carriage Company (2nd appearance, last in 2004; rescued from Ineligible); McMahon killings (3rd appearance, last in 2019; 100th anniversary); Tydings–McDuffie Act (4th appearance, last in 2018); Óscar Romero (3rd appearance, last in 2020); Hugh III of Cyprus (first appearance); Antoine-Henri Jomini (first appearance); Rudra Rajasingham (first appearance)