Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/October 19

Isn't this entry a bit military centric? Gentgeen 10:46, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Is it better now ? Terrorism and the stockmarket are war-like, but not really military....  BTW, thanks for putting in the date for the Battle of Zama. -- PFHLai 13:50, 2004 Oct 8 (UTC)

American Revolution
The page now says:


 * 1781: After losing the Battle of Yorktown, British forces led by Lord Charles Cornwallis officially surrendered, ending the American Revolutionary War.

There are two errors here. First, Cornwallis didn't surrender after losing the battle; he lost the battle (really a siege) when he surrendered. More importantly, his surrender didn't end the war, which sputtered on for a bit afterwards. The entry should read:


 * 1781: The siege of Yorktown ended after British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War.

--Kevin Myers | (complaint dept.) 17:39, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Scipio Africanus
(thread copied from WP:ERRORS, where it was unresolved)

He earned his nickname Africanus after he defeated Hannibal, so it is not correct that Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.12.163.218 (talk) 07:16, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * By the same token you could say that the battle of Waterloo (and many other battles) never took place. Ericoides (talk) 16:38, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Uh, Wellington wasn't named after Waterloo (obviously). I agree with the IP, the Africanus part of Scipio's name should not be in the entry since he hadn't acquired it yet. Modest Genius talk 17:20, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

(end of comments copied from WP:ERRORS)

2012 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 04:59, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Omitted: John Jay; First Battle of Ypres; Battle of Chamdo; Black Monday (1987); Margaret Hassan
 * Included: Battle of Zama (6th appearance, last in 2010); Battle of Cedar Creek (first appearance); Planck's law (first appearance); Streptomycin (8th appearance, last in 2010); Operation Nimble Archer (first appearance)

2013 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 05:21, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Battle of Zama; Battle of Cedar Creek; Planck's law; Operation Nimble Archer
 * Included: Ferdinand II of Aragon/Isabella I of Castile (both: 8th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Siege of Yorktown (6th appearance, last in 2010); Polytechnic University of the Philippines (first appearance); Samora Machel (3rd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible)
 * Repeats: Streptomycin (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total; 70th anniversary)

2014 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:17, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Ferdinand II of Aragon/Isabella I of Castile; Siege of Yorktown; Polytechnic University of the Philippines; Streptomycin; Samora Machel
 * Included: John Jay (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 225th anniversary); Battle of Cedar Creek (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 150th anniversary); First Battle of Ypres (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 100th anniversary); Guildford Four and Maguire Seven (first appearance; 25th anniversary); Margaret Hassan (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 10th anniversary)

2015 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 08:08, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Deleted: Polytechnic University of the Philippines (moved to April 1)
 * Omitted: John Jay; Battle of Cedar Creek; First Battle of Ypres; Guildford Four and Maguire Seven; Margaret Hassan
 * Included: Battle of Zama (7th appearance, last in 2012); Ferdinand II of Aragon/Isabella I of Castile (both: 9th appearance, last in 2013); Siege of Yorktown (7th appearance, last in 2013); MS Sinfra (first appearance); Hurricane Wilma (first appearance; 10th anniversary)

2016 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:01, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: John Jay (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Battle of Zama; Siege of Yorktown; MS Sinfra; Hurricane Wilma
 * Included: Battle of Cedar Creek (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Planck's law (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Streptomycin (10th appearance, last in 2013); Samora Machel (4th appearance, last in 2013)
 * Repeats: Ferdinand II of Aragon/Isabella I of Castile (both: 2nd consecutive appearance, 10 total)

2017 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 15:56, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Zama (maintenance); Guildford Four and Maguire Seven (maintenance); Margaret Hassan (maintenance)
 * New articles (ineligible): Blockbuster LLC (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Ferdinand II of Aragon/Isabella I of Castile (both: ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Cedar Creek; Planck's law (ineligible—maintenance); Streptomycin; Samora Machel (ineligible—maintenance)
 * Included: Siege of Yorktown (8th appearance, last in 2015); First Battle of Ypres (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Guatemalan Revolution (first appearance); Black Monday (1987) (6th appearance, last in 2011; 30th anniversary); Hurricane Wilma (2nd appearance, last in 2015); John Juvenal Ancina (first appearance); Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (first appearance); Eleanor Norcross (first appearance)

2018 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:49, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Chamdo (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Siege of Yorktown; First Battle of Ypres; Guatemalan Revolution; Black Monday (1987); John Juvenal Ancina; Salimuzzaman Siddiqui; Eleanor Norcross
 * Included: San Felipe incident (1596) (first appearance); Battle of Cedar Creek (4th appearance, last in 2016); Streptomycin (11th appearance, last in 2016; 75th anniversary); 1988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions (2nd appearance, last in 2016; moved from September 16); Annie Smith Peck (first appearance); Demetrios Christodoulou (first appearance); Ali Treki (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Hurricane Wilma (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

2019 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 17:03, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
 * New articles (ineligible): Fred Keenor (TFA for 2019); Yoko Shimomura (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Battle of Cedar Creek; Streptomycin; 1988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions; Hurricane Wilma; Annie Smith Peck; Demetrios Christodoulou; Ali Treki
 * Included: Siege of Yorktown (9th appearance, last in 2017); Guatemalan Revolution (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 75th anniversary); 1965 Burundian coup d'état attempt (first appearance); Operation Nimble Archer (2nd appearance, last in 2012); George Abbot (bishop) (first appearance); Peter Aduja (first appearance); Edna St. Vincent Millay (first appearance)
 * Repeats: San Felipe incident (1596) (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2020 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 19:06, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Fred Keenor
 * New articles (ineligible): V. Gordon Childe (TFA for 2020)
 * New articles (unused): Benjamin Franklin/Kite experiment
 * Omitted: Siege of Yorktown; Guatemalan Revolution; 1965 Burundian coup d'état attempt; Operation Nimble Archer; John Juvenal Ancina (ineligible—maintenance); Edna St. Vincent Millay
 * Included: First Battle of Ypres (4th appearance, last in 2017); Siege of Plei Me (first appearance); ʻOumuamua (first appearance); Yusuf I of Granada (first appearance); Yoko Shimomura (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible)
 * Repeats: San Felipe incident (1596) (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Peter Aduja (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 100th birthday)

2021 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:37, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * New articles (ineligible): Jacobus Arminius (maintenance)
 * New articles (unused): Entry of James VI into Edinburgh; John Rolph (politician)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): V. Gordon Childe
 * Omitted: First Battle of Ypres; Siege of Plei Me; ʻOumuamua; Yusuf I of Granada; Peter Aduja; Yoko Shimomura
 * Included: Benjamin Franklin/Kite experiment (Franklin: 3rd appearance, last in 2006, previously appeared on June 15; Experiment: first appearance); MS Sinfra (2nd appearance, last in 2015); History of the Eurovision Song Contest (first appearance); Black Monday (1987) (7th appearance, last in 2017); Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Demetrios Christodoulou (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 70th birthday); Ali Treki (2nd appearance, last in 2018)
 * Repeats: San Felipe incident (1596) (4th consecutive appearance, 4 total; 425th anniversary)