Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/October 3

V-2 rocket contradiction
The statement that the 3 October 1942 test flight of the V-2 "occurred after two previous failed tests were recovered by the Allies" contradicts the article, which in V-2 states that the two test launch recoveries were on 30 May & 13 June 1944.-- ToET 07:37, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Art LaPella responded to this on Main Page/Errors and removed reference to the two recovered launches, commenting "this confuses 2 launches in 1942 with 2 launches in 1944."-- ToET 07:23, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Edit request on 3 October 2012
Please remove the ridiculous unsupported statement that Ginsberg's HOWL is the most popular American poem! Who put that nonsense in there? It's not even on the HOWL article. Thanks. HammerFilmFan (talk) 14:43, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

HammerFilmFan (talk) 14:43, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I'd agree that it should be removed, it doesn't seem sourced. The claim was, however, in the article a handful of edits back, where the same phrasing was relatively quickly removed.  --j⚛e deckertalk 16:28, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, it can never be sourced - such things are impossible to document, outside of the silly assumption that Ginsberg has somehow superceded American poets like Walt Whitman in the classroom or the American consciousness, lol. HammerFilmFan (talk) 16:36, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I had copied it from the article lede. Since it was followed by a footnote to an offline source, there was no way for me to verify it. — howcheng  {chat} 16:56, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:29, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Deleted: Pravda (already appears on April 22)
 * Moved to Ineligible: V-2 (maintenance)
 * Omitted: First Battle of Maryang San; Siegfried & Roy
 * Included: De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia (3rd appearance, last in 2010); Howl (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Boris III of Bulgaria (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); 1981 Irish hunger strike (5th consecutive appearance, 5 total); German reunification (3rd consecutive appearance, 6 total)

2013 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:10, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)
 * New articles (unused) Mercury-Atlas 8; 1963 Honduran coup d'état (appearing on DYK)
 * Omitted: Howl; German reunification
 * Included: Battle of Mogadishu (1993) (6th appearance, last in 2008; rescued from Ineligible; 20th anniversary); Siegfried & Roy (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 10th anniversary)
 * Repeats: Boris III of Bulgaria (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total); De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); 1981 Irish hunger strike (6th consecutive appearance, 6 total)

edit request
Please change South Korea's National Foundation Day link to Gaecheonjeol. Thanks! --kwan-in (talk) 15:11, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but that article has a big yellow maintenance tag on it and is also a stub, so according to the rules, it can't be featured. — howcheng  {chat} 16:13, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Add German Unification Day -- Edit Request
German Unification Day is THE German National Day. Every Nations's National Day (afaik) is displayed, but not the German one. Although this is rightly in the German mind, it should be displayed nonetheless for the non-German audience. Toscho (talk) 16:35, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Alas, both German Unity Day and Public holidays in Germany are ineligible because they require maintenance. — howcheng  {chat} 22:13, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I improved the article German Unity Day and the template has been removed. There is no more reason to keep it off the Main Page. Please add the holiday to the Main Page-template as soon as possible.--37ophiuchi (talk) 21:09, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅. Thanks. — howcheng  {chat} 21:33, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

2014 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:14, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: German reunification (maintenance)
 * Omitted: 1981 Irish hunger strike; Battle of Mogadishu (1993); Siegfried & Roy (ineligible—maintenance);
 * Included: German Unity Day (rescued from Ineligible); Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball) (first appearance); 1963 Honduran coup d'état (first appearance); 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Boris III of Bulgaria (4th consecutive appearance, 6 total); De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

2015 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:40, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball); 1963 Honduran coup d'état; 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck
 * Included: Dangun (4th appearance, last in 2006; rescued from Ineligible); Howl (2nd appearance, last in 2012); 1981 Irish hunger strike (7th appearance, last in 2013)
 * Repeats: Boris III of Bulgaria (5th consecutive appearance, 7 total); De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia (4th consecutive appearance, 6 total; 80th anniversary)

2016 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:54, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Omitted: De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia; Howl; 1981 Irish hunger strike
 * Included: Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball) (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Soviet submarine K-219 (first appearance; 30th anniversary); 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck (2nd appearance, last in 2014)
 * Repeats: Dangun (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Boris III of Bulgaria (6th consecutive appearance, 8 total)

2017 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:27, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia (maintenance); Howl (maintenance); Battle of Mogadishu (1993) (maintenance)
 * Omitted: German Unity Day (ineligible—maintenance); Iraq (ineligible—maintenance); Gaecheonjeol (ineligible—maintenance); Boris III of Bulgaria (ineligible—maintenance); Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball); Soviet submarine K-219 (ineligible—maintenance); 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck
 * Included: Operation Hurricane (first appearance); 1963 Honduran coup d'état (2nd appearance, last in 2014); 1981 Irish hunger strike (8th appearance, last in 2015); Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008/Troubled Asset Relief Program (both: first appearance); Muhammad ibn Zayd (first appearance); Pierre Bonnard (first appearance); Olivia Shakespear (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Dangun (3rd consecutive appearance, 6 total)

2018 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:02, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Howl
 * New articles (unused): 1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt; Kunduz hospital airstrike
 * Omitted: Operation Hurricane; 1963 Honduran coup d'état; 1981 Irish hunger strike; Muhammad ibn Zayd; Pierre Bonnard
 * Included: First Battle of Maryang-san (3rd appearance, last in 2011); Mercury-Atlas 8 (first appearance); Nadine Gordimer (first appearance); Sophie Treadwell (first appearance); Carl Nielsen (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Dangun (4th consecutive appearance, 7 total); Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008/Troubled Asset Relief Program (both: 2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 10th anniversary); Olivia Shakespear (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 80th anniversary)

2019 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 15:44, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Kunduz hospital airstrike (maintenance); Muhammad ibn Zayd (date not certain)
 * Omitted: Dangun; First Battle of Maryang-san; Mercury-Atlas 8; Nadine Gordimer; Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008/Troubled Asset Relief Program; Carl Nielsen
 * Included: Operation Hurricane (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Howl (3rd appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); 1963 Honduran coup d'état (3rd appearance, last in 2017); 1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt (first appearance; 30th anniversary); 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Pierre Bonnard (2nd appearance, last in 2017)
 * Repeats: Sophie Treadwell (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Olivia Shakespear (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

2020 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 22:30, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Operation Hurricane; Howl; 1963 Honduran coup d'état; 1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt; 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck; Pierre Bonnard; Sophie Treadwell (ineligible—maintenance); Olivia Shakespear
 * Included: Huilliche uprising of 1792 (first appearance); Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball) (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Nadine Gordimer (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Siegfried & Roy (3rd appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible); Elias I of Antioch (first appearance); A. Y. Jackson (first appearance); Gwen Stefani (first appearance)

2021 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 00:38, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): Charles Duke (TFA for 2021)
 * Omitted: Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball); Siegfried & Roy; Elias I of Antioch; A. Y. Jackson; Gwen Stefani
 * Included: Dangun (8th appearance, last in 2018); First Battle of Maryang-san (4th appearance, last in 2018; 70th anniversary); 1981 Irish hunger strike (9th appearance, last in 2018; 70th anniversary); Gabriel Lalemant (first appearance); Carl Nielsen (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 90th anniversary); Kathryn D. Sullivan (first appearance; 70th birthday)
 * Repeats: Huilliche uprising of 1792 (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Nadine Gordimer (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 30th anniversary)

2022 notes
 Heart  (talk) 06:51, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Dangun (maintenance); Howl (poem) (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Nadine Gordimer; Gabriel Lalemant; Carl Nielsen; Kathryn D. Sullivan
 * Included: Edgar Allan Poe (first appearance on October 3; 3rd appearance, last in 2020), Mercury-Atlas 8 (2nd appearance, last in 2018); A. Y. Jackson (2nd appearance, last in 2020); Charles Duke (first appearance); Olivia Shakespear (4th appearance, last in 2019)
 * Repeats: Huilliche uprising of 1792 (3nd consecutive appearance, 3 total); First Battle of Maryang-san (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); 1981 Irish hunger strike (2nd consecutive appearance, 10 total)