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German occupation of Czechoslovakia 1939
Link to German occupation of Czechoslovakia March 15 1939 was deceptively removed with untrue comment "insufficiently universally notable entries" by Rms125a@... who made more similar vandalisms to this page, while there is being kept only a minor part of that same event about Carpatho-Ukraine, which was a state lasting mere 3 days between March 15 and March 18, 1939, as a consequence of that German occupation of Czechoslovakia...

While it has an article by itself, and while it is in a section, where out of 95 other entries only 2 have citations, one of which is internal, I've been requested to support it by an external citation, which I did by a reference to a web-site of an official state radio station in our country, and abbreviated the entry to a perfectly neutral wording.

Then the entry was reverted without any other explanation... Why is this event censored ?!

It was a first time, when Hitler's Germany and it's army invaded outside of German-speaking countries, while preceeding Anschluss of Austria and Munich Agreement about Sudettenland could be considered uniting of German-speaking countries under Germany rule as a continuation of preceeding Bismarck's unification of many small German-speaking countries into Germany, by which I do not pretend it was still just or righteous in 20th century or any time later. One should rather think, why this German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 15 1939 did not oficially start the second world war yet, despite Czechoslovakia having a similar pact with western Allies like Poland had at that time... Someone wanted to give Czechoslovakia to Hitler to equip him with enough arms and give him access to USSR borders. It does not matter much now, it was long ago... But wiping out this event from history pages is unjust censorship...

This is my negotiation attempt before rising the dispute to the notice-board... The event was not marginal and it should be mentioned in this list for March 15 and that should be obvious to any reasonable man... At least it was more globally important than a quarter of other events in that section, with prime examples being events such as a mere hotel collapse or ammunition explosion, or events in American Civil War, or a Greece dictator with only a local significance... (By which I do not suggest crippling the list by removing them also...) How does a hotel collapse or ammunition explosion compare to termination of statehood of whole European country, which occupation had 6-figure fatalities as a consequence, and which helped Hitler start the war ? Czech lands were industrial country by that time with significant arms production capabilities and an army comparable (about half) to that of Germany before 1938, so this was a substantial help to Germany to start the war, which is why he did not acquire rural Slovakia at that time also, and Subcarpathian Rus (renamed as Carpatho-Ukraine) was mountainous backwoods... (Slovakia became industrial country only later under socialist Czechoslovakia to move the critical industry more far from the Iron Curtain...) Q.E.D. - it was a globally significant event in build-up to the worst war so far and censoring it with pretending "insufficiently universally notable" is untrue... 79.98.159.114 (talk) 02:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC) P.A.S.

 * It took 7 resp. 11 minutes to revert my edits of restoring March 15 1939 by a senior wikipedia editor Toddst1, who claims: "I am Wikipedia", with obvious political bias on his page having first notable quotation from H.Clinton and next mocking D.Trump, and by a user Uncle Dick who most of all engages in chatter talking with IP-address users, thereby collecting their list on "What links here" page. First one requested an external citation for a universally known event with it's own Wikipedia page, in order to censor it, which I nevertheless provided, then second one just reverted it without any explanation and left me a talk chat on IP-address page instead, lying about missing citation. Then after still 4 days 19 hours from this negotiation attempt, there is no open reply on this talk page and the date is still missing in the list, and Uncle Dick is probably bored and waiting for a private chat on his talk-page collecting IP-addresses... (I've been somehow enthusiast to chat on talk-pages 14 years ago, not any more, unless the case is really significant, which this one is...)
 * How is it meant, that one should negotiate before rising the dispute?! The negotiation on talk-page is being ignored and it seems a vain loosing of time...
 * The entry was first deleted "1 August 2017" by a mentally ill (by his own words) user Rms125a@hotmail.com engaging in Deletionism on Wikipedia. He claims to have OCD to avoid being criticized, because being or claiming to be handicapped is considered a bonus in this ill society... It was deceptively deleted in page-wide sweep beside deleting variously (non)important people from other sections to hide this deletion... He was awarded a "barnstar" award for all his deletionism by user A lad insane, which seems to be somehow meaningful ... Later in March 2019 he received "a topic ban applying to the subject of politics, as well as from all biographies of living persons whether political or not", and this March 15 1939 is a political subject also...

 * You've underestimated graveness of your misdeed and a publicity that it may once get... It is a remarkable and exemplary case of Wikipedia Bias and Censorship in politically oriented articles, because wiping March 15 1939 from history is a big issue somewhere and should be elsewhere too... (While it was one of three major steps in build-up of World War II, with Anschluss and Munich Agreement being the other two, it was an event of major global importance. But you cannot help or harm people who died long ago in the Past, but Historical Revisionism and wiping of undesired information from history is a major contemporary topic, that can harm people in the Future. There is not few people rightfully very sensitive to this Historical Revisionism with March 15 being primary example...)

 * As a nice coincidence, just when I was striving to return that March 15 1939 for second time, huge meteorite exploded over Ruhr, between Bocholt and Duisburg (more exactly I was just previewing the change before submitting it 8 minutes later) 79.98.159.114 (talk) 21:56, 7 March 2020 (UTC) P.A.S.

 * Uh. WP:AGFF much? You sound a little unsettled here.  Please read the edit notice on this page.   Days of the Year pages require direct WP:RS citations for any additions and unsourced additions are being reverted on-sight in an effort to clean these pages up.  For details: content guideline or the style guide.  Toddst1 (talk) 01:30, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Unsettled, probably... You were probably too tired to think more, there was a link to well written article in Wikipedia. But that was Uncle Dick who boiled me, because he reverted my edit with supplied citation and written on my talk page about missing citation, linking it to his list of "What links here", where he engages in collecting IP-address users foremost, see 500 pages there... That was seriously unjust...
 * I should note, that as a consequence of this dispute, I've been harassed and blackmailed by a threat of banning me out-of-band by this user Toddst1 on my own TalkPage. I consider that greavely Unjust revenge and editorial suppremacism.
 * 79.98.159.114 (talk) 03:35, 9 March 2020 (UTC) P.A.S.
 * I'm sorry, but what the fuck? I gave the dude a barnstar three years ago, and yeah, sourcing's pretty cool. -- a la d insane  (channel two)  02:40, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I apologize for picking your name out from Rms@hotmail talk page. It's because that "insane" in the nick, and that guy, who originally erased that, claimed to be "insane" also...
 * It's a pitty I could not link here my satire about Nick Sandman case, where is also a section about Wikipedia... That was a very symptomatic case on many places, not only here...
 * About those "barnstars". You are probably a novice or ignorant of spiritual matters, if it does not hinder you using a down-turned pentagram for a praise... (Even if you were a Satanist, that is just a mis-understanding. Consider Pythagoras explanation, that Pentagram means Health, but therefore down-turned Pentagram means Illness, at least in Spiritual realm. It's not a good symbolical praise to give that to someone... Pentagram also means Construction (or a Process of Creation) and Perfection (due to Golden Ratio encoded in it), but down-turned Pentagram is Wrong Construction and Perfect Evilness. But a Damaged Pentagram (open corners or missing lines), as may be seen in Washington DC maps, is Damaged Construction (or Construction of Damage?) inviting Daemons, as was published by Goethe in Faust just a year before they drafted that Washington DC map...)
 * About "sourcing" - there are events so well and widely known you need not to source them externally, more so if it has it's own Wikipedia page... Now there are just 3 out of 96 events with a citation link, one of which is internal Wikipedia link. That request for external sourcing combined with rejection of undesired sources as "untrustworthy" is just protracting the Controlled Media Censorship here into Wikipedia... (I don't mean you personally, it's very general...)
 * It's also interesting, that there is a photo in German occupation of Czechoslovakia of German citizens of Czechoslovakia greeting Hitler's troops, and in that Czech article I used as a citation source is a photo of Czech citizens showing angry fists to these troops on that same day. It somehow shows a different perspective to a same event and both are unbalanced and only comparing both gives you a plastic picture of the reality, which is also symptomatic of many similar cases, where on the Truth or Reality you can look from different Viewing Angle (Perspective) and claiming either to be the only correct one is flattening of the Reality to a single Perspective, which is not an outright lie, but a sort of lie by omission... One needs to understand that and Compare multiple Viewpoints, and use such sources, that show him both, or use multiple sources... It is very common case in many contested topics, and in some topics the dissent view is suppressed in Wikipedia, some have at least the "Controversies" section, but often it is censored also, by those same people who write the mainstream view above...
 * I'm greatly thankful for the Tremendous Amount of Informations, that is present here in Wikipedia, a great source of Knowledge... It's just a pitty, that in some contemporary topics it's censored and biased to a single view-point of the debate. One day it would be better, I hope... 79.98.159.114 (talk) 03:35, 9 March 2020 (UTC) P.A.S.
 * I'm greatly thankful for the Tremendous Amount of Informations, that is present here in Wikipedia, a great source of Knowledge... It's just a pitty, that in some contemporary topics it's censored and biased to a single view-point of the debate. One day it would be better, I hope... 79.98.159.114 (talk) 03:35, 9 March 2020 (UTC) P.A.S.
 * I'm greatly thankful for the Tremendous Amount of Informations, that is present here in Wikipedia, a great source of Knowledge... It's just a pitty, that in some contemporary topics it's censored and biased to a single view-point of the debate. One day it would be better, I hope... 79.98.159.114 (talk) 03:35, 9 March 2020 (UTC) P.A.S.

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Talk:March 16

Removed Entry
Removed this entry: ...as it led only to a disambiguation page, and made absolutely no sense.80.47.208.218 (talk) 09:07, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 1900 yugoslaviansome bloke

General Motors - Pontiac observation
There does not appear to be any truth or relevence for the entry: Please provide any support for this statement here, rather than on the main page.
 * 1994 - General Motors should end the production of the Pontiac brand.

Nigosh 01:27, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

AAA day is on december 9th according to this page, any further info?

70.181.8.74 14:17:16, 16 March 2007 (EST)

DJIA Point Changes
Regarding your blanket reversion of my additions to dates of record point changes in the DJIA with the comment "Regarding your comment that "Not every zig-zag of a single national stock exchange is worth noting," and, "Actually, it is (London, Tokyo, Paris?) and none of these are historic, merely transitory," I find your arguments to be disingenuous for the following reasons: —  X   S   G   10:03, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) This is the English Language Wikipedia. A serious argument can be made that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the single most monitored stock index in the world, not just in the English language, and it is therefore specious to maintain that it is  just "a single national stock exchange".
 * 2) The entries I've made were for days in which the DJIA had achieved a record point change. These records are set only very infrequently.  It's not that the market hit a record high; that kind of information becomes non-notable usually after a short period of time.  These weren't just ordinary "zig-zags".  These were days of large consequence to the world of corporate finance.
 * 3) Prior to my additions, there were existing precedences for inclusion of the same kind of material, including September 29, October 19, October 27, and October 13. Arbitrary inclusion of some of these and not others seems non-encyclopedic.
 * 4) Just because these dates are not memorable for you now does not mean that they were not notable at the time.
 * 5) Your actions are of someone who thinks they WP:OWN these articles. If you disagree with the change, it is more proper to talk about them prior to their removal unless the content addition blatantly doesn't belong.
 * Since this issue is affecting multiple articles, for now the conversation is at User talk:XSG. —  X   S   G   10:58, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Fictional birthday
Robby (Kim Possible) is a fictional character born on March 16 but there is no year given, is there anywhere to list fictional characters like this or people of unspecified birth years? Tyciol (talk) 18:19, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Benito Juarez's birthday
Today (16 March 2015) is a statutory holiday in Mexico, celebrating the birthday of Benito Juarez; it is observed in Mexico on the third Monday of March. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.249.77.3 (talk • contribs)
 * If the observation is not a fixed day, it should be listed in the month page. I added it to March page. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:47, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

David Low
It says here he died 15 March not 16 March http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903469.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.203.42.50 (talk) 11:39, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Magellan's circumnavigation
It's the 500th anniversary of Magellan reaching the Philippines... the people of this project wanted something Philippine-related. This is it. Howard the Duck (talk) 04:47, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:March 17

Wisconsin?
"Golda Meir of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, becomes Prime Minister of Israel."

This sort of Amero-centricism is idiotic. Isn't there anything more important you could say about the first female prime minister of Israel (third in the whole world!) other than the fact that she spent fifteen years of her life in the United States? 134.74.21.230 18:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC) -I don't think it's that important, and I'm Israeli. -niviman.94.159.157.75 (talk) 15:56, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Eliot Spitzer resigns
We have an entry for March 12 and March 17 for the same event. Only one needs to be included192.31.106.34 (talk) 15:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Relief Society Organization
Mufka, I noticed you removed my addition of the organization of the Relief Society that happened on this day, 1842. Did I break any guidelines by adding it or did it need sources? I'm pretty sure I had the links on it correct. Just wondering why it was removed. Thanks! Mateoparks (talk) 22:57, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

 * The founding of most organizations are not globally notable in and of themselves. Even if organizations ultimately have global impact, the date of the founding generally is not notable. This date does not mark a turning point in society or a social milestone.  It also seems that this particular society would have little impact or notability outside the LDS.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 23:22, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

1966 Alvin
Page on the Palomar incident says they started looking for the missing hydrogen bomb on this day, only locating it on 7 April. Which is correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.194.145.67 (talk) 06:29, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

about saint patrick day...
On this article, he died on 460, but on his main article, he died on 461. someone fix please. Sincerely, niviman.94.159.157.75 (talk) 15:56, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

The nationalization of the Iran oil industry movement
On 17 March 1951, the nationalization of Iran oil industry verified by Iranian parliament.Saff V. (talk) 12:16, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Badr
The Battle of Badr took place on 17 Ramadan in the year 2, which converts to 13 March 624, not 17 March. 173.79.208.33 (talk) 19:38, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Add the birth of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to "On This day"
Hello, I'd like to request that the birth of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman be added on "On this day"'s birth/death section. He was quite influential in the politics of East Pakistan and of present day Bangladesh. DarkSpartan (talk) 19:25, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

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Graben

In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.

Etymology
Graben is a loan word from German, meaning 'ditch' or 'trench'. The first known usage of the word in the geologic context was by Eduard Suess in 1883. The plural form is either graben or grabens.

Formation
A graben is a valley with a distinct escarpment on each side caused by the displacement of a block of land downward. Graben often occur side by side with horsts. Horst and graben structures indicate tensional forces and crustal stretching.

Graben are produced from parallel normal faults, where the displacement of the hanging wall is downward, while that of the footwall is upward. The faults typically dip toward the center of the graben from both sides. Horsts are parallel blocks that remain between graben; the bounding faults of a horst typically dip away from the center line of the horst. Single or multiple graben can produce a rift valley.

Half-graben

In many rifts, the graben are asymmetric, with a major fault along only one of the boundaries, and these are known as half-graben. The polarity (throw direction) of the main bounding faults typically alternates along the length of the rift. The asymmetry of a half-graben strongly affects syntectonic deposition. Comparatively little sediment enters the half-graben across the main bounding fault because of footwall uplift on the drainage systems. The exception is at any major offset in the bounding fault, where a relay ramp may provide an important sediment input point. Most of the sediment will enter the half-graben down the unfaulted hanging wall side (e.g., Lake Baikal).

Africa

 * East African Rift Valley
 * Lucapa Graben, Lunda Norte Province, Angola

Antarctica

 * Lambert Graben, Antarctica

Asia

 * Narmada River Valley, central India
 * lower Godavari River Valley, southern India
 * Baikal Rift Zone, Siberia, Russia
 * Moma Graben, Sakha Republic, Russia
 * Büyük Menderes Graben, Turkey
 * Fossa Magna, Honshu, Japan
 * Ariake Sea as part of the Unzen graben, Kyushu, Japan
 * Beppu–Shimabara graben, Kyushu, Japan

Europe

 * Rhine valley, border area of west Germany and northeast France
 * Oslo graben around Oslo, Norway
 * Central Lowlands, Scotland
 * Worcester Basin, England
 * Central Graben, North Sea
 * Viking Graben, North Sea
 * Vättern, Sweden
 * Lowtherville Graben, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England

Canada

 * Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben, Ontario and Quebec, Canada
 * Saguenay Graben, Quebec, Canada

Guatemala

 * Guatemala City valley, Guatemala

United States

 * Basin and Range Province of southwestern North America is an example of multiple horst/graben structures, including Death Valley, with Salt Lake Valley being the easternmost and Owens Valley being the westernmost.
 * Lake George Basin, New York, U.S.
 * Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada, U.S.
 * Republic Graben, Republic, Washington, U.S.
 * Rio Grande Rift Valley in Colorado/New Mexico/Texas of the United States
 * Rough Creek Graben, Kentucky, U.S.
 * Santa Clara Valley, California, U.S.
 * Western Snake River Plain, Idaho, U.S.
 * Southwest San Bernardino Valley (Arizona), U.S.

Multi-national

 * Eastern North America Rift Basins, Canada and the U.S.
 * Midcontinent Rift System, Canada and the U.S.
 * Salton Trough, Mexico and the U.S.

Oceania

 * Firth of Thames of Hauraki Gulf and Hauraki Plains of Hauraki Rift (Hauraki half grabens), North Island, New Zealand
 * Tikitere Graben within the Taupō Rift, North Island, New Zealand.
 * Gulf St Vincent, South Australia, Australia
 * Tamar Valley, Tasmania, Australia

South America

 * Guanabara Graben, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Flag of Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has been represented by official but limited-purpose flags since 1676, though until 1908 it had no state flag per se to represent its government. A variant of the white flag with blue seal was carried by each of the Massachusetts volunteer regiments during the American Civil War alongside the National Colors. An exception were the two "Irish regiments" (the 9th and 28th Volunteers), each of which was permitted to carry an alternative green flag with a harp symbol.

The state currently has three official flags: a state flag, a governor's flag, and a "naval and maritime flag" (despite it no longer having its own naval militia). With Florida, it is one of only two state flags to prominently feature a Native American in its heraldry. In 2001, a survey conducted by the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) placed Massachusetts's state flag 38th in design quality out of 72 flags (U.S. state, U.S. territorial and Canadian provincial).

In early 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker signed a bill to change the state flag and seal. As of 2022, the redesign was not complete and the commission asked to extend the deadline to 2023. In 2023 the commission concluded without recommending specific replacements for either flag or seal, though the commission's co-chair Brian Boyles stated that he and his colleagues had made significant progress on the issue.

State flag
The flag of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts displays, on both sides, the state coat of arms on a white field. The shield is meant to depict an Algonquian Native American with bow and arrow; the arrow is pointed downward, signifying peace. However, the face of the figure is modelled on a photo of Ojibwe chief Thomas Little Shell. A white star with five points appears next to the figure's head, signifying Massachusetts as a U.S. state. A blue ribbon surrounds the shield, bearing the state motto Ense Petit Placidam, Sub Libertate Quietem ("By the Sword We Seek Peace, But Peace Only Under Liberty").

Above the shield is the state military crest: the bent arm holding a broadsword aloft. The sword has its blade up, to remind that it was through the American Revolution that liberty was won. The sword itself is a copy of one belonging to Myles Standish and signifies the philosophy that one would rather lose their right arm than live under tyranny.

The state flag was officially adopted in 1907, but had been used unofficially since the American Revolutionary War as the ensign of the Massachusetts State Navy. In 1971, the earlier pine tree was replaced by the current design.

Attempts to change the flag
On January 11, 2021, Governor Charlie Baker signed a bill establishing a commission to change the state flag and seal by October 1, 2021 that will "faithfully reflect and embody the historic and contemporary commitments of the Commonwealth to peace, justice, liberty and equality and to spreading the opportunities and advantages of education." The bill was previously approved by the Massachusetts Senate on July 28, 2020. The Special Commission on Massachusetts Flag and Seal (Special Commission to Investigate the Features of the Official Seal and Motto of the Commonwealth) first met in July 2021. In April 2022 the Commission voted to ask the state legislature to extend the deadline for completion of the Commission's work to March 31, 2023 In May 2022, the Commission recommended changing the seal, motto, and flag, however the Commission failed to agree upon a proposal. With lawmakers not having extended the deadline past December 31, 2022, and the Commission's own deadline having expired at the end of March 2023, as well as UMass Amherst polling showing lukewarm support for a change, the issue appears to be closed for the present time.

Naval and maritime flag
In April 1776, the Massachusetts State Navy adopted, as its flag (naval ensign), a white field charged with a green pine tree and the motto "An Appeal to Heaven." In 1971 the motto was removed, and the flag was designated "the naval and maritime flag of the Commonwealth".

Massachusetts is one of only three states with its own maritime ensign. The second is Maine, which was part of Massachusetts until 1820. Third and last is South Carolina, which activated her navy twice: first during the American Revolutionary War and again during the American Civil War.

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Talk:March 18

"Sheelah's Day"
this is definitely not a thing, and should be removed--2607:FEA8:D5DF:1AF0:F553:E79F:4382:3B32 (talk) 11:48, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
 * ❌ Added a citation from a reliable source. Toddst1 (talk) 21:49, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

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Aulacogen

An aulacogen is a failed arm of a triple junction. Aulacogens are a part of plate tectonics where oceanic and continental crust is continuously being created, destroyed, and rearranged on the Earth’s surface. Rift zones are places where new crust is formed. An aulacogen is a rift zone that is no longer active.

Origin of term
The term aulacogen is derived from Greek aulax 'furrow' and was suggested by the Soviet geologist Nikolay Shatsky in 1946.

Formation
A triple junction is the point where three tectonic plates meet; the boundaries of these plates are characterized by divergence, causing a rift zone or spreading center; a transform fault; or convergence causing subduction or uplift of crust and forming mountains. The failed arm of a triple junction can be either a transform fault that has been flooded with magma, or more commonly, an inactive rift zone. Aulacogen formation starts with the termination of an active rift zone, which leaves behind a graben-like formation. Over time, this formation starts to subside and eventually minor volcanism starts to take place. The final inversion stage takes place when tectonic stress on the aulacogen changes from tensional to compressional forming horsts. The inversion of ancient, buried aulacogens can exert a dramatic effect on crustal deformation.

Characteristics
Aulacogens can become a filled graben, or sedimentary basin surrounded by a series of normal faults. These can later become the pathway for large river systems such as the Mississippi River. The rock forming an aulacogen is brittle and weak from when the rift zone was active, causing occasional volcanic or seismic activity. Because this is an area of weakness in the crust, aulacogens can become reactivated into a rift zone. An example of a reactivated aulacogen is the East African Rift or the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, an ancient aulacogen that reactivated during the breakup of Pangaea. Abandoned rift basins that have been uplifted and exposed onshore, like the Lusitanian Basin, are important analogues of deep-sea basins located on conjugated margins of ancient rift axes.

Africa

 * The Benue Trough in Nigeria, formed as part of the Early Cretaceous rifting that predated the separation of South America from Africa

Asia

 * The Cambay rift in India
 * The Kutch rift in India

Europe

 * The Lusitanian Basin, located on the Southwestern European margin (offshore Portugal)
 * The Pechora-Kolvin aulacogen in Russia
 * The Pachelma aulacogen in Russia
 * The Vyatka aulacogen in Russia
 * The Sernovodsk-Abdulino aulacogen in Russia
 * The Kaltasa aulacogen in Russia

North America

 * The Canadian Grand Banks region, where the Hibernia Oil Field is located.
 * The Stenian period Midcontinent Rift System that is still visible at the surface in the area of Lake Superior.
 * The Mississippi embayment with the associated New Madrid Seismic Zone is an example of an ancient aulacogen that dates back to the breakup of the ancient continent, Rodinia. This ancient rift was the site of extreme earthquakes in the early 19th century in the region.
 * The Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen is an Eocambrian rift system formed as a product of intracontinental rifting during the breakup of Pannotia. The Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen is located in southwestern Oklahoma and extends into northeastern Texas. The Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen is a failed rift zone that was active during the Early Cambrian during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia and the opening of the Iapetus Ocean. Volcanism and later faulting associated with the aulacogen created the Wichita and Arbuckle mountains. The rocks that were formed during active rifting of the aulacogen are now exposed in the Wichita and Arbuckle mountains through the processes of uplift and erosion. The majority of these rocks are made up of basalts and other mafic and intermediate lavas, which are typically associated with rift zones. An estimated 250,000 km3 of lava was erupted during active rifting.

The Midwestern United States can attribute many of its features to failed rift zones. Rifting in this part of the continent took place in three stages: 1.1 billion years ago, 600 million years ago, and 200 million years ago. Both the aulacogen associated with the Mississippi embayment and the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen were formed between 500-600 million years ago.

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Talk:March 19

San Juan Capistrano
Probably should have some mention that this is the traditional day for the swallows to end their migration from Goya, Argentina to the Mission, San Juan Capistrano in California. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.192.168.26 (talk) 17:01, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Pluto
Someone had edited Pluto to say that on this date in 1915 Pluto was "photographed for the first time but was (correctly) not recognized as a planet." The correctly is what I take issue with, because at the time it was initially taken it was mistaken as being a background star, which is not "correct". I edited, but forgot to sign in, the sentence to say "...not recognized as a planetary body", and removed the "correctly". This avoids the debate of planethood, and I also made "planetary body" point to "dwarf planet". I used "planetary body", because at the time the category "dwarf planet" didn't exist, and planetary body includes asteroids as well as planets. Phil 16:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Kondr (talk) 23:55, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm a newbie here and not educated at astronomy, but I think the part about Pluto is rather confusing (it makes one think Pluto is a planet).
 * That's because it *was* a planet from the time of its discovery until 2006, when it was relegated to a group of smaller bodies. It took 90 years of increasingly accurate observations to determine it was just the biggest "plutoid" out there - major or dwarf, it has historical notoriety. 2600:8807:480A:1900:103C:C45A:479E:A931 (talk) 20:21, 15 April 2017 (UTC) Dfoofnik nsi

The Clarke Event
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George De la Tour
The actual article for De la Tour says he was born on March 13, not March 19. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.149.65.19 (talk) 06:28, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

1965: Discovery of the Georgiana
I am concerned that this date may not be correct. While the page asserts that E. Lee Spence discovered the wreck in 1965, it does not give a date. I have only chased 1 of the 3 references given, but it asserts that Mr. Spence used old charts to gauge the area Georgiana must have gone down while he lived in France at age 15. That would have been 1962 or 1963. But he “had to wait five years to confirm the calculations”, and perhaps even after that actually made the discovery of the wreckage. (Thus at least 1968.) By this time he was at the University of Florida and ~21 years old.

This strikes me as more believable, in large part because his hand-written notes on the map drawn in 1970 says "The wreckage of the “Georgiana” and the “Mary Bowers” was first identified by E. Lee Spence in January of 1968 …"

Sbauman (talk) 03:55, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:March 20

Steak and Blowjob Day
I'm finding conflicting reports about this holiday...even here on Wikipedia. Some claim that it's March 20 while others claim that it's March 14. It's not terribly important, seeing as it's not even an official holiday...but if anybody knows exactly when it is that would be helpful. Thanks --Ally525 17:33, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Perhaps the important part is deciding if it needs to be mentioned on ANY date. There's been a pretty considerable tug-of-war with it here. Joyous | Talk 17:43, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, true. I don't know, I'm pretty new to how things work on here. --Ally525 17:49, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

 * its march 14, exactly 1 month after valentines day. because Steak and BJ day is supposed to be the "man's valentines day." ...Patrick (talk, contributions) 09:09, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

 * The article has been deleted and it is far too trivial to feature on a Day article. Lkjhgfdsa 0 (talk) 00:04, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert Day
I believe my previous entry RE: Stephen Colbert Day was deleted. I have reposted with a reference.

Stephen Colbert day will occur March 20, most likely annually. The observance was started in reponse to a lost bet my Oshawa mayor John Gray. There is no official noted way to celebrate. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.40.1.129 (talk) 18:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC).
 * According to the city council agenda for the meeting where the motion was passed, it's a one-off; 2007 only.  So even if it were notable enough mention here, it doesn't qualify to be listed under "Holidays and Observances," becuase it's not annual.  WikiProject Days of the year states "Items listed under "Events" should be notable on a global scale."  So it shouldn't go there, either.  -- Vary | Talk 16:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I say it be included until next year before then it is unknown if it will be celebrated annually. As far as this not being an global event, the Colbert report is seen in many countries around the world, so how doesn’t it qualify?Boatman666 13:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Read my post above. It is not an annual event.  The city council documents clearly specified March 20 2007 only.  And it doens't qualify as global because, while there may be people in other countries who are aware of the date, it was only a holiday in one city.   -- Vary | Talk 13:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

But do all holidays require a government mandate to be celebrated, is that part of the determining criteria? Just because the holiday is not celebrated by the city council is no reason to discount it. I say we wait until next mar 20 to determine if it is a anual event. As far as the need for something to be global to be event, there are things on that list that have little consequence to the world at large.Boatman666 23:34, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * If you mean wait until next March 20 to see if it merits inclusion then, good idea.  If you mean leave it in until next year on the off chance that it will gain some notability, I'm sorry, but that's just not how we do things here.  If there's no proof it should be in the article right now, then it shouldn't be there.  If and when there is evidence that it does meet our inclusion guidelines, then you can bring that evidence here.  But WP:ILIKEIT isn't going to cut it.  This has been discussed extensively here and elsewhere.  I think the matter needs to be let go for now.  -- Vary | Talk 00:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

It is far too trivial to be on a Day article. This an an encyclopedia, not a collection of trivia made up by comedians. Lkjhgfdsa 0 (talk) 00:04, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Id-E-Milad (Muhammed's birthday)
This is not an event and it should be removed. Could be placed in Holidays and Observances.192.35.35.34 (talk) 14:42, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

2012
"2012 A Tornado, generally rare in Australia, forms over Magnetic Island and hits Townsville, Queensland with wind gusts of up to 180km/hr." Why is this here??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.204.183.133 (talk) 13:50, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Voyager 1 exits Solar System
This needs to be added. Page semi protected. Cant edit.

http://science.time.com/2013/03/20/humanity-leaves-the-solar-system-35-years-later-voyager-offically-exits-the-heliosphere/

Ostara
Yes, Mabon is a Neo-Drudic/Celtic & Wiccan holiday, but Ostara is a Germanic holiday (along with also being a Wiccan holiday). Wicca recognizes both Celtic & Germanic holidays in their Wheel of the Year. I'm not exactly sure how this should be noted/worded without being too messy & complicated.JanderVK (talk) 13:50, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Births and Deaths
Continuing the ongoing effort to reduce the size of the Births and Deaths sections to make them manageable, I'm removing some celebrities with few or no articles in other wikipedias, moving the entries to the appropriate Year in Topic article if they were not already present. This is in accordance with the guidelines. See discussions at Wikipedia_talk:Days_of_the_year. Deb (talk) 16:26, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Great American Meatout Day
trivial, unofficial. The art. says "hundreds of people". Should be removed. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 13:16, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

International Astrology Day
the article doesn't support this as a real thing. I suggest it be removed from here. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 13:20, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

"Sun-Earth Day"
this is an educational program, not a celebration. sugg. deletion from here--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 13:30, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

1915 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity?
I'm puzzled by the claim: "1915 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity".

The General relativity article doesn't mention a 20 March publication date, saying only, "After numerous detours and false starts, his work culminated in the presentation to the Prussian Academy of Science in November 1915 of what are now known as the Einstein field equations, which form the core of Einstein's general theory of relativity."

And Albert Einstein says, "Einstein, Albert (1915) [Published 25 November 1915]. "Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation" [The Field Equations of Gravitation] (Online page images). Sitzungsberichte 1915 (in German). Berlin, Germany". JezGrove (talk) 14:29, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

 * the date is 25 of March, not 20, and is not in the article! something is wrong here, here are some source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/einsteins-discovery-of-general-relativity-1905-1915 and the "100 anniversary" was dated March 25, 2015 Barrabas11 (talk) 04:43, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

 * The article Albert Einstein has a reference to this New York Times article - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/science/a-century-ago-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-changed-everything.html - which states "And on Nov. 25, 1915, he set down the equation that rules the universe.".
 * - do you have any other reference to back up your recent changes here and at General relativity? Cheers, Kiwipete (talk) 01:35, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Please note that the Nov. 25, 1915 and the March 20, 1916 dates refer to completely different events, both notable. The latter is supposedly the day on which his paper was published in Annalen der Physik - this claim can be found in many sources, notably Haaretz and Wikipedia's very own Facebook page.
 * There's definitely a lot of confusion on what occurred when and what's to be seen as more "important" in terms of the general theory first being made public, hopefully someone can make heads or tails of this. Vadim Galimov (talk) 09:52, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:March 21

My entry about Doonesbury comic strip
The other day, I added an event to both March 21 and also October 26. The latter was the first time the Doonesbury comic strip was published. The former was the first time it was published on a Sunday.

My addition was removed with a note about needing a citation.

1. Why does this need a citation? Looking at dozens of other events on the same day, most of them don't have citations and are not well-known dates/events. March 21 is the day that President Carter announced the boycott of the 1980 Olympics. Oh, really? Where's the citation for that? I have no way to verify that.

2. For my entry, I can include a link to an archive showing the first comic or the first Sunday comic for Doonesbury. Would that be enough? But, looking at the documentation, it's not clear how I should add a citation. Help, please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zonker.in.geneva (talk • contribs) 21:28, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Since you missed edit notice on this page, I'll point you directly to WP:DOYCITE.  I reverted your re-addition of the material because while the "source" you provided was indeed a link to that comic strip, it did nothing to support the claim you made and as such was not a source.   WP:V is <- that way.   Toddst1 (talk) 21:52, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

truant day holidays
not a real thing.--142.163.194.73 (talk) 22:10, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

 * let's take it out. 2607:FEA8:FF01:5C5B:70DE:9CEE:2056:C019 (talk) 02:02, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

"international colour day"
it's an industry promotion day. Shouldn't be here 2607:FEA8:FF01:5C5B:70DE:9CEE:2056:C019 (talk) 02:03, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:March 22

Last Emperor of China Comment
The claim that "The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.[5]" is contradicted by the main WP article (see: Emperor_of_China), which states "The Xuantong Emperor (Puyi) of the Qing dynasty, the de jure last Emperor of China, abdicated on 12 February 1912. He was briefly restored for almost two weeks during a coup in 1917 but was overthrown again shortly after". JezGrove (talk) 15:18, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks for pointing that out. I've removed it. Toddst1 (talk) 15:36, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Martin Vizcarra
change ((Martin Vizcarra)) to ((Martín Vizcarra)) 2601:541:4500:1760:F118:358B:E03E:8C86 (talk) 21:30, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done ☾Loriendrew☽   ☏(ring-ring)  00:50, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Ethnicity and nationality in Wikipedia?
1936 – Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-English singer-songwriter and guitarist When I hover over the wikilink to his bio, I see that he is described as "a British singer-songwriter and musician, who was born in Nairobi to English parents". It seems to me that while he lived in Kenya, he was English–Kenyan, and once he permanently emigrated from Kenya to the UK, he became simply English. If he moved to the United States at some point, then he was or is an English–American. Can someone point me to Wikipedia policy regarding the determination of a person's ethnicity and/or nationality? Thanks in advance. —71.105.243.101 (talk) 09:32, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Addition of another birth
Add the below line, right above the birth of Dimitrios Meliopoulos.

 * 1997 – Alex Meret, Italian footballer

1997 has been linked somewhere above at tara Lipinski, thus there is no need to link it again. There are multiple sources on the web which describe that person's details, I am just not sure which reference is best to support the evidence of my request.197.0.232.75 (talk) 21:10, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

 * Please provide a reliable source. Knowledgegatherer23  ( Say Hello ) 21:44, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Here are the sources I found. Any of these should be relevant enough: Gee, I hope any of those above could help.197.0.232.75 (talk) 22:16, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/209746/alex-meret
 * https://1xbet.whoscored.com/Players/241022/Show/Alex-Meret
 * https://www.foxsports.com/soccer/alex-meret-player-bio
 * https://en.as.com/resultados/ficha/deportista/alex_meret/26073
 * https://www.eurosport.com/football/alex-meret_prs402012/person.shtml
 * https://www.transfermarkt.com/alex-meret/profil/spieler/240414

 * In order:
 * The ESPN source is useless for this claim (too sparse). Statlines are never acceptable sources for claims like this simply because of the lack of details. (Birthdate is considered controversial enough that BLP applies.)
 * The WhoScored source is useless for this claim for the same reasons as ESPN.
 * The Fox Sports source is useless for this claim for the same reasons as ESPN and WhoScored.
 * The as.com source is useless for this claim for the same reasons as the previous three sources.
 * The Eurosport source is useless for this claim for the same reasons as the previous four sources.
 * We can't use Transfermarkt (no editorial oversight). WikiProject Football has questioned Transfermarkt's practices in re their coverage, and I see no reason to disagree with them.
 * You need to come up with a more in-depth source - say, an actual news story - that discusses him and includes the birth date. Statlines will not cut it. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v  Source assessment notes 22:54, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * , how about any of these?
 * https://www.napolike.it/chi-e-meret-biografia-carriera-e-cifre-del-portiere-del-napoli
 * https://www.theitaliantimes.it/2021/06/11/alex-meret-eta-altezza-biografia-stipendio
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Meret
 * 197.0.232.75 (talk) 23:12, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Using the Italian Times source above. Kiwipete (talk) 08:03, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Jéské Couriano 2400:AC40:624:4509:CDEA:CA7A:5720:6EB2 (talk) 13:03, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:March 23

New section proposal
Propose adding an additional section (such as ), to wit: "Disputed year of birth" so as to include film star Joan Crawford whose date of birth (March 23) is not questioned but whose year of birth is subject to dispute (see her article); i.e. 1904, 1905, 1906, 1908 all thrown out there, although 1904 almost biologically impossible as her elder brother seems to have been born in September 1903 and no one believes 1908 the year she officially adopted, but anyway......

Any suggestions?? Quis separabit? 19:27, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * There is a similar discussion underway at WT:DAYS and since this would be a project wide discussion, it should be continued there. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:31, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth. Possible error
This entry states that there was successful landing.

The link [|James Francis Edward Stuart] Directs to a Wiki page that clearly states "Though delayed in France by an attack of measles, James attempted invasion, trying to land at the Firth of Forth on 23 March 1708. The fleet of Admiral Sir George Byng intercepted the French ships, which, combined with bad weather, prevented a landing." in the Early Attempts section

One of the two is obviously incorrect. Since the second page has a reference, I suggest that the language on this page be changed to read "1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart attempts to land at the Firth of Forth"

MyRandomUserName (talk) 20:19, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

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Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell

Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, (15 April 1937 – 14 October 2004), was a British historian and politician. His parents were the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and his third wife Patricia Russell. He was also a great-grandson of the 19th-century British Whig Prime Minister Lord John Russell. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his half-brother, John Russell, on 16 December 1987. Both sons were named after their father's great friend Joseph Conrad, who was also the 4th Earl's godfather.

Educated at Eton (King's Scholar) and Merton College, Oxford, Conrad Russell was an academic historian working on 17th-century British history, having extensively written and lectured on parliamentary struggles of the period. Russell was also a passionate advocate of liberalism, from a long family line of distinguished liberals.

After his death from complications of emphysema, Russell was succeeded as Earl by his elder son, Nicholas, who died in 2014 and was succeeded as Earl by his brother, John, who is also a politician.

Academic career
Russell was a historian working on the origins of the English Civil War and critical of older Whig and Marxist interpretations. His major works include Crisis of Parliaments: English history 1509–1660 (1971), Origins of the English Civil War (edited, 1973), Parliaments and English politics, 1621–1629 (1979), Unrevolutionary England, 1603–1642 (1990), and Fall of the British monarchies, 1637–1642 (1991). His work on early Stuart Parliaments was profoundly influenced by the work of Alan Everitt, who had argued that the English gentry were preoccupied with defending their positions in the localities rather than responding to the demands of the Crown. This no longer seems entirely plausible in the light of the work done by Richard Cust, Clive Holmes, Peter Lake and Christopher Thompson. Russell argued that the Civil War was much less a result of long term constitutional conflicts than had previously been thought, e.g. by Lawrence Stone and Christopher Hill, and that its origins are to be sought rather in the years immediately preceding the outbreak of war in 1642 and in the context of the problems of the multiple kingdoms of the British Isles, a hypothesis for which he was indebted to the pioneering study of Helmut Koenigsberger. This area is still being explored by historians like John Adamson and David Scott even if their detailed conclusions vary from those reached by Russell.

He was lecturer (and later reader) in history at Bedford College, University of London (now part of Royal Holloway), 1960–1979; professor of history at Yale University, US, 1979–1984; Astor Professor of British History at University College London, 1984–1990; and professor of British history at King's College London from 1990 to his retirement in 2003.

Political career
As a young man, Russell's political allegiance varied between the Labour Party and the then weak Liberal Party. He stood as the Labour candidate in Paddington South in the 1966 general election, but failed to win the seat from the Conservatives.

He succeeded to the title of Earl Russell on the death of his half-brother, John Russell, in 1987. He was the first parliamentarian to take his seat as a Liberal Democrat, shortly after the party was formed in 1988 from a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party.

In 1999, all but 92 hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords. Lord Russell was elected at the top of his party's list of hereditary peers to retain their seats, though he had consistently argued in favour of abolishing the Lords completely, and replacing it with an elected senate. He was admired in the House for his fund of historical anecdotes and dry sense of humour.

He was vice-president of the Liberal Democrat Youth and Students 1993–1994 and honorary president of the Liberal Democrat History Group 1998–2004. In 1988 he became Co-Chairman (later President) of the Council for Academic Autonomy, a group of university academics promoting the principles of academic freedom and the independence of universities from state and commercial control, and was instrumental in a crucial amendment to the Education Reform Act of 1988.

Death
Russell's health worsened in the late 1990s and he died of respiratory failure at Central Middlesex Hospital in 2004. Russell was predeceased by his wife in 2003.

Published books

 * The Crisis of Parliaments: English History 1509–1660 (1971)
 * The Origins of the English Civil War (1973)
 * Parliaments and English Politics, 1621–1629 (1979)
 * Unrevolutionary England:1603-1642 (1990)
 * The Causes of the English Civil War (1990)
 * The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637–1642 (1991)
 * Academic Freedom (1993)
 * An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism (1999)

In his book Academic Freedom, Russell examines the ideal and the limits of academic freedom, and the relations between the university and the state. He notes (p. 24) that his father's career is a reminder that a free society is not a guarantee against losing an academic job for holding very unpopular opinions on non-academic subjects, as Bertrand Russell in fact did twice.

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World Kabaddi Day
no Wiki article, should not be here. --142.163.194.190 (talk) 13:24, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've removed it. —Bruce1eetalk 13:39, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Fatal wounding of Richard I in 1199
This page says he was shot on the 24th of March. The article about Richard says it was on the 26th. The article about the boy who shot him (Pierre Basile) says that it was on the 25th. Experts, please! Could we have some agreement on this? Torve (talk) 11:57, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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Flag of Minnesota

The official flag of Minnesota consists of a dark blue field representing the night sky and the shape of the U.S state of Minnesota, a bright blue field representing the state's abundant waters, and an eight-pointed star representing the North Star using a design prominently featured at the Minnesota State Capitol. This was created in an effort to offend nobody and please nobody. It is successful.

The current design was adopted in 2024 following a redesign commission. This is the fourth design for the official flag of Minnesota since 1893.

Design and use
Section 1.141 of the state statutes prescribes the design and use of the flag.

Display and use
The flag is to be flown over the Minnesota State Capitol from sunrise to sunset.

When the flag is folded for storage, it should be folded in the same way as the national flag. When folding the flag for presentation or display, it must be folded lengthwise four times, then each side must be folded down. The ends below the triangle must be folded in a complex way to form a triangle that is then tucked into the upper triangle. (Instructions for folding the 1983 State Flag, developed by members of the Minnesota National Guard, were so detailed as to be confusing to some. )

Desecration
Mutilating, defiling, or casting contempt upon the flag, attaching any design to the flag, or using the flag for advertising are misdemeanor offenses under State Statute 609.40, excepting flags on written or printed documents. However, following the 1990 Supreme Court ruling United States v. Eichman, enforcement of this law has been deemed unconstitutional.

1893 flag
In 1891, the Minnesota legislature voted to sponsor an exhibition at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and in response then governor William Rush Merriam appointed a board to supervise the preparations. The board comprised only men, but preparations specific to the showcasing of "women's work" were passed off to an all-women group of volunteers known as the Women's Auxiliary Board. Minnesota had no official flag at that time, and the Auxiliary Board formed a six-person committee to design a flag. The committee held a contest to design the flag, and 200 entries were submitted. In February 1893, Amelia Hyde Center was announced the winner and received $15 for her winning design. The Board then successfully petitioned the legislature to officially adopt the design as the state flag.

Center's design was white on one side and bright blue on the other. In the center of the white obverse was the state seal wreathed in white moccasin flowers overlaying a ring of blue. The seal depicted a farmer using a plow while a Native American figure on horseback rides to the west. A red ribbon across the seal bore a motto, L'Étoile du Nord (French for "The Star of the North"). The years 1819 (establishment of Fort Snelling), 1858 (statehood), and 1893 (adoption of the flag) appeared in gold around the seal. "Minnesota" was written in gold under the seal, and 19 gold stars, representing the fact that Minnesota was the 19th state to be admitted after the original 13 states, were arranged in clusters to form the five points of a star. Historians have noted the design was likely influenced by various flags used by Minnesota's infantry regiments during the Civil War, many of which consisted of a blue field emblazoned with either an American eagle or the state seal with a scroll.

The first flag was made of silk and was embroidered by Pauline and Thomane Fjelde, who won a gold medal for their creation. The flag was adopted on April 4, 1893.

While the reverse of the official design was a solid blue field, some examples of the flag, particularly those mass produced in the twentieth century, featured the seal design on that side as well.

1957 flag
The flag was redesigned in 1957 in advance of the 1958 state centennial. Most significantly, the field of both the obverse (formerly white) and the reverse (formerly bright blue) were made royal blue; the unification allowed flags to be produced from a single piece of cloth, reducing manufacturing costs and making the flag more durable in high winds. Separately, the white lady's-slippers depicted in the original were replaced with the pink-and-white lady's-slipper native to Minnesota.

The central design featured three concentric circular fields. The innermost field was filled with a simplified version of the state seal. Around the seal was a ring of blue ornamented with a wreath of pink-and-white lady's-slippers and a red ribbon, upon which are written the years 1819 and 1893 (for the establishment of Fort Snelling and the first Minnesota flag, respectively). At the top of the blue ring the year 1858 is set in gold. Around the blue ring is a white ring upon which 19 stars form five radially arrayed groups. Each group contained four stars except for the top-center group, which had two stars of standard size and one larger than the rest, representing the North Star. The number 19 was chosen to symbolize the fact that Minnesota was the 19th state to enter the Union after the original 13. The larger star at the top symbolized the North Star. Between the bottom two groups, the state's name was set in red. Both the blue ring and the white ring were bordered with gold.

Another flag was proposed for Minnesota in 1957, designed by Joseph Nelson (Adjutant General of the Minnesota National Guard from 1949–1960) and endorsed by Rep. John Tracy Anderson. It depicts 19 stars forming the shape of a larger star, inside a triband of red on the left, white in the center, and blue on the right.

1983 flag
In 1983 the seal was redrawn, and the color field was lightened from a royal blue to a medium blue; the shade could vary in different flag makers' designs. The flag was rectangular and featured a design emblazoned in the center of a field of blue. According to statute, the flag was bordered with gold and finished with gold fringe, but this was rarely used and more common on indoor flags.

Several changes were also made to the seal in this year. The Native American figure was turned to face farther South, more towards the farmer. Also, the Mississippi River and St. Anthony Falls were added to the seal to note the importance of these resources in transportation, industry, and the settling of the state. Beyond the falls on the seal, the state added three pine trees representing the state tree (the Norway pine) and the three pine regions of the state: the St. Croix, Mississippi, and Lake Superior. Around the seal, the flag still showed three notable years in Minnesota history (1819, 1858, and 1893), the pink-and-white lady's slipper, and 19 stars placed the same as in 1957.

Criticism of the 1983 flag
The 1983 revision of the flag came under growing criticism. Longstanding frustration with its illegibility was joined by concerns that the image depicted in the seal offered a negationist view of Minnesota's settlement by Europeans that concealed the violence committed against Indigenous peoples.

North Star Flag

The North Star Flag design was created in 1989 by Lee Herold and Reverend William Becker. The flag has the colors of green, representing forests, white, representing winter, and blue, representing water. A yellow star in the top left represents the North Star and the state's motto, L'Étoile du Nord.

Herold had opposed the official state flag since its creation when he was in high school. In 1995, he left his career as an accountant and opened a flag store, Herold Flags, in Rochester, Minnesota. He presented the proposal to state legislators in 1989, supported by Republican representative Gil Gutknecht. However, the North Star Flag design was never officially adopted by the state.

2023 Redesign Commission
On March 22, 2022, two Democratic-Farmer-Labor members of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Mike Freiberg and Peter Fischer, introduced a bill to redesign the state's flag and seal. Fischer began supporting a flag redesign in 2017 after a group of high school students raised the issue to him. The law outlines specific guidelines for the redesign, stipulating that the new designs "must accurately and respectfully reflect Minnesota's shared history, resources, and diverse cultural communities" and that symbols representing only a single community or person are prohibited. It was proposed as part of a state budget bill and was opposed by Republican representatives, who viewed it as a low priority.

In May 2023, as a part of the annual state budget, the Minnesota Legislature established the State Emblems Redesign Commission, tasked with proposing new designs for Minnesota's flag and seal. The legislation dictates that, barring any contrary legislation, the chosen flag design will be adopted as the state flag on May 11, 2024. The committee has 13 members, including representatives of the Indian Affairs Council, the Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage, the Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs, and the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans, along with three members of the general public appointed by Governor Tim Walz. The committee held its first meeting on September 5.

In October 2023, the committee received public input to suggest flag designs. A total of 2,123 flag and 398 seal submissions were received. Common themes included the state bird (the loon), lakes and rivers, and the North Star. More diverse entries included a photograph of a dog, a photograph of a wooden floor, national flags and imitations of them such as those of the Soviet Union, psychedelic monkey drawings, and a design depicting a loon shooting lasers from its eyes similar to the Laser Kiwi flag proposed during the 2015–2016 New Zealand flag referendums.

On November 21, 2023, the commission met in the Minnesota Senate Building to review the selections. Despite having planned to select five flag designs, the group chose six finalists. All the finalists featured a star motif, the colors blue and white; none featured the loon, which the committee believed represented only part of Minnesota. Herold attended the hearing, but his North Star Flag design was not a finalist. On December 13, the number of flags was narrowed to three, F2100, F944, and F1953.

Final design
On December 15, 2023 the committee decided that the final flag would be a variant of F1953, eliminating F2100 and F944. The commission finalized the design on December 19, 2023 by removing the stripes and altering the star's shape, making the final design an all light-blue banner with a simplified shape of Minnesota on the hoist in dark blue and a simplified eight-pointed star in the center of the shape.

Ted Kaye of the North American Vexillological Association called the new design "outstanding" and said that it has a place in the top 10 flags of the U.S. Despite praise from the organization, a poll found that just 23% of Minnesota voters supported switching to the new flag, while 21% supported replacing the flag with a different design and 49% wished to keep the existing flag. The flag officially became the new state flag on May 11, 2024.

Criticism of the 2024 flag
A criticism of the design is its alleged similarity to the Flag of Jubaland and the Flag of Puntland; this alleged similarity was denied by the commission overseeing the flag redesign. Another criticism of the final design is that it is "plain".

Several rural counties, including Crow Wing, Houston, McLeod, Nobles, Becker, Mower, and Brown, passed resolutions opposing the flag in general, or the process by which the new flag design was chosen. In early March 2024, Republican state legislators announced plans to introduce a series of bills that would put the flag design to a public vote, but the bills did not come up for a vote during the 2024 legislative session.

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Talk:March 27

A new terminal at an airport is an event?
Please. Sometimes nothing significant happens on a particular day.Rlbarton (talk) 14:06, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Bridge player?
Please. This is not the trivial pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlbarton (talk • contribs) 14:23, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

He has an article. He gets an entry. The end. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 14:26, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Should change the name to WikiTrivia. The births and deaths are getting silly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlbarton (talk • contribs) 15:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Only people of substantial notability should be added in the Births and Deaths section of Day of Year articles; otherwise there would be hundreds of people in those sections of each such article. Qzm (talk) 01:21, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Robert the Bruce
Going by the Wikipedia entry for Robert the Bruce, he was actually crowned on 25th of March, rather than the 27th: which is correct … ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuddy2977 (talk • contribs) 13:34, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Date with highest birthday count on Wikipedia
I did a bit of analysis and March 27th stands out as the date of the year with the highest number of "famous" birthdays with 786 at time of analysis. The next highest was March 4th with 667 followed by February 5th with 559. The average count per date was 267 birthday listings. The lowest was November 6th with only 99. --Deltaray (talk) 13:57, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * See this news article for a detailed analysis of this anomaly. Jarble (talk) 15:06, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, there is an ongoing discussion at the administrators' noticeboard about this issue. Jarble (talk) 16:29, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Removal of birth entries

 * I've had removed some insufficiently globally notable celebrities with few or no articles in other Wikipedias, but not a lot Shiesmine (talk) 15:16, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Good job. Quis separabit?  14:15, 16 December 2016 (UTC). I am going to remove some of the people with no languages containing with it which only has the English wikipedia. Shiesmine (talk) 16:20, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Sports Bias Among Birth Entries
Since 1976 on this page, only 2 --TWO-- out of 40 --FORTY-- birth entries has not been a sports person! This manifests an unacceptable and some would say an unintellectual bias, which does nothing to uphold the standards of Wikipedia. I have therefore re-entered Amira Willighagen, a young international operatic soprano of world renown, who won the Holland's Got Talent national finals at the age of 9 and performs around the world at the highest level, with tenors such as Paul Potts, who ARE included on their birth pages.

Will the sports fanatic, whoever he is, please try to entertain the concept of *balanced reporting* ! TWO...out of FORTY! Must do better!

Could I also raise the point that there are some people with their own Wikipedia pages who have their births/deaths entered, and some who don't. Any yet, they are all considered notable enough to have their own pages on Wikipedia. To some this would also appear as a double standard.

64.88.200.106 (talk) 00:41, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Global notability
Individuals whose articles cannot be relied upon to at least have the potential of global notability are rv as per this discussion and this one. Quis separabit? 14:15, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that not everyone on Wikipedia should be included, but there needs to be more straight forward guidelines that are set in stone. I've reverted some of the edits recently made on the page to remove non-notable people, but I disagree so I have unaccepted them. It would help if perhaps suggested people to be removed were discussed on the talk page first, and then proposed for removal? st170e talk 02:46, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Holidays & observances Romulus of Nimes
St Romulus of Nimes does not have an article to himself, and so should not be here, alas.--2607:FEA8:D5DF:F3D9:AC99:D2B7:A37A:537A (talk) 17:41, 27 March 2020 (UTC):ok, let's take him out--142.163.195.18 (talk) 16:53, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

international whiski(e)s day
from the article, it doesn't seem to be a real thing. should be deleted. --142.163.195.18 (talk) 16:53, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

World Theatre Day
seems to be the initiative of a cultural interest group. Should be deleted. --142.163.195.18 (talk) 16:56, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Alexander, Pannonian martyr
no article, should not be here per rules. --142.163.195.18 (talk) 16:59, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Gelasius of Armagh
does not have an article, is not called saint in link to Armagh. Should be gone --142.163.195.18 (talk) 17:04, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:March 28

Computer games on this page
Let me make my position quite clear - this page is for events of global significance, which does include cultural significance as well as political and environmental. However, that cultural significance needs to be very significant indeed. So while the release of a game such as Space Invaders or Pac-Man constitutes a major cultural landmark, if a game isn't making normal news headlines (not games news, news news) across the planet there is no way it warrants an entry here. Average Earthman 11:26, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Strongly agree - there is no way that the edit alluded to is any way globally significant. Martin Hinks 12:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Inclusion of everyone
I'd suggest if you want to include every single person born on March 28th you create a category. A list comprised largely of people almost nobody has heard of will be little used. We're not creating something to show off how much data we can collect, we're trying to write something that people will actually find useful. Average Earthman 23:17, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comments to me suggest that my suggestion wasn't actually that popular. Since I'm complaining there are more important people not on the list than some who are, if removing people is unpopular, I guess I'd better add the people I think are more deserving of being on here. Average Earthman 15:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

The Great Alaska Earthquake (Good Friday Earthquake) happened on March 27, NOT March 28!

I don't want to step on any toes by deleting the reference, but if someone who is a toe-stepper could please handle this, I'd appreciate the correction! It's already listed correctly on March 27, by the way...

Add Peter J. Thomson's,Secession's singer,death.

Or at least thats what her wife said on youtube 6 hours ago.

Gotta confirm its really her,though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.40.64.208 (talk) 20:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Global notability
Individuals whose articles cannot be relied upon to at least have the potential of global notability are rv as per this discussion and this one. Porn stars, btw, just from experience, rarely if ever have that potential, and that's not a bias or animus on my part, just a fact. Quis separabit? 13:53, 16 December 2016 (UTC). I'm removing the celebrities in other 0-4 languages by removing entries on births Shiesmine (talk) 12:51, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia's ten millionth article
When I raised whether   we should claim our achievement of the ten millionth article on March 31 2008 at WP: Village Pump, I was informed that the ten millionth article (in the Hungarian Wikipedia) was actually created several days before then. According to:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/10M_articles

the date was March 28, so should this be seen as one of the anniversaries here? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I would say that that is an inherently notable event considering it's kind of why we're all here. The only caveat is that the listing needs to link to an existing article on the English Wikipedia that supports the event.  I haven't read Wikipedia lately, but perhaps the info from the press release could go in there for support.  (Mufka reads press release)  Actually, it looks like it occurred on March 27.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Collège royal des médecins et chirurgiens du Canada) is a regulatory college which acts as a national, nonprofit organization established in 1929 by a special Act of Parliament to oversee the medical education of specialists in Canada.

The Royal College is an association of physicians concerned with setting national standards for medical education and continuing professional development in Canada for 80 medical specialties. As such, the Royal College is neither a licensing nor a disciplinary body. Instead, it is a regulatory authority that helps ensure that the training and evaluation of medical and surgical specialists and two special programs maintain certain standards of quality.

All specialists in Canada, with the exception of family physicians, must be certified by the Royal College before they obtain a provincial or territorial licence to practice. The only exception is in the province of Quebec, where the Royal College shares the responsibility for certifying physicians with the Collège des médecins du Québec.

To become certified, a physician must pass Royal College examinations. Access to these examinations is usually gained by completing a Royal College-accredited residency program at a Canadian university. Access is also available for medical residents who complete a Royal College-recognized residency program in the United States. Certain international training programs approved by the Royal College provide limited access to Royal College examinations.

Since its founding, the Royal College has been granted the patronage of the Canadian monarch, currently Charles III.

History
In June 1929, a special Act of Parliament established the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to oversee postgraduate medical education in Canada. At first, the Royal College offered just two specialty qualifications: Fellowship in general medicine and Fellowship in general surgery. By 2014, the Royal College had expanded its activities to recognize 80 disciplines, granting Fellowships in 30 specialties, 35 subspecialties, two special programs and 13 Areas of Focused Competence (AFC-diplomas).

From the 1940s to the 1970s, the Royal College conducted examinations at two levels in most specialties: Fellowship, the higher qualification, or Certification, a lesser designation. In 1972, the Royal College abolished this dual standard and began to offer a single certification that continues today: Fellowship.

In 1968, the Royal College established the McLaughlin Examination and Research Centre at the University of Alberta and Laval University to research and develop modern techniques for evaluating specialist physicians. In 1987, the Royal College merged the centre into a bilingual McLaughlin Centre based in Ottawa, Ontario.

Since the mid-1980s, the Royal College has broadened its activities to study areas of special interest in Canadian healthcare, including injury prevention  and patient safety. In 2005, the Royal College set a specific goal to improve the health of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Today, the headquarters for the Royal College is located at 774 Echo Drive in Ottawa, Ontario. The building, constructed in 1921, was formerly the monastery of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood.

Objectives
The work of the Royal College centres around its prime objective — to ensure the highest possible standards of specialist training and specialist care. The Royal College undertakes work under the following six areas:
 * Prescribes the requirements for specialty education in 80 areas of medical, surgical and laboratory medicine plus two special programs,
 * Accredits specialty residency programs,
 * Assesses the acceptability of residents' education,
 * Conducts certifying examinations,
 * Administers the Maintenance of Certification Program, a mandatory continuing professional development program for all members, and
 * Sets standards for professional and ethical conduct among its members.

Membership
In 2014, the Royal College had more than 44,000 members worldwide, including Fellows, residents, and honorary, retired, and emeritus members.

Fellows of the Royal College use the designation FRCPC (Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians of Canada) or FRCSC (Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Canada) depending on their qualifications. Since 1997, the Royal College has also offered category of resident membership called "resident affiliate” in an attempt to engage residents at an early stage of their careers. Those who choose to join the Royal College receive complimentary membership during the time they are registered in a Royal College-accredited residency program. Approximately 2,000 members are designated as resident members.

The Royal College website includes a directory of all current and retired Fellows.

International medical graduates
An international medical graduate is someone who has completed his or her medical training outside of Canada or the United States and whose medical training is recognized by the World Health Organization. There are 29 international jurisdictions that the Royal College has assessed and deemed as having met Royal College criteria. For the graduates of these particular jurisdictions, the College assesses their training to determine the extent to which they have successfully met and completed the Royal College training requirements. When the training is deemed comparable and acceptable, the IMGs are ruled eligible to take the Royal College certification examination. Success at the certification examination will lead to Royal College certification. The Royal College accepts training from some international jurisdictions that have similar residency training accreditation systems to Canada.

Work with other medical organizations
The Royal College maintains close working relations with the 17 Canadian university medical schools, numerous national professional associations, voluntary health organizations and governmental agencies where it has a respected and influential voice in discussions affecting medical education, medical research and the delivery of high-quality health care to Canadians. In some cases, the Royal College accredits training programs conjointly with other professional organizations. In addition, Royal College training programs are sometimes cited as requirements for specific levels of remuneration for resident physicians.

The Royal College co-sponsored the 10th Annual International Conference on Medical Regulation, which took place at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ontario, Canada in October 2012.

Continuing professional development
The Royal College develops and administers a continuing professional development program called Maintenance of Certification (MOC) that requires Fellows to engage in certain activities to maintain their competence throughout their careers. Introduced in 2000, MOC is a core service delivered by the Royal College and is also open to health care professionals who are not Fellows and not physicians. The program awards credits to participants who engage in learning activities that enhance their practice. Elements of the MOC Program are recognized by medical associations in other countries, including the American Medical Association (which allows its members to convert certain MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 credits) and the American College of Physicians.

CanMEDS
In 1996, the Royal College adopted CanMEDS, a medical education framework it developed that emphasizes the essential competencies of a physician. Revised in 2005, the CanMEDS competencies have now been integrated into the Royal College's accreditation standards, objectives of training, final in-training evaluations, exam blueprints, and the Maintenance of Certification program. All 17 medical schools in Canada also use the framework to assess the abilities of their residents. The Royal College is now updating the framework to further align it with a competency-based approach to medical education. The revised CanMEDS framework launched in 2015.

Since its creation, CanMEDS has been adopted and adapted around the world. CanMEDS is an educational framework identifying and describing seven roles that lead to optimal health and health care outcomes: medical expert (central role), communicator, collaborator, manager, health advocate, scholar and professional. The overarching goal of CanMEDS is to improve patient care.

Competency-based medical education
Competency-based medical education, or CBME, is an outcomes-based approach to the design, implementation, assessment and evaluation of a medical education program using an organizing framework of competencies. In 2012, the Royal College began a multi-year plan to design, develop, implement and sustain a program of CBME. Under CBME, medical education (for residents in training and specialist physicians who pursue lifelong learning) progresses not according to how much time a resident or certified physician has practised certain skills, as has been the case in the past in Canada. Instead, it progresses under a system in which residents and certified physicians must achieve and demonstrate core competency levels called "milestones” before they move on, receive credit or are otherwise recognized by the system.

In 2013, the Royal College announced Competence by Design, the name that the organization has given to its reorientation toward a CBME model of learning and assessment (The CanMEDS Framework, first introduced in 1997, sets out the competencies and principles considered essential for Canadian physicians ). As of 2014, the Royal College's move toward CBME and Competence by Design was received with mixed reactions from Royal College Fellows.

Health and educational policy work
The Royal College engages regularly in work to affect health policy, especially in the areas of physician employment and resident duty hours.

Physician employment: In 2013, the Royal College released the results of a Canada-wide study that showed an increasing number of specialists cannot find jobs relevant to their skills and training.

Resident Duty Hours: In 2013 the National Steering Committee on Resident Duty Hours, hosted by the Royal College with funding from Health Canada, released a report called Fatigue, Risk and Excellence: Toward a Pan-Canadian consensus on resident duty hours. The steering committee's research process and subsequent report were widely received as robust and a major step forward in the controversial debate about duty hours.

Awards and grants
The Royal College's awards and grants program distributes $1 million a year in awards, grants, fellowships and visiting professorships. Awards recognize the importance and potential impact of specialist physicians' work and categories include original research, personal achievements and visiting professorships. Grants support professional development and research, with categories covering continuing professional development grants, travelling fellowships and medical education grants.

Among the more notable Royal College awards is the Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award which recognizes physicians and surgeons who, while providing health care or emergency medical services, go beyond the accepted norms of routine practice, which may include exposure to personal risk. The award is named in honour of Dr. Lucille Teasdale and Dr. Piero Corti, a physician couple who devoted their professional careers to healing, teaching, and improving the condition of the population residing in the poverty stricken Gulu region of Uganda. Past recipients have worked throughout the world, including in Africa, Europe and South America.

The International Medical Educator of the Year Award is given to an international medical educator who has demonstrated lasting impact and a commitment to enhancing ethics and humanism in residency education. In 2019, the prize was awarded to Dr. Melchor Sánchez Mendiola, MD, MHPE, PhD, from National Autonomous University of Mexico.


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Iraq

 * 2003 - US Invades Iraq.

That was March 19, no? I'm not deleting (maybe there's some technicality I'm not aware of), but if someone else wants to, they should.

Virus

 * 1999 - Melissa virus was released to the Internet, panic ensues. This is quite significant since its panic signaled the awakening of Internet security.

Blessed Hugo?
I'm confused; February 10 is also listed on Wikipedia as being the liturgical feast of Blessed Hugo. Does Blessed Hugo have two feasts? Geoffrey.landis 15:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Wajiha Khuwaja?
Who the heck is this? Listed under born in 1990, unlinked, and turning up no useful results on a google search. I very much doubt this is an important person. 137.186.222.166 04:47, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Hitler's votes
1936 - In Germany, dictator Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 5 little itty bitty votes out of 45.5 million unregistered voters. In 1933 all political parties and political liberty had been abolished. ~Huh?~ propose to re-write or erase entirely. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 192.251.125.85 (talk) 23:09, 29 March 2007 (UTC).

Earth Hour
Hi. Why is the March 29, 2008 Earth Hour not notable? It is more notable than the Marth 31, 2007 one, because this is the first global Earth Hour. The article origninally mentioned a March 29, 2007 Earth Hour, but I fixed it because it was incorrect and the first Earth Hour was actually on March 31, 2007, and that was in Sydney only. I could list it under observances, but the problem is that this is the first Earth Hour to take place on March 29, and I don't know what the policy is here, but this event for March 29 is only a day old, and only happened once so far, and it shouldn't be under observances for March 31 either, because it no longer occurs on March 31. I think it's likely for it to be done again next year, but WP:CRYSTAL, and it only happened once on this day in history. I think it should be listed under observances on March 29 only after the 2009 Earth Hour, when listing it as a 2008 and 2009 Earth Hour under events will become redundant. It should be added for March 31 under events as well because that was the only March 31 Earth Hour, the one that occured in Sydney in 2007. How should this be added? Thanks. ~ A H  1 (TCU) 21:42, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

 * It isn't reasonable to list it on every day that it has occurred. If it does not recur on the same date each year, it can't go under observances.  The event does seem to have some global relevance (but this is not usually evident only a day after - see WP:DOY), but generally, such events are listed on the date of their first occurrence. If it ever settles on a static date, it can be added to observances.  We won't know this until at least next year so I would suggest only the listing on the date of first occurrence.  Even if that first one was not global, it lead to a global event and it has an article to support it.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 03:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Removal of birth entries
I've had removed some insufficiently globally notable entries with few or articles to other Wikipedias. Shiesmine (talk) 15:48, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Removed UK Triggering of Article 50
I removed it because it hasn't happened yet. Someone can rewrite the entry to say that a letter was written that will trigger Article 50 on March 28. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.189.221.130 (talk) 22:44, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Alvaro Andrés Zuazua Silva
Muere en Santiago a los 54 años, destacado Gasparino y creador revolucionario. 190.164.126.163 (talk) 19:57, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:March 30

Alhambra
The Alhambra decree ist dated from March 31, 1492. --172.180.183.228 20:50, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Ric Flair
Hello, im not trying to annoy you but i added ric flair to the date because he is a legendry figure in professional wrestling and if you would bring his name up to any fan, young or old they would know him. A 36 year career ending on this day deserves recognision after every thing he has been through including broken necks and backs.

Liam —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.208.121.232 (talk) 19:13, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Ric Flair, for all intents and purposes, is a fictional character. You actually make a great argument against inclusion when you say that "if you would bring his name up to any fan, young or old they would know him".  No one who is not a fan knows him or cares that he ever lived.  His career did not have an impact on the world and his retirement is not a globally notable event.  In fact, it would be hard to justify that any person's retirement would be a globally notable event.  I understand that you are a fan and have an emotional attachment to this event, but try to see if from the perspective of the rest of the world.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:20, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Good point, although he is a real person not fictional, he didnt impact people outside the global wrestling audience and you made a good point and i apologise for repeatable changing it on the March 30th page, thankyou. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.208.121.232 (talk) 19:24, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Just to clarify, I did not mean that he is not a real person, but his persona is fictional. Wrestling is entertainment, scripted for the most part.  His retirement is part of the script.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

No, his retirement is legitimate because he is never wrestling again, but is part of a storyline in WWE that every match he wrestler prior to Wrestlemania 24 was a "Career Threatening Match". Oh god i can't believe we are arguing about this. sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lums1991 (talk • contribs) 19:36, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

DTFD

 * You have an issue with an edit from the year 2006? Binksternet (talk) 04:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Blue Rodeo Day in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://ca.omg.yahoo.com/blogs/north-stars/ottawa-declares-blue-rodeo-day-march-30-151718422.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_rodeo

Probably not noteworthy enough for inclusion when a single city decides to make a day something but figured I'd put this here and let someone smarter then me decide.SinbadEV (talk) 14:50, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Batman's actual introduction
According to the article with citation, Detective Comics issue #27 (May 1939) introduced the first appearance of Batman. But according to this page, it states it in March; seems like the March 30 anniversary page is incorrect.

Mguss (talk) 01:14, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

I’ve just been looking around: after one of my blog’s regular readers highlighted the issue. According to her researches, and this link, it was supposed to have been released on 17th May. And However, Wikipedia’s ‘Cover date’ article says an issue would be released anything up to two months BEFORE the cover date.

Go figure!

Cuddy2977 (talk) 08:11, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

 * The United States Copyright Office's official record, the Catalog of Copyright Entries 1939 Periodicals New Series Vol 34 Pt 2 page 164 (online version available at the Internet Archive) gives a copyright date of March 30, 1939 for the May issue of Detective Comics. I would certainly give credence to a contemporaneous legal record.

 * In addition, the Grand Comics Database entry for Detective Comics #27 uses the date of March 30, 1939 with the notation "The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing."

 * DC's "Official Press Release" Warner Bros. Entertainment and DC Entertainment Celebrate Batman's 75th Anniversary states "First appearing in the comic book Detective Comics #27, which hit newsstands on March 30, 1939..." The other DC link was simply in error.

 * Articles by Variety, Bleeding Cool, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times also cite March 30, 1939. Mtminchi08 (talk) 01:01, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

John Proctor
All sources list his birthday as Octobet 2600:8807:9A06:F500:FDEE:D9EA:25EE:6426 (talk) 04:41, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Which John Proctor do you mean, and do you have a specific date and a reference? Kiwipete (talk) 05:58, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

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Convention of Kanagawa forced the opening of Japanese ports?
Why not just opening several (or the exact number) Japanese ports? Why the loaded forcing? Thought Wikipedia was supposed to be NPO, not pushing the view of Japanese nationalists of the ilk who started WWII in the Pacific. Jim_Lockhart (talk) 06:42, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

how did this event get on the mainpage?
"1910 – The six English towns of Burslem, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Fenton and Longton, amalgamated to form a single county borough." How on earth did this non-event get on the main page? Come to think of it, why is it even on the list of events for March 31st? Just Bizarre. I usually find the "on this day" section interesting but I hope it stays reserved for significant events. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.158.56 (talk) 23:57, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Removal of birth entries
I've had recently removed some of the non-globally entries and some celebrities, with few or no other articles in other Wikipedias Shiesmine (talk) 16:25, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Eiffel Tower date claim wrong
Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Inauguration_and_the_1889_exposition. I don't feel comfortable editing. Wikipedian, please deal with and delete this comment if doing so would please you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:80DD:1F70:76E5:BFF:FEF1:C96A (talk) 08:20, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Many, many people of no note whatsoever
The quality of the list of births in this article is severely diminished by the inclusion of many, many people whose only reason for inclusion is that they happen to compete in some sport someplace in the world.

This problem afflicts especially those born most recently. Since 1976, all but two of the 76 births listed are of mostly obscure competitors.

Which is a shame. A list of truly notable persons would be interesting.

On the other hand, I just added the name of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), who was for some reason not previously in the list of births. 2601:200:C000:1A0:A407:B2A:CC98:71C (talk) 14:52, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

"World Backup Day"
no article. according to the 'CBC' article linked, started by companies that sell backup material. Should be deleted. --142.163.195.18 (talk) 11:00, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

International Transgender Day of Visibility
no governmental or historic. started and maintained by activists (as per article). Should be deleted. --142.163.195.18 (talk) 11:03, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Day of Genocide for Azerbaijanis
This day does not have an article. --142.163.195.18 (talk) 11:07, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Over 20 inclusions of people born in the year 1999 in the "Births" section
Seems a tad excessive 86.115.101.138 (talk) 08:39, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

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