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What days of the week were 31 January 1961, 21 December 1964, 3 December 1928 and 12 July 1935 please? Ann Stirland

Tuesday, Monday, Monday, Friday. ... (talk) 08:46, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is this officially the worst day of the year?

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30th January sucks! Look at all the deaths, executions, assassinations, and the release of Windows Vista!

I am needing some information when it comes to the crash with the Kenya Airway that happened in 2000. I think I had family on there and I am needing to know the names of the victims that did not make it out alive. Thanks Alecia Dawson

I also found out that Jan 31st 1961 was a tuesday and december 21 1964 was a monday. the other two i could not find

2012 notes

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howcheng {chat} 23:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

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howcheng {chat} 04:54, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

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howcheng {chat} 11:44, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

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howcheng {chat} 08:06, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

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howcheng {chat} 06:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

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howcheng {chat} 08:26, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 query

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Could the Barbara La Marr listing please be restored? I only put that in there a few days ago; it's never been featured, before. :-( Stolengood (talk) 02:34, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

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howcheng {chat} 16:37, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

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  • Use Charles I (featured article), 370th anniversary of his beheading, for the picture. Made a number of other changes. Feedback welcomed. Jonathunder (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Jonathunder: Nice work. Some notes:
      1. The fact that Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi has {{refimprove}} is not a reason to take it out, because it's not the bold article.
      2. Normally I like have two pre-20th century articles (three at most), but we have four here. The 1018 item didn't need to repeat because there's a large number of eligible articles in the pool, so let's replace that with a more modern one.
      3. Because we have a large pool of eligible articles, look at the notes from previous years so that we can show articles that have been left off for several years.
      4. I picked a different image because 1) as a TIFF, it was kind of fuzzy in the thumbnail, and 2) that one had a lot of dead space.
    • Thanks. howcheng {chat} 23:04, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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howcheng {chat} 18:26, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

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howcheng {chat} 16:45, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

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howcheng {chat} 03:53, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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howcheng {chat} 06:56, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2023 notes

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Copying over an unresolved WP:ERRORS discussion:

Richard Lawrence (failed assassin)

"1835 – Richard Lawrence became the first person to attempt to assassinate a sitting US president when he failed to kill Andrew Jackson at the US Capitol (assassination attempt pictured) and was subdued by the crowd."

The word "sitting" is ambiguous here. Did the attempted assassination occur while he was in office, or while he was on a chair? Maybe there's a better word we could use? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:56, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Replace "sitting" with "current"? Schwede66 02:42, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 02:55, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And another:

1607 Bristol Channel floods The SA guidelines state "the event should have occurred on the day in question in the calendar in use at the time (per MOS:JG)". England did not switch to the Gregorian calendar until 1750 so this should feature on 20 January - Dumelow (talk) 06:42, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 02:57, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]