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1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burned to the ground.

Can someone confirm the date, please ? There is no mention of this tragedy in the Globe Theatre article. Thanks. -- 28 June 2005 12:37 (UTC)

2012 notes

New articles (unused): Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet; Yemenia Flight 626
Omitted: Battle of Inab; Battle of Torvioll; United States 1–0 England (1950 FIFA World Cup); Isabel Martínez de Perón; Flag of Europe
Included: Globe Theatre (2nd appearance, last in 2010); Battle of Konotop (2nd appearance, last in 2009; rescued from Ineligible); St-Hilaire train disaster (first appearance); Mikhail Baryshnikov (first appearance); Second Battle of Yeonpyeong (first appearance; 10th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 05:46, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Deleted: Yemenia Flight 626 (moved to June 30)
Omitted: Battle of Konotop; St-Hilaire train disaster; Mikhail Baryshnikov; Second Battle of Yeonpyeong
Included: Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet (first appearance); Jayne Mansfield (2nd appearance, last in 2010); Isabel Martínez de Perón (6th appearance, last in 2011); iPhone (first appearance)
Repeats: Globe Theatre (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 400th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 06:07, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Omitted: Globe Theatre; Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet; Jayne Mansfield; Isabel Martínez de Perón; iPhone
Included: St-Hilaire train disaster (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 150th anniversary); Hyde Park Township, Cook County, Illinois (2nd appearance, last in 2010; 125th anniversary); Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo (first appearance; 100th anniversary); United States 1–0 England (1950 FIFA World Cup) (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Mikhail Baryshnikov (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 40th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 11:56, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Omitted: St-Hilaire train disaster; Hyde Park Township, Cook County, Illinois; Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo; United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup); Mikhail Baryshnikov
Included: Seychelles (rescued from Ineligible); Battle of Inab (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Battle of Torvioll (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Mission San Francisco de Asís (first appearance); Flag of Europe (7th appearance, last in 2011; 30th anniversary); Shuttle–Mir Program (2nd appearance, last in 2010; 20th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 11:18, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

New articles (ineligible): Laylat al-Qadr (maintenance)
Omitted: Battle of Inab; Battle of Torvioll; Mission San Francisco de Asís; Flag of Europe; Shuttle–Mir Program
Included: Battle of Konotop (3rd appearance, last in 2012); St-Hilaire train disaster (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Isabel Martínez de Perón (7th appearance, last in 2013); Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (4th appearance, last in 2009; 10th anniversary)

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

@Howcheng:, there is nothing that I can see in the Isabel Martínez de Perón that she was sworn in on this date, only that she became president on her husband's death on July 1. This was raised on MP:Errors but wasn't addressed, can you take a deeper look if you have time. Stephen 01:45, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- @Stephen: From Isabel Martínez de Perón#Presidency: Juan Perón suffered a series of heart attacks on 28 June 1974; Isabel was summoned home from a European trade mission and secretly sworn in as acting president the next day. —howcheng {chat} 06:03, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Howcheng: Thanks, that will teach me to have only searched for 29! Step hen 02:33, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Mission San Francisco de Asís (maintenance); Mikhail Baryshnikov (maintenance); Second Battle of Yeonpyeong (maintenance)
Omitted: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (ineligible—maintenance); Seychelles (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Konotop; St-Hilaire train disaster; Isabel Martínez de Perón; Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Included: Battle of Torvioll (first appearance); Globe Theatre (7th appearance, last in 2013); Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Jayne Mansfield (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 50th anniversary); iPhone (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 10th anniversary); Óláfr Guðrøðarson (died 1153) (first appearance); Thomas Dunn English (first appearance); Elisabet Ney (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 03:43, 29 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Omitted: Battle of Torvioll; Globe Theatre; Jayne Mansfield; iPhone (ineligible—maintenance); Óláfr Guðrøðarson (died 1153); Thomas Dunn English; Elisabet Ney
Included: Battle of Inab (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Battle of Konotop (4th appearance, last in 2016); United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup) (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Flag of Europe (8th appearance, last in 2015); Rembert Dodoens (first appearance); Ralph Allen (first appearance); Kim Little (first appearance)
Repeats: Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:27, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Torvioll (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Lavinia Stoddard; Charles Lyon Chandler
Omitted: Battle of Inab; Battle of Konotop; Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo; United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup); Flag of Europe; Rembert Dodoens; Ralph Allen; Kim Little
Included: Globe Theatre (8th appearance, last in 2017); St-Hilaire train disaster (4th appearance, last in 2016); Bird of Paradise (aircraft) (first appearance); Isabel Martínez de Perón (8th appearance, last in 2016); Shuttle–Mir Program (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Thomas Dunn English (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 200th birthday); Ludwig Beck (first appearance); Lana Turner (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 22:22, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Konotop (maintenance); Flag of Europe (maintenance); Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (maintenance)
New articles (ineligible): Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (maintenance); Harmon Killebrew (TFA for 2020)
New articles (unused): David Rubinger; Charles Lyon Chandler
Omitted: Globe Theatre; St-Hilaire train disaster; Bird of Paradise (aircraft); Isabel Martínez de Perón; Thomas Dunn English; Ludwig Beck; Lana Turner
Included: Battle of Inab (4th appearance, last in 2018); Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo (4th appearance, last in 2018); United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup) (4th appearance, last in 2018; 70th anniversary); Pietro Paolo Troisi (first appearance); Paul Klee (first appearance; 40th anniversary); Kim Little (first appearance; 30th birthday)
Repeats: Shuttle–Mir Program (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total; 25th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:35, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Isabel Martínez de Perón (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Harmon Killebrew
New articles (unused): Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood
Omitted: Battle of Inab; United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup); Shuttle–Mir program; Pietro Paolo Troisi; Paul Klee; Kim Little
Included: Battle of Konotop (5th appearance, last in 2018); Soyuz 11 (7th appearance, last in 2013; moved from June 30); Pedro Pacheco de Villena (first appearance); Niels Kaas (first appearance); David Rubinger (first appearance)
Repeats: Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 03:56, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes

New articles (unused): 1913 Gettysburg reunion (moved from June 25)
Omitted: Battle of Konotop; Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet; Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo; Soyuz 11; Pedro Pacheco de Villena; Niels Kaas; David Rubinger
Included: Globe Theatre (9th appearance, last in 2019); St-Hilaire train disaster (5th appearance, last in 2019); Jayne Mansfield (4th appearance, last in 2017); Shuttle–Mir program (7th appearance, last in 2020); Ludwig Beck; (2nd appearance, last in 2019) Charles Lyon Chandler (first appearance; 60th anniversary); Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 07:31, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]