Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/June 3

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there is a superfluous div closure tag, misaligning the recent days links. --MarSch 17:39, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Fixed. Andy _t 13:41, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

== Duke of Windsor "The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson." -- missing: "pictured" (there is a picture of her). -- Bartosz 02:45, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson (pictured). feydey 12:47, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply
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following was transfered from Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors, here for further discussion for next year. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:13, 4 June 2009 (UTC) [reply]

There's an error of omission in stating that the Duke of Windsor married Wallis simpson months after the former "abdicated the British throne." He was king of seven independent counties at the time (Australia, Canada, India, the Irish Free State, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom), the government of each having to give their express consent to the abdication before it could occur. The statement on the main page should thus be something like: "Months after

(Cough, cough) No "dominions" please. A very rude and controversial wording... just list each country... --

•wicke 21:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply

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Its the first time I'm seeing a Wiki bowing down to despotism. 114.142.136.245 (talk) 15:57, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 4. --BorgQueen (talk) 16:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Although the military started to move in at around 10 p.m. on June 3, most of their actions – including when their tanks completely cleared the square – happened on June 4. This is why it is posted on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 4 instead of here. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:07, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I was wrong.

Go Democracy!!!114.142.136.245 (talk) 07:52, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Omitted: Casey at the Bat; Huế chemical attacks; Operation Blue Star (ineligible—maintenance)
• Included:
  1973 Paris Air Show crash
  (first appearance)
• Repeats: Lin Zexu (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Edward VIII/Wallis Simpson (Edward: 5th consecutive appearance, 9 total; Simpson: 5th consecutive appearance, 5 total)

• Deleted: Electric power transmission (moving to May 16: better date)
• Moved to Ineligible: Casey at the Bat (maintenance); Huế chemical attacks (TFA for 2013)
• Omitted: Lin Zexu; Edward VIII/Wallis Simpson; Andy Warhol
• Included: François de Laval (first appearance); Jack Jouett (first appearance); Shlomo Argov (first appearance)
• Repeats:
  1973 Paris Air Show crash
  (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 40th anniversary)

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