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Dimitri

Set design for Act V of the première of

False Dmitriy I (reigned 1605–1606), the opera was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre National Lyrique. Dvořák's 1881 opera Dimitrij
was also based on Schiller's play.

Art credit: Philippe Chaperon; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Shouldn't that be "dystopian" and not "dystopic"? Somehow "dystopic" doesn't sound right.

Revolución
00:41, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

World Ocean Day

Please add

World Ocean Day. Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 07:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply
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The card used for the 1887 punched card patent illustration is incorrect. The patent itself doesn't seem to specify the number of columns, but the cards first in use based upon that patent had 22 columns, and used round holes, rather than the 80 column rectangular hole cards shown in the illustration. The card illustrated is one which was common from the mid 1920's onward. It seems that people might well infer that the particular card illustrated was the one in use in 1887, which is incorrect. No illustration would probably be better. —The preceding

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On June 8 793AD the Vikings did their first raid. I think this is worth noting.

Cameron Nedland 16:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply
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Kenenisa Bekele

I think it's worth adding a link to

World records in athletics
, perhaps thusly:

jnestorius(talk) 00:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

World Ocean Day -> World Oceans Day

Since

World Ocean Day is now official and named World Oceans Day, this article should call it that as well. --93.178.156.236 (talk) 20:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply
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 Done. I don't know why this wasn't done earlier. –
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Wrong Date for Falklands War Battle

Wikipedia's English Main page has the wrong date for the Falklands War battle known as Bluff Cove. The year is completely wrong. In the "On this day..." section, it states that the battle took place in 1959. The Falklands War took place 23 years later, in 1982. Please correct it.

--Abebenjoe (talk) 01:35, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

World IPv6 Day

Please add

World IPv6 Day to the list, thank you. Wiikipedian 00:59, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply
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Minor changes

should be

Also, arguably

  • Oceania
    , was first published.

should be

  • Oceania
    , was first published.

(remove random space and in->under)

Yaris678 (talk) 10:09, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, both seem uncontroversial. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:33, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks.
BTW. I note that this change was made to the venus item immediately before your change. I am happy with either of the later two versions... but hopefully it won't be controversial either way.
Yaris678 (talk) 11:39, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I hadn't noticed that. Well hopefully it's okay as it is. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:44, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Add World Oceans Day

The World Ocean Day was discussed here earlier. However I can't see it anywhere on tomorrow's template.

Please (re)add it ASAP!

--Fixuture (talk) 22:23, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Howcheng: @StevenJ81: @MusikAnimal: @Randykitty: Aaadmins please take a look - you're needed here now. --Fixuture (talk) 22:45, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply
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@Fixuture: Wow! I got promoted.
Seriously, though: As long as the "too promotional" tag is on the page, it won't be listed. StevenJ81 (talk) 23:00, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@StevenJ81: Alright fixed and removed it! --Fixuture (talk) 23:10, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It's still rather promotional, especially in the descriptions of past years. It reads like it belongs on the World Oceans Day web site. —
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Howcheng: Improved on it. It really should be okay now. Could you please check (read) it? If you still find problems please be more specific so that they can be corrected (if you don't fix them yourself).
Note that it doesn't have to be perfect to get featured - I will try to improve on it over the next few days if it gets featured. --Fixuture (talk) 01:49, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply
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Howcheng: Alright. Thank you for your constructive assistance. It feels quite frustrating that I'm apparently alone at sufficiently improving and nominating this item. It's too late for it getting featured today anyways. It would be nice if you could give some feedback again once I did some more improvements so that it at least can be featured next year.
As a sidenote: people can't be expected to even find this place; it's basically hidden for most users of the site even if they are potential participants in the nomination and improvement of selected anniversaries. This needs to change somehow. --Fixuture (talk) 21:16, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply
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Punched card

Hi

Howcheng, For tomorrow we have 1887 – German-American statistician... There seems to be an error in the Punched card target article. The only mention of June 8 is for 1889 (not 1887). Then, also "The card shown in U.S. Patent 395,781 of June 8 was printed" but that has the wrong month. The ref says patent date was January (not June) 8, 1889. The other blue link Herman Hollerith article and its different ref have the correct date ie January 8, 1889 and no mention of anything in a June. The relevant patent refs are 395781, 395781, 395781 and 395782. All are dated January 8, 1889. I see the note on the staging page about Hollerith also appearing on January 8 - I think it's actually the same punch card patent? I hope I haven't got wrong end of stick. Thanks for taking a look. JennyOz (talk) 07:58, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply
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Good spot. Deleted. —
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