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2012 notes
- Omitted: Battle of Stanhope Park; Pope Pius X; Gulf of Tonkin incident; Comfort women; María del Luján Telpuk
- Included: Battle of Evesham (2nd appearance, last in 2010); Battle of Lonato (first appearance); Italicus Express bombing 1974 (first appearance); Burkina Faso (4th appearance as blurb, last in 2010); MTS Oceanos (first appearance)
—howcheng {chat} 06:14, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
2013 notes
- Moved to Ineligible: Pope Pius X (maintenance)
- Omitted: Battle of Evesham; Battle of Lonato; Italicus Express bombing 1974; MTS Oceanos; María del Luján Telpuk
- Included: Second Temple (first appearance); Battle of Stanhope Park (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Mount Asama (first appearance); Thomas Sankara (4th appearance, last in 2008; blurb previously featured Burkina Faso, which is currently ineligible); 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers (first appearance)
—howcheng {chat} 09:40, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
2014 notes
- Rescued from Ineligible (unused): United States Revenue Cutter Service
- Omitted: Second Temple; Battle of Stanhope Park (ineligible—maintenance); Mount Asama; Thomas Sankara; 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers
- Included: Battle of Evesham (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Battle of Lonato (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Gulf of Tonkin incident (8th appearance, last in 2011; 50th anniversary); Italicus Express bombing 1974 (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 40th anniversary); Comfort women (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
—howcheng {chat} 05:35, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
2015 notes
- Deleted: Second Temple (date not actually mentioned in article)
- Moved to Ineligible: MTS Oceanos (maintenance)
- Omitted: Cook Islands (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Lonato; Italicus Express bombing 1974; Comfort women
- Included: United States Revenue Cutter Service (5th appearance, last in 2008; 225th anniversary); Operation Storm (first appearance; 10th anniversary); María del Luján Telpuk (3rd appearance, last in 2012)
- Repeats: Battle of Evesham (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Gulf of Tonkin incident (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)
—howcheng {chat} 19:56, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
2016 notes
- Omitted: Battle of Evesham; United States Revenue Cutter Service; Operation Storm; María del Luján Telpuk
- Included: Mount Asama (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Treaty of London (1839) (5th appearance, last in 2007; rescued from Ineligible); Thomas Sankara (5th appearance, last in 2013); 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 10th anniversary)
- Repeats: Gulf of Tonkin incident (3rd consecutive appearance, 10 total)
—howcheng {chat} 07:01, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
2017 notes
- Moved to Ineligible: United States Revenue Cutter Service (maintenance); Italicus Express bombing (maintenance)
- Omitted: Cook Islands (ineligible—maintenance); Mount Asama; Gulf of Tonkin incident (ineligible—maintenance); 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers
- Included: Battle of Evesham (5th appearance, last in 2015); Austro-Turkish War (1788–91) (first appearance); Comfort women (3rd appearance, last in 2014); María del Luján Telpuk (4th appearance, last in 2014; 10th anniversary); Jan van den Hoecke (first appearance); John Vianney (first appearance); Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (first appearance)
- Repeats: Treaty of London (1839) (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total)
—howcheng {chat} 07:39, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
2018 notes
- Moved to Ineligible: Thomas Sankara (maintenance)
- Rescued from Ineligible (unused): MTS Oceanos
- Omitted: Battle of Evesham; Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791); Comfort women; María del Luján Telpuk; Jan van den Hoecke; John Vianney; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
- Included: Capture of Gibraltar (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); Mount Asama (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Gulf of Tonkin incident (11th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Operation Storm (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Henry I of France (first appearance); John Venn (first appearance); David Lange (first appearance)
- Repeats: Treaty of London (1839) (3rd consecutive appearance, 7 total)
—howcheng {chat} 06:09, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
2019 notes
- New articles (unused): Maurice Richard; John Wark; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
- Omitted: Capture of Gibraltar; Operation Storm; Henry I of France; John Venn; David Lange
- Included: Battle of Evesham (6th appearance, last in 2017); María del Luján Telpuk (5th appearance, last in 2017); Peter de Montfort (first appearance); Laura Knight (first appearance); Jessica Mauboy (first appearance; 30th birthday)
- Repeats: Mount Asama (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Treaty of London (1839)/German invasion of Belgium (Treaty: 4th consecutive appearance, 6 total; Invasion: first appearance); Gulf of Tonkin incident (2nd consecutive appearance, 12 total)
—howcheng {chat} 15:56, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
2020 notes
- Moved to Ineligible: James Thompson (surveyor) (TFA for 2020)
- New articles (ineligible): As-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt (date not cited); Osbert Lancaster (TFA for 2020-07-27)
- Omitted: Battle of Evesham; Treaty of London (1839); María del Luján Telpuk/Suitcase scandal; Peter de Montfort; Laura Knight; Jessica Mauboy
- Included: Battle of Lonato (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Operation Storm (4th appearance, last in 2018); Harry Lauder (first appearance); Samuel J. Tilden (first appearance); Helen Thomas (first appearance; 100th birthday)
- Repeats: Mount Asama (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Gulf of Tonkin incident (3rd consecutive appearance, 13 total)
—howcheng {chat} 21:45, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I was going through that page today, and I noticed that we omitted any reference to last year's explosion in Beirut, Lebanon I'm suggesting that we mention it.BlitzkriegCat (talk) 17:03, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
2021 notes
- Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Osbert Lancaster
- New articles (unused): Jeanne Calment (moved from February 14)
- Omitted: Mount Asama; Gulf of Tonkin incident; Operation Storm; Harry Lauder; Samuel J. Tilden; Helen Thomas
- Included: James Thompson (surveyor) (first appearance); MTS Oceanos (2nd appearance, last in 2012); 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Henry I of France (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Maurice Richard (first appearance; 100th birthday); Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (first appearance; 40th birthday)
- Repeats: Battle of Lonato (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total; 225th anniversary)
—howcheng {chat} 16:14, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
2022 notes
- Omitted: Battle of Lonato; MTS Oceanos; 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers; Henry I of France; Maurice Richard; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
- Included: Battle of Evesham (7th appearance, last in 2019); Capture of Gibraltar (2nd appearance, last in 2018); 2020 Beirut explosion (first appearance); Laura Knight (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (2nd appearance, last in 2017); David Lange (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 80th birthday)
- Repeats: James Thompson (surveyor) (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)
—howcheng {chat} 19:00, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
2023 notes
- Omitted: Battle of Evesham; Capture of Gibraltar; James Thompson (surveyor); 2020 Beirut explosion; Laura Knight; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; David Lange
- Included: Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356 (first appearance); Mount Asama/Tenmei eruption (Mount Asama: 6th appearance, last in 2020; Tenmei eruption: first appearance); Lizzie Borden (4th appearance on August 4, last in 2009, 6 total, last in 2019); Expulsion of Asians from Uganda (first appearance); 1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état (first appearance); Lady Zhen (first appearance on August 4, 2 total); Percy Bysshe Shelley (first appearance on August 4, 2 total); Osbert Lancaster (first appearance); Margarito Bautista (first appearance on August 4, 2 total)