Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/October 31

message: samhain is not a protestant festival. its irish. this statement is an insult to all irish citizen's.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sagaris1 (talk • contribs) 15:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither is Halloween. Don't read too much into the commas, Sagaris1. --199.71.174.100 18:03, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Samhain

message: *Adding on behalf of 216.125.163.51 who posted this on Main Page General discussion: It says that, "Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers completed...", Gutzon Borglum died on March 6 of 1941, he couldn't have completed it on Halloween in 1941." Puchiko (Talk-email) 22:25, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mt. Rushmore

message: In light of Wikipedia:Did you know/Halloween 2009, Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests#Halloween and Template:POTD/2009-10-31, I kinda feel obligated to rewrite the events here so the page has sort of a Halloween theme too. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:28, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: ...for example. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:57, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

text: Not sure if it works that well for the Nevada statehood.  It just comes off as somewhat unprofessional, as if someone was pushing some sort of Puritanical anti-Nevada agenda or something (e.g. "devilish vices"). Kelvinc (talk) 00:43, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it doesn't seem to work after all. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry, ITN doesn't have a Halloween theme either. :) --candle•wicke 02:40, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halloween 2009 

message: *Moved to Ineligible: Leiden University Library (maintenance)
*Omitted: Nevada (ineligible—maintenance); USS Reuben James (DD-245) (ineligible—maintenance); 1973 Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape; EgyptAir Flight 990 (ineligible—maintenance)
*Included: Agustín de Iturbide (first appearance); Indianapolis Streetcar Strike of 1913 (first appearance); Mount Rushmore (6th appearance, last in 2008); Indira Gandhi (6th appearance, last in 2008; rescued from Ineligible)
*Repeats: Martin Luther (4th consecutive appearance, 11 total)
—howcheng  {chat} 11:27, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  2012 notes 

message: *Deleted: Invasion of Waikato (moved to July 17)
*Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Battle of Beersheba (1917); EgyptAir Flight 990
*Omitted: Martin Luther; Mount Rushmore; 1984 anti-Sikh riots
*Included: Romulus Augustulus (7th appearance, last in 2011; moved from September 4); Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape (4th appearance, last in 2011; 40th anniversary); 7 Billion Actions (first appearance)
*Repeats: Agustín de Iturbide (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Indianapolis Streetcar Strike of 1913 (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 100th anniversary)
—howcheng  {chat} 06:20, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  2013 notes 

message: *Rescued from Ineligible (unused): USS Reuben James (DD-245) 
*Omitted: Agustín de Iturbide; Assassination of Indira Gandhi/1984 anti-Sikh riots; EgyptAir Flight 990
*Included: Battle of Beersheba (1917) (first appearance); Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape (5th appearance, last in 2013); 7 Billion Actions (2nd appearance, last in 2013)
*Repeats: Romulus Augustulus (3rd consecutive appearance, 9 total); The Ninety-Five Theses (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total; blurb previously also featured Martin Luther, which is now ineligible)
—howcheng  {chat} 11:37, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  2015 notes 

message: *New articles (unused): Metrojet Flight 9268 
*Omitted: Romulus Augustulus (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Beersheba (1917); Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape; 7 Billion Actions
*Included: Agustín de Iturbide (4th appearance, last in 2014); Benito Mussolini (6th appearance, last in 2007; had been deleted from page); USS Reuben James (DD-245) (4th appearance, last in 2011; 75th anniversary)
*Repeats: Ninety-five Theses (3rd consecutive appearance, 7 total)
—howcheng  {chat} 04:41, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  2016 notes 

message: *Moved to Ineligible: 7 Billion Actions (maintenance); EgyptAir Flight 990 (maintenance)
*Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Mount Rushmore
*Omitted: Martin Luther/Ninety-five Theses (ineligible—Theses is TFA for 2017); Agustín de Iturbide (ineligible—maintenance); Benito Mussolini (ineligible—maintenance); USS Reuben James (DD-245)
*Included: Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913 (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Battle of Beersheba (1917) (2nd appearance, last in 2015; 100th anniversary); Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape (6th appearance, last in 2015); Assassination of Indira Gandhi (first appearance; blurb previously also featured Indira Gandhi, which is currently ineligible) (5th appearance, last in 2014); Metrojet Flight 9268 (first appearance); John Keats (first appearance); Natalie Clifford Barney (first appearance); Charles Taze Russell (first appearance)
—howcheng  {chat} 03:15, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  2017 notes 

message: *Omitted: Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913; Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape; Metrojet Flight 9268; John Keats; Natalie Clifford Barney; Charles Taze Russell
*Included: Romulus Augustulus (10th appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); Martin Luther/Ninety-five Theses (Luther: 13th appearance, last in 2014; Theses: 8th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Mount Rushmore (7th appearance, last in 2012); Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (first appearance); Marie Louise Andrews (first appearance); Muriel Duckworth (first appearance)
*Repeats: Battle of Beersheba (1917) (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total); Assassination of Indira Gandhi (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)
—howcheng  {chat} 15:57, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  2018 notes 

message: *Deleted: Louise Woodward case (moved to October 30)
*Moved to Ineligible: Charles Taze Russell (maintenance)
*New articles (ineligible): Michael Collins (astronaut) (TFA for 2019)
*New articles (unused): Gordon Steege
*Omitted: Romulus Augustulus; Battle of Beersheba (1917); Mount Rushmore; Assassination of Indira Gandhi; Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Marie Louise Andrews; Muriel Duckworth
*Included: Irene of Athens (first appearance); Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape (7th appearance, last in 2017); Jesse Martin (first appearance; 20th anniversary); Cornelis Jol (first appearance); Charles A. Wickliffe (first appearance; 150th anniversary); Larry Mullen Jr. (first appearance)
*Repeats: Martin Luther/Ninety-five Theses (both: 2nd consecutive appearance; Luther: 2 total; Theses: 9 total)
—howcheng  {chat} 05:49, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  2019 notes 

message: *New articles (ineligible): Bill Kibby (TFA for 2020)
*New articles (unused): Greg Moore (racing driver); Juliette Gordon Low; William Evans-Gordon
*Omitted: Irene of Athens (ineligible—maintenance); Martin Luther/Ninety-five Theses; Jesse Martin; Cornelis Jol; Charles A. Wickliffe; Larry Mullen Jr.
*Included: Kaaba (first appearance); Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913 (4th appearance, last in 2017); EgyptAir Flight 990 (5th appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (first appearance); Anne Claude de Caylus (first appearance); Michael Collins (astronaut) (first appearance; 90th birthday)
*Repeats: Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total)
—howcheng  {chat} 21:10, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 notes 

message: *Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Bill Kibby
*Omitted: Kaaba; Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913; Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape; EgyptAir Flight 990; Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile; Anne Claude de Caylus; Michael Collins (astronaut)
*Included: Romulus Augustulus (11th appearance, last in 2018); Martin Luther/Ninety-five Theses (Luther: 15th appearance; Theses: 10th; both last in 2019); Mount Rushmore (8th appearance, last in 2018; 80th anniversary); Assassination of Indira Gandhi (3rd appearance, last in 2018); Metrojet Flight 9268 (2nd appearance, last in 2017); John Keats (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Juliette Gordon Low; Larry Mullen Jr. (2nd appearance, last in 2019; 60th birthday)
—howcheng  {chat} 07:34, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  2021 notes 

message: 31 October 2022 will be the 80th anniversary of when Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy, it should be included. Dr Salvus 10:08, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mussolini