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1704 - Tom Brown, satirist of the low life, dies

Please add Autistic Pride Day & Father's Day. --64.229.7.166 16:14, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The information in the Wikipedia article on Ted Kaczynski indicates the indictment took place in April, not June "A federal grand jury indicted Kaczynski in April 1996, on 10 counts of illegally transporting, mailing, and using bombs. He was also charged with killing Scrutton, Mosser, and Murray.[77]"Eltrace (talk) 13:29, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Appeal of 18 June is very historically important and also has today's date in the name, so I would argue that it's worth adding. Would also recommend the addition of Churchill's "Their Finest Hour" speech delivered the same day. DarkLanius (talk) 21:24, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DarkLanius: Too late for this year, so we'll keep it mind for the future. Thanks for the suggestions. —howcheng {chat} 16:37, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes[edit]

New articles (unused): Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Omitted: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (ineligible—maintenance); Loughinisland massacre
Included: British European Airways Flight 548 (2nd appearance, last in 2010); Sally Ride (2nd appearance, last in 2008)
Repeats: Tang Dynasty (4th consecutive appearance, 4 total); Battle of Waterloo (9th consecutive appearance, 9 total); Alfred Russel Wallace (8th consecutive appearance, 8 total); University of the Philippines (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 04:33, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes[edit]

Moved to Ineligible: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk; Roberto Calvi (moved from June 17)
Omitted: Battle of Waterloo; University of the Philippines; British European Airways Flight 548
Included: Battle of Civitate (first appearance); Loughinisland massacre (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (first appearance)
Repeats: Tang Dynasty (5th consecutive appearance, 5 total); Alfred Russel Wallace (9th consecutive appearance, 9 total); Sally Ride (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 30th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 05:04, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes[edit]

Omitted: Tang dynasty; Sally Ride; Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Included: Battle of Civitate; Tachikawa air disaster (first appearance); Mona Mahmudnizhad (first appearance)
Repeats: Alfred Russel Wallace/Publication of Darwin's theory (Wallace: 10th consecutive appearance, 10 total; publication: first appearance); Loughinisland massacre (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 20th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:03, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes[edit]

Omitted: Battle of Civitate; Tachikawa air disaster; Mona Mahmudnizhad; Loughinisland massacre
Included: Tang dynasty (6th appearance, last in 2013); Battle of Waterloo (10th appearance, last in 2012; 200th anniversary); British European Airways Flight 548 (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Roberto Calvi (4th appearance, last in 2010)
Repeats: Alfred Russel Wallace/Publication of Darwin's theory (Wallace: 11th consecutive appearance, 11 total; publication: 2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:26, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes[edit]

Omitted: Tang dynasty; Alfred Russel Wallace/Publication of Darwin's theory; British European Airways Flight 548; Roberto Calvi
Included: Siege of Constantinople (860) (first appearance); Tachikawa air disaster (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Mona Mahmudnizhad (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Battle of Waterloo (2nd consecutive appearance, 11 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:58, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes[edit]

Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Civitate (maintenance); 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état (TFA for 2017)
Omitted: Battle of Waterloo; Tachikawa air disaster; Mona Mahmudnizhad; Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Included: Alfred Russel Wallace (12th appearance, last in 2015; blurb also previously featured Publication of Darwin's theory, which is currently ineligible); British European Airways Flight 548 (4th appearance, last in 2015); Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk (first appearance); Salman of Saudi Arabia (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (first appearance); Olga Constantinovna of Russia (first appearance); Paul McCartney (first appearance; 75th birthday)
Repeats: Siege of Constantinople (860) (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 03:24, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes[edit]

Omitted: Siege of Constantinople (860); Alfred Russel Wallace; British European Airways Flight 548; Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk; Salman of Saudi Arabia (ineligible—maintenance); Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh; Olga Constantinovna of Russia; Paul McCartney
Included: Tang dynasty (7th appearance, last in 2015; 800th anniversary); Giordano Bruno (crater) (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); War of 1812 (6th appearance, last in 2010; previously also appeared on December 24; rescued from Ineligible); 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); Loughinisland massacre (4th appearance, last in 2014); Rogier van der Weyden (first appearance); Max Immelmann (first appearance); Michael Hastings (journalist) (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 04:20, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes[edit]

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Salman of Saudi Arabia
Omitted: Giordano Bruno (crater) (deleted—blurb is most likely incorrect); War of 1812; 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état; Loughinisland massacre; Rogier van der Weyden; Max Immelmann; Michael Hastings (journalist)
Included: Battle of Waterloo (12th appearance, last in 2016); Appeal of 18 June/This was their finest hour (Appeal: 5th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible; Finest hour: first appearance); Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2nd appearance, last in 2016; 10th anniversary); Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (3rd appearance, last in 2018; also appeared on August 12, his death anniversary; 250th birthday); Andrew Forsyth (first appearance); Kofoworola Abeni Pratt (first appearance)
Repeats: Tang dynasty (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:49, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes[edit]

Moved to Ineligible: War of 1812 (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Jimi Hendrix
Omitted: Tang dynasty; Battle of Waterloo; Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter; Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh; Andrew Forsyth (ineligible—maintenance); Kofoworola Abeni Pratt
Included: Siege of Constantinople (860) (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Alfred Russel Wallace (13th appearance, last in 2017); Mona Mahmudnizhad (3rd appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Salman of Saudi Arabia (3rd appearance, last in 2017); William Cobbett (first appearance); Alice T. Schafer (first appearance); Isabella Rossellini (first appearance)
Repeats: Appeal of 18 June (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total; blurb normally also features This was their finest hour, but is being omitted because We shall fight on the beaches just appeared on June 4)

—howcheng {chat} 16:36, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes[edit]

Please make Autistic Pride Day a regularly celebrated anniversary[edit]

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Please make it a regularly celebrated anniversary in Wikipedia.

Autism awareness and autism pride isn't same thing. Autism pride stresses on the thing that autistic individuals have right to be ourselves and we do not have to force mask ourselves into a broken version of neurotypicals. We have the infinite potential but for that we need the niche which is accessible for us. We also speak that world needs more of us. We speak against eugenic elimination of genetic diversity. We encourage cognitive diversity. We believe that strength lies in diversity and not in sameness. We say "Nothing about us without us. We share day to day our experience about hidden disability and how the disability doesn't belong to the affected person but it belongs to an inaccessible world. As a person in the spectrum, I feel these messages are missed or omitted in the autism awareness programs; and both are very different.

Now why to spread autism pride? Because awareness is misleading. Awareness often leads to fear about autism. What helps us, is understanding, acceptance and confidence. Yet awareness is a majoritarian (neurotypical) view, funded by neurotypical agencies, governed by mostly neurotypical-led charities. Awareness programs are something about us without us. In contrast, what actually helps us to flourish and expand our potentials, is not promoted by neurotypical authority. It is promoted by our little efforts.

RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 13:41, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@RIT RAJARSHI: this was delisted for having a unreferenced section. Articles in OTD need to be properly referenced. The section Autistic_Pride_Day#Themes is lacking in references for many of the asserted statements. You, or others, can resolve this by appropriately editing the article. Once this is done, you may activate this as an edit request by changing answered=yes to "no" at the top of this section. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 10:31, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've excised the unreferenced section (it wasn't very encyclopedic in any case) and cleaned up the article a little. I think the article might pass muster for OTD now, although it might still be a little on the shorter side. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 16:25, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Howcheng: any issues? — xaosflux ^Talk 13:46, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(Yes I know this page isn't protected right now - if there are to objections in a day or so its probably fine to re-add now) — xaosflux ^Talk 13:58, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seems fine to me. We certainly have shorter articles. —howcheng {chat} 23:15, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done as the article is no longer error-tagged, and no objections above. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:10, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@RIT RAJARSHI: We've relisted this for the "On this day" section that will appear on the main page. This section acknowledges that an event occurs, and directs readers to the article. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 10:12, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Xaosflux: Thank you so much

2021 notes[edit]

Deleted: Max Immelmann (moved to January 12)
Omitted: Siege of Constantinople (860); Appeal of 18 June; Mona Mahmudnizhad; Salman of Saudi Arabia; William Cobbett; Alice T. Schafer; Isabella Rossellini
Included: Autistic Pride Day (rescued from Ineligible); Tang dynasty (9th appearance, last in 2019); 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Jimi Hendrix (first appearance); Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Ambrose Philips (first appearance); James Montgomery Flagg (first appearance); Barack Obama Sr. (first appearance)
Repeats: Alfred Russel Wallace (2nd consecutive appearance, 14 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:34, 19 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes[edit]

Omitted: Tang dynasty; Alfred Russel Wallace; 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état; Jimi Hendrix; Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk; Ambrose Philips; James Montgomery Flagg; Barack Obama Sr.
Included: Battle of Kolín (first appearance); Battle of Waterloo (13th appearance, last in 2019); British European Airways Flight 548 (5th appearance, last in 2017; 50th anniversary); Roberto Calvi (5th appearance, last in 2015; 40th anniversary); Salman of Saudi Arabia (4th appearance, last in 2020; 10th anniversary); Rogier van der Weyden (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Paul McCartney (5th appearance, last in 2020; normally appears on April 10); Kofoworola Abeni Pratt (2nd appearance, last in 2019; 30th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:37, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]