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*[[1025]] - [[Boleslaw I Chrobry]] is crowned as the first in history king of [[Poland]]. 
[[Image:StPetersDomePD.jpg|100px|right|St. Peter's Basilica]]
*[[1506]] - Construction of [[St. Peter's Basilica]] ''(pictured right)'' in [[Vatican City]] began.
*[[1518]] - [[Bona Sforza]] is crowned as queen of [[Poland]] and married to [[Sigismund I of Poland]].
*[[1775]] - [[Paul Revere]], [[William Dawes]] and [[Samuel Prescott]] ride to warn of impending arrests of [[Samuel Adams (American revolutionary)|Samuel Adams]] and [[John Hancock]] and seizure of weapons.  Only Prescott finishes the ride.
*[[1906]] - A '''[[1906 San Francisco earthquake|very large earthquake]]''' hit [[San Francisco, California]].
*[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: The '''[[Doolittle Raid]]''' on [[Tokyo]] occurs.
*[[1947]] - The British Royal Navy detonated 6,700 tonnes of explosives in [[Operation Big Bang]] to destroy bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of [[Heligoland]], [[Germany]], creating the '''biggest non-nuclear explosion''' at that time.
*[[1955]] - The first [[Bandung Conference]] was held in [[Bandung]], [[Indonesia]], with the aim of promoting Afro-Asian economic and cultural co-operation and opposing [[colonialism]] or [[neocolonialism]]. 
* 1955 - [[Albert Einstein]] dies in [[Princeton, New Jersey]], [[United States]]
*[[1980]] - The '''Republic of [[Zimbabwe]] (formerly [[Rhodesia]])''' came into being.
*[[1983]] - A '''[[suicide bomber]] destroys the [[United States]] [[embassy]] in [[Beirut]]''', [[Lebanon]].
*[[1996]] - Over 100 [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] civilians are killed when the [[Israel Defense Forces]] shell the [[UN]] compound at [[Qana]] (see [[Qana Massacre]]).
*[[2002]] - A new order of [[insect]]s, ''[[Mantophasmatodea]]'', is announced.


Regarding the 1947 anniversary, is there any source that says that the intention was to destroy Heligoland? According to the (German) citation in the Heligoland page, it was used as a bombing range, and the British wished to destroy the German military fortifications, but I cannot see anything that indicates the British wanted to destroy the island itself. Indeed, the article says the opposite (using Google Translate)<ref>http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/zeitgeschichte/0,1518,477076,00.html&usg=ALkJrhj_DdXVIIiERHT-Ri66Y1VqGSJ1LQ</ref>. Could an administrator with access to the page please fix this? I suggest changing it to "...in a concentrated attempt to destroy German World War II fortifications on the small island of..." [[Special:Contributions/68.42.243.198|68.42.243.198]] ([[User talk:68.42.243.198|talk]]) 00:10, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

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== 2012 notes ==

*Moved to Ineligible: [[1996 shelling of Qana]] (maintenance)
*Omitted: [[Paul Revere]]/[[William Dawes]]/[[Samuel Prescott]] (Dawes is ineligible—maintenance); [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]]; [[Heligoland]]
*Included: [[1689 Boston revolt]] (first appearance); [[Superman]] (4th appearance, last in 2006; previously appeared on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 1|June 1]]); [[Doolittle Raid]] (7th appearance, last in 2010; 70th anniversary); [[Republic of Ireland]] (3rd appearance, last in 2005; previously appeared on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 29|December 29]])
*Repeats: [[St. Peter's Basilica]] (5th consecutive appearance, 9 total)
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== 2013 notes ==

*Omitted: [[Superman]]; [[Doolittle Raid]] (ineligible—maintenance)
*Included: [[Yankee Stadium (1923)]] (first appearance; 90th anniversary); [[Heligoland]] (3rd appearance, last in 2011); [[1996 shelling of Qana]] (5th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible)
*Repeats: [[St. Peter's Basilica]] (6th consecutive appearance, 10 total); [[1689 Boston revolt]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); [[Republic of Ireland]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)
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== 2014 notes ==

*Omitted: [[St. Peter's Basilica]] (ineligible—[[Pietà (Michelangelo)]] is [[Template:POTD/2014-04-18|POTD for 2014]]); [[Yankee Stadium (1923)]] (ineligible—maintenance); [[Superman]]; [[Heligoland]] (ineligible—maintenance); [[Republic of Ireland]] (ineligible—maintenance)
*Included: [[Battle of Cerro Gordo]] (first appearance); [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] (8th appearance, last in 2011); [[Ezra Pound]] (first appearance)
*Repeats: [[1689 Boston revolt]] (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total); [[1996 shelling of Qana]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total)
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== 2015 notes ==

*Omitted: [[1689 Boston revolt]]; [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] (ineligible—maintenance); [[Ezra Pound]]
*Included: [[St. Peter's Basilica]] (11th appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible); [[Paul Revere]] (2nd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible; blurb previously also featured [[William Dawes]] and [[Samuel Prescott]], but Dawes is currently ineligible and it doesn't make sense to feature Prescott if Dawes isn't also featured, but Revere can be featured by himself since he's the most famous); [[Superman]]/[[Action Comics 1]] (Superman: 6th appearance, last in 2013; Action Comics: first appearance)
*Repeats: [[Battle of Cerro Gordo]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); [[1996 shelling of Qana]] (3rd consecutive appearance, 7 total)
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== 2016 notes ==

*Rescued from Ineligible (unused): [[Bolesław I the Brave]]
*Omitted: [[Paul Revere]]
*Included: [[1689 Boston revolt]] (4th appearance, last in 2014)
*Repeats: [[St. Peter's Basilica]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 12 total); [[Battle of Cerro Gordo]] (3rd appearance, 3 total); [[Superman]]/[[Action Comics 1]] (both: 2nd consecutive appearance Superman: 7 total; Action: 2 total); [[1996 shelling of Qana]] (4th consecutive appearance, 8 total; 20th anniversary)
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== 2017 notes ==

*Omitted: [[Zimbabwe]] (ineligible—maintenance); [[St. Peter's Basilica]] (ineligible—maintenance); [[Battle of Cerro Gordo]]
*Included: [[Bolesław I the Brave]] (6th appearance, last in 2010); [[Ezra Pound]] (2nd appearance, last in 2014)
*Repeats: [[1689 Boston revolt]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); [[Superman]]/[[Action Comics 1]] (both: 3rd consecutive appearance; Superman: 8 total; Action: 3 total); [[Qana massacre]] (5th consecutive appearance, 9 total)
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== 2018 notes ==

*Omitted: [[Bolesław I the Brave]] (deleted—exact date is unknown); [[1689 Boston revolt]]; [[Lucrezia Borgia]]; [[John Leland (antiquary)]]; [[Albert Einstein]]
*Included: [[Real Academia de la Historia]] (first appearance); [[Roland Georges Garros]] (first appearance); [[Stephen Lekapenos]] (first appearance); [[Ludwig Levy]] (first appearance); [[Bertha Isaacs]] (first appearance)
*Repeats: [[Superman]] (2nd consecutive appearance; blurb previously also featured [[Action Comics 1]], which is now ineligible, and is making its 4th consecutive appearance, 5 total); [[Ezra Pound]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 60th anniversary); [[Qana massacre]] (6th consecutive appearance, 10 total)
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== 2019 notes ==

*Moved to Ineligible: [[Battle of Cerro Gordo]] (maintenance)
*Omitted: [[Superman]]; [[Ezra Pound]]; [[Qana massacre]]; [[Stephen Lekapenos]]; [[Ludwig Levy]]; [[Bertha Isaacs]]
*Included: [[Paul Revere]] (3rd appearance, last in 2015); [[Republic of Ireland]] (5th appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible; 70th anniversary); [[Bandung Conference]] (first appearance); [[Theobald of Bec]] (first appearance); [[Clara Elsene Peck]] (first appearance); [[Universo 2000]] (first appearance)
*Repeats: [[Real Academia de la Historia]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); [[Roland Garros (aviator)]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)
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== 2020 notes ==

*Omitted: [[Paul Revere]]; [[Roland Garros (aviator)]]; [[Bandung Conference]]; [[Theobald of Bec]]; [[Clara Elsene Peck]]; [[Universo 2000]]
*Included: [[1689 Boston revolt]] (6th appearance, last in 2017); [[Ezra Pound]] (4th appearance, last in 2018); [[Robert Mugabe]] (8th appearance, last in 2015; moved from [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 4|March 4]]); [[Ippolita Maria Sforza]] (first appearance); [[Justus von Liebig]] (2nd appearance, last in 2019; also appeared on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 12|May 12]], his birthday); [[Martha Ripley]] (first appearance)
*Repeats: [[Real Academia de la Historia]] (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total); [[Republic of Ireland]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total)
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== 2021 notes ==

*New articles (unused): [[Pigmeat Markham]]; [[Robert Christgau]]
*Omitted: [[1689 Boston revolt]]; [[Real Academia de la Historia]]; [[Republic of Ireland]]; [[Ezra Pound]]; [[Ludwig Levy]]; [[Martha Ripley]]
*Included: [[Paul Revere]] (4th appearance, last in 2019); [[Roland Garros (aviator)]] (3rd appearance, last in 2019); [[Superman]]/[[Action Comics 1]] (Superman: 10th appearance, last in 2018; AC: 4th appearance, last in 2017, was previously ineligible); [[Qana massacre]] (11th appearance, last in 2018; 25th anniversary); [[Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]] (first appearance); [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]] (first appearance)
*Repeats: [[Robert Mugabe]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total); [[Ippolita Maria Sforza]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)
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== 2022 notes ==

*Moved to Ineligible: [[Real Academia de la Historia]] (maintenance); [[Bandung Conference]] (maintenance)
*Omitted: [[Paul Revere]]; [[Action Comics 1]] (blurb previously also featured [[Superman]], which is currently ineligible); [[Qana massacre]]; [[Ippolita Maria Sforza]]; [[Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]]; [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]]
*Included: [[1689 Boston revolt]] (7th appearance, last in 2020); [[Republic of Ireland]] (7th appearance, last in 2020); [[Ezra Pound]] (5th appearance, last in 2020); [[Mueller report]] (first appearance); [[Gratian]] (first appearance); [[Polydore Vergil]] (first appearance); [[Robert Christgau]] (first appearance; 80th birthday)
*Repeats: [[Roland Garros (aviator)]] (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)
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