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May 28: Republic Day in Armenia (1918); Independence Day in Azerbaijan (1918)

John Muir

621 – Tang forces led by Li Shimin defeated and captured Dou Jiande at the Battle of Hulao in the civil war that followed the collapse of the Sui dynasty.
1892 – Scottish-American preservationist John Muir (pictured) founded the environmental organization Sierra Club in California.
1940 – Second World War: Belgium surrendered to Nazi Germany, ending the Battle of Belgium.
1987 – Mathias Rust, a West German aviator, flew his Cessna 172 from Helsinki, Finland, through Soviet air defences, landing illegally near Red Square in Moscow.
2010 – A train derailment and collision in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India, caused the deaths of at least 148 passengers.

Wulfstan (d. 1023)
Carl Larsson (b. 1853)
Maeve Binchy (b. 1939)

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Why are harambe edits being reverted? We need to write about his execution. 184.91.99.69 (talk) 15:08, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, that is because people kept adding that name to non-harambe articles, such as this edit to Uptown Funk. That is why the name Harambe is pink blood. You see, when this event was newer, it somehow turned into a meme, and thus an edit filter was made to prevent this. Great way to ruin this name for everyone else as well. Many legitimate users, as you can see at the comprehensive abuse filter log for this article, tried to add this event under 2016, and they were greeted with an error message. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.189.182.7 (talk) 02:41, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

reverted my unsourced 1990 addition, that's okay[edit]

@Bruce1ee, I apologize, I guess I still don't know how to cite stuff correctly on Wikipedia. The reason I didn't cite a Wikipedia article is because there is no article on the 1990 Arab Baghdad summit. It seemed obscure but noteworthy. So I took from the 1991 Gulf War a BBC production. But I guess I knew I should've cited but was nervous on how to. DOesn't excuse it. But now that I think about it, The Gulf War article might have something on this, I will go look, I could cite the documentary now on Youtube, I could cite the gulf war article if there is something on it, or i could cite the article linked in the gulf war wikiarticle if there is one, or just an article from the internet if there is none on wikipedia about it.

Your thoughts on the best course of action? SmileyTrek (talk) 16:40, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It is also important to note that I made a similar unsourced addition to 1990, but I didn't get an uncited sources warning but i think there was a references section idk. SmileyTrek (talk) 16:42, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@SmileyTrek: All entries in day-of-the-year pages require that a Wikipedia article on the subject be linked, and that (in the case of new additions) a reliable source supporting the entry be cited. See WP:DOY. Year pages, like 1990 don't have the same requirements. —Bruce1ee ^talk 17:16, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, well I'm not going to cite this in here until I find the source the BBC used, if it was the BBC itself I'll recite it but I found a familiar quote from the Iraqi foreign minister in a wikipedia article, that's it. i think the source there is a JSTOR article, I'll make sure to source before I add to day-of-the-year pages. Thank you SmileyTrek (talk) 17:28, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]