Talk:January 8

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January 8: 1815 – War of 1812: American forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British army at the Battle of New Orleans near New Orleans, two weeks after the United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent to end the war. 1889 – Statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine. 1956 – Operation Auca: Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. 1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 092 crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth, Leicestershire, UK, killing 47 people and injuring 79 others. 2004 – RMS Queen Mary 2 (pictured), at the time the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. More events: January 7 – January 8 – January 9 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 10:58, June 11, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Birthdays, 1788: looks a bit suspect to me! Could someone who knows check? Ta.

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birthday of wikipedian mikkalai 8~). Mikkalai 17:22, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

..and of User:Burwellian

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Why do people keep simplifying and simplifying the explanations next to peoples' names? It seems all that will be allowed is nationality and profession. No details about why you should care about this person are left. Shall we cut to the chase and replace all entries as with the following?

• 1959 - Paul Hester, Human being.
• 1960 - Igor Kurchatov, Human being.
• 1961 - Calvin Smith, Human being.
• 1966 - Andrew Wood, Human being.
• 1967 - Michelle Forbes, Human being.
• 1969 - R. Kelly, Human being.
• 1971 - Jason Giambi, Human being.

I think the appeal of these pages is that you can glance through and see what interesting people were born or died on a particular day. If we strip away any indication of what makes the interesting, what's the point? I'd very much like to revert all the recent changes toward this trend. Is there some guideline this would break? Sadangel 03:26, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

I dunno, buddy. Can we conclusively say that R. Kelly is a Human Being? Aren't you being a bit fast and loose with your definitions, there? -LE, poster.

2006 - The price of a postage stamp in the United States increases to 39 cents.

I don't think this merits inclusion. Unless having it can be justified I'll remove it in due course. Arcturus 21:51, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I took the bold initiative of removing it. Kingturtle 23:39, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I dunno... for some reason, the price of postage stamps are always put into school yearbooks....~Sushi 05:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Jeremy Wade Delle event

"1991 - Jeremy Wade Delle, a 15-year-old sophomore who had recently transferred to Richardson High School, killed himself with a .357 Magnum in front of his second-period English class."

Other than being a tragic event and the subject of the Pearl Jam song, is this significant enough to warrant an entry? Thanks -- Borameer ™ 17:23, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Luna 21

This page says it launched in 1977, the Luna 21 page says it launched in 1973. Which one's right? CR7 22:59, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Easy to work out and easy to fix--Drappel 12:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bush 41

Following moved from my talk page. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 14:58, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Do you have a reason for this revert? This is a notable event when George H. W. Bush vomited on the prime minister of Japan on January 8, 1992. It is not vandalism. NHRHS2010 ^Talk 02:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

It is not a globally notable event that will have any affect on the rest of the world for years to come. It is an interesting, newsworthy fact, but nothing else. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 02:59, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, this event shows up in the 1992 article. And it is well known. NHRHS2010 ^Talk 03:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Well known and published elsewhere doesn't make it notable enough for inclusion on a Wikicalendar article. This would fall in the same category as when Bill Clinton f'd up his knee at Greg Norman's house or when some other politician had a boil lanced from his ass. Not globally notable or impactful. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 03:04, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Then why is George HW Bush vomiting on the Japan Prime Minister event, staying in 1992 but not January 8? NHRHS2010 ^Talk 03:06, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

To begin, my usual response to such questions is that I can't fix everything. Also, I don't watch the year articles. Further, common practice has been to allow the more trivial items to remain on the year articles - and often consensus in disputed cases usually concedes that those disputed items are allowed to stay on year articles and not day articles. IMO it shouldn't be in either place, but my focus is on the date articles. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 03:11, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

End moved discussion.