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July 21: Belgian National Day (1831)
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Paloma Faith was born on this day. I have looked up many Music artists who fail to be on these lists. This is a huge project which needs to be taken by somebody, and not me. 78.148.244.245 (talk) 10:49, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
Come on, how can you have a July 21 of a date before the calendar was created? Not to mention which the adjustments to the Gregorian calendar which make it difficult to even suggest that this would've been the date had the calendar been in existance. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.102.126.97 (talk) 06:39, 6 April 2007 (UTC).
isn't the release of Harry Potter 7 important enough to appear here?
I think that Harry Potter has gotten enough attention to be worth putting up on the list.
Yeah. It was so widely read the NYT book folks created a new bestseller list to get Harry Potter off of their main list. All 6 of the released novels are in the top 20 most sold books of all time (Wpedia has a list). It will be the largest opening for a book ever and will remain that way into the forseeable future, probably for a generation. Guns & Roses' debut album release Appetite for Destruction is in the current list of events, and Harry Potter is certainly as important a cultural phenomenon as they were. 128.193.0.6 22:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)Ventifact
I added Harry Potter and someone immediately reverted it without comment. I don't have time to learn enough Wiki to call for a vote or article protection. However, on the odd coincidence that the person responsible for the edits even reads the discussion page, I might suggest that if they're such a great Wikipedian that they enlighten us as to why Harry Potter is not important enough to be in the list (especially if we infer standards of entry by the events already present, including Guns n Roses). 128.193.4.98 23:11, 16 July 2007 (UTC)Ventifact
(Edit conflict) I believe the rule from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Days of the year is that these pages aren't for future events. So it's not okay to add it now, but come 00:01 June 21st BST, I think it's fair game for inclusion. Actually, a question is if it should be added here, or to July 20... the book is actually coming out at 11:01 July 20 UTC, if I did the time zone math properly.
Mufka, it seems like the release of the new harry potter book will be instantly notable, once it happens. A few quick checks show that there's been more than 2 million pre-orders from Amazon alone, with another 1.2 million from Barnes and Noble. I think a book selling 3 million copies in a day is notable for that alone. — PyTom 23:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Well, I think WP:N is the relevant policy— and I believe that the release of the three most recent Potter books quality. I think the guideline should be that that the release of a work of fiction is notable if the release itself is notable, independent of the work of fiction itself. I think that's the case with this release, and the last three... there are plenty of articles in reliable sources (such as [1]) that speak to the notability of this release, independent of the book. — PyTom 02:42, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
seriously, i think the hp7 release should be on this page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.218.142.119 (talk • contribs) 15:01, July 20, 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the inclusion of the HP7 release. It was surely the most famous book release in publishing history and broke numerous records worldwide for book sales. It is a day that many people will remember for years to come, surely just as notable as the entries for 2004 and 2005. Timb66 04:16, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I think the release of HP7 is important enough to be listed in the calendar. The sales section of the article on this book summarizes the worldwide reach it had on release day. Lisatwo 15:08, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Every one on wikipedia hates Harry Potter. Go to Talk:HBP and see the fight I had to make to put Half-Blood Prince on the list. You'll have the same problem here. They'll delete because they can, even though it's wrong. Arry 09:34, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon on July 20, not the 21st. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.66.88.225 (talk • contribs).
I added back on the list the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as it is now a historical event (see older discussion above) and qualifies for addition according to the guideline. According to it, "dates of completion or premiere of major works of art and architecture recognized on a global scale" are allowed; moreover, "dates that pertain to television programs, movies, books, video games, etc. – this is not notable on a global scale (exceptions include the breaking of world records for sales, etc.)": on its page it is said that the aforementioned book is still the fastest-selling book in history, and thus qualifies. If you have any inquiry or complaint, please contact me by replying to this discussion or via my talk page. -- Angelikfire (talk) 17:27, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
The lowest temperature recorded on Earth may have been logged in Antarctica on Aug. 10, 2010: a reading of 135.8 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (or minus 93.2 degrees Celsius).
That unfathomably frigid temperature reading, taken via NASA satellite, was part of an effort by American scientists to locate the coldest spot on the planet. Turns out, there are a string of extremely cold spots, pockets of unbelievable chill at high elevations in Antarctica.
Researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported the findings at a news conference Monday during the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco.
They looked at a region of the east Antarctic Plateau and found that temperatures in certain pockets "routinely surpass the record temperature of the previous lowest temperature on record." That was 128.6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, set at Russia's Vostok Station in Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
There's grumbling, perhaps not surprisingly from Russian quarters. "Minus Credibility?" reads a headline on Moscow-based RT.com.
The head of the Russian Antarctic Expedition logistics center says it is "incorrect" and "unrealistic" to declare this record based on data from a satellite, according to RT.com.
As scientists noted in Monday's presentation, the kinds of low temperatures we're talking about here could be survived by humans -- "for about three minutes." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lechner16332 (talk • contribs) 04:07, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
In accordance with the guidelines, I've started weeding the Births section (Deaths are in pretty good shape already) by removing entries for celebrities with 0-4 articles in other languages. Where possible, these have been transferred to the relevant Year in Topic articles. As well as making the lists more manageable, this will help with the globalization effort. Deb (talk) 18:43, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Why has Belgian National Day been removed from the observances listed for this date? —Brigade Piron (talk) 15:33, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
I tried to edit the births and add Alexander the Great and Erling Haaland, a super-talented Norwegian footballer born in 2000, but it was deleted, for some reason "citing a reliable source" was required, even though their wiki pages state this date of birth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.148.22.42 (talk) 04:03, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
User:Palisades1 - for a second time, you have added an entry referring to the "Protestants expel Catholic workers from the Harland and Wolff shipyard". As with my first revert of the entry, your entry needs to have a link to an actual article about this actual event. Simply linking to Harland & Wolff is not sufficient. I doubt that such an article exists, as even the main article only refers to "During the 1920s, Catholic workers were routinely expelled from working in the shipyard" - without even a specific date. Please reply with a reason/article that you feel will fulfil the requirements for keeping this entry. Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 06:45, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
This period of communal violence began on 21 July 1920 with the shipyard clearances or expulsions. This one day event (shipyard clearances) is commonly referred to as the Belfast Pogrom and is well documented and referenced in the linked article - Belfast Pogrom. On 21 July 1920 thousands of Belfast shipyard workers were driven from their work with much violence. This one day event deserves to be included on July 21. Here's one reference to a newspaper article that tells of the events of this date and number of workers forced from their jobs and the ensuing violence etc: [1].Palisades1 (talk) 17:00, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
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