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Dorothy Olsen in 1943

Dorothy Olsen (July 10, 1916 – July 23, 2019) was an American aircraft pilot and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II. She developed an interest in aviation at a young age and earned her private pilot's license in 1939, when it was unusual for women to be pilots. In 1943, Olsen joined the newly-formed WASPs as a civil service employee. After training in Texas, she was assigned to the Sixth Ferrying Group in Long Beach, California, where she worked ferrying new aircraft from the factories where they were built to U.S. airbases. She flew more than 20 types of military airplanes, including high performance fighters – such as the P-51 and the twin-engine P-38 – which she favored over larger aircraft such as bombers. After the war, Olsen retired from flying and moved to Washington State, where she married, raised a family, and lived for the rest of her life. In 2009, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal honoring her service during the war. (Full article...)

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Nazca lines

The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created in two major phases - the Paracas phase, from 400 to 200 BC, and Nazca phase, from 200 BC to 500 AD. The combined length of all the lines is more than 1,300 km (800 mi), and the group covers an area of about 50 km2 (19 sq mi). Most lines run straight across the landscape, but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but in general, they ascribe religious significance to them. The lines were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. This is an aerial view of the "monkey", one of the geoglyphs in the Nazca lines.

Photograph credit: Diego Delso

Anybody have a map of the Alexander VI demarcation line? RickK | Talk 05:14, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Such a map would look nice on the Inter caetera page. -- PFHLai 22:42, 2005 May 2 (UTC)

Kent State?[edit]

Shouldn't the Kent State shootings be mentioned on this pagelet? -- Schnee (cheeks clone) 22:05, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It was there. I took it out to avoid having too much blank space on the right side of MainPage. I meant to rotate it back in some time during the day, but was too busy elsewhere to do so. .... -- PFHLai 04:20, 2005 May 5 (UTC)

It's the 40 year anniversary

Errors in Selected anniversaries/On this day[edit]

The main page now says:

  • 1970 - The Ohio National Guard shot at students in Kent State University protesting the United States invasion of Cambodia.

They more than "shot at students" - they killed four students and wounded nine students, one of whom has been paralyzed for 37 years as a result, on the campus of Kent State University. This is taking NPOV to an extreme, and in fact I believe it is misleading. These facts are not in dispute whatsoever, and they are crucial. For the first time in US history, armed soldiers were brought onto a US campus where they shot and killed four students and wounded nine, one of them for life. You do a disservice to the truth to characterize it as merely "shot at" when there were deaths and grievous injury and saying "students in Kent State University" which does not clearly state that the protest and shootings were on campus. I hope this can be fixed quickly, before it scrolls off. Thank you.

It should read something like:

  • 1970 - The Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students on the Kent State University campus who were protesting the United States invasion of Cambodia. Nine other students were wounded, one of whom is paralyzed for life.

Tvoz |talk 19:31, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No matter how many bullets reached the students's bodies, this is still the first time in history when armed soldiers were brought onto a US campus to shoot at students. --74.13.126.166 20:59, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that is correct, but it doesn't say that either. All it says is they shot at students. Killing them is worse than shooting at them, wouldn't you agree? To not say that is a distortion of the event and of the truth. Tvoz |talk 21:29, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mentioning the 4 deaths seems okay, as there is ample room. I don't see any distortion either way. --74.13.126.166 02:01, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Once again I've asked that '"1970 – The Ohio National Guard shot at students in Kent State University protesting the United States invasion of Cambodia." be changed to "1970 – The Ohio National Guard killed four students and wounded nine in Kent State University protesting the United States invasion of Cambodia." It is not just a detail that 4 students were killed. As I've said elsewhere, this is like saying that John Wilkes Booth shot at Abraham Lincoln. I would guess that we say that he shot and killed Lincoln. Tvoz/talk 15:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Latvian independence day[edit]

4 May is Independence day in Latvia and, considering that it was made public holiday and flag day few years ago, shouldn`t this be added (in the first line, I mean) ? ~~Xil (talk) 22:26, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kent shootings (moved from WP:ERRORS)[edit]

Why is there no mention of the Kent State shootings? May 4 is an important anniversary- 40 years - from the day that American National Guardsmen shot and killed 4 students on an American college campus who were protesting the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. This belongs on the front page of Wikipedia. Tvoz/talk 03:16, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps because the ITN section features so much American news? :-) --candle•wicke 04:15, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Really? I see only one such American news story for May 4 - from 1886. Tvoz/talk 04:49, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I see you said "ITN" - I was talking about "OTD". However, my point still holds - there is only one "American" story in On this Day today, and I fail to see what relevance that has as a determinant of whether a significant anniversary should be front-page noted. Tvoz/talk 05:06, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That, and Kent State shootings#Monday, May 4 currently has an 'orange'- or 'red'-level article tag. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:22, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That tag should have been removed long ago - there are 68 footnotes and a long list of sources in the "Further reading" and "External links". The tag is gone now. More to the point - this is a significant anniversary of a significant event, and Wikipedia's front page should not be silent on it. Tvoz/talk 04:49, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Furthermore, ZZyZZx11, please take a look at Remembrance of the Dead which is listed as the top item in today's On This Day and actually has an article-level orange tag which is far worse than the tag that had been on one section of the Kent State article; same for Greenery Day which is also a top item today in On This Day, yet also has an orange tag. Obviously that is not the reason the anniversary of the Kent State shootings has not been listed, and I strenuously object to this. Tvoz/talk 05:06, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Even if I hide those two holidays, there is still only room to list 5 events at a time. I'd like to field some opinions on which one should be substituted, or else we can wait until the main page needs to "re-balance" to warrant a sixth one. I'm unwilling to unilaterally remove one that is already being displayed without some type of consensus, because if the roles were reversed, and I unilaterally removed the Kent State shootings article for the sole reason to post one that is "more significant or notable" IMO, you'd probably be complaining too. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 05:37, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Force me to make a choice, and I'd get rid of the Battle of the Coral Sea, but I have a hard time saying that the Kent State incident is of greater importance than any of the things listed there already. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 12:18, 4 May 2010 (UTC) (Also note that Coral Sea is a featured article, while Kent State is on the border between C and B.) 12:30, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Kent State massacre.jpg[edit]

This file is used here in violation of WP:NFCC #9. It can not be used and must be removed. Please do so ASAP. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 21:05, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please see above. A non-free file exists on this page in violation of WP:NFCC #9 and must be removed. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:42, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 Done VernoWhitney (talk) 17:50, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes to Star Wars Day...[edit]

No to May Fourth Movement? 66.108.223.179 (talk) 10:02, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article has maintenance tags on it, making it ineligible. —howcheng {chat} 04:47, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Correct tile of Latvian independence day[edit]

Since it is protected now and I might forget later - the title of the holiday was recently changed to Restoration of Independence day, because using just independence with no restoration is considered somewhat controversial ~~Xil (talk) 12:26, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes[edit]

No new articles this year. :( —howcheng {chat} 16:34, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes[edit]

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2014 notes[edit]

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2015 notes[edit]

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2016 notes[edit]

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Cassinga Day[edit]

May 4 is Cassinga Day in Namibia, a national holiday remembering the Battle of Cassinga in Angola. Too late or too stubby to include? --Pgallert (talk) 14:37, 3 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Pgallert: Too stubby, sorry. The battle article needs maintenance, so that's no good either. —howcheng {chat} 00:20, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 04:21, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 07:18, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pardon if this is an inappropriate place to ask, but could the PEPCON disaster entrant use {{inflation}} to give listed the monetary value some context? — fourthords | =Λ= | 18:50, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Fourthords: I don't think that it's necessary. The blurb here is just a teaser to get people to read the linked article, where it can be detailed. —howcheng {chat} 17:22, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes[edit]

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2020 notes[edit]

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2021 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 07:02, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 06:56, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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