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Today's featured article for November 7, 2024

Robert A. Heinlein

Starship Troopers is a science-fiction action film released on November 7, 1997. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier, it is based on the 1959 novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (pictured). The story follows teenager Johnny Rico and his comrades as they serve in a 23rd-century interstellar war against aliens called the Arachnids. The film stars Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, and Michael Ironside. Starship Troopers faced critical backlash, with reviewers seeing it as endorsing fascism, and disparaging its violent content. Despite initial box-office success, negative reviews and unfavorable word of mouth made it only the 34th-highest-grossing film of 1997. It has since been critically re-evaluated, and is now considered a cult classic and a satire of fascism and authoritarianism that has grown in relevancy. The film launched a multimedia franchise, video games, comics, and a variety of merchandise. (Full article...)

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Picture of the day for November 7, 2024

The Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is a bird in the family Pelecanidae. With a length of 160 to 183 centimetres (63 to 72 inches), a mass of 7.25 to 15 kilograms (16.0 to 33.1 pounds) and a wingspan of 245 to 351 centimetres (96 to 138 inches), it is the largest pelican species and one of the world's largest living flying birds. The Dalmatian pelican has a range spanning across much of central Eurasia, from the Mediterranean in the west to the Taiwan Strait in the east, and from the Persian Gulf in the south to Siberia in the north. It is a short-to-medium-distance migrant between breeding and overwintering areas. The Dalmatian pelican's preferred habitat is lakes, rivers, deltas and estuaries, and it feeds on various fish species such as the common carp and European perch. Like many pelicans, it is often silent, but can be vocal during the mating season, engaging in a wide range of guttural, deep vocalisations, including barks, hisses and grunts. This Dalmatian pelican was photographed in flight over the Danube Delta in Romania.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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2012 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Mary Robinson (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Richard Sorge
Omitted: London Gazette; Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway); Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) (ineligible—maintenance; blurb previously featured Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which is really the wrong article); Magic Johnson
Included: Dunmore's Proclamation (first appearance); Battle of Belmont (first appearance); Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (5th appearance, last in 2008; rescued from Ineligible); Jokela school shooting (first appearance)
Repeats: October Revolution (5th consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 11:06, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Richard Sorge (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Third Battle of Gaza
Omitted: Dunmore's Proclamation; Battle of Belmont; October Revolution; Zine El Abidine Ben Ali; Jokela school shooting
Included: The London Gazette (9th appearance, last in 2011); Battle of Tippecanoe (3rd appearance, last in 2010); Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway) (4th appearance, last in 2011); Museum of Modern Art (first appearance); Armenia (Soviet hospital ship) (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 06:36, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Typhoon Haiyan

While i realize we have virtually have a year to think about it, but i think we should include Typhoon Haiyan within the Selected anniversaries for November 7. I chose the date since it is the date of its first landfall in the Philippines and am nominating it since it is confirmed that the typhoon killed over 5000 people.Jason Rees (talk) 05:36, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To avoid recentism, we don't generally include articles on events until they are at least two years old, although I may break that rule when the day in question has a short list of eligible articles, which is not the case here. —howcheng {chat} 11:35, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Omitted: The London Gazette; Battle of Tippecanoe; Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway); Museum of Modern Art; Armenia (Soviet hospital ship)
Included: Third Council of Constantinople (first appearance); Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (first appearance); Elijah Parish Lovejoy (first appearance); Third Battle of Gaza (first appearance); Mars Global Surveyor (4th appearance, last in 2006; rescued from Ineligible)

—howcheng {chat} 11:38, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

New articles (unused): Jeanette Rankin
Omitted: Third Council of Constantinople; Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia; Elijah Parish Lovejoy; Third Battle of Gaza; Mars Global Surveyor
Included: The London Gazette (10th appearance; 450th anniversary); Dunmore's Proclamation (2nd appearance, last in 2012); October Revolution (6th appearance as blurb, 10 total, last in 2012); Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) (first appearance); Hillary Clinton (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 09:16, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Omitted: Dunmore's Proclamation; October Revolution (ineligible—maintenance); Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore); Hillary Clinton
Included: Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway) (5th appearance, last in 2013); Jeannette Rankin (first appearance; 100th anniversary); Soviet hospital ship Armenia (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 75th anniversary); Magic Johnson (4th appearance, last in 2011; 25th anniversary)
Repeats: The London Gazette (2nd consecutive appearance, 11 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:22, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Deleted: National Revolution and Solidarity Day (not observed anymore)
Moved to Ineligible: Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (maintenance); Elijah Parish Lovejoy (maintenance); Museum of Modern Art (maintenance); Mars Global Surveyor (maintenance); Jokela school shooting (maintenance)
Omitted: The London Gazette; Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway); Jeannette Rankin; Soviet hospital ship Armenia; Magic Johnson
Included: Third Council of Constantinople (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Dunmore's Proclamation (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Battle of Belmont (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Third Battle of Gaza (2nd appearance, last in 2014; 100th anniversary); Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Jeanne de Jussie (first appearance); Thomas Brassey (first appearance); Lorde (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 03:34, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Omitted: Dunmore's Proclamation; Battle of Belmont; Third Battle of Gaza; Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore); Jeanne de Jussie; Thomas Brassey; Lorde
Included: Battle of Tippecanoe (4th appearance, last in 2013); Neft Daşları (first appearance); 1987 Tunisian coup d'état (first appearance; blurb previously featured Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, which is currently ineligible); Hillary Clinton (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Maldev Rathore (first appearance); Lise Meitner (first appearance); Eleanor Roosevelt (first appearance)
Repeats: Third Council of Constantinople (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 19:07, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

New articles (unused): Ri Ul-sol
Omitted: Third Council of Constantinople; Battle of Tippecanoe; 1987 Tunisian coup d'état; Hillary Clinton; Maldev Rathore; Lise Meitner; Eleanor Roosevelt
Included: The London Gazette (12th appearance, last in 2016); Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway) (6th appearance, last in 2016); Jeannette Rankin (2nd appearance, last in 2016); Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Ibn Hazm (first appearance); 1025th birthday; Paul Sandby (first appearance); Ellen Stewart (first appearance; 100th birthday)
Repeats: Neft Daşları (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 70th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 17:03, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Omitted: The London Gazette; Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway) (ineligible—maintenance); Neft Daşları; Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore); Ibn Hazm; Paul Sandby; Ellen Stewart
Included: Third Council of Constantinople (4th appearance, last in 2018); Battle of Tippecanoe (5th appearance, last in 2018); Third Battle of Gaza (3rd appearance, last in 2017); 1987 Tunisian coup d'état (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Hillary Clinton (3rd appearance, last in 2018; 20th anniversary); William Stukeley (first appearance); Ruby Hurley (first appearance); Ri Ul-sol (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 04:09, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Moved to Ineligible: The London Gazette (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Omitted: Battle of Tippecanoe; Third Battle of Gaza; 1987 Tunisian coup d'état; Hillary Clinton; William Stukeley; Ruby Hurley; Ri Ul-sol
Included: Dunmore's Proclamation (4th appearance, last in 2017); Soviet hospital ship Armenia (3rd appearance, last in 2016; 80th anniversary); Neft Daşları(3rd appearance, last in 2019); Magic Johnson (5th appearance, last in 2016; 30th anniversary); Emanuele Luigi Galizia (first appearance); Lise Meitner (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Lorde (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 25th birthday)
Repeats: Third Council of Constantinople (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 18:08, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]