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Samuel Colt received his patent for the "revolver" on Feb. 25, 1836 by almost every other source I checked. You might want to revisit this article.
Feb 24th has an entry, as has Feb 21st.
The " Communist Manifesto" entry itself says Feb 21st.
I'm not a scholar, I was just born on Feb 24th and was checking for trivia when I found this inconsistency.
Best,
Farhad.
Adding a long introduction to this article is not in keeping with the standard format of the date articles. The long narrative on the origin of the leap day is better left to its own article. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have any objection to my removing this event?
I cannot fathom that one thermite "device" could come anywhere close to doing the job. A chemist tried to dislodge an ice jam in the Allegheny River Gorge in Oil City, PA, back in 1926. After 38 attempts over several days using 8 pound shells, he couldn't come close. The Sun eventually did the job. That section of river is only 500 feet wide. The narrowest section of the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, NY, is at least 1500 feet wide (give or take).
This event is listed on many hundreds of "This Day in History" sites, but doesn't appear to be listed anywhere else. I suspect it's hogwash. Kentholke ( talk) 14:42, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
The reason seems to have been edits like this. Similar problematic edits led to the semiprotection of February 29 at about the same time.
After nearly 18 months, I'd like to review this to see if it's still necessary. As well as welcoming comments from regular editors I've contacted Steel, the protecting admin. -- TS 07:01, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
See brief mention of the battle of Los Angeles (A UFO? Caused anti aircraft guns to fire . Real or imgained 3 people died from the excite,emnt of this!) Late father an Air Raid Warden Glassell Park area of Los Angeles even obtained from a police freind neighbor a piece of whatever was shot down1 Wellmaybe!??? Also the Battle of Los Angeles went into early morning of Feb 25th 1942 as well! Teslaedsonfan ( talk) 02:16, 25 February 2011 (UTC)EdsonandreJohnson Teslaedsonfan ( talk) 02:16, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
how is this not on there? PreserveOurHistory ( talk) 14:32, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
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Samuel Colt received his patent for the "revolver" on Feb. 25, 1836 by almost every other source I checked. You might want to revisit this article.
Feb 24th has an entry, as has Feb 21st.
The " Communist Manifesto" entry itself says Feb 21st.
I'm not a scholar, I was just born on Feb 24th and was checking for trivia when I found this inconsistency.
Best,
Farhad.
Adding a long introduction to this article is not in keeping with the standard format of the date articles. The long narrative on the origin of the leap day is better left to its own article. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have any objection to my removing this event?
I cannot fathom that one thermite "device" could come anywhere close to doing the job. A chemist tried to dislodge an ice jam in the Allegheny River Gorge in Oil City, PA, back in 1926. After 38 attempts over several days using 8 pound shells, he couldn't come close. The Sun eventually did the job. That section of river is only 500 feet wide. The narrowest section of the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, NY, is at least 1500 feet wide (give or take).
This event is listed on many hundreds of "This Day in History" sites, but doesn't appear to be listed anywhere else. I suspect it's hogwash. Kentholke ( talk) 14:42, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
The reason seems to have been edits like this. Similar problematic edits led to the semiprotection of February 29 at about the same time.
After nearly 18 months, I'd like to review this to see if it's still necessary. As well as welcoming comments from regular editors I've contacted Steel, the protecting admin. -- TS 07:01, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
See brief mention of the battle of Los Angeles (A UFO? Caused anti aircraft guns to fire . Real or imgained 3 people died from the excite,emnt of this!) Late father an Air Raid Warden Glassell Park area of Los Angeles even obtained from a police freind neighbor a piece of whatever was shot down1 Wellmaybe!??? Also the Battle of Los Angeles went into early morning of Feb 25th 1942 as well! Teslaedsonfan ( talk) 02:16, 25 February 2011 (UTC)EdsonandreJohnson Teslaedsonfan ( talk) 02:16, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
how is this not on there? PreserveOurHistory ( talk) 14:32, 9 September 2022 (UTC)