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A US president was/is inaugurated (or reinaugurated) on Jan 20th every four years from 1937 on; do we really need to say it each time? It's not like a coronation, which generally happens more or less at the convenience of the honoree's predecessor. Maybe some of the big ones -- FDR's 3d and 4th, George W. Bush perhaps (given the controversy). But Ike? LBJ? -- Charles A. L. 18:31, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)
I was totally shocked yesterday to see that someone removed all of the Presidential inaugurations from January 20. Ever since 1937, January 20 has BEEN inauguration day. This is in the 20th amendment to the Constitution, and to dub this "unsupported" is disingenous. In response to the above comment, YES "we really need to say it each time". Unline a coronation, each inauguration is unique for its own reasons. Either it sets a precedent or something unusual, newsworthy and hisory making is uttered during the inaugural address. At a coronation the royalty sits there and says absolutely nothing. At an inauguration, the inauguree is always setting one precedent or the other by his utterances and/or his actions. I'm sorry but I find it appalling that inaugurations were actually deleted from this page. CHRISTMAS is a "regular event". THE FOURTH OF JULY is a "regular event". A CORNONATION is a "regular event". But a Presidential inauguration? No, each one is unique and each one is significant. I don't know what country you folks above are from but you are obviously not Americans. Nghtownclerk ( talk) 22:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)nghtownclerk Nghtownclerk ( talk) 22:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
A couple of things: 1) typically a coronation will take place following the death of the predecessor, therefore hardly at his/her 'convenience'. 2) @Nightownclerk, many of us are indeed not American, but neither is Wikipedia. Your implication that kings and queens do not set the tone of time is rather defeated by the commonly accepted use of phrases like Elizabethan/Victorian/Georgian/Edwardian England. While I agree that these are historical shorthand to a large extent, they do indicate a general acceptance that the tone and values of a time change with the monarch and those associated with him/her. It is however, possible that your objection is based on a British/American English difference of usage of the word 'regular' The other contributors here have used it in the sense of an event happening at recurring and predictable intervals; I think you are interpreting it in the more American sense of 'normal'. Presidential inaugurations do take place on the same date every four years(as you point out) and are therefore demonstrably and intentionally 'regular': coronations take place following the death or abdication of the predecessor, cannot be predicted and are therefore not 'regular'. No-one was attacking or belittling the importance of each new president to the American people, your defensive position was therefore a little unjustified. 3)Both Clinton and George W Bush are listed as the 43rd President. As I don't have an account I would feel uncomfortable making the change: could someone else please do it?-- 85.72.36.254 ( talk) 12:52, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
I removed "2006 - high school musical is shown in tv in USA." are you kidding me? Tony P 09:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Could someone explain how Barack Obama is the first 'African-American' president when he is just as Causasian as he is Black-therefore he is Biracial. Also, what does the term 'African -American' mean outside the United States? Obama's father was an African, not an African American. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.252.245.194 ( talk) 14:52, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
More specifically, you'll want to go here first.
There has been a fair amount of adding and removing of US presidential inaugurations to the Events section of this article. The section titled What is not notable or not considered an Event in the guidelines is explicit about this: Repetitive events – e.g. multiple sightings of comets, listing of Super Bowl winners, listing of every significant battle in a war, listings of every person to become president of a country, regardless of the impact of their presidency. Presidential inauguration, no matter how notable the president may be, should not be listed by default. Any notable events that happen during their tenure should be listed instead, and anything that can't be nailed down to a particular day is simply out of scope for these pages, regardless of notability.
I don't think this means that presidential inauguration can never represent notable events, just that they aren't notable in and of themselves, nor are they dependent on future events that may occur during the presidency. An inauguration may still represent a significant social first, and the Barak Obama inauguration may stand as an example of this. The breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball is explicitly listed as a significant social milestone, and it could be argued that the Obama inauguration is similar. There certainly are differences, and I'm not convinced that the inauguration is more significant than the election. Either way let's discuss it here instead of in back and forth edit summaries. Winston365 ( talk) 05:28, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Lead Belly's birthday is listed as January 20, 1888. Should it be added? 22yearswothanks ( talk) 08:53, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
This listing about L.A. Thompson's patent [1] is a bit deceiving and unnoteworthy. Thompson was not the first person to patent the roller coaster [2] [3], but he is the first person to build a roller coaster from his patent [4]. There were roller coasters long before this [5] [6]. XercesBlue ( talk) 20:42, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
20th January 2015 is the 750th anniversary of the first English Parliament. [1] However the article De Montfort's Parliament is not eligible for Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 20 because it's tagged with refimprove. Would anyone be able to help clean this up?
The BBC [2] are planning a "Democracy Day" of live events, discussions and debate, produced in partnership with the Speaker’s Office of the House of Commons, including broadcasts from inside Westminster. Whizz40 ( talk) 11:09, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
In accordance with the guidelines, I've started weeding the Births and Deaths sections 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) 16:37, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
I have locked down the page for a week, as this is popping up on my watchlist daily now. We had this discussion (concerning inaugurations) before, but I do not see a clear consensus. So, all involved, have at it. Lectonar ( talk) 19:51, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
It’s often observed that no one is prepared to be president, that every president must grow into the job. Donald Trump arguably enters the job from further back on the learning curve than any of his predecessors. He is the first president never to have served in any part of government, including the military.
I quickly skimmed the multiple discussions on this page regarding US presidential inaugurations, so I may have missed something, but I didn't notice any mention of the presidents of other countries. If other countries regularly install theirs according to a schedule, are they listed in the Events sections of their respective dates? I checked one other country that I am familiar with, South Korea. Every five years and continuing for nearly thirty years (from 1987 to 2013), the South Korean president was inaugurated on February 25. However, there is no mention of any of them on the February 25 page. Would readers generally support adding all of them to that page? Or just the socially significant ones? Whatever standard is used for South Korea and other countries' presidential inaugurations should also apply to the Americans. -- BlueResistance ( talk) 02:58, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
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Under Events, there is a period missing at the end of this sentence: "Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President, the first occasion a Presidential Inauguration to take place on January 20 following the ratification of the 20th Amendment" 98.210.124.96 ( talk) 22:36, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
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Change the unicode character: - (U+002D) with: – (U+2013) on the last item of the 'Deaths' section (Tom Fisher Railsback) to match the rest of the article. Soltra45 ( talk) 00:10, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
On January 20th 2021 Prisedent Joe Biden become the oldest to be in office. Can't figure out how to mainly edit the information page but delete the 2018 where is says trump is the oldest President in Office. PLease cause I can't figure it out.,
Should the 2021 entry be there yet? That event won't take place until nearly nine hours from now. Gildir ( talk) 08:13, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
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20th January 304 – St. Sebastian is martyred during the Decian persecution. ErrolFarrugia ( talk) 07:50, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
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In the births area, a notable birth to add would be Sid Wilson for 1977. He is the turntablist for Slipknot. Tamezsus ( talk) 16:33, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, early today I tried to add inauguration day in the USA but was reverted, wrongfully I believe. Inauguration Day in the U.S. has been scheduled for January 20 quadrennially since 1937 and there are many celebrations to commemorate it. CLEARLY a holiday or observances. Many citations exist for that date, this is one. p b p 00:38, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
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Under "Ray Anthony", "–" should be changed to "–" to match with the rest of the article and WP:DOYSTYLE
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January 20: Day of Nationwide Sorrow in Azerbaijan ( 1990)
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A US president was/is inaugurated (or reinaugurated) on Jan 20th every four years from 1937 on; do we really need to say it each time? It's not like a coronation, which generally happens more or less at the convenience of the honoree's predecessor. Maybe some of the big ones -- FDR's 3d and 4th, George W. Bush perhaps (given the controversy). But Ike? LBJ? -- Charles A. L. 18:31, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)
I was totally shocked yesterday to see that someone removed all of the Presidential inaugurations from January 20. Ever since 1937, January 20 has BEEN inauguration day. This is in the 20th amendment to the Constitution, and to dub this "unsupported" is disingenous. In response to the above comment, YES "we really need to say it each time". Unline a coronation, each inauguration is unique for its own reasons. Either it sets a precedent or something unusual, newsworthy and hisory making is uttered during the inaugural address. At a coronation the royalty sits there and says absolutely nothing. At an inauguration, the inauguree is always setting one precedent or the other by his utterances and/or his actions. I'm sorry but I find it appalling that inaugurations were actually deleted from this page. CHRISTMAS is a "regular event". THE FOURTH OF JULY is a "regular event". A CORNONATION is a "regular event". But a Presidential inauguration? No, each one is unique and each one is significant. I don't know what country you folks above are from but you are obviously not Americans. Nghtownclerk ( talk) 22:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)nghtownclerk Nghtownclerk ( talk) 22:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
A couple of things: 1) typically a coronation will take place following the death of the predecessor, therefore hardly at his/her 'convenience'. 2) @Nightownclerk, many of us are indeed not American, but neither is Wikipedia. Your implication that kings and queens do not set the tone of time is rather defeated by the commonly accepted use of phrases like Elizabethan/Victorian/Georgian/Edwardian England. While I agree that these are historical shorthand to a large extent, they do indicate a general acceptance that the tone and values of a time change with the monarch and those associated with him/her. It is however, possible that your objection is based on a British/American English difference of usage of the word 'regular' The other contributors here have used it in the sense of an event happening at recurring and predictable intervals; I think you are interpreting it in the more American sense of 'normal'. Presidential inaugurations do take place on the same date every four years(as you point out) and are therefore demonstrably and intentionally 'regular': coronations take place following the death or abdication of the predecessor, cannot be predicted and are therefore not 'regular'. No-one was attacking or belittling the importance of each new president to the American people, your defensive position was therefore a little unjustified. 3)Both Clinton and George W Bush are listed as the 43rd President. As I don't have an account I would feel uncomfortable making the change: could someone else please do it?-- 85.72.36.254 ( talk) 12:52, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
I removed "2006 - high school musical is shown in tv in USA." are you kidding me? Tony P 09:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Could someone explain how Barack Obama is the first 'African-American' president when he is just as Causasian as he is Black-therefore he is Biracial. Also, what does the term 'African -American' mean outside the United States? Obama's father was an African, not an African American. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.252.245.194 ( talk) 14:52, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
More specifically, you'll want to go here first.
There has been a fair amount of adding and removing of US presidential inaugurations to the Events section of this article. The section titled What is not notable or not considered an Event in the guidelines is explicit about this: Repetitive events – e.g. multiple sightings of comets, listing of Super Bowl winners, listing of every significant battle in a war, listings of every person to become president of a country, regardless of the impact of their presidency. Presidential inauguration, no matter how notable the president may be, should not be listed by default. Any notable events that happen during their tenure should be listed instead, and anything that can't be nailed down to a particular day is simply out of scope for these pages, regardless of notability.
I don't think this means that presidential inauguration can never represent notable events, just that they aren't notable in and of themselves, nor are they dependent on future events that may occur during the presidency. An inauguration may still represent a significant social first, and the Barak Obama inauguration may stand as an example of this. The breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball is explicitly listed as a significant social milestone, and it could be argued that the Obama inauguration is similar. There certainly are differences, and I'm not convinced that the inauguration is more significant than the election. Either way let's discuss it here instead of in back and forth edit summaries. Winston365 ( talk) 05:28, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Lead Belly's birthday is listed as January 20, 1888. Should it be added? 22yearswothanks ( talk) 08:53, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
This listing about L.A. Thompson's patent [1] is a bit deceiving and unnoteworthy. Thompson was not the first person to patent the roller coaster [2] [3], but he is the first person to build a roller coaster from his patent [4]. There were roller coasters long before this [5] [6]. XercesBlue ( talk) 20:42, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
20th January 2015 is the 750th anniversary of the first English Parliament. [1] However the article De Montfort's Parliament is not eligible for Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 20 because it's tagged with refimprove. Would anyone be able to help clean this up?
The BBC [2] are planning a "Democracy Day" of live events, discussions and debate, produced in partnership with the Speaker’s Office of the House of Commons, including broadcasts from inside Westminster. Whizz40 ( talk) 11:09, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
In accordance with the guidelines, I've started weeding the Births and Deaths sections 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) 16:37, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
I have locked down the page for a week, as this is popping up on my watchlist daily now. We had this discussion (concerning inaugurations) before, but I do not see a clear consensus. So, all involved, have at it. Lectonar ( talk) 19:51, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
It’s often observed that no one is prepared to be president, that every president must grow into the job. Donald Trump arguably enters the job from further back on the learning curve than any of his predecessors. He is the first president never to have served in any part of government, including the military.
I quickly skimmed the multiple discussions on this page regarding US presidential inaugurations, so I may have missed something, but I didn't notice any mention of the presidents of other countries. If other countries regularly install theirs according to a schedule, are they listed in the Events sections of their respective dates? I checked one other country that I am familiar with, South Korea. Every five years and continuing for nearly thirty years (from 1987 to 2013), the South Korean president was inaugurated on February 25. However, there is no mention of any of them on the February 25 page. Would readers generally support adding all of them to that page? Or just the socially significant ones? Whatever standard is used for South Korea and other countries' presidential inaugurations should also apply to the Americans. -- BlueResistance ( talk) 02:58, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
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Under Events, there is a period missing at the end of this sentence: "Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President, the first occasion a Presidential Inauguration to take place on January 20 following the ratification of the 20th Amendment" 98.210.124.96 ( talk) 22:36, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
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Change the unicode character: - (U+002D) with: – (U+2013) on the last item of the 'Deaths' section (Tom Fisher Railsback) to match the rest of the article. Soltra45 ( talk) 00:10, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
On January 20th 2021 Prisedent Joe Biden become the oldest to be in office. Can't figure out how to mainly edit the information page but delete the 2018 where is says trump is the oldest President in Office. PLease cause I can't figure it out.,
Should the 2021 entry be there yet? That event won't take place until nearly nine hours from now. Gildir ( talk) 08:13, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
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20th January 304 – St. Sebastian is martyred during the Decian persecution. ErrolFarrugia ( talk) 07:50, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
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In the births area, a notable birth to add would be Sid Wilson for 1977. He is the turntablist for Slipknot. Tamezsus ( talk) 16:33, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, early today I tried to add inauguration day in the USA but was reverted, wrongfully I believe. Inauguration Day in the U.S. has been scheduled for January 20 quadrennially since 1937 and there are many celebrations to commemorate it. CLEARLY a holiday or observances. Many citations exist for that date, this is one. p b p 00:38, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
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Under "Ray Anthony", "–" should be changed to "–" to match with the rest of the article and WP:DOYSTYLE
2604:3D08:4F7A:BA30:0:0:0:CFD5 ( talk) 21:37, 6 April 2024 (UTC)