Template:This week in history

This week in history is a section taking interesting facts from articles which have experienced an anniversary within the current week. To list a new fact, make a suggestion on the talk page.

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Current hooks

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From a collection of Wikipedia's articles: March 15th... 1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state. 1827 - The University of Toronto is chartered. 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates himself and his son from the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar. 1939 - World War II: Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. March 9th 1959 – The Barbie doll is first seen at the American International Toy Fair in New York. 1934 – Yuri Gagarin is born.

Rules

• Information presented in any article nominated for This week in history should be verifiable and unbiased. There must be a citation of a credible source to support the fact contained in the hook.
  • Articles that are tagged for bias with {{NPOV}} or for lack of accuracy with {{Disputed}} are not suitable for TWIH.
  • Articles where facts are questioned with {{fact}} tags may not be suitable.
• The article linked should be easy to read.
  • The article should not be tagged as {{complex}}.
  • It should comply with the guideline on writing Simple English articles.
  • There should be no red linked categories or red linked templates.
  • Three sentence stubs are not suitable.
• The hook used to encourage people to read the article should be interesting to read. Information mentioned in the hook should be in the article text (not in a footnote, or in a linked reference, or in an infobox).
  • Articles may be re-nominated, but a different hook must be chosen. Also, two different hooks of the same article should not be added to the same update or updates that follow each other.
• This week in history hooks should not be very good articles (VGA) already as VGAs already get their own spotlight on the Main Page as the "Selected article".
  • All VGA nominations for This week in history will be declined. VGAs are not allowed as they are featured on the Main Page in a different category already during their own time.

Nominations

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Consensus Approve The community can approve hooks here as a consensus in the event it can not be quick approved.