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	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 11, 2012. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Park Chung-hee convinced military police who had come to arrest him to join his May 16 coup?
	Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 16, 2012, May 16, 2014, May 16, 2017, May 16, 2018, May 16, 2019, and May 16, 2021.

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Date format

Should we use day first or month first date format for this? Currently it's month first. I think month first actually makes some sense, given its connection to the United States and the most common English name for the event being "May 16 coup" and not "16 May coup", but just wanted to open a discussion toobigtokale (talk) 23:02, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]