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Today's featured article for October 9, 2024

Jacket from The Birds

The Birds is the fifth collection by Alexander McQueen for his fashion house. It was inspired by ornithology and the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds. The collection centred around sharply tailored garments and emphasised female sexuality. The runway show was staged on 9 October 1994 and the venue was a warehouse in the London district of King's Cross. The Birds was styled with imagery of violence and death; some models were covered in tyre tracks and others wore white contact lenses. Reception was generally positive, although the styling drew accusations of misogyny. The show's success allowed McQueen to secure the financial backing to stage his next show, Highland Rape. Garments from The Birds appeared in both stagings of the retrospective exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. Seán McGirr heavily referenced The Birds for Autumn/Winter 2024, his debut collection as creative director for the Alexander McQueen brand. (Full article...)

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Picture of the day for October 9, 2024

Li Fu Lee (1904–1985) was a Chinese engineer and teacher who in 1925 became the first Chinese woman to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She majored in electrical engineering, a course which undergraduate students at the time said was the most difficult major, according to The Boston Globe. She was one of the 25 women who graduated from MIT in 1929 and one of the first women to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering at MIT. After graduating from MIT, Lee returned to China where she became an engineer and taught at university. She fled with her family to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War and later returned to the United States, residing in Chicago. This 1925 photograph shows Lee at MIT's radio experiment station.

Photograph credit: Underwood & Underwood; restored by Adam Cuerden

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2012 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Black Sox Scandal (maintenance)
New articles (unused): 1740 Batavia massacre (ineligible—TFA for 2012-09-04); SS Volturno (1906)
Omitted: Hangul; Mary Tudor, Queen of France; Universal Postal Union; Washington Monument; Rangoon bombing
Included: Yale University (2nd appearance, last in 2004; rescued from Ineligible); Ioannis Kapodistrias (7th appearance, last in 2010); Actions along the Matanikau (5th appearance, last in 2010; 70th anniversary); The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) (first appearance); 2006 North Korean nuclear test (3rd appearance, last in 2010)

—howcheng {chat} 07:25, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Black Sox Scandal
Omitted: Yale University; Ioannis Kapodistrias; Actions along the Matanikau; The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical); 2006 North Korean nuclear test
Included: Battle of Lesnaya (2nd appearance, last in 2008; rescued from Ineligible); Washington Monument (6th appearance, last in 2011; 125th anniversary); SS Volturno (1906) (first appearance; 100th anniversary); Vajont Dam (5th appearance, last in 2010; 50th anniversary); Rangoon bombing (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 30th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 05:32, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Deleted: 1740 Batavia massacre (appears on October 22)
Omitted: Battle of Lesnaya; Washington Monument; SS Volturno (1906); Vajont Dam; Rangoon bombing
Included: Mary Tudor, Queen of France (5th appearance, last in 2011; 500th anniversary); Universal Postal Union (3rd appearance, last in 2011); Black Sox Scandal (4th appearance, last in 2010); Khmer Republic (2nd appearance, last in 2010); 2006 North Korean nuclear test (4th appearance, last in 2012)

—howcheng {chat} 06:40, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Yale University (maintenance); Actions along the Matanikau (appeared as TFA on September 23)
Omitted: Mary Tudor, Queen of France; Universal Postal Union; Black Sox Scandal; 2006 North Korean nuclear test
Included: Campaign of Danture (first appearance); John Henry Newman (3rd appearance, last in 2010); Siege of Antwerp (1914) (first appearance); Malala Yousafzai (first appearance)
Repeats: Khmer Republic (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 20:03, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Black Sox Scandal (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Actions along the Matanikau
Omitted: Campaign of Danture; John Henry Newman (ineligible—maintenance); Siege of Antwerp (1914); Khmer Republic; Malala Yousafzai
Included: Hangul (3rd appearance, last in 2011); Ioannis Kapodistrias (8th appearance, last in 2012); SS Volturno (1906) (2nd appearance, last in 2013); The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 30th anniversary); 2006 North Korean nuclear test (5th appearance, last in 2014; 10th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 17:25, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Mary Tudor, Queen of France (maintenance); Vajont Dam (maintenance); Khmer Republic (maintenance); Rangoon bombing (maintenance)
Omitted: Hangul (ineligible—maintenance); Ioannis Kapodistrias (ineligible—maintenance); SS Volturno (1906); 2006 North Korean nuclear test (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: Campaign of Danture (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Universal Postal Union (4th appearance, last in 2014); Actions along the Matanikau (6th appearance, last in 2012; 75th anniversary); Malala Yousafzai (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Camille Saint-Saëns (first appearance); Rockin' Robin (wrestler) (first appearance); Mona Best (first appearance)
Repeats: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 15:53, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Omitted: Hangul Day (ineligible—maintenance); Campaign of Danture; Universal Postal Union; The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) (ineligible—maintenance); Malala Yousafzai; Camille Saint-Saëns (ineligible—TFA for 2018); Rockin' Robin (wrestler)
Included: Battle of Lesnaya (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Washington Monument (7th appearance, last in 2013); Siege of Antwerp (1914) (2nd appearance, last in 2015); 2016 Rohingya persecution in Myanmar (first appearance); Henry Constable (first appearance); Benjamin Banneker (first appearance)
Repeats: Actions along the Matanikau (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total); Mona Best (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 30th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 15:47, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Camille Saint-Saëns
New articles (unused): Great Hurricane of 1780 (moved from October 10); Charles Read (RAAF officer)
Omitted: Battle of Lesnaya; Washington Monument; Siege of Antwerp (1914); Actions along the Matanikau; 2016 Rohingya persecution in Myanmar; Henry Constable; Benjamin Banneker; Mona Best
Included: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2nd appearance, last in 2017; moved from September 17); Universal Postal Union (5th appearance, last in 2017); The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) (4th appearance, last in 2017; rescued from Ineligible); Malala Yousafzai (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Edward Bok (first appearance); Ivo Andrić (first appearance); John Lennon (4th appearance, last in 2007; previously appeared on Decvember 8)

—howcheng {chat} 16:09, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Rohingya genocide (maintenance)
New articles (ineligible): Light-emitting diode (maintenance)
Omitted: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek; Universal Postal Union; The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical); Edward Bok; Ivo Andrić
Included: Battle of Lesnaya (4th appearance, last in 2018); Great Hurricane of 1780 (10th appearance, last in 2018); Siege of Antwerp (1914) (3rd appearance, last in 2018); Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (first appearance); Camille Saint-Saëns (2nd appearance, last in 2017)
Repeats: Malala Yousafzai (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); John Lennon (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total; 80th birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 18:42, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Omitted: Battle of Lesnaya; Great Hurricane of 1780; Siege of Antwerp (1914); Malala Yousafzai; Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan; Camille Saint-Saëns; John Lennon
Included: Revolt of Lyon against the National Convention (first appearance); Washington Monument (8th appearance, last in 2018); SS Volturno (1906) (3rd appearance, last in 2016); The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) (5th appearance, last in 2019); 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria (first appearance); Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac (first appearance); Reginald Dyer (first appearance); Clare Boothe Luce (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 02:43, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes

New articles (unused): Nazikeda Kadın (wife of Mehmed VI)
Omitted: Revolt of Lyon against the National Convention; Washington Monument; SS Volturno (1906); The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical); 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria; Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac; Reginald Dyer; Clare Boothe Luce
Included: Battle of Lesnaya (5th appearance, last in 2020); Great Hurricane of 1780 (11th appearance, last in 2020); Actions along the Matanikau (8th appearance, last in 2018); Nick Holonyak (first appearance, previously Light-emitting diode); Malala Yousafzai (5th appearance, last in 2020); Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (2nd appearance, last in 2020); Camille Saint-Saëns (3rd appearance, last in 2020); Ivo Andrić (2nd appearance, last in 2019)

Heart ^(talk) 04:28, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]