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Obverse of the five-pound piece The Young Head coinage consists of the issues of British coins with an obverse bust of Queen Victoria first used in 1838 while she was still a teenager. The bust was designed by William Wyon and remained on some British coins until 1887, by which time she was almost 70 years of age and had ceased to resemble her depiction. The young queen sat for Wyon in August and September 1837. Wyon then created his coinage portrait of her, which was approved in February 1838, and production began later that year. Some of the new coins had reverses by Wyon, others by Jean Baptiste Merlen. The new issue produced generally favourable reactions, especially the Una and the Lion reverse used for the five-pound piece. The Young Head portrait was finally replaced by the Jubilee bust in 1887. Wyon's Young Head bust was reproduced on coins for British dependencies and imitated on private issues of tokens. Both the portrait and the Una reverse appeared on British commemorative coins in 2019. (Full article...) Recently featured: 1876 FA Cup final Duckport Canal Zungeni Mountain skirmish Archive By email More featured articles About
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• 1928 - In California, the failure of the St. Francis Dam killed 400.

• 1881 - Andrew Watson made his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.

Ben davison 14:48, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

I have a hard time deciding which current item to displace.... They all seem more significant. Anyway, I've added it to the March 12 page. -- PFHLai 18:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps add the death of Sun Yat-sen, and note his involvement in the Republican movement in China? -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs 05:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We should add this. --bender235 (talk) 11:07, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Moved to Ineligible: Temple in Jerusalem (maintenance); 1993 Bombay bombings (maintenance)
• Omitted: Bulgarian Exarchate (ineligible—maintenance); Girl Scouts of the USA; Konstantin Päts; Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
• Included: Siege of Rome (537–538) (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Canberra (3rd appearance, last in 2010; 100th anniversary); Fireside chats (first appearance; 80th anniversary); 1971 Turkish coup d'état (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
• Repeats: Andrew Watson (footballer) (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:55, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Moved to Ineligible: Ignatius of Loyola/Francis Xavier (Ignatius: maintenance)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): St. Francis Dam
• Omitted: Andrew Watson (footballer); Canberra; Fireside chats; 1971 Turkish coup d'état
• Included: Red River Campaign (first appearance; 150th anniversary); İstiklâl Marşı (first appearance); Salt March (8th appearance, last in 2011); Konstantin Päts (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 80th anniversary)
• Repeats: Siege of Rome (537–38) (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:20, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Omitted: Mauritius (ineligible—maintenance); Red River Campaign; İstiklâl Marşı; Konstantin Päts
• Included: Andrew Watson (footballer) (7th appearance, last in 2013); Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (3rd appearance, last in 2012); 1993 Storm of the Century (first appearance)
• Repeats: Siege of Rome (537–38) (3rd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Salt March (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 09:53, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Omitted: Siege of Rome (537–538); Salt March; Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay; 1993 Storm of the Century
• Included: Red River Campaign (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Girl Scouts of the USA (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Konstantin Päts (3rd appearance, last in 2014); 1993 Bombay bombings (4th appearance, last in 2014)
• Repeats: Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856) (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total)

—howcheng {chat} 18:46, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Omitted: World Day Against Cyber Censorship (ineligible—maintenance); Red River Campaign; Girl Scouts of the USA (ineligible—maintenance); Konstantin Päts; 1993 Bombay bombings (ineligible—maintenance)
• Included: Siege of Rome (537–38) (5th appearance, last in 2015); Canberra (4th appearance, last in 2013); Truman Doctrine (3rd appearance, last in 2011; 70th anniversary); Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (4th appearance, last in 2015); Charles Boycott (first appearance); Jessica Hardy (first appearance); Lazare Ponticelli (first appearance)
• Repeats: Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856) (3rd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:12, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Moved to Ineligible: İstiklal Marşı (maintenance); St. Francis Dam (maintenance); 1993 Storm of the Century (maintenance)
• New articles (unused): 2014 East Harlem gas explosion
• Omitted: Siege of Rome (537–538); Canberra; Truman Doctrine; Charles Boycott; Jessica Hardy; Lazare Ponticelli
• Included: Ignatius of Loyola/Francis Xavier (Ignatius: 2nd appearance as blurb, last in 2011 (also appears as an observance on July 31); Xavier: 4th appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Fireside chats (2nd appearance, last in 2013); 1971 Turkish military memorandum (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Tirso de Molina;(first appearance) William Henry Perkin (first appearance); Lise Tréhot (first appearance)
• Repeats: Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856) (4th consecutive appearance, 10 total); Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:33, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Omitted: Ignatius of Loyola/Francis Xavier (Xavier: ineligible—maintenance); Fireside chats; Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay; Tirso de Molina; William Henry Perkin; Lise Tréhot
• Included: Salt March (10th appearance, last in 2015); World Wide Web (3rd appearance, last in 2005; previously appeared on November 13; 30th anniversary); 2014 East Harlem gas explosion (first appearance); Symeon the New Theologian (first appearance); Lilian Faithfull (first appearance); Zhao Wei (first appearance)
• Repeats: Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856) (5th consecutive appearance, 11 total); 1971 Turkish military memorandum (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 15:59, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Moved to Ineligible: Red River Campaign (maintenance)
• Omitted: Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856); 1971 Turkish military memorandum; 2014 East Harlem gas explosion; Symeon the New Theologian; Lilian Faithfull; Zhao Wei
• Included: Canberra (5th appearance, last in 2017); Winter War; (8th appearance, last in 2014; moved from November 30; blurb previously featured Moscow Peace Treaty, which remains ineligible, and is making its 5th appearance, last in 2008) Stefan Dragutin (first appearance); Gemma Galgani (first appearance); Jack Kerouac (first appearance)
• Repeats: Salt March (2nd consecutive appearance, 11 total; 80th anniversary); World Wide Web (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 23:36, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Omitted: Salt March; Winter War; World Wide Web; Gemma Galgani; Jack Kerouac
• Included: Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856) (12th appearance, last in 2019); Fireside chats (3rd appearance, last in 2018); Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (6th appearance, last in 2018); 1971 Turkish military memorandum (5th appearance, last in 2019; 50th anniversary); William Lyon Mackenzie (first appearance); Wally Schirra (first appearance)
• Repeats: Canberra (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total); Stefan Dragutin (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 20:47, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Omitted: Canberra; Fireside chats; 1971 Turkish military memorandum; Stefan Dragutin; William Lyon Mackenzie; Wally Schirra
• Included: Ignatius of Loyola/Francis Xavier (Ignatius: 18th appearance (3rd as blurb); Xavier: 5th; both last in 2018; rescued from Ineligible); Konstantin Päts (4th appearance, last in 2018); 2014 East Harlem gas explosion (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Symeon the New Theologian (2nd appearance, last in 2019; 1000th anniversary); Lise Tréhot (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 100th anniversary); Jack Kerouac (2nd appearance, last in 2020; 100th birthday)
• Repeats: Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856) (2nd consecutive appearance, 13 total); Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total; 70th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 04:54, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested addition:

• 2020 – The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

GN22 (talk) 20:04, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]