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Picture of the day for November 25, 2025

The pink cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri) is a medium-sized cockatoo that inhabits arid and semi-arid inland areas across Australia, with the exception of the north east. The bird has a soft-textured white and salmon-pink plumage and large, bright red and yellow crest. The sexes are quite similar although males are usually bigger, while the female has a broader yellow stripe on the crest and develop a red eye when mature. The pink cockatoo is usually found in pairs or small groups, and feeds both on the ground and in trees. Formerly known as Major Mitchell's cockatoo, after the explorer Major Thomas Mitchell, the species was officially renamed to pink cockatoo by BirdLife Australia in 2023, due to Mitchell's involvement in the massacre of Aboriginal people at Mount Dispersion and a general trend to make Australian species names more culturally inclusive. The bird is listed as endangered by the Australian government. This pink cockatoo in flight was photographed near Mount Grenfell in New South Wales, Australia.

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How about:

1953 - The England football team suffer their first home defeat against continental opposition --Ben davison 01:10, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, but this would put too many 20th century items together. Diversity is preferred, in terms of time, location and field. -- PFHLai 17:54, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Eid al-Ghadir

I think this celebration is deserved to be mentioned in the first page:

Eid al-Ghadeer in Shia Islam; On the 18th of Dhu al-Hijjah in the Islamic calendar to commemorate the appointment of Ali ibn Abi Talib by the Prophet of Islam Muhammad as first Imam and his immediate successor.

--Seyyed(t-c) 18:38, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Yukio Mishima (maintenance)
Omitted: Malcolm II of Scotland; Battle of Missionary Ridge; Battle of Ngomano; The Mousetrap; Johan Ferrier
Included: White Ship (6th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineliglble); Stanisław August Poniatowski (5th appearance, last in 2010); Anti-Comintern Pact (2nd appearance, last in 2009); Battle of Triangle Hill (first appearance); 2009 Jeddah floods (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 08:42, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Omitted: White Ship; Anti-Comintern Pact; Battle of Triangle Hill; 2009 Jeddah floods (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: Battle of Ngomano (2nd appearance; last in 2011); de Havilland Mosquito/Martin B-26 Marauder (both: first appearance); Hollywood blacklist (2nd appearance, last in 2009); Yukio Mishima (4th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Stanisław August Poniatowski (2nd consecutive appearance; 6 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:33, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Omitted: Battle of Ngomano; de Havilland Mosquito/Martin B-26 Marauder; Hollywood blacklist; Yukio Mishima
Included: Malcolm II of Scotland/Macbeth, King of Scotland (Malcolm: 6th appearance; Macbeth: 8th appearance; both last in 2011); Battle of Missionary Ridge (2nd appearance, last in 2011); The Mousetrap (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Mirabal sisters (4th appearance, last in 2006; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Stanisław August Poniatowski (3rd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:07, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Omitted: Evacuation Day (New York) (ineligible—maintenance); Malcolm II of Scotland/Macbeth, King of Scotland; Stanisław August Poniatowski; The Mousetrap (ineligible—maintenance); Mirabal sisters
Included: Granada War (first appearance); History of general relativity (first appearance; 100th anniversary); Johan Ferrier (3rd appearance, last in 2011; 40th anniversary); Band Aid (band)/Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid: 4th appearance, last in 2008; song: first appearance; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Battle of Missionary Ridge (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:44, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Omitted: Battle of Missionary Ridge; History of general relativity; Johan Ferrier; Band Aid (band)
Included: White Ship (7th appearance, last in 2012); Stanisław August Poniatowski (8th appearance, last in 2014); Anti-Comintern Pact (3rd appearance, last in 2012; 80th anniversary); Yukio Mishima (5th appearance, last in 2013)
Repeats: Granada War (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 525th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:19, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Mirabal sisters (maintenance); Yukio Mishima (maintenance); Band Aid (band)/Do They Know It's Christmas? (both: maintenance)
Omitted: White Ship (ineligible—maintenance); Granada War; Anti-Comintern Pact; Yukio Mishima (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: Near East earthquakes of 1759 (first appearance); Battle of Ngomano (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 100th anniversary); Hollywood blacklist (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 70th anniversary); Johan Ferrier (4th appearance, last in 2015); Osanna of Cattaro (first appearance); Hu Zongxian (first appearance); Albertus Soegijapranata (first appearance)
Repeats: Stanisław August Poniatowski (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:25, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Omitted: Near East earthquakes of 1759; Stanisław August Poniatowski; Hollywood blacklist; Johan Ferrier; Hu Zongxian; Albertus Soegijapranata
Included: Malcolm II of Scotland (7th appearance, last in 2014; blurb also previously featured Macbeth, King of Scotland, which is currently ineligible); Portuguese conquest of Goa (first appearance); Kediri campaign (1678) (first appearance); De Havilland Mosquito/Martin B-26 Marauder (both: 2nd appearance, last in 2013); Hermann Kolbe (first appearance); George Best (first appearance)
Repeats: Battle of Ngomano (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Osanna of Cattaro (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 525th birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 17:48, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Omitted: Malcolm II of Scotland; Portuguese conquest of Goa; Kediri campaign (1678); Battle of Ngomano; De Havilland Mosquito/Martin B-26 Marauder (Marauder: ineligible—maintenance); Osanna of Cattaro; Hermann Kolbe; George Best
Included: Granada War/Treaty of Granada (1491) (War: 3rd appearance, last in 2016; Treaty: first appearance); Battle of Missionary Ridge (4th appearance, last in 2015); Anti-Comintern Pact (4th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Mirabal sisters (5th appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); Henrietta Maria of France (first appearance); Thomas A. Hendricks (first appearance); Charles Kennedy (first appearance; 60th birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 06:46, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Omitted: Granada War/Treaty of Granada (1491); Battle of Missionary Ridge; Anti-Comintern Pact; Henrietta Maria of France; Thomas A. Hendricks; Charles Kennedy
Included: Near East earthquakes of 1759 (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Stanisław August Poniatowski (10th appearance, last in 2017; 225th anniversary); de Havilland Mosquito (3rd appearance, last in 2018; 80th anniversary); Do They Know It's Christmas? (2nd appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible; blurb also previously featured Band Aid (band), which remains ineligible); Andrea Doria (first appearance); Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (first appearance); Alexis Wright (first appearance; 70th birthday)
Repeats: Mirabal sisters (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total; 60th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 19:16, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

New articles (unused): Hazel Ying Lee
Omitted: Near East earthquakes of 1759; Stanisław August Poniatowski; De Havilland Mosquito; Mirabal sisters; Do They Know It's Christmas?; Andrea Doria; Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Alexis Wright
Included: Portuguese conquest of Goa (2nd appearance, last in 2018); 1678 Kediri campaign (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Anti-Comintern Pact (5th appearance, last in 2019); Johan Ferrier (5th appearance, last in 2017); Johann Georg Pisendel (first appearance); Maurice Denis (first appearance); John F. Kennedy Jr. (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 04:28, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]