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May 2: National Day of Prayer in the United States (2024); Flag Day in Poland Mireya Moscoso in 2012 1559 – Presbyterian clergyman John Knox returned from exile to lead the Scottish Reformation. 1889 – The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian War, but differences in translation later led to another war. 1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion attributed to Viet Cong commandos caused the escort carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon. 1999 – Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama. 2014 – Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people. Marutha of Tikrit (d. 649) Mary Moser (d. 1819) Giacomo Meyerbeer (d. 1864) Engelbert Humperdinck (b. 1936) More anniversaries: May 1 May 2 May 3 Archive By email List of days of the year

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On May 2, 2008, Iron Man was released, creating the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Would this be a notable event to add? --DannyS712 (talk) 23:46, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like movie trivia to me. Toddst1 (talk) 00:47, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Toddst1: I disagree. The MCU is huge, and its foundation is significant. I would argue that it is perhaps more significant than the launch of the Instagram IOS app, which was featured today on the main page under "on this day." Does anyone else have an opinion? --DannyS712 (talk) 23:36, 6 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712: Per WP:DOYSTYLE "The date pages should be kept clean of trivia such as film history." Clear enough? Toddst1 (talk) 23:43, 6 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Toddst1: WP:DOYSTYLE is an essay for the Days of the Year Wikiproject. Furthermore, I would argue that this is not merely "trivia." However, on the content guideline page (WP:DOY), the "nutshell" lists "Accomplishments in the arts ...[that] are particularly important." Below, I have included a number of sources that document the importance of the MCU, and of Iron Man, as well as selected quotes from each.

"'It’s Marvel’s universe,' one rival executive told me recently. 'We just live in it.' It is hard to imagine Marvel’s run stretches back only a decade, but it all began on May 2, 2008, when Paramount released Iron Man, launching Marvel as a real studio."^[1]

"At first, movie critics and the casual movie audience saw these comic book movies as a positive trend, but nothing more. In 2012, those same people were proven wrong as Marvel officially took over the film industry when the Avengers assembled for the first time on screen."^[2]

"Iron Man managed to take a different track, combining visually stimulating action, great character work and set the foundation for a stunningly interconnected world populated by superheroes."^[3]

"Starting with 2008's Iron Man, the universe launched with a simple tag scene at the end of the film, showing that Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark was not alone in the hero-verse."^[4]

"10 years and 18 movies in, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has taken a superhuman grip of both the box office and modern popular culture — and, for now at least, it shows no signs of letting go."^[5] Sources:

I'm sorry you're so caught up in this WP:TRIVIA (aka "film history") but your wishes don't fit with the guidelines of the wikiproject that governs these DOY pages. I appreciate that you're a big fan, but at the end of the day this info is the textbook definition of WP:FANCRUFT. Toddst1 (talk) 02:52, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]