Anytime I hear any Beatles song, I change the channel! The only one of their songs I'll even remotely listen to is Let It Be.

At the moment, we are not evaluating whether suggestions are "better" than the current allocations, just gathering in new ideas from the FT community. Then the game of trying to replace appropriately will come into play. At the moment, Coasters and Theme Parks is on 16 August, which is officially (somewhere, according to someone) Roller Coaster Day. It could certainly be moved to another date, if a suitable replacement for 16 August came into play. June 26, however, is also the anniversary of the UK release of the first Harry Potter book.

Babe Ruth is currently featured on 11 July, the anniversary of his major league debut. Could, of course, move to his birthday, but it's also sort of nice to use a variety of milestones for people, not just birth and death. It adds to the trivia component of the activity. (My opinion, not necessarily shared by everyone.)

Imagine... I bet that one will last for a while. And really, if you want to delete Lennon but include Marty Stouffer, you need to check the calibration on your scales of who's famous and who isn't. I even looked Stouffer up and I've still never heard of him. His programmes weren't shown outside North America so "Wild America fame" is not fame on much of a scale. John Lennon was, and remains, known globally. Maybe that won't be true 100 years from now but who knows what the FT topic of the day will be in 2120?

Exactly this...in 50 or 100 years, we won't be around to tell the people what they should deem important.

The Beatles might be the most important band in the world 100 years from now. Who is to say what will happen.

To each his own.

Variety is what makes the world go around.

June 26 is World Refrigeration Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Refrigeration_Day) so you could use
cat=5502 Ice Cream which has 26 quizzes

That is the spirit!

Good thinking there.

We could probably use Ice Cream a dozen times - it is currently used on June 7 for National Chocolate Ice Cream Day, which I assume is an American "day". I like the lateral thinking of the changed date. So now that's two suggestions to replace poor old Harry Potter.

June 12 (1967) was the US Supreme Court ruling on Loving v Virginia which struck down all laws banning interracial marriage.

This was the basis of the June 26 (2015) US Supreme Court decision that laws restricting same sex marriage were also unconstitutional.

History--not sure what the category is for tolerance.

Thanks for the opportunity to give input.

Oops, just saw this. June 26 was a big day!

Good idea since my super market was pretty much out of ice cream yesterday.

World - U.S. Supreme Court (Category 10215)

Could Harry Potter move to July 31st? It's his "birthday".

As long as I remember to read the blurb of the day first, I like it when a person is featured on their birthday. There is usually at least one question in the Duel asking "When was Famous Person born?"

As this is a site devoted to trivia, the relative importance of the people chosen for the Topic of the Day is hardly going to change the world or anyone's beliefs. I enjoy the quirkiness of some of the choices, particularly when I learn about a day devoted to something I've never heard of.

This thread is for players to make suggestions to add some variety to the game now it's been running for a while, not to criticise other people's choices.

Right now, I'd welcome as much frivolity as is available.

I wish my piano were in tune. I would stream you some Debussy.

HolidayInsights.com has a list of lesser known holidays or commemorations. Here are a few for April that might fit:

The International Board on Books for Youth designated April 2nd as International Children's Book Day. It marks the birthday of Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen(1805). (category 3668 = Books for Kids)

On April 6th in 1320, the Scottish Declaration of Independence was signed. (category 21172 = Scottish History)

National Beer Day (U.S.) is April 7th. On March 22, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed into law, the Cullen-Harrison Act. This act, repealed prohibition for beer. Effective April 7, 1933, people could once more buy, sell and consume beer. (category 5490 = Beers)

April 13th is the birthday of Alfred Butts, the inventor of the Scrabble game. (category 5457 = Scrabble)

The Titanic hit an iceberg on April 14th, 1912 and sank on April 15th (category 14205 in World = RMS Titanic; category 1038 in Movies = Titanic)

Save the Elephants Day is April 16th. It was founded in 2012. It was created by the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation of Thailand, working in conjunction with Canadian film maker Patricia Sims. Their goal is to raise the awareness of the threat to survival caused by loss of habitat and poaching. (category 5374 = Elephants)

April 18, 1906: The famous San Francisco earthquake and fire. 7.8 on the Richter scale (category 21596 = Earthquakes)

I would accept some Debussy right now.

Is that a standing offer?

Yes. As soon as I can a get a piano tuner in here, or I figure out how to tune my piano.

I would like to add my voice to say that this should be treated as brainstorming, and that means not criticizing other people's suggestions.

I would also like to see this done on other threads.

April 28th is the birthday of Harper Lee, and there is a subcat of her in Literature (8934)

Can I get a harrumph on that?

Hey! I didn't get a harrumph outta that guy!

Hope you will forgive me if I thought of my birthday first . According to Wikipedia, December 15 is:

Bill of Rights Day (US) - (Subcategory #10214 - Constitution of the USA)
International Tea Day - (Subcategory #15887 - Tea)
Zamenhof Day - (Subcategory #15136 - Esperanto)

Then a couple of relevant birthdays:

Nero - (Subcategory #8806 - Roman Emperors)
Gustave Eiffel - (Subcategory #5860 - Skyscrapers and Towers)