A fact from Nottingham cheese riot appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 October 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that on this date in 1766, the mayor of Nottingham was knocked over by a cheese wheel (example pictured) whilst trying to stop the Nottingham cheese riot?
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Ref.4 (McWilliams) states: "The annual Goose Fair opened in Nottingham on 2 October 1766" ... so assuming the riot broke out on the first day, and the fair was only ever a maximum of 8 days long (i.e. would have ended on or before the 10th that year), it is very unlikely that 18 Oct is correct.
The only source I can find that gives the date of the riot explicitly as 18 October is Ref.1 (Turton) but that could be an editorial mistake given that other sources seem to think it was the 2nd. The error might feasibly have crept in from the fact that 1766 is 18th century and "18th" was picked up as the date from that? If I'm right, that kind of puts a dampener on the DYK. Rodney Baggins (talk) 13:12, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]