Wikipedia seems to have been slowing down lately...
The today link (e.g., "April 9, 2002") should at a minimum be escaped so that it's <a href="April+9,+2002"> instead of the current <a href="April 9, 2002"> which crushes some browsers.
However, I must say that I'm not at all a fan of the link as it now stands; it duplicates exactly the Current Events page without any added features. I'd much rather we have <a href="Current events">April 9, 2002</a> instead, unless we implement some more complex templating mechanism to set up some automation.
--tc