Historical clue formulations

• Preps for surgery, perhaps — 2026-02-07
• Observes Ramadan, in a way — 2025-11-23
• Observes Ramadan, say — 2025-06-11
• Observes Ramadan, in a way — 2025-03-31
• Observes Yom Kippur — 2024-09-29
• Stays hungry — 2024-05-04
• Takes nothing in — 2022-12-03
• Observes one of the Five Pillars of Islam — 2021-02-05
• Eschews food — 2016-07-26
• Observes the Muslim day of Ashura — 2015-11-13
• Goes on a hunger strike, say — 2013-04-29
• Observes a religious holiday, in a way — 2012-04-25
• Takes nothing in — 2010-11-07
• Diets drastically — 2007-05-27
• Some religious observances — 2004-05-29
• Takes nothing in — 2004-05-08
• Doesn't just diet — 2000-08-07
• Some protests — 2000-01-20
• Religious observances — 1999-10-02
• Admits nothing? — 1998-11-22
• Prison protests — 1996-10-29
• Ramadan rituals — 1995-10-17
• Crash diets — 1994-01-26