Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us of some dates where the local, state, national, and global perspectives entwine.
What Time is It? It is flow of a sandstorm that will on each day compress somewhere into a structure – sandstone, selected and only remembered in the longue durée.
| 25 February 1896 | Heinrich Gontermann born, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1917) |
| 25 February 1896 | Joseph P. Fyffe died, American admiral (b. 1832) |
| Friday, 25 February 1921 | Red Army invasion of Georgia: The Red Army enters the Georgian capital Tbilisi, and installs a Moscow-directed communist government. |
| Friday, 25 February 1921 | Pierre Laporte born, Canadian statesman (d. 1970) |
| Monday, 25 February 1946 | Andrew Ang born, judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore |
| Monday, 25 February 1946 | Franz Xaver Kroetz born, German dramatist |
| Monday, 25 February 1946 | Jean Todt born, French motorsport manager |
| Monday, 25 February 1946 | René Le Grèves died, French cyclist (b. 1910) |
| Saturday, 25 February 1961 | Last electric tram service runs in Sydney |
| Saturday, 25 February 1961 | Trevor Strong born, politician |
| Saturday, 25 February 1961 | The last public trams in Sydney, Australia, cease operation, bringing to an end the Southern Hemisphere’s largest tramway network. |
| Saturday, 25 February 1961 | Davey Allison born, American race car driver (d. 1993) |
| Thursday, 25 February 1971 | Sean Astin born, American actor |
| Thursday, 25 February 1971 | Nova Peris born, Australian athlete and politician |
| Thursday, 25 February 1971 | Daniel Powter born, Canadian rock musician |
| Thursday, 25 February 1971 | Theodor Svedberg died, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) |
| Wednesday, 25 February 1981 | Park Ji-sung born, South Korean footballer |
| Wednesday, 25 February 1981 | Shahid Kapoor born, Indian Bollywood actor |
| Wednesday, 25 February 1981 | Leonard Howell died, Founder of Rastafarianism (b. 1898) |
| Wednesday, 25 February 1981 | Gunichi Mikawa died, Japanese admiral (b. 1888) |
| Monday, 25 February 1991 | Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers. It is the single-most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war. |
| Monday, 25 February 1991 | Kristie Mewis born, American soccer player |
| Monday, 25 February 1991 | Tony Oller born, American actor and singer |
| Monday, 25 February 1991 | Sverre Hansen died, Norwegian long jumper (b. 1899) |
| Sunday, 25 February 1996 | Two suicide bombs in Israel kill 25 and injure 80; Hamas claims responsibility. |
| Sunday, 25 February 1996 | Emel Dereli born, Turkish shot putter |
| Sunday, 25 February 1996 | Haing S. Ngor died, Cambodian activist (b. 1940) |
| Sunday, 25 February 2001 | Donald Bradman died, 92 died, cricketer and businessman |
| Sunday, 25 February 2001 | Sir Don Bradman died, Australian cricketer (b. 1908) |
| Thursday, 25 February 2016 | The Federal Government releases its White Paper on Defence which allocates $195 billion for new defence equipment, including submarines, drones and a strategy to counter cyber attacks, as well as predicting that defence spending will reach $58 billion a year in a decade. |
| Thursday, 25 February 2016 | Former Federal Treasurer Peter Costello is named as the new chairman of Nine Entertainment. |
| Thursday, 25 February 2016 | Tony Burton died, American actor (b. 1937) |
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Neville Buch
Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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