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.
| 12 April 1871 | Ioannis Metaxas born, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1941) |
| Friday, 12 April 1946 | Ed O’Neill born, American actor |
| Wednesday, 12 April 1961 | Mbarek Bekkay died, 1st Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1907) |
| Wednesday, 12 April 1961 | Magda Szubanski born, actor and comedian |
| Wednesday, 12 April 1961 | Lisa Gerrard born, singer |
| Wednesday, 12 April 1961 | Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin through outer space. |
| Wednesday, 12 April 1961 | Vostok 1: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once. |
| Wednesday, 12 April 1961 | Albert Kalonji takes the title Emperor Albert I Kalonji of South Kasai. |
| Wednesday, 12 April 1961 | Lisa Gerrard born, Australian musician |
| Wednesday, 12 April 1961 | Aziz Ezzat Pasha died, Egyptian politician (b. 1869) |
| Monday, 12 April 1971 | Igor Tamm died, Russian physicist died, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) |
| Monday, 12 April 1971 | Palestinians retreat from Amman to the north of Jordan. |
| Monday, 12 April 1971 | Shannen Doherty born, American actress |
| Sunday, 12 April 1981 | The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a manned reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit. |
| Sunday, 12 April 1981 | First Space Shuttle launch: Columbia, April 12, 1981. |
| Sunday, 12 April 1981 | Paul Rust born, American actor and comedian |
| Sunday, 12 April 1981 | Joe Louis died, American boxer (b. 1914) |
| Sunday, 12 April 1981 | Hendrik Andriessen died, Dutch composer (b. 1892) |
| Friday, 12 April 1991 | Globalization 1991. The Warsaw Stock Exchange opens in Poland. |
| Friday, 12 April 1996 | Fred Alexander died, Australian historian (b. 1899) |
| Friday, 12 April 1996 | Polina Korobeynikova born, Russian figure skater |
| Friday, 12 April 1996 | Elizaveta Kulichkova born, Russian tennis player |
| Tuesday, 12 April 2016 | Arnold Wesker died, British playwright (b. 1932) |
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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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