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.
| 17 May 1896 | Muhammad Al-Sabah died, emir of Kuwait (b. 1831) |
| Tuesday, 17 May 1921 | Dennis Brain born, English musician (d. 1957) |
| Friday, 17 May 1946 | Udo Lindenberg born, German musician |
| Wednesday, 17 May 1961 | Enya born, Irish musician |
| Monday, 17 May 1971 | Mark Connors born, rugby union player |
| Monday, 17 May 1971 | Shaun Hart born, footballer born, coach born, and sportscaster |
| Monday, 17 May 1971 | Vernie Bennett born, English singer (Eternal) |
| Monday, 17 May 1971 | Queen Máxima of the Netherlands |
| Monday, 17 May 1971 | Georg Muschner died, German cinemagratopher (b. 1885) |
| Sunday, 17 May 1981 | Shiri Maimon born, Israeli pop/R&B singer born, TV show host and actress |
| Sunday, 17 May 1981 | Hugo Friedhofer died, German-American film composer (b. 1901) |
| Friday, 17 May 1991 | Jake Michael Buxton born, Mercedes Benz dealer |
| Friday, 17 May 1991 | Johanna Konta born, Australian-born tennis player |
| Friday, 17 May 1991 | Daniel Curtis Lee born, American actor and rapper |
| Friday, 17 May 1991 | Adil Omar born, Pakistani rapper and producer |
| Friday, 17 May 1996 | [May 17–28] Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is elected as Prime Minister of India, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao of the Indian National Congress. However, the party does not receive an overall majority and Vajpayee resigns thirteen days later rather than face a no confidence vote and is replaced by the United Front leader, Deve Gowda. |
| Friday, 17 May 1996 | Ryan Ochoa born, American actor |
| Friday, 17 May 1996 | Scott Brayton died, American race car driver (b. 1959) |
| Thursday, 17 May 2001 | Jacques-Louis Lions died, French mathematician (b. 1928) |
| Tuesday, 17 May 2016 | Benjamin de Roo died, Olympic gymnast |
| Tuesday, 17 May 2016 | Guy Clark died, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) |
| Tuesday, 17 May 2016 | Yūko Mizutani died, Japanese voice actress (b. 1964) |
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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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