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.
| 26 May 1896 | Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks were chosen to form the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index is composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time. |
| Thursday, 26 May 1921 | Anatoly Chernyaev born, Russian historian born, writer (d. 2017) |
| Thursday, 26 May 1921 | Norman Hetherington born, artist born, puppeteer (died 2010) |
| Thursday, 26 May 1921 | A general strike begins in Norway. |
| Thursday, 26 May 1921 | Inge Borkh born, German soprano (some sources say she was born 1917) (d. 2018) |
| Thursday, 26 May 1921 | Stan Mortensen born, English footballer (d. 1991) |
| Sunday, 26 May 1946 | Czechoslovak parliamentary election, with Communist victory (38%), last before communists take power. |
| Sunday, 26 May 1946 | Friedrich died, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (b. 1865) |
| Sunday, 26 May 1946 | Mick Ronson born, English guitarist (d. 1993) |
| Sunday, 26 May 1946 | Joseffy died, Austrian magician (b. 1873) |
| Wednesday, 26 May 1971 | Austria and the People’s Republic of China establish diplomatic relations. |
| Wednesday, 26 May 1971 | Laurence Wild died, American basketball player, coach, and 30th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1890) |
| Wednesday, 26 May 1971 | Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to bomb hoaxer-extortionist Mr. Brown (Peter Macari), who is later arrested. |
| Wednesday, 26 May 1971 | Matt Stone born, American actor and producer |
| Tuesday, 26 May 1981 | Foreign Affairs Minister Tony Street announces that the United States has asked Australia to send peacekeepers to the Sinai Desert. |
| Tuesday, 26 May 1981 | The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell Propaganda Due. |
| Tuesday, 26 May 1981 | Isaac Slade born, American singer-songwriter and pianist |
| Sunday, 26 May 1991 | In Thailand, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes near Bangkok, killing all 223 people on board. |
| Sunday, 26 May 1991 | Takumi Abe born, Japanese football player |
| Sunday, 26 May 1991 | Amber Bondin born, Maltese singer |
| Sunday, 26 May 1991 | Marie-Sophie Hindermann born, German artistic gymnast |
| Sunday, 26 May 1996 | Melbourne Knights win the NSL for the second season in a row, defeating minor premiers Marconi Fairfield 2–1 in the Final at Olympic Park. |
| Sunday, 26 May 1996 | Tyler Hilinski born, American football player (d. 2018) |
| Thursday, 26 May 2011 | Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia. |
| Thursday, 26 May 2016 | Loris Francesco Capovilla died, Italian cardinal (b. 1915) |
| Thursday, 26 May 2016 | Arturo Pomar died, Spanish chess grandmaster (b. 1931) |
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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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