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.
| Sunday, 10 April 1921 | Chuck Connors born, American basketball and baseball player turned actor (d. 1992) |
| Sunday, 10 April 1921 | Sheb Wooley born, American actor born, singer (d. 2003) |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1946 | In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th Imperial Diet. |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1946 | David Angell born, American television producer (d. 2001) |
| Saturday, 10 April 1971 | Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia opens. |
| Friday, 10 April 1981 | The TV Week Logie Awards air on Ten for the first time. It is also the first time that the logies have not been screened on the Nine Network. |
| Friday, 10 April 1981 | Gretchen Bleiler born, American snowboarder |
| Friday, 10 April 1981 | Laura Bell Bundy born, American actress and singer |
| Friday, 10 April 1981 | Liz McClarnon born, British singer |
| Friday, 10 April 1981 | Michael Pitt born, American actor |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1991 | A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola (the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites). |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1991 | The Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1991 | AJ Michalka born, American singer and actress |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1991 | Conor Leslie born, American actress and model |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1991 | Kevin Peter Hall died, American actor (b. 1955) |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1991 | Natalie Schafer died, American actress (b. 1900) |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1996 | Thanasi Kokkinakis born, tennis player |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1996 | Audrey Whitby born, American teen actress |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1996 | Thanasi Kokkinakis born, Australian tennis player |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1996 | Loïc Nottet born, Belgian singer |
| Wednesday, 10 April 1996 | Andreas Christensen born, Danish footballer |
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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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